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Originally Posted by Russ
Good for him then. Some people have more money than sense I guess.
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It's what I call road racing bias. In other words if a dollar part will get the job done and there is a similar part that isn't as good but cost $5, road racers will pick the $5 part.
I used to be involved with the TROC (Texas Race of Champions) at TWS and the short track cars would run on the road course. A fairly well known road racer would show up with a SCCA legal Trans Am car which cost as much or more than the short track cars. Yet it was so much slower than the short track cars.
Ashmore has credentials as a car designer, but like Riley before him those cars cost a lot more than the current SC cars and look very similar. I think we could eventually get used to the look if they had enough cars, but that remains to be seen.
I am not sure I fully understand the goal of this new car. Paul White was experiencing rear end lift above 150mph. That would be easy and cheap to fix. nascar had a problem decades ago with rear end lift and they solved it with a simple spoiler on the deck lid. No redesign of the cars was considered.