NASCAR is in the developmental process of building a Car of Tomorrow for the Busch Series. Nextel Cup series director John Darby said there is no timetable on when the car may be put on the track, but said the arrival is “inevitable.” Darby said the COT makes more sense for Busch than the Cup from a pure financial situation because more teams likely would take advantage of having to build fewer cars as the COT program allows. Darby said he could foresee a situation where the chassis and roll cage assembly of the Cup COT is used with the Busch car with a different body so teams can’t use the same cars in both series.(ESPN.com)(7-29-2007)
UPDATE: The Busch COT will not look like the Cup COT — it won’t have a rear wing or a front splitter — but it will have many of the safety features included on the Cup COT. One solution NASCAR officials are discussing for the future is to make the Busch Series car a COT but switch to models not used in Cup, i.e., to make the Busch Series a sports car league with Mustangs, Camaros, etc. (ESPN.com)(7-31-2007)
