Video: Brett Bodine explains the COT
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NASCAR Director of Cost Research, and former driver, Brett Bodine explains the key elements of NASCAR's new Car of Tomorrow.
On January 12, 2006, NASCAR announced a universal car named "Car of Tomorrow" (or "CoT" for short) after a five-year design program sparked mostly due to the death of Dale Earnhardt, one of the sport's premier superstars in a tragic final lap crash during the 2001 Daytona 500. The then-current cars were based on Holman Moody's 1966 Ford Fairlane. The primary design considerations were "safety innovations, performance and competition, and cost efficiency for teams."