I wasn't a fan of The Car Of Tomorrow when Nascar announced it, but don't get me wrong i do care about the safety of the drivers.
Besides the COT'S box shape the thing that turned me against the COT was the way Nascar described it. When Nascar described the COT it made me think that the COT would be this indestructible, not race friendly, thing.
But as the race wrecks of Carl Edwards, Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, and the qualifying wreck at Texas last year of Michael McDowell have shown, the COT has been destructible, but at the same time has been race friendly and has kept the drivers safe.
The only driver to be injured, to my knowledge, during a Sprint Cup race during the COT era was Bobby Labonte at Watkins Glen when he was involved in that big crash there last year.
One thing bothers me thou, didn't Nascar market the COT, besides being a safer car then the old Cup cars, as a car that wouldn't or couldn't get as airborne as easy as the old car?
Well, if they did the COT has surely proved them wrong. The COT seams to be able to get airborne just as easily as the old cup car, as proven by the wrecks of Carl Edwards, Joey Logano, and Ryan Newman and they happen THIS YEAR!!!!!
I would think it's about time that Nascar and their R&D department that no matter what, there is a chance a race car can get airborne, no matter how it is designed.
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