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The Camaro makes its NASCAR big league debut in the front row of the sport"s biggest race.The 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series will mark the first time that a Chevrolet Camaro has competed in NASCAR"s premier league. The first race featuring the Camaro ZL1-themed stock car will be the 2018 Daytona 500 and in the Great American Race, newcomer Alex Bowman will start from the pole position in the car formerly driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr.The Camaro comes to NASCARWhile the Chevrolet Camaro has spent the past few seasons battling the Ford Mustang in NASCAR"s Xfinity Series, the legendary muscle car has never been the chosen model for drivers in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series formerly the Winston Cup. For the past few seasons, those drivers campaigning a Chevrolet race car in NASCAR"s big league competed in the Chevy SS-themed car, but that had to change for 2018.NASCAR has always required all of the cars to be modeled after current production cars, and with the end of Holden Commodore production in Australia, the closely-related Chevrolet SS sport sedan has also been discontinued. Since the SS is no longer offered in the US, Chevrolet could not continue using the SS-themed stock car body, forcing the automaker to come up with a new body for the 2018 racing season.After the success of the Camaro in the Xfinity Series, Chevrolet opted to finally introduce the Camaro to the premier NASCAR racing series.Alex Bowman and the #88 Camaro ZL1There will be a big group of drivers participating in the 2018 Daytona 500 in the new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. This past weekend, they all took to the high-banks for their first official competitive seat time in the new car in single-car qualifying and when every driver had taken their turn, newcomer Alex Bowman had turned in the best lap. Bowman made it around the track in just 46.002 seconds, leading to an average speed of 195.644 miles per hour, narrowly beating the Toyota Camry driven by Denny Hamlin, who turned in a lap of 46.132 seconds (195.092 miles per hour).Keep reading about the Chevy SS in NASCAR on the next page. Pages 1 2
Date written: February 26, 2018
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 11009
The Camaro makes its NASCAR big league debut in the front row of the sport"s biggest race.The 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series will mark the first time that a Chevrolet Camaro has competed in NASCAR"s premier league. The first race featuring the Camaro ZL1-themed stock car will be the 2018 Daytona 500 and in the Great American Race, newcomer Alex Bowman will start from the pole position in the car formerly driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr.The Camaro comes to NASCARWhile the Chevrolet Camaro has spent the past few seasons battling the Ford Mustang in NASCAR"s Xfinity Series, the legendary muscle car has never been the chosen model for drivers in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series formerly the Winston Cup. For the past few seasons, those drivers campaigning a Chevrolet race car in NASCAR"s big league competed in the Chevy SS-themed car, but that had to change for 2018.NASCAR has always required all of the cars to be modeled after current production cars, and with the end of Holden Commodore production in Australia, the closely-related Chevrolet SS sport sedan has also been discontinued. Since the SS is no longer offered in the US, Chevrolet could not continue using the SS-themed stock car body, forcing the automaker to come up with a new body for the 2018 racing season.After the success of the Camaro in the Xfinity Series, Chevrolet opted to finally introduce the Camaro to the premier NASCAR racing series.Alex Bowman and the #88 Camaro ZL1There will be a big group of drivers participating in the 2018 Daytona 500 in the new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. This past weekend, they all took to the high-banks for their first official competitive seat time in the new car in single-car qualifying and when every driver had taken their turn, newcomer Alex Bowman had turned in the best lap. Bowman made it around the track in just 46.002 seconds, leading to an average speed of 195.644 miles per hour, narrowly beating the Toyota Camry driven by Denny Hamlin, who turned in a lap of 46.132 seconds (195.092 miles per hour).Keep reading about the Chevy SS in NASCAR on the next page. Pages 1 2
Date written: February 26, 2018
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 11009
