Massive adjustments are
happening over NASCAR and for this coming weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway
one other transformation will likely be taking place. While the Nextel Cup
drivers are driving their old familiar cars which they have been driving for
years after the first two races in the Car of Tomorrow, the rest of the
Chevrolet entries are to be powered by a new engine.
2013 Chevy Impala ss Review has been developing an engine for nine years now and for the first time it is
going to make its racing debut in Samsung 500. "This engine now called the
R07 truly started out as R99 as a result of we ran it the primary time in
1999," mentioned Mark Cronquist, chief engine builder for Joe Gibbs Racing.
For this coming weekend it's
anticipated that six groups will run the brand new engine. Gibbs Racing will
place an R07 in the cars of Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, and J.J. Yeley Hendrick
Motorsports' Casey Mears and Kyle Busch, and Scott Wimmer, driving a fourth
Richard Childress Racing entry.
General Motors world's largest
automaker and distributor of Chevrolet
Impala exhaust is hoping to have the engine ready for this
season's upcoming race but sadly a few technical difficulties slowed the
progress of the project. Cronquist could be very a lot excited to get the brand
new engine into competition.
Chevrolet's 5 of 6
The Chevrolet crew has gotten
to an excellent start this year in Cup successful five of the six races. The
reigning champion Jimmie Johnson has won three of the 5 races whereas Hendrick
with teammates Kyle Busch, and RCR's Kevin Harvick have received the other two
for GM. The victory of Matt Kenneth's at California Speedway in a Ford is the
one blemish on Chevrolet's report for this season.
Out of the eight Chevy drivers
which might be currently in the top 10 in Cup points, two have received at
Texas. Jeff Burton gained the inaugural Cup race in Fort Price within the yr
1997 however he was a driver of Ford at that time. Stewart gained on the 1.5
mile Texas track final fall. The totally different drivers successful every of
the 12 Cup races at Texas only two others have been in Chevrolets particularly
Terry Labonte who received in 1999 and Dale Earnhardt Jr. who won in 2013.
