NASCAR Nationwide Series and Truck Series

NASCAR has been trying harder at making the fans happier about the vehicals run in their major series. For the longest time you had no problem identifying the race car with what you may have been driving on the streets, or seeing drive down the streets. That applies to the Cup series, the Nationwide series, and the NASCAR Camping World truck series. But in the early 2000s that began to change. Starting in 2004 the cars and trucks, in their respective series, would have the same basic body shape and you really couldn't tell the cars or trucks apart from eachother very well. In the case of the Truck series you had the noses, which really stood out against one another, so they actually kept some major differences in the way they looked. But as for the Sprint Cup and Nationwide series there was virtually nothing different about the cars. The Cup series eventually made things much worse in 2007, by introducing the Car of Tomorrow, which was a car that was literally the exact shape for the cars no matter what make or model they were. The Nationwide series at least had slight nose differences in the cars that still set them apart. But that would change when they got their own version of the Car of Tomorrow in 2010.



But unlike with the Sprint Cup series, NASCAR did a much better job with the cars in the Nationwide series. Yes, the cars do all have the same basic boxy-ish shape, so that part is still a slight let down, but the cars look totally different in the front. Dodge uses the Challenger, and the nose, even with no sticker for manufactuer resemblance, looks just like a Challenger! The Chevy Impala and Totoya Camry look very much like their street friends as well, at least in the nose. The Mustang seems to be the worst with connections to the street car, but even it has its connections and is far different from the other cars being raced, and that's very exciting. I'll find myself personally wanting to watch the Nationwide series because the car is so cool to me, especially the Challenger. It's very cool to me that the cars are back to what they should have never left in the first place. But its not only that the cars have different noses, but even the Chevy and Dodge have different shapes associated with the back of the cars. Where the rear light is on the Challenger, there is a shape for it, not just a sticker on a smooth surface. And with the Impala there is a certain shape right above the back bumper on the street car, and the same is true of the Nationwide car. That's really a move in the right direction. Not only make the noses different, but put some more connections of the sides and rear of the car as well. Just a sticker isn't enough frankly, so to see the shapes of the lights being actually there, even just with stickers put on, is exciting to me. But there's one thing they really should have done to enhance it, which they already do with the Camping World Truck Series.



The Trucks not only have different noses and shapes, but the shape of the main grille on the Trucks looks just like the street version. As a comparison, the grilles' on the Cup cars and Nationwide cars, at least the main ones, look like stickers. They don't look like too much, they are obviously fake. But the main grille's on the Trucks, although fake themselves in that they let no air into the truck, look real and aren't just stickers. That's the way they should never have left for any of the series and NASCAR needs to make it the norm in the other series honestely. The NASCAR Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series give me hope that NASCAR can make all the series have major differences again and do well with it.

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