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Originally Posted by Dave Rifkin
JMO but cars like that are part of the downfall of NASCAR. I enjoyed watching much more when cars were actually closer to a factory offering. That thing is as much of a Mustang as my 2002 Nissan XTerra is.
I get all the safety stuff; that is great for the sport but can't they at least make the cars resemble the model they're supposed to be?
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Well . . . the front end looks like a showroom Mustang.
The days of allowing showroom car like race cars to compete in NASCAR is ancient history and will IMO never return. Too many chances for what happened in the 1969 and 1970 seasons: Manufacturers "buying" wins through the creation of purpose built race cars sold to the public so they could be homologated into NASCAR.
Now it's all about the drivers not the cars. Making the cars "equal" (That's a laugh with all the cheating that goes on) takes away a manufacturers incentive to create such cars.