Gen6 car

No matter how many ways you look at it, the new gen6 car is a step in the right direction. With the new body style, these cars look more like their showroom floor counter parts all 3 manufacturers put on the street, ( I for one am still sad that Dodge wont be in NASCAR this year, I hope for a speedy return) The Chevy SS, of course, isn't on the showroom as of yet, but they will be in the middle of this year. The official unveiling will be during speed weeks at Daytona. Now I know I should be more unbiased of my opinion of the new cars as far as picking one I like over the others, but I really like the looks of the Chevy SS and am already putting a bug in my wife's ear to trade the old malibu in when they come out (to no avail I'm afraid, at least not until I can get her in one for a test drive.) I have never been impressed with the looks of the Toyota Camry, and in general not a Toyota fan. The ford looks remarkably like its showroom counter part, but in my humble opinion, not sporty. Please don't let my grandpa here that, he was a Ford man through and through.

The drivers have all had high remarks for the new car, I do not believe we will have the colorful remarks by the winner of the first gen6 race like we did with the COT in Bristol by Kyle Busch, refresher of what he said after winning and leading most all the laps that day was "this car sucks." Every one has said they like the car, its fast, sticks to the track better (has much better down force then the old COT and much less of the dreaded aero push we hear so much about) Denny Hamlin has said that during a tire test a week or so ago, "it was faster then the old car."

Dale Earnhardt Jr has been very happy with the new car saying "its much more drivable" even though it looks like bump drafting will be not as before (as we seen during the testing in Daytona, bumping was not the way to get around the track) Dale Jr has learned the hard way, while attempting to bump draft with Marcos Ambrose he ended up being the cause of the "big one" wrecking and ending many teams testing weekend at Daytona. After the wreck Jr said that the bumpers of the different manufactures did not line up well and later stated wrecking half the field like that was probably the dumbest thing he has done and was more embarrassed about that than anything he could remember before. Will we see the old "sling shot" passing we had before the COT hit the track? I for one sure hope so. That was a way more entertaining way to race I always thought. And my question is, will we see drivers like Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr, who excelled with the "old style" car, go back to their winning ways? Dale Jr won 16 races in 4 years before the COT hit the track and in the old car Jeff won 4 championships and hasn't won but a smattering of races since the COT hit the track, both struggled getting the "feel" of the new car. We will soon see wont we? Daytona speed weeks is less then 2 weeks away, Feb 16th at 8pm EST is the new Sprint Unlimited (old bud shoot out, that will be tomorrows topic by the way.) And I for one can not wait... its time for some NASCAR!! Until tomorrow.......

p.s I will try and locate some pictures of the old car of last year and the new car gen6 as NASCAR is calling it, and try and post them later tonight or tomorrow with the next blog.