Car of Tomorrow To Debut This Weekend
Thursday March 22, 2007
This weekend Bristol Motor Speedway will see the long-awaited debut of the NASCAR Car of Tomorrow. This boxier looking race car is intended to make the racing better for the fans, safer for the drivers and cheaper for the teams.
After nearly six years of development the concept will finally hit the track under real green-flag conditions. How will the racing be affected? Who will come out on top? This will be a Bristol race like nothing that we have ever seen before.
Comments
No doubt there will be alot of people watching this race this weekend. They want to see the new box car race. Look like Nascar would let the first box car race to be on a big cookie cutter track, it would go hand in hand.
I have heard alot of buzz about the different opinions on the COT. I dont know what to think. If it really is a safer car that wont take away from the sport of racing I think that will be great. I have read that several of the drivers are concerned about the way that the cars handle. I am wondering if they havent worked out all of the bugs what will they do? IF this debut is a desastar(spelling is terrible) what are they going to do? Lots questions in my mind. I just hope that everyone is ready. I hope the car is ready and its not a mistake.
With the car ot tomorrow why would Chevy, Ford, Dodge and Toyota want to sponsor teams. Doesn’t the COT eliminate the style differences of the manufacturers.
Does anyone know where I can can a rule book for NASCAR?? They seem to have strayed from consistency already this year.
To Pirate;They are still writing it!? Each week it’s different!! It depends who the rule is for!
IF ONLY DALE WAS STILL HERE,WE WOULD’NT BE TALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What would we be doing then, if Dale were here? People will bitch no matter what the subject is.
It seems that all the cars looking the same has been tried.I think it’s called IROC.They realy fill the the stands for them.
We shouldn’t forget that the fans have always identified with the manufacturer of the race car. In recent years we have reduced the number to Chevy, Ford, Dodge, and now Toyota. To eliminate that identification would be a huge mistake.
hey david, no disrespect but that man has been gone since 01 why can’t you people let him rest!
As a long time fan I have been very disappointed. (COT) What a joke!! What has happened to to nascar’s mandating a number of production cars had to be built for the public to purchase before the design could be used for racing. Take the late 80’s chevy’s with the aero rear windows. I can idenify with a producton model. Maybe they think we all have the same tastes. So be it, They are digging their own grave.
FINALLY a topic I can have fun with….Gee where to start. C.O.T (car of tommorrow) they really misnamed this one it should be C.O.D (car of disaster)because thats what has happened to NASCAR and they should change there name to… PACECAR (Pathetic association Centered Entirely on Cash At Racetracks) Safety? right, this is a revenue cash cow for NASCAR who will build the cars and charge the owners for them they are the walmart of racing, eliminate the middleman (CHEVY,FORD,DODGE and YUCKOTA) and keep the cash in house. The days of “Good Ole’ Boys” racing is over, and now we usher in the new YUPPIE style racing. More money,more merchandising and more B.S. Next get rid of the sponsers and just have NASCAR charge owners to use the NASCAR logo on there ride. Hell in 7 more years… no more drivers!!! Hell NASCAR is probably at there “ThinkTank” putting the peices together for a totally remote controlled car so owners and drivers can be eliminated and Bill France can have 43 stoogies holding R/C controllers telling which ones to slow down or speed up! So to all those high paid executives out there have fun wasting an entire sunday on “staged racing” I’m going fishin’ Ya’ll
#12 amen! you can can stop by our tailgate and raise sand with us anytime. Everyone says racing is racing are full of it. The whole point of racing is to build a better car and race it. Quality outperforms the rest. Best car and good driver wins.It may work who knows, but the idea of making everything pretty much uniform is bad. Leave the political correctness at the gate.
I think the COT will not be good for the sport, and even if the US manufacturers are having issues financially, I’d still rather see a Yugo Versus a Daewoo, or any other combination over a bunch of exactly equal boxes driving around. Don’t they already have the great soap box derbies and their engines are all the same (none). I just don’t see the COT bringing anything exciting to the sport.
Well Nascar racing has become so arrow this and so arrow that ,im glad to see this new car ! Maybe the small dollar teams will have a chance .Besides these are race cars and have nothing to do with street car except for the name .I LOVE THE OLD DAYS WHEN DRIVERS JUST DROVE THE HELL OUT OF IT NO MATTER WHAT THE ARROW WAS DOING !!!
I’m terribly disaapointed with the turns NASCAR has been making. They have said they don’t want any L/R tracks on any schedule, yet they have raced a road course in Mexico. They can’t maintain any level of consistancy with their rulings week to week, come to think of it, even within the same race. Somewhere in here, it was decided that a 10 race shootout with ONLY the top ten competitors was a good idea(then they changed their minds again). Now, low and behold, let’s kill the last spirit in the sport by taking the automakers out of the sport. How imbecilic can they be. The sport was founded on the concept of people bringing cars they were proud of, by manufacturers they loved, to the track against everybody else. Now it’s, “Well, I’m glad you can drive. Here, jump in this crate and see how fast it’ll take you.” Where’s the personal passion for our own favorite automakers, whoever they are? IROC tried to tighten up the field with identical cars. Where’s that schule again? Oh yeah….in the crapper! Just where this one should go. I, for one, won’t watch any CAR OF TOMORROW race. If that’s where the sport goes, then I guess I’ll learn how to fish again. I’m not wasting my time on a sport that, quite frankly, forgot where it came from and doesn’t know where it’s going
It’s still going tobe good racing,I woumdn’t car if they were driving lawnmowers…when you have this kind of talent,it doesn’t matter what they drive,the will still give it 100%..so stop whining and just enjoy the race,it may be the best bristol race seen in years!…Go Tony!
Sorry about the spelling..I just woke up!
Mr. James C. France , 62
Vice Chairman and Chief Exec. Officer $ 838.00K. Ms. Lesa France Kennedy , 45
Pres $ 658.00K. Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-04 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. “Pay” is salary, bonuses, etc. These are figures for the CEO and president of DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY last names look familiar? These figures where taken from there portfolio page on the stock market. My point is that all of the bashing on NASCAR and Bill France can be simply removed if we all do 3 simple things….1)stop going to and watching races on T.V.2)stop buying NASCAR merchandice and 3) SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!! If NASCAR has no fans they have no revenue and no revenue means no big paychecks for the France family this ultimately means NO staged racing! Bring back the good ole’ days when you run what you brung and you drove like you meant it !!!!!!!!!
No one has mentioned the safety factor here. I have been hearing that there is a bunch of concern from the pit crews about the COT. First, cars are bigger and they are debuting them at NASCAR’s smallest track with smallest pit stalls. Second, the “splitter” on the lower front bumper. During pit stop tests, when the car grinds to a stop in the pit stall, or bottoms out on the track (which they do at Bristol), it grinds away on the bottom of the “splitter” creating a knife sharp edge pointing straight forward. Can you imaging being a pit crew member and getting clipped by one of these? Teams have had to scramble to redesign pit equipment that will work with these cars (i.e. gas catch cans to fit under the spoiler).
I think there should be a increased concern about the cluster that will happen in the pits more so than on the track.
I always pray for safety, but we need to pray especially this weekend for those in the pits as well.
Jill, I totally agree with you! Where in the hell has my NASCAR gone? Where you goin’ fishin’ I just might join you.
1969rs, Maybe, that is what NASCAR have in mind (1 of them) use that for an excuse to stop going to the older tracks and just race at the big cookie cutter tracks. I know this is a conspiracy comment, ha, Question by chance your name, you have a 69 rs camaro? I had one of those, my first camaro.
I agree with Leo,We can’t go back into the past…The old race cars are history,These new cars make sense and I think once everyone gets used to it they will love it.The cars are safer,will race better and the driver has more control of the outcome.The drivers that qualified in the front at Bristol all have alot of experience in other cars…Nice Job Jeff..your still one of the best nascar has ever seen drive and you have a beautiful Wife..way to go!…By the Way!..Im a Stewart Fan too!…Open wheel racing Rules..Midget’s and Sprints develope the Best Drivers…
Oh just wanted to ad…I hope all you people that say you won’t watch the car of tommorow really mean it..Maybe it will be easier to get tickets at bristol,Nascar only needs real race fans anyways…but Im sure you will all jump back on the bandwagon when the racing gets really good.
Well here we go again. we as humans are unreceptive to change. Where is all the B.S. comming from re; Staged Racing????? Lets get real here. Can you remember back to when they started using closed face helmets like I can??? we didnt like nascar telling our drivers they should use them. Or that they were safer either. As for Toyota being here….. Good just one more type of car intirely different then the ones already there. Let them get the bugs worked out and see what happens. Give the COT a chance for christ sake they dont even have a race under the ir belts yet.
Bruce, if you are having a hard time in buying tickets at Bristol, maybe you should go and buy them at a cookie cutter track. They have plenty; have you notice the empty seats? Tells us, what is a real NASCAR fan? Is it someone no matter what NASCAR do, Let’s say for instance NASCAR would change the rules again, and say all the cars must use rubber bands instead of engines-YOU, as a “REAL NASCAR FAN” say, golly gee whiz—That be Ok because I’m a real NASCAR fan!!
i like the question about the rule book but the answer was even better. it does all depend who it for. go tony
COT, What a joke, lets get these drivers out of these death traps and make them all remote control from the spotters box. No better yet lets stir the pot and get rid of NASCAR. Didn’t we learn anything from IROC.
I think I’m a big fan of Kyle bush now for the first time. He said he could not stand the cot, they Suck after he won the non excitment boring race. you nascar going down hill when Bristol is boring.