Nas What? - Nascup Fool!
The extent of NASCAR’s influence never ceases to amaze me.
The latest wonderment comes via Australia and the brand new, never seen before, never raced before NASCUP racing car.
Behold - NASCUP racing cars.
Following in the tradition of Aussie Racing Cars (ARC) which is now recognized as Australia’s most successful motor racing category comes a new class of car that will offer similar excitement and driving thrills to a whole range of people who wish to get in to motorsport. The ARC features U.S. Legends and Australian Falcon and Commodore body styles. (race reports category here)
The cars are half sized replicas of the famous NASCAR Sprint Cup Super Speedway cars that race every weekend on America’s traditional oval layouts. They employ a strong typically American NASCAR type space frame chassis powered by a 1.3 litre Yamaha engine with water cooling.
The safe and robust chassis is draped in a fiberglass shell that replicates the famous body styles that are so well known on the famous tracks across the US including Daytona, Talladega and Indianapolis. (see images on page 8)
In Australia there is a growing following of NASCAR with all the events being shown here on live and pay TV. The interest here has never been higher with home grown heroes like Marcos Ambrose joining the fray to continue his racing career in the category.
As I said it never ceases to amaze me the power of the NASCAR publicity machine, coupled with the actual product on the track, how far the series’ influence spreads. If it wasn’t for Bernie Ecclestone’s toy the Speedcar Series in Asia I would expect to see Brian France act like that DeCaprio fella and scream “I’m king of the world!”
Speaking of ruling the world, there’s a hot rumor making the rounds on a similar topic. According to the [in]famous un-named sources the Rolex Sports Car Series will be swallowed up whole and bought out by the NASCAR/ISC conglomerate.
The two series have been joined at the hip anyway and a buyout would only make it official.
Cross posted @ Asian Motor Sports
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ARC is without doubt the best priced, most competitive formula for any driver in Australia. The grids are enormous & the racing never fails to entertain.
BTW, ARC must be very careful how it plans for the future, the Toyota involvement is a major coup. However, under no circumstance should they move away from the spec Yamaha engine format, a engine war would kill the formula.