[LSC9901]

Lilsexy08 .. this is for your benefit. We've posted a lot about this new change. Not much of what we've had to say is good.


Car of Tomorrow

Future of the sport unveiled with new-look concept vehicle

NASCAR.COM
January 27, 2006
02:06 PM EST (19:06 GMT)

NASCAR has announced that the Car of Tomorrow will begin Nextel Cup Series competition in 2007. Teams will use the newly designed race car for 16 events next season, beginning with the spring race at Bristol.
Some of the benefits of the Car of Tomorrow:
ALSO
A five-year project, the Car of Tomorrow offers important safety and performance upgrades. It also addresses cost reduction, providing teams with a more efficient car to produce and tune.

• Complete story, click here
DAYTONA TEST
NASCAR made a giant step toward a hoped-for "universal car" for use in the Nextel Cup Series when Brett Bodine tested the latest Car of Tomorrow prototype at Daytona Jan. 12.

• Complete story, click here
ATLANTA TEST
At Atlanta last fall, Petty Enterprises, Richard Childress Racing, Roush Racing, Hendrick Motorsports and Dale Earnhardt Incorporated tested versions of the Car of Tomorrow.

• Complete story, click here
Safety Benefits
• "G" forces spike reduction
• Cockpit intrusion protection
→ Roll cage is 2 inches taller, 4 inches wider
→ Roll cage moved rearward 3 inches
→ Left-side door bars covered with steel plate
→ Door bars configured for impact attenuation
→ Driver's seat moved 4 inches to the right
→ Double left-side frame rail (intrusion, EA backstop)
→ Fully enclosed driveshaft tunnel
→ Truck arm cross member for controlled crush
→ Left-side suspension moved left 1 inch
→ Match bumper heights front, rear and side
→ Exhaust thru right frame rail
→ Re-configured floor pan (no OEM floor pan)
• Fire protection
→ Less fuel volume (17.5 gallons from 22 gallons) and stronger container
Cost Reduction
• Fewer cars in car owner's inventory
• Tighter parameters (quicker, easier and cheaper to build)
→ More closely matched grill area (Most cooling air will enter through space below bumper)
→ Headlights straighter to match production vehicle (Less aerodynamic)
→ Windshield angle more upright and more closely matches 2007 street cars
• 3D inspection at track followed by R&D Center validation using coordinate measuring system
Other Benefits
• Enhanced TV Camera Locations
→ Camera pod designed by Broadcast Sports Technology (BST) mounted on all cars (Roof camera as used today along with additional side-mounted cameras located between the B & C posts)
→ Other possible camera locations (low front, etc.)
• Improved manufacturer's identity

[LSC9901]

Hi SunRae. Glad to see that you made it over to the forum. As you'll note it is way to quiet here now but in 79 +/- days we'll be right back in thethick of it.

[SunRae]

Hi LSC9901! I figured it would be kind of quiet over here this time of year, but I'm glad I found ya'll! It'll definately help me with my withdrawal symptoms!

With all this stuff going on, next year will sure be interesting! I tend to agree with DW about "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"; so, I'm waiting to see all the reverberations from everything. I know a lot of people are saying that they're not going to follow the sport anyway; but, honestly, I'd feel almost like I was walking away from my family if I did. I watch NASCAR for the drivers and the crews...if they go, then I'll go.

[Souporscotty]

Originally Posted by A pirate

I'm in the more the merrier camp. *cue patriotic music*

Isn't that what our country was founded on? The more the merrier. Being free to live how you want. Weren't we the "Boiling Pot" once? If we as Americans can overcome the Nazis in WWII, overcome the WTC bombing on 9/11, we can handle a little outside competition in our all American sport right?

*cut patriotic music*

Seriously though. NASCAR is better off with Toyota. With around 55 teams next year the competition on the track should be increased. More cars on the lead lap. Tighter racing. I'm looking forward to it.

Wampinrock, you're missing out on the best racing in NASCAR by not watching the trucks! Just sayin'

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Souporscotty

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!

Actually it was the Japs that bombed Pearl Harbor... the ones we are gripin about that are bein allowed to run their cars in a sport they don't belong in.... That's all I'm sayin....

[wardfan]

Originally Posted by Souporscotty

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!

Hey wvgrandma4kasey, did you ever get around to watching animal house?

[Souporscotty]

Originally Posted by Quality88

Actually it was the Japs that bombed Pearl Harbor... the ones we are gripin about that are bein allowed to run their cars in a sport they don't belong in.... That's all I'm sayin....

Have you ever seen 'Animal House'?

[lilsexy08]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Lilsexy08 .. this is for your benefit. We've posted a lot about this new change. Not much of what we've had to say is good.


Car of Tomorrow

Future of the sport unveiled with new-look concept vehicle

NASCAR.COM
January 27, 2006
02:06 PM EST (19:06 GMT)


NASCAR has announced that the Car of Tomorrow will begin Nextel Cup Series competition in 2007. Teams will use the newly designed race car for 16 events next season, beginning with the spring race at Bristol.
Some of the benefits of the Car of Tomorrow:
ALSO
A five-year project, the Car of Tomorrow offers important safety and performance upgrades. It also addresses cost reduction, providing teams with a more efficient car to produce and tune.

• Complete story, click here
DAYTONA TEST
NASCAR made a giant step toward a hoped-for "universal car" for use in the Nextel Cup Series when Brett Bodine tested the latest Car of Tomorrow prototype at Daytona Jan. 12.

• Complete story, click here
ATLANTA TEST
At Atlanta last fall, Petty Enterprises, Richard Childress Racing, Roush Racing, Hendrick Motorsports and Dale Earnhardt Incorporated tested versions of the Car of Tomorrow.

• Complete story, click here
Safety Benefits
• "G" forces spike reduction
• Cockpit intrusion protection
→ Roll cage is 2 inches taller, 4 inches wider
→ Roll cage moved rearward 3 inches
→ Left-side door bars covered with steel plate
→ Door bars configured for impact attenuation
→ Driver's seat moved 4 inches to the right
→ Double left-side frame rail (intrusion, EA backstop)
→ Fully enclosed driveshaft tunnel
→ Truck arm cross member for controlled crush
→ Left-side suspension moved left 1 inch
→ Match bumper heights front, rear and side
→ Exhaust thru right frame rail
→ Re-configured floor pan (no OEM floor pan)
• Fire protection
→ Less fuel volume (17.5 gallons from 22 gallons) and stronger container
Cost Reduction
• Fewer cars in car owner's inventory
• Tighter parameters (quicker, easier and cheaper to build)
→ More closely matched grill area (Most cooling air will enter through space below bumper)
→ Headlights straighter to match production vehicle (Less aerodynamic)
→ Windshield angle more upright and more closely matches 2007 street cars
• 3D inspection at track followed by R&D Center validation using coordinate measuring system
Other Benefits
• Enhanced TV Camera Locations
→ Camera pod designed by Broadcast Sports Technology (BST) mounted on all cars (Roof camera as used today along with additional side-mounted cameras located between the B & C posts)
→ Other possible camera locations (low front, etc.)
• Improved manufacturer's identity

Thanks for the info LSC!

[lilsexy08]

Originally Posted by Souporscotty

Have you ever seen 'Animal House'?

That movie is so funny! I don't know how many times I've seen that!

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Souporscotty

Have you ever seen 'Animal House'?

Doh..... I just ain't been catchin on to anythin lately.... bad thing is a i just watched that movie Sat... I give up

[lilsexy08]

Originally Posted by Quality88

Doh..... I just ain't been catchin on to anythin lately.... bad thing is a i just watched that movie Sat... I give up

Thats ok, we still love yea Quality!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Wampinrock

Y'all are quite right...good 'ol country boy DW is definately attempting to protect his interest in the Rising Sun POS. I was a hard-core, long-time fan of DW...thought he was reckless, cavalier, a box o fun and a great traditional driver who I had watched and rooted for for years (along side the Intimidator, of course) but that idolizing was forever shattered the year that Toyota entered the truck division. He sat in front of me on one of the take shows, extrolling the "virtue of the Toy POS...trying to help me understand how great it will be when the off-shor entry was a-gonna revolutionize the sport of racing....CRAP! I quickly 'raced' to my shop and covered each #17 in the collection. And; we should all remember that the very first non-USA manufacturer was introduced at Daytona in 2001. Since then, we can sit back and watch as the Japanese and German cars slowly take over. Kinda like how you boil a frog...very slowly and methodically. Brian has single handedly begun the distruction of the sport that his Grandfather so laboriously planned and put together....what a dufus!

COT? Another move to alienate the traditional fan. DW says he is a traditionalist? Then how in the heck (I really wanted to use a much stronger word here) did the Rising Sun POS get into his life??

I think I am way too old to quietly accept this crap...I quite watching the trucks because of the introduction of the Toy POS and the Dodge...haven't watched one trk race in quite a few years....don't know what I'm a gonna do next year...it's painful

I'm off the soap box now, kids....

Other than the horrible statement about being a fan of DW (I agree about his cavalier/reckless driving and being a '"traditional driver." His on-mike antics always got right down to my last good nerve; he was the absolute WORST winner in NASCAR history, IMNSVHO), I can't add a single word to your excellent desertation. I totally agree, except I watch the CTS because it's the closest thing to real racing that NA$CAR offers, rice-burners or no rice burners.

Stay on that soapbox. It makes me feel that I am not alone.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by BringBackWilkesboro

Thats how I am beginning to view Na$car. I honestly cant explain why I still follow it as closely as I do. Guess its just because I cant bring myself to say that I am not a Nascar fan after so many years.
'scuse me while I go take a breathe or two.

I know how you feel, Wilks. I've been a NASCAR fan for so long that I guess it is kind of like smoking was for me back when I smoked. I just put a cigarette in my mouth and lit it without thinking; it was just an automatic reflex. Today, to me, it's kind of like a wreck along the highway; you don't really want to look but you do anyway.

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

His on-mike antics always got right down to my last good nerve; he was the absolute WORST winner in NASCAR history, IMNSVHO.

You are so correct. Every time he won a race he'd stick either his hat or his head on sideways and dance around like a complete set of village idiots.

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Stay on that soapbox. It makes me feel that I am not alone.

I really believe being able to get on the soap box and spout off allows the old time fans to keep a bit of sanity when it comes to NA$CAR.

[lilsexy08]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

You are so correct. Every time he won a race he'd stick either his hat or his head on sideways and dance around like a complete set of village idiots.



I really believe being able to get on the soap box and spout off allows the old time fans to keep a bit of sanity when it comes to NA$CAR.

I like that LSC-Village idiots!