New Nationwide Cars 'Pony Up' To Predicitions
by 4ever3 on Oct 13, 2009 11:48 PM EDT
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Ha, I just got this awesome email from my contact at Car and Driver Magazine with a link in it to their latest story about the new Nationwide Series CoT's.
And let me tell you I'm smiling from ear to freakin' ear about it.
Let me explain ... after the jump of course!
But first watch this video and then jump!
On October 9th, 2009 NASCAR announced that it will be changing the Nationwide Series cars to be the CoTbut with a different type of skin on it than the Cup cars and they would be running it for at least 4 races in 2010 and then full time the following year.
Well today Ford unveiled their entry of the new Nationwide CoT and its a Mustang. Yep a Mustang. It even has door handles!!
Cool!
What does that mean for the other car makers? Well as near as I can figure you'll probably be seeing GM's Camero and Dodge's Challenger but as for Toyota you are probably looking at a Camry.
A year ago (September 8th and 9th 2008) NASCAR held some testing sessions for the new Nationwide car and at that time it was reported at NASCAR.com that "the new car type would include Chevrolet's new Camaro, Ford's Mustang and Dodge's new Challenger" with "Toyota (announcing) its model for the Nationwide new car, (as being) the Camry that currently races in both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide series."
I've always felt that the Nationwide Series needed its own identity and even have said in the past (even before Sept. of last year) that it should revitalize itself as a a new Trans Am Series of sorts by using Pony Cars and by having a few more road races like Montreal added to the schedule.
Well I've got the Pony Car wish (thus the big smile), now let's see if I get more road races too.
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Will the new car give the series its own identity?
Absolutely not.
The Nationwide Series will not have its own identity until it has its own stars competing for wins.
This is the equivalent of major leaguers puttting on new minor league jerseys while playing AA ball against the kids.
The rising stars are in ARCA and Nationwide needs to adapt its format to really stick out.
I hate this series so much…
I hope so, but...
The biggest problem with the Nationwide Series are the Buschwhackers, as they used to be called. Nascar needs to limit the number of races a full time Cup driver can drive in the NW series (except for Cup rookies) so that the NW series could actually develop drivers and have it’s own identity.
That said – this new Mustang COT is pretty awesome. I’m actually one of the few who likes the Cup COT, but I think the NW COT might even be better. And from what I read about testing it, it drives better. I like all the safety features both COTs bring. But now GM needs to get a Camaro COT out there, not a COT Impala for the NW series. Bring on the Camaro!
I’d like to echo the above sentiments. The only thing that will give the B-level series (or the truck series, or F-1, or any other underwhelming racing league you can point too) an identity is to allow the drivers within the organization to develop their identities. The dominating presence of the A-level drivers more or less hobbles the Nationwide series as far as I’m concerned.
The new COT will probably be fine (though I wonder about the costs and it’s effects on marginal teams), but the particular name of a body-type on the modern-era homogeneous cars is more or less meaningless.
"Yeah we came up short today but I'm cool with things." -- Juan Pablo Montoya
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