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However, as much as the qualifying rules and the website have been a negative for NASCAR, they don't hold a candle to NASCAR's newest effort - the Car of Tomorrow. NASCAR has run the car in 2 Nextel Cup races so far this year, and will attempt a handful more. In 2008, they plan to run half the schedule with the new cars, and in 2009 they will go full time with the Car of Tomorrow. The purpose of introducing the car, according to NASCAR spokespeople, was threefold: to improve safety, to reduce costs and to even out the competition. The car, which sits much higher than the old stock car was designed on more of a truck platform and was said to withstand impact better than the old model. Based on comments from drivers after the first two races, it accomplished none of those things. Because teams have so few chassis that can actually run on this platform, crew chiefs actually stated that drivers should concern themselves more with not wrecking than with with winning the race. As Dale Earnhardt Jr. stated after the first race at Bristol: "The focus of the whole race was just to get home - get it in the bag. You're so conscious of getting wrecked that it wears you out." In fact even the winner of that race, Kyle Busch, stated in an interview following his victory: "it sucked."
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i don't follow NASCAR, but, everything i have heard, regarding this 'car of the future', seems to be negative.
the fans, the drivers, everyone but the brass seems to be unhappy with this shit...