Yeah, I totally understand that. But they totally messed up on the image on the skin as it is all over the place and does not represent an actual model of this car. Half GT, half GT350. That was my point.
I was there, that wreck out of the million that happened during the race was pretty gnarly!
I too am interested to see how the new package performs at Atlanta. I'm a religious F1 fan as well but watch pretty much every NASCAR because I'm just an all-around fan of motorsports. It produced a pretty entertaining All-Star race last year but I'm worried applying it to every track longer than a mile may have been a gut-reaction by NASCAR. We'll see how it goes.
Bingo, since the inception of NASCAR that's what racing cars have become. All the same with stickers. Long gone are the days of real stock car racing. Back when Petty, Yarborough, the Allison's drove actual cars built to race, and the old saying of the car companies was "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday".Looked like forty cars punched out on the same die set and then assigned decals according to auto sponsor. Nothing stock about them. I just want to know where I can buy a Camry 2 door V8 with a manual trans. (SARCASM)
Bingo, since the inception of NASCAR that's what racing cars have become. All the same with stickers. Long gone are the days of real stock car racing. Back when Petty, Yarborough, the Allison's drove actual cars built to race, and the old saying of the car companies was "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday".
OP, since Ford is moving away from all cars except the Mustang they knew they would have to field a Mustang. I'm sure nobody wants to see a Ford Edge on the track/
True and sad I quit watching nascar when Richard Petty retired there all a bunch of cry babies driving cookie cutter cars.
Earnhardt's death came well after cookie cutter cars started. Go back to 1988 when Pontiac enters their Grand Prix, the first FWD vehicle to enter NASCAR as a RWD. In 1998 Ford followed suit killing the T-bird and presenting the Ford Taurus (never a four door to begin with) another FWD that enters NASCAR as a "STOCK CAR". So between all of this and the whining and crying by big money racing teams about one brand being more aerodynamic than another we have the crap cars of today. Heck the issue over restricter plates goes back the early 70's when one of the GM builders showed up at Daytona with a 7.0L big block and stole the show. Big blocks soon after were required to run a restricter plate. Much of this has developed over time to what we have today. Earnhardt and Bonnet and Orr (just three to list) have had a greater impact on safety of the vehicles and the tracks than anything else. I have no issues with safety innovations. But to blame Earnhardt for the cars today is IMHO stretching it.
And its mostly paint (trompe l'oeil) to give the impression that it is a stock car.
I believe he was fully responsible. He was too proud (it was reported he thought the straps would interfere with his head movement) to wear a HANS device, which probably would have saved his life.