Gen 6 Race Car May Have Kept Chevrolet In NASCAR
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NASCAR may be fun to watch and all, but the track to street transfer is, for lack of a better word, minimal. It’s come to the point where the cars are nothing more than high-velocity billboards, with the only resemblance to production vehicles being sets of vinyl stickers representing the lights and grille designs. What? You actually thought the Toyota Camry was a rear-wheel-drive V8 powerhouse? You must be from that part of America where they’re just discovering the Internet.
As it turns out, Chevrolet was getting pretty tired of the disconnected nature of the series to the cars it produces, markets, and sells. As such, it was pondering withdrawing from NASCAR and its Car of Tomorrow template that’s been used since 2007. But with the sixth-generation race car, which brings more direct aesthetic resemblance to production models, Chevy decided to stick around for a bit longer, especially given that it is aligning its production-spec SS performance Sedan with the NASCAR racer of the same name.
All of this is according to Rick Hendrick via an ESPN report. Yes, ESPN found the time to talk about something other than Tim Tebow and the New England Patriots. What a change-up. But even with the Gen. 6, the Camry is still allowed to be a RWD V8.
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Just imagine, if they had a “Z model” (I only use that term because Chevy seems to always have a Z version of their cars) we might have a production car that is only 100hp short of some of the cars actually out racing on certain tracks.
Corvettes are already more powerful than their racing counterparts.. Same with the ZL1 Camaro.
This why V8 supercars is better than NASCAR.
lol how are people giving that the thumbs down (I’m the one guy who up’d you, btw). Don’t thumb down something you know nothing about people, pure ignorance.
V8 Supercars is exactly what Nascar should be. I friggin hope we see the DTM touring car series from Europe actually make it to North America and not just keep talking about it. Having a DTM+V8 Supercar type racing series in North America would be outstanding.
The more manufacturers, and the more manufacturer backed teams there are in a race series the better, and we could actually see companies like Merc and Audi enter cars.
I believe it is the Grand AM people that are causing the problem with DTM coming here.