Why you reportedly won't be seeing Chevy's Camaro doing the NASCAR roundy-round
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Why you reportedly won't be seeing Chevy's Camaro doing the NASCAR roundy-round
There are people who have been waiting to find out if Chevrolet's new Camaro is going to be doing the NASCAR rounds and ovals, and yesterday General Motors' head of motorsport issued the answer: No. Why not? Because GM wants the Camaro to look like a Camaro when it races, not like that NASCAR Mustang that was rolled out a week ago.
GM's Mark Kent said that because of "the need to have templated bodies in that series, we felt that by forcing the Camaro into the Nationwide templates that we were compromising the body lines of an iconic car." Instead, Bumblebee could be headed to the KONI Challenge series or drag racing with the NHRA. No disrespect to NASCAR, but they'll be places where you can see racing Camaros instead of racing stickers.
GM's Mark Kent said that because of "the need to have templated bodies in that series, we felt that by forcing the Camaro into the Nationwide templates that we were compromising the body lines of an iconic car." Instead, Bumblebee could be headed to the KONI Challenge series or drag racing with the NHRA. No disrespect to NASCAR, but they'll be places where you can see racing Camaros instead of racing stickers.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/spo...in-nascar.html
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I don't know how much more a Camaro will be a Camaro in NHRA than NASCAR, but I'd def like to see it in NHRA more than NASCAR.
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You're talking about NASCAR here. It is the WWE of racing. The focus of NASCAR has been on the drivers for many years now, not the manufacturers. The days of Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday are long over. Besides that, Camaro is still trying to kick the "redneck/mullet" image, and to the uninformed, a NASCAR tie-in certainly doesn't help.
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You're talking about NASCAR here. It is the WWE of racing. The focus of NASCAR has been on the drivers for many years now, not the manufacturers. The days of Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday are long over. Besides that, Camaro is still trying to kick the "redneck/mullet" image, and to the uninformed, a NASCAR tie-in certainly doesn't help.
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You're talking about NASCAR here. It is the WWE of racing. The focus of NASCAR has been on the drivers for many years now, not the manufacturers. The days of Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday are long over. Besides that, Camaro is still trying to kick the "redneck/mullet" image, and to the uninformed, a NASCAR tie-in certainly doesn't help.
And to the die-hard NASCAR fan, they know that all it would be is a plastic shell with a couple Camaro decals.
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