While opinions on many aspects of the Car of Tomorrow are mixed in the NASCAR garage, the decision to run solely with the new car from the start of 2008 onwards has been met with near universal approval from drivers, team owners and promoters alike.
With teams clamouring to keep two completely different styles of car prepared this season, the news that the current style of car will be gone completely at the end of the current campaign will be music to their ears.
While easing the workload, and cost, will have been one of the factors behind NASCAR's decision, the relatively few problems experienced with the new machines will also have had a bearing on the new ruling.
“From a cost and operations perspective, the move to the Car of Tomorrow in 2008 will benefit all the teams,” stated team owner Roger Penske, whose cars claimed first and second on the grid for this Sunday's Coca Cola 600 using the existing chassis. “Initially, NASCAR took a conservative approach to the implementation of the Car of Tomorrow, but I think that one type of car in 2008 will be more efficient for team operations and should provide good, competitive racing for the fans.”
Penske's sentiments were echoed by Michael Waltrip, whose first year team has had a torrid time this season notwithstanding the extra pressures brought on by the Car of Tomorrow.
"It will help us tremendously because we're a start-up organisation and it would help us streamline our efforts,” added Waltrip, who has failed to qualify for eleven of the 12 races held so far this year. “It will save everybody money. It will be more competitive going forward and I look forward to it being all-in right away.”
Although the Car of Tomorrow hasn't appeared in race conditions at a track longer than 1.366-miles yet, the promoter of one of the fastest tracks in the series is also excited by the prospect of the early introduction of a car that has provided mixed racing so far.
![Both AJ Allmendinger (#84) and Brian Vickers (#83) made the field for Team Red Bull Toyota at NASCAR's inaugural Car of Tomorrow event [pic credit: image.net]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/303477.jpg)
