Crate engines are available for the trucks next year:

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/truck/10/30/changes.for.2010/index.html

Can mandated crate engines for the Cup series be far behind? Then Nascar
can supply the entire car to the teams, with no adjustments allowed.
Just think of the excitement then!

John

On Oct 31, 12:00*pm, John <m... (AT) home (DOT) net> wrote:
Two statements in the article:

Spec engines will be optional at tracks under 1.25 miles in length.
Increase local participation.

Seems to me that these two statements are closely related, in that
NASCAR is looking to have full fields at short tracks, by attracting
local drivers that have a spec engine rule at their home tracks. I
seriously doubt there will ever be a spec or crate engine rule at the
Cup level. I wouldn't rule it out in Nationwide, however.

george9219 <george9219 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:9e1d26b6-a57a-467f-8a33-
7847d7c7358d (AT) s31g2000yqs (DOT) googlegroups.com:


What they're actually trying to do is encourage participation from
the regional series (what used to be called Winston West, Busch
North, etc - I forget what they are now. Camping World East maybe?).
Those series have a spec engine rule; the idea is to make it possible
for the teams to run the same engine in the national series.

The crate engines that are used in limited late models and similar
"saturday night" series are quite different from the NASCAR spec
engine, you won't see those guys showing up at truck races.

John

george9219 wrote:
Keep in mind almost the same thing was said when Nascar started making
noises about a uni-car for the Cup series. This was when the cars all
looked (kinda) like the street versions. A uni-car, everyone said?
Never! And now look what we have. Uni-body (slightly different nose and
different decals), mandated gears, shocks, transmissions, etc. So, is a
crate engine possible? Nascar has been talking about it for quite a
while now, so you can't rule it out. But if they do - then what would be
the difference between it and an IROC car? Not much. But then Nascar
would have complete control of the series, and would sell the teams all
of the parts.

John

John <me (AT) home (DOT) net> wrote in news:hcicpt$585$1 (AT) aioe (DOT) org:

With the major difference that NASCAR is in business, whereas
everyone completely lost interest in IROC.

That, of course, has long been recognized as NASCAR's desire
(or at least the Helton/France part of it).

John

Tim Shelton <noemail1543 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in
news:c37se5hs7evkkm649l4rhn644c0i6lbitj (AT) ccr (DOT) org:

Right - the goal being to make it easier for teams to move from
the regional series (Camping World East, etc) to the national
series. The regional series have had a spec engine for a couple
of years now, and team owners there seem happy with it.

John