The culmination of seven years of research, planning, testing and development come to fruition this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway as NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow debuts in Sunday’s Food City 500.
The Car of Tomorrow is NASCAR’s safer race car that also focuses on improving competition and providing teams with an opportunity to manage their costs more efficiently.
During a Feb. 28-March 1 test at Bristol, 50 teams went through a dress rehearsal that set the stage for this weekend. Most competitors came away sensing that Sunday’s race should be another hard-driving, tight racing and challenging afternoon at one of the sport’s most popular and dynamic venues – the. 533-mile concrete oval layout at Bristol Motor Speedway.
“Overall, I think the car is a resounding success for all the teams and for the way it’s going to put on a good show when we come back here, ” said Kurt Busch (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge) during the Bristol test. “It’s a clean slate, so whoever works the hardest and is the most determined and still continues to keep an open frame of mind will succeed in the end.
“I’m intrigued by it. It’s a new challenge. It has 50 percent of the Chase races this year, so the Car of Tomorrow is very important. In the end, this Car of Tomorrow is going to be a good thing. ”
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