NASCAR sets meeting to detail debut of new-model car
By Lee Montgomery - Associate Editor
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Plans for the NASCAR Nationwide Series car of tomorrow, seen testing at Richmond International Raceway, will be announced in a meeting July 28.
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MADISON, Ill. – NASCAR will host Nationwide Series owners and drivers at a meeting at its research and development center in Concord, N.C., on July 28 to inform them of plans to roll out the car of tomorrow for the 2010 season, series director Joe Balash confirmed Saturday.
NASCAR already has informally told teams the new car will be used on restrictor-plate tracks and road courses next year. The July 28 meeting will officially detail the use of the car.
“They’re going to have a big meeting, and they’re going to tell us there,” Rensi-Hamilton Racing President Ronnie Russell said Saturday. “But it appears it’s all the speedway races and the road-course races.”
The car will debut at Daytona International Speedway next February and will also run at Daytona again in July, as well as at Talladega Superspeedway and the two road courses likely on the schedule: Montreal and Watkins Glen.
Aerodynamic testing has been completed on all four model cars, and NASCAR is working on its template grid for inspecting the cars.
Track testing is likely to take place after the October Sprint Cup race at Talladega, despite NASCAR’s testing ban this season. The car has been track tested twice, at Richmond and Charlotte last year, but only by a few teams.
Most Nationwide teams don’t have a COT, and some teams will likely buy old Cup chassis and convert the bodies to Nationwide specs.
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motorsportsphotography said:
Jul 18, 2009 at 8:25 PMThe car is a good looking car. David tested the car at Richmond and could have sat on the pole if he had it in race trim. The same spoiler will be used on Cup cars next year. The wing is finally going to disappear.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportwfover said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 11:09 AMBuy on Monday.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGM3Amp88 said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM#1 where did you read about the wing on the cup cars going away next year ? This car is better looking than the cup cars.IMO.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 11:23 AMnice thing about the wing is that it keeps the car more in line with the winglets...this spoiler does nothing for that...it's just gonna take that air of of the trailing car more...i'd like to see a higher and more narrow wing...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportRainier said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 11:54 AMThat is a good looking car. Actually looks like a muscle car. Hey MSP, heard anything about that nose in the grill area? Is it gonna stay like that. It looks like it will catch a lot of air.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmotorsportsphotography said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 12:20 PMThe wing is suppose to disappear next year on the Cup side. but nobody has heard about the nose.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjps8nascar said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 2:49 PMThey need to leave the series differances alone to keep playing field level between cup and nationwide series....
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjps8nascar said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 2:51 PMleave nationwide alone so the cup drivers dont have advantage .... they are diff series and they should b different ...
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmatthewallenhughes said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 3:40 PMYeah, it's a good looking car. I like it.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjimk_20 said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 3:53 PMNASCAR is back to telling teams they are trying to help save money. on one hand and the other playing Obama spend what they want.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGM3Amp88 said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 3:57 PMCup drivers will always have the advantage because they have bigger budgets and more experience.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSS396Chevelle said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 4:46 PMActually seems like you can make it look like a real stock car. Chevy Camaro, Ford Mustang, Dodge Charger would be great to see. At least those can be ordered in V8's.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSS396Chevelle said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 4:52 PMBrad was impressed with it. Thought it looked like a real stock car.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSS396Chevelle said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 4:54 PMBe nice to see Chevy Camero, Ford Mustang, and Dodge Chargers out there. Real muscle cars.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportScootin2002SS said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 8:51 PMThat grill looks like a Dodge Challenger, but the rest of it isn't easily identifiable. The should run Camaros,Mustangs,and Challengers, but Toyota has no similar model. Maybe that'd be a good thing! Make them look like the street cars!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportfanEforever said:
Jul 19, 2009 at 11:16 PMI agree with you, Rainier. That grill looks like it would really shake the air up real good. With the spoiler the way it is, the trail car is gonna be in real trouble, it would seem. It does look much better than the Cup car, though. looks like a cross between the Mustang and the Camaro, circa late '60s. That brings back some great memories, had a '70 Ply. Duster w/340 4bbl and 4 speed. The only 340 with 10.5 x 1 comp.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportindioblanco said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 1:22 AMCamaros, Firebirds. Mustangs, Challengers/Barracudas, and Javelins were "pony cars." Chevelles, GTO's, Torinos, and Chargers were "muscle cars."
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» Confirm Abuse ReportRainier said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 6:49 AMThat would be awesome SS396CHEVELLE. To have cars racing resembling the Camaro, Mustang, Challenger(or Charger), and ummm......Corrola? Toyota will be left out in the cold on that one. As much as I would like to see it, I doubt they will want to deal with the different aerodynamics of 3 or 4 different body styles.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSS396Chevelle said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 8:04 AM#11 Thanks and that would be awesome. It sure would bring stock racing back to where it should be and not in clone cars so toyota can be in racing. To see real muscle cars racing for the finish line is what this sport was all about.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportnascarnutsheeler said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 9:35 AMAnother IROC class. Think back to why they stopped IROC. (no fan support) I like the idea of the muscle cars but keep them stock. Nationwide will be number 1 and Sprint will be number 2. Aw shucks, no Toyotas.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSTP43FAN said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 12:20 PMThe car looks only slightly better than the Winston Cup COT. They want a better car, then lengthen the snout, drop the gappeed airdam and replace it with a flush aerodynamic pice a la the present BGN car, bolt ion a roof spoiler, and increase the size of teh rear spoiler to 7.5 in ches with a 1-inch lip on top.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportadamhunter said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 1:04 PMcool.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportkeith308 said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 1:46 PMWith the economy the way it is, NASCAR had better not change cars or they won't have any teams left except the Cup owners.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSS396Chevelle said:
Jul 20, 2009 at 9:06 PMI'm just a big fan of the old stock cars and sure would like to Nascar to get rid of the clones and allow the teams to race cars like the Camaro, Mustang, and Charger and still keep the cars safe.
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» Confirm Abuse Reporttweety_byrd said:
Jul 22, 2009 at 5:17 PMI think the car looks COOL. The 'S' in NASCAR stands for STOCK and thats what this car looks like. From grill to trunk this looks like a street machine. I think this is a step closer to making NASCAR the sport that it was and always should be.
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