Cup teams become used car salesmen… COT makes old fleets obsolete
by Mike Irwin ~ October 23rd, 2007 @ 1:18 pmNASCAR’s decision to use the Car of Tomorrow exclusively next season has rendered an entire fleet of expensive race cars obsolete. After this weekend’s Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the conventional Nextel Cup cars will be run only two more times, at Texas Motor Speedway and in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Industry leaders say that means that 400 top-of-the-line race cars, many of which have spent hours in wind tunnels to fine-tune the bodies, will be sold for a fraction of what they cost to build.


