Why Chevy won't race the Camaro in NASCAR

Steven Cole of the Orlando Sentinal asked Mark Kent, head of General Motors racing programs, why. Here’s his answer:

“We’ve looked at racing the Camaro, and one thing we do not want to do is to force the car where it shouldn’t be. We looked at NASCAR, for example -- took a very hard look at running the Camaro in the Nationwide series. That was a request made of us by NASCAR, and we have had a tremendous partnership with NASCAR, so we took a very hard look at it.

“At the end of the day, because of the quest for very close competition and the need to have templated bodies in that series, we felt that by forcing the Camaro into the Nationwide templates that we were compromising the body lines of an iconic car. So at the end of the day we just could not get the Camaro in the Nationwide series to satisfy our requirements.

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