Newspaper Columnist Gets It: NASCAR Car of Tomorrow Ironically Killing NASCAR

dewcrew
Aug 6, 2009 at 12:28 pm

i could see ford changing cars,but nascar dosen’t suck.people who say that don’t watch it.

dcchevyboy
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:10 am

nascar sucks period!!! and i mean that with a passion! the cars have no indivduality they all look the same anyway. and i dont get whats so exciting about turning left. nascar is just as exciting as golf is. i went to homestead speedway one time to see nascar because i got free tickets and i couldnt even sit there after the 3rd lap its borring and has no point. i might as well run in a circle and make car noises all day!!

jeeperscreeper
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:42 am

This new car isnt about the looks or anything like that. So who cares if the picture we see of a new NNS car is a Ford Mustang. Dodge, Chevy, and Toyota are gonna make their cars as well with a similar body designe, same chassis and engine. This new car is being brought into the NNS series to test the the drivers because if they drive the same car as Nextel how can you tell who is really a better driver.

backinblack2
Aug 6, 2009 at 8:20 am

NASCAR sucks, I think ever since Dale Earnhardt Sr. died everything has just gone to shit in a hurry.

rejybaby
Aug 6, 2009 at 5:41 am

Yeah it would be nice to see every car that is in production and capable to compete in a certain class. That would be more interesting to me. The only reason NASCAR is here today is because of it’s background my opinion. What they got going on now with lookalike same weight stuff is getting old. But I do love the long tracks. I’d like to see NASCAR go forever.

MalibuNut
Aug 5, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Wow, this artist’s rendition sucks! From what I have heard, the Mustang, Challenger and Camaro (should the other two be entered into the NNS), will look very much like the actual cars, not like the Fusion re-tred with a Mustang-esque front end!

2185313
Aug 5, 2009 at 9:10 pm

ok? does it matter what paintjob u put on a universal body shape??? shit nascar is NOT stock car racing!!! back in the day was awesome to see a car u owned racing on tv!!! but now its all plastic pieces of shit!!!

chevyman327nova
Aug 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm

ok i see someone said good to see mustang back in nascar when was it there in the first place??!!??

MrGeorgia2009
Aug 5, 2009 at 5:55 pm

mustang: longest production MUSCLE car.
a true NASCAR car. and this isn’t really what it would look like. those that don’t like the mustang: if it was such a crappy car how is it still around?????????? hmmmm wonder why, maybe because it is an american icon as the true pony car.

and as for camry’s in nascar. that toyota is the only car on the nascar circuit that is made 100% in the USA. don’t care if its a overseas company. the others have parts made in mexico and shit. now i love fords to death, but toyota’s got the right idea.

impalawetblack
Aug 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm

whats even more stupid is this is why ford would make a v6 taurus have way more horsepower than a v8 mustang.

spirit401
Aug 5, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Fun to see the Mustang back in NASCAR. Yes… It’s been there before along with Javelins too.
Those that think it doesn’t belong or looks ugly can just look at a Camry and ask the same question. Mustang is more race car than any of the others. V8 rear wheel drive like it should be!

dragorphan
Aug 5, 2009 at 1:40 pm

I guess that NASCAR is not smart enough to see that the current formula is what killed IROC and is about to kill INDY. Same car same motor same trans same suspention set up. Are you bored yet?

2008835
Aug 5, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Its about as fake as Nascar… Ironic

chevyman327nova
Aug 5, 2009 at 11:33 am

so be it. im a nascar fan but the car styles aint the problem i think its all staged anymore and people get paid off to let other drivers win and others just get screwed with used or defect parts and im talkin good drivers which has been proven in the past like my driver for example im not gonna say a name but he aint won in a while and just seems to have bad luck and was suppose to have a better chance at winning when he changed teams but things just get worse and all the rules are changing and getting worse which makes it uninteresting

XTZTwinTurbo
Aug 5, 2009 at 10:09 am

left turn left turn wall

Flavorade
Aug 5, 2009 at 9:02 am

CNBC ran a special on NASCAR and the NHRA. When a sport airs on a business channel, it is no longer a sport, but a business.

Think about how easy it is for sponsors logos to be seen on a boxed shaped car. They are using those cookie-cutters as rolling billboards.

SingledOutJ30
Aug 5, 2009 at 4:44 am

Im not into NASCAR that much, but I dont see whats wrong with the Mustang body… It looks good!

1723117
Aug 5, 2009 at 4:05 am

I dont think it looks to bad. I mean its only for NASCAR racing. Its not like you will ever see it on the street. Whatever.

1959718
Aug 4, 2009 at 8:30 pm

What the heck were people expecting the Mustang to look like as a nascar. It has to be competitive, so it looks like every other car in the series, just with different headlight stickers. NASCAR is like pretty much every series, every car from every make looks about the same and runs many of the same parts. If they ran cars that were close to production there would be no way to keep them somewhat equal and they would not be as safe on the high speed tracks as a tube chassis race car. I think theres a lot wrong with NASCAR, don’t get me wrong, but I dont think the race cars are the problem. Compared to most series its a pretty even playing field.

LedZeppelin
Aug 4, 2009 at 8:29 pm

Artie99 is right. However, the once fastest growing sport in the world is facing some tough challenges. Can popular perception maintain in the face of increasingly boring races? The idea behind original Stock Car races was to ask the Question “is my sedan faster than yours?” “Can I drive faster than a whole pack of similar cars?”

Parity wasn’t always a rigid part of the sport. As a matter of Fact…Big Bill France himself used an underpowered Chrysler product shod with indy compound tires in a race against the usual V-8’s….and won! The Plymouth his driver used had a straight six, and the car drove on harder compound indy style (for the time) tires. The slower pace (about 75 mph) and steady driving limited the pit stops to just eleven. Every one else in the field pitted upwards of 20 times for fuel and rubber. And the faster speeds of the big V-8s caused nearly everyone to wipeout at one point or another.

Funny thing is no one was really evenly matched to begin with. There were no templates that had to be dealt with. No restrictor plates… Fords, Chevy’s, Pontiac’s, Cadillacs (!) Hudson’s, Chrysler’s, Plymouths….didn’t matter…They all attended early NASCAR. Races were then very exciting. Today….its a matter of who can maitian control of flying bricks. Might as well race motorhomes for all the excitment today’s NASCAR generates…

oldsmobilenewfie
Aug 4, 2009 at 7:19 pm

I have no problem with them bringing the mustang to Nascar always wanted to see it but damn that is one ugly looking Stang looks to much like the probe to me.

2200822
Aug 4, 2009 at 6:20 pm

Heck,I already want to throw a wrench.

artie99
Aug 4, 2009 at 2:12 pm

It’s all been said before, but NASCAR got greedy. NASCAR should not be allowed to employ any track owners. Otherwise you end up with 26 identical races a year. The only races anyone gets excited about are the ones at non mile-and-a-half race tracks. Daytona, Talledega, Bristol, Martinsville, Dover, Indy are some of the most popular. You can only repackage Atlanta so many times (Texas, California, Vegas, Kansas) without people loose interest.

Someone needs to start a whole new series using actual production cars like they did when NASCAR was young. The problem is there are only so many tracks that aren’t sanctioned by NASCAR. So, it’ll probably never happen and oval track racing will eventually just die.

FordRulesAll
Aug 4, 2009 at 10:17 am

I think it looks kinda cool.