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AutoWeek, March, 2007

NASCAR might promote its Car of Tomorrow to full-time status next year. The original plan called for 16 COT races this year, then 26 next year, before going full-time in 2009. Now, it seems owners and teams want to skip the second phase and run the COT for the full 36-race schedule in 2008. Why bother with the time and expense of building new "regular'' cars for just 10 races when they'll be obsolete in 2009? "We're hearing a lot of talk already about it, and understandably so,'' says John Darby, the Nextel Cup series director.

"It's difficult to run the two programs [regular and COT].'' Talk suggests the official announcement changing the phase-in from three years to two will come before teams return to Daytona Beach in July. On pause The FIA,...

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