Old School; NASCAR has a program to keep traction control out of Cup cars.
AutoWeek, August, 2002 by Pearce, Al
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Bernie Ecclestone and his Formula One minions finally unplugged their computers and surrendered. Likewise, Chris Pook and his CART techno-wizards. So what makes Bill France and Mike Helton think they're smart enough to keep traction control out of NASCAR? The basic simplicity of their rolling billboards comes to mind.
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We're not talking space shuttle technology here. Winston Cup cars, for example, lack sophisticated data acquisition chips and telemetry processors like in F1 and CART. A stock car's ignition system is fairly easy to police and a new ``official'' dashboard will help ...
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