McLaren Fuel Injection for NASCAR in 2012

UPDATE #2 This rumor became 'Fact' with this announcement.

02/11/11 NASCAR is expected to announce today that its Sprint Cup teams will start using fuel injection systems. It is also expected that McLaren Electronic Systems will provide the electronic control units, in partnership with Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, Texas. McLaren’s Ron Dennis popped up in NASCAR last year at Indianapolis and it seems that the NASCAR folk were happy to listen as they want to have a little more technology on the cars, because the carburetors that are currently employed are from another age. At the same time they wanted to control costs and with standard ECUs this was obviously possible. It is believed that McLaren beat bids from eight other companies. Joe Saward

02/11/11 NASCAR is expected to announce Friday that the Sprint Cup Series will shift to fuel injection in time for the 2012 season-opening Daytona 500. It is expected that Britain's McLaren Electronic Systems will provide the controller through a partnership with Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. out of Austin, Texas. Testing and development of the components will continue throughout the year. FoxSports