Nationwide Series moving to COT in mid-2009
Quote selected text Published April 20th, 2008 in NASCAR News
The NASCAR Nationwide Series likely will go with its own version of the “car of tomorrow” in 2009, but not at the start of the year as had been originally targeted by NASCAR officials.
The rollout of the new Nationwide car most likely will be around midway through 2009, NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton said Saturday at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
“It will probably be in the middle of next year sometime,” Pemberton said. “We will try to do something that’s more user-friendly than the roll-out schedule that they had in the Cup Series.
“We probably will go later in the year but more races in a row. We haven’t determined that but we’ll look at sometime after mid-year.”
Once it starts, it likely will be a clean break with the new car used in all events except for road courses where NASCAR will revert back to the old car, Pemberton said.
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Why use the old car for the road course races…?
A more know factor I guess Plus it is such a different car they run on a road course. this way they will only have to worry about building oval cars for the first year or 2.
My question is why period use a new car? all these Nationwide teams really can’t afford to build and run 2 completely different cars like cup had to.
Yeah but they would not need to build road course specific cars because they couldn’t. It’s going to be the same chassis as the Cup COT which is a non-offset chassis so it works on Ovals and Road courses.
As to the question of “Why use a new car?” Why did they switch to this style of car in the late 90’s, why did they switch from the AeroCoupe style cars of the 80’s to the silhouette cars of the early 90’s, etc…. Change is part of racing, and one thing that changes every hand full of years in the car.
Heck even go to your local track and compare the late models of today to the ones from 2000, and 1995, and 1990, etc… It stinks for the teams and crews and drivers to have to spend money on the new stuff, and to have to learn the new stuff, but that is just the reality of the sport of Auto Racing. (and really every form of Land/Water/Air Motorsports)
gonesouthern wrote:
Same thing I want to know! It was enough of a burden on the cup teams to have to build and maintain the old car and COT. It would kill some of these Busch teams to have to go though that. I don’t see why they can’t either accelerate the process and start it completely in ‘09 or push it back and do it full time in ‘10. At least if they go with this plan, they won’t be switching back and forth from week to week like Cup did last year, except for the couple of times they hit the road courses.
I think it makes sense. This way they can focus on oval development with the COT, and not worry about two or three road course races. Then in 2010, they can start to work on road course development without sacrificing oval development since they’ll already have a base to work on.
Beyond that, most road courses are safer than ovals due to larger run-off areas and tire-barriers. This allows NASCAR to run a slightly less-safe stock car with less concerns on driver safety.
What I want to know is more about the rumor I heard about the Busch, oops, Nationwide (freaking retarded) Series using Camaros, Mustangs, and whatever else they were talking about. I really don’t remember for sure where I was reading about it, but I do remember reading about it. Does anyone else know anything about this?
It was denied the other month.
Well not really denied as in “its not going to happen” but denied as in “thats not for you to know right now” or at least thats how I interpreted it.
Yes Dustin I also heard or read that somewhere,maybe Windtunnel or Speed report I don’t know,but I did here it.
Keep running the old style cars in Nationwide. After all, how many ARCA teams will buy all that surplus of old stuff anyway?
wrote:
Its not just ARCA its the Camping World East and West series, The Canadian Tire Series, the Mexican Corona Series and I think MAYBE the Hooters Pro-Cup (not sure about their cars)
The Majority of whats left after that will be sent to various driving schools/ride along programs here in the states and in other countries. And whats left will be bought up by collectors and Museums, and whatever is left after that will get scrapped for a few thousands dollars per car.
they should push the whole thing back to 2010 and just run the complete season in one car and also it would give some of the lower budget teams time to adapt to the new car. Some of these guys are struggling to keep the doors open as it is.
George, no matter how long you push it off the teams that can afford to build 10 extra cars will be able to build 10 new cars, and the teams that can barely afford the two cars they have (race & Backup) will barely be able to afford to build 2 new cars.
Its that whole “Rich get Richer, Poor get Poorer” theory….
Fisha695 wrote:
Well said. Any Nationwide-only teams are now going to have
the largest uphill battle from now on. More than they had.
The Cup/Nationwide teams will be just fine. Meaning, all those
Cup drivers will get a higher jump than they already have on
these smaller teams.
Hit the nail on the head Fisha695.
WHY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ???????????????????????
They have a great race care now that runs and races side by side. What will the new COT do but F things up like it’s done in the Cup series.
Just geat, another F up in racing……………..
Ask Michael McDowell why,I bet he could tell you.The cars are much safer, the racing will come.give it some time,who knows how many lives/careers will be saved.they’ve been driving those other cars for a long time to get them to drive like they do ,I remember maybe 8-9 years ago Daytona 500 inline racing ,NO passing polesitter (Dale Jarrett) won the race.Boring race start to finish.Dale Earnhardt quote:Bill France is probably turning over in his grave.These guys will figure this car out and the racing will be safer and better than ever,just give it some time.Just think if we had these cars7-8 years ago maybe Dale sr. would still be here to bitch abuot how bad these cars are.
DK You are 100% right about them having to figure out the cars and then the racing will improve.
Look back when they made the switch from the AreoCoupe cars they ran in the 80’s to the silhouette style cars in 1989, the racing kinda died down a bit until everybody got the new cars figured out, and then the same thing happened when they made a switch again in 1995 till the “renegade” style bodies, and the same thing happened when they switched to the COT, except they phased the COT in, instead of just running the entire year with it.