Expect not a few changes at the start of next year's NASCAR Cup Series. As the reported shift of Cup sponsorship from Nextel to Sprint creates bum steers around the motorsports world, the much anticipated debut of the Cars of Tomorrow is set to reshape the way stock cars compete.
This early the race body has been using its chief resources to give teams a chance to test the new CoT at different tracks before the 2008 season begins. Reports say the CoT lineup will be faced with their first real test as they take on the restrictor plate beast at the Talladega Superspeedway on September 11, two days after �The Chase for the Championship� from Richmond begins.
Brett Bodine, a former NASCAR driver and current cost research director of the CoT project, remains optimistic as the car continues to be presented at different tracks across the country. �The original design of the car of tomorrow has many characteristics of the current road course car,� Bodine said, �particularly in the fact that both are more symmetrical than the current (standard) oval track cars.�
There had been complaints, though, from drivers and crews who said the car has a high center of gravity that makes the setup tough for teams to find. Apart from the test run at the Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR also hopes to run its CoT at a 1.5-mile facility before 2007 is over. The itineraries of the test remains undetermined just yet.
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