[John Rogers]

Well, I saw the first news article and thought it was a joke by the sports car folks making fun of the "new" stock car that NASCAR is now racing what with alloy wheels, low profile tires, center lock hubs and even fuel injection controlled engines? Well, I guess it is a NOT a joke and it appears that NASCAR, IMSA, Goodyear and the huge resources of the Hendricks racing organization it will enter a car for the class for experimental cars which isn't used very often. The latest article I read said the car will have a "slightly modified" NASCAR engine but with batteries and electric motors and since they can go well over 220 MPH if rear end and transmission gears are not restricted such as a test that was done at Daytona a while ago so it would seem a 24hour reliability would be the biggest possible issue? Oh yeah, NO shift lever with a nice round ball but electronic paddle shifters!

The testing has been done with Mike Rockenfeller who is a pretty good driver I would say?