NASCAR to integrate Nationwide Series version of COT

The NASCAR Nationwide Series likely will go with its own version of the “car of tomorrow" in 2009, but not at the start of the year as had been originally targeted by NASCAR officials.

The rollout of the new Nationwide car most likely will be around midway through 2009, NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton said Saturday at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

“It will probably be in the middle of next year sometime," Pemberton said. “We will try to do something that’s more user-friendly than the roll-out schedule that they had in the Cup Series.

“We probably will go later in the year but more races in a row. We haven’t determined that but we’ll look at sometime after mid-year."

Once it starts, it likely will be a clean break with the new car used in all events except for road courses where NASCAR will revert back to the old car, Pemberton said. More at Scenedaily.com