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[texasmr2]

If it's good enough for Formula 1, it's good enough for NASCAR. Heck, if it's good enough for every single automobile sold in the United States for the past several decades, it's good enough for NASCAR. What's this newfangled techno-wizardry we're talking about? Fuel injection.

For the first time since the series kicked off in 1947, the so-called stock cars that travel full-throttle around tracks all across America will abandon their carburetors in favor of an Enging Control Unit sourced from McLaren and a computer processor from Freescale. That tandem reportedly beat out eight rival bids.

According to NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton, "This is a positive step that will provide greater fuel efficiency and a greener footprint while maintaining the same great competition that we have seen on the race track."

Fuel efficiency ought to go up, as will horsepower. Interestingly, NASCAR competitors like Ford and Toyota happy about the switch. "We think it's very important that both the cars and the technology in NASCAR are more closely related to production cars. The move to fuel injection is another important step in that process," said Jamie Allison, Director, Ford North America Motorsports.

NASCAR expects to have its fuel injection technology all sorted in time for the 2012 season opener, the Daytona 500.

[What's Burning?]

Welcome to the 1970's NASCAR...Next step, 1.6l Turbos in 2032

[bud]

about time they went to fuel injection.

[The_Stig_Money]

Sounds right, about 40 years behind the rest of the country

[texasmr2]

Yep it's about damn time !

[Hammer278]

Wait a minute...these cars were running with carburetors up till now? This is some sort of lame joke right?

[What's Burning?]

Wait a minute...these cars were running with carburetors up till now? This is some sort of lame joke right?

Nope, not some kind of joke.

Apparently they also still run with AM/FM 8 Track player.

[vlad]

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

There's a reason why they stopped calling it "Stock Car" racing a l-o-o-o-n-g time ago. Most of those cars are front wheel drive in stock form and aren't offered with a V-8 engine. Their race cars are still carburetted and there've been no carburetted cars built in the US since, IIRC, 1985.

[texasmr2]

Good call Fred and it is about time NASCAR climbed out from under it's rock. How many times do you think a true NASCAR fan has went into a dealer to buy a car and got confused when they saw no engine option for a big carbed V8 , I bet it has happened .

Now they just need to make it atleast a 50/50 ratio between ovals and roadcourses.

[What's Burning?]

There's a reason why they stopped calling it "Stock Car" racing a l-o-o-o-n-g time ago. Most of those cars are front wheel drive in stock form and aren't offered with a V-8 engine. Their race cars are still carburetted and there've been no carburetted cars built in the US since, IIRC, 1985.

So you mean they did a Kentucky Fried Chicken and went all KFC on us? Thank you for point it out, I hadn't even thougth about it because it's not so obvious... but then the SC in NASCAR does stand for "Stock Car" Another case of corporate branding!

[texasmr2]

Now with FI coming the SC won't be such a lie.