Huh, that's a big step back from saying that the manufacturer that's behind on aero is all due to their own incompetence and doesn't deserve a chance to rectify it because they shouldn't get bailed out for coming up short against the competition fair and square.
Their performance at 1.5 mile tracks this year would make it hard for me to believe Toyota is at an aero disadvantage
If everybody is going to change their hood, what is the point? It seems like everyone will just be right back where they started, so why even entertain the idea? If one manufacturer is at a disadvantage, I can see letting THEM submit a new part, but all three? Pointless unless you are correcting some safety issue or you GENUINELY believe it will improve the on-track product in some measurable way. If either of the latter two are the reason, then NASCAR should just come out and say so.
I would imagine the changes are to reflect the OEM's changes to the car.
The Camry has a refresh every three to four years. It happens to fall within that window as this current model has been used since 2018.
Then why is Jeff crying they are losing money? You guys can't have this both ways. I get slammed for suggesting this is the big boy league and a lot of this money saving talk is BS and now nobody seems to have an issue with chaging body parts for seemingly no good reason.
They have been changing body parts for well over 50 years. That is what OEM's do, and despite whining to the contrary, Nascar in partnership with the OEM's are trying to make the race cars look similar to street models. Wake up.
Could be cooling-related with the hood louvres. I’m sure Ford and Toyota could use a parity adjustment but Chevy had to remove their louvres at the Clash so it could be low-speed cooling performance.
This is where your problem lies, you dont know because you are so far removed from the decision making process it doesnt make sense to you. Seemingly.
Depends on if he's eyeing Corvettes again.
I've found the eyeing part is free, it's the touching part they charge for.
WE did, and WE shouldn't. I need somebody to help me understand how these bodies went to the wind tunnel, everybody signed off on each other, and now WE are at deficit. How in actual **** could that be? While we are at it, I need somebody to explain to me how in the actual **** everybody is changing their bodies after one year. I thought we were trying to save money. I believe in the Next Gen, but what is the point here?
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In the case of Ford, their change coincides with the release of the next generation Mustang.
I get what you mean about wraps getting better over the years with shading and whatnot, but that's basically exactly what they did with the COT and it was awful.
2023 changes are just parity-related it seems, they’re debuting the 7th-Gen Mustang body in Cup in 2024.
I think they were also talking about some cooling issues having to do with the vents in the hood.
While I'm pretty much over the whole thing, if you think about the damage apparent from Kurt & Alex's crashes...there was almost none. And they hit on the corner where it should have been easier to crush. Maybe. At least knocked the bumper over to the side? So the 33 MPH number is fairly irrelevant for us non-engineers. I'd like to have seen an angled hit also. Like the cars actually wreck.
