Tomorrow is 2007
NASCAR says its Car of Tomorrow will show up at short track and road courses in 2007 (as in next season), long tracks (2 miles plus, including Daytona and Dega) in 2008 and the rest in 2009.
Thatsracin.com has the details. It even quotes John Darby, who's as close to official as you can get and not be named France or Helton.
I know some people think the COT is a lousy idea, NASCAR's worst ever. (I might be exaggerating, but probably not.) So the cars will have the same exact bodies - big deal. Right?
I mean:
* The cars look alike already (except for the grills and the taped-on headlights)
* Teams can still play with the engines, brakes, suspensions, setups and fuel milage, right?
* Taking aero (some of it anyway) out of the equation puts more of a premium on the driver.
So what am I missing? Fill me in, readers. I'm obviously missing something that hits others square in the gut.
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Some of the teams had pushed for a "phased" entry for the CoT. (I believe Roush was one and loudest)
But one of the complaints heard was having the car start competition on '07 forced the teams to, in effect, have two constructions teams. One for the CoT and one for the current configuration.
Of the top of my head that is made worse by draggin out the process through the '09 season.
And "rest in 2009" covers a lot of tracks in the 1 1/2 mile range that translates to one hell of a lot of cars of the "old" design that need to be produced in the next three seasons.
I'll have to think about this more before I throw up a post. Something doesn't compute, maybe it will sink in later.
Posted on January 16, 2006 4:42 PM