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This weeks print edition of Autoweek says that the budget for Dodge '13 Cup program has not been approved and may not. They think the return on the Viper ALMS campaign may give better results.
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Without a major team it doesn't make sense to stay in NASCAR.
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Don't know if I consider Furniture Row a "major team".
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Losing Dodge would be a huge blow to Nascar.
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How so? They left in the 70's, came back in the early 2000s, started strong and then petered out. About the time of the mercedes splitup they pretty much pulled most of their efforts to only being a single team with Penske. At this point they're a non factor.
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Going......going....gone?
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It's sad to say that Dodge will be gone in NASCAR, even though they showed their 2013 Cup Bodies...
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Gordon Kirby published one of his typical 500-mile articles on the 2013 Cup cars. It's not just new bodies as this thread's says, but the car will get much lighter. Here's some quotes from the manufacturer heads:
"Because the cars are so heavy they have to build tires that can hold up to that. In effect what it's turned into is drivers can run qualifying laps every single lap and rarely hurt a tire. So they're throwing some major changes to the ratio of aero to mechanical grip and let Goodyear work on doing some development to bring some tires that you can't run qualifying laps on every lap. So it will put it a little bit back into the driver's style and how hard they can push. If you overuse a tire you're going to pay for it at the end of the stint as far as lap time is concerned. " So like in F1, Nascar wants cars that drivers can't run as fast as they could. They want drivers to drive slower on bad tires. "We wanted to lock in the areas that we knew you could make big adjustments for big performance gains, but also leave open the areas where it really doesn't matter. We wanted to make it so you could also put a lot of style and character into the cars." What's the point of that? |
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NNS grid cut to 40 from 43 next year due to too many S&Ps I presume.
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The Toyota looks great:
http://jayski.com/schemes/2013/sprin...Test%20048.JPG Not sure about the Ford: http://jayski.com/schemes/2013/sprin...Test%20169.JPG It looks stretched. |
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That looks nothing like the actual Fusion, more like an Aston (front) and a Honda Accord (sides).
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Have you seen the new Fusion? That's exactly how I would describe the street car, looks like a high school kid used photoshop too much. The gril/lightsl look fine but wow is the hood(bonnet) ugly as sin and looks like they just HAD to have the AM grill opening and told the designers just make it work with a sedan. Although it looks MUCH better in the black over the red and blues I've seen on the street.
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^ I have to give it to them, it's good.
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The cars look great, but I am afraid that they might lose their lines with the kinds of paint schemes you see in NASCAR. The PEAK Toyota of Bowyer looks a lot different from the all-black Camry testing at Texas. Of course, the car may have been a little different as as how car (I hope...the one at Texas looks awesome).
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Ok, now I'm excited to see this thing on the track. They've consistently had the worst looking of the Cup cars....well from what I believe.
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Never mind. Had a post that I thought were new pictures of the Chevy in race trim, but nope. Not yet.
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