Nationwide COT could be pushed back to 2011

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Nationwide COT could be pushed back to 2011: Work on the NASCAR Nationwide Series car of tomorrow is proceeding, though the sanctioning body’s ban on nearly all testing for 2009 could push the introduction of the new car back to 2011. Nationwide Series Director Joe Balash said Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway that Toyota’s version of the car, the Camry, will return to the wind tunnel for testing this week. The other three manufacturers who take part in the series have all had their versions certified aerodynamically. The car has been officially tested on the race track twice, but both tests were last year. And given the struggling U.S. economy, many in the Nationwide garage want NASCAR to hold off another year before rolling the car out. Balash said the sanctioning body will listen to opinions of teams before making a decision. The original introduction was planned for August of this year, but that was pushed back to 2010. Now the car could be held off until 2011.(Scene Daily)(4-13-2009)

This could further hurt the smaller teams still trying to get it done in Nationwide.

You are probably right.
I still hate to see them delay a "safer" car.

I think that's right. I know several "NW only" teams have said that they would close down or move to Cup if they tried to implement a COT in NW because it would be so expensive. (Braun Racing, JR Motorsports, and Rusty Wallace Racing come to mind...)