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New Chevrolet R07 To Be Tested by Jerick Brooks
Big changes are taking place over NASCAR and for this coming weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway another transformation will 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.
Chevrolet has been developing an engine for nine years now and for the first time it will make its racing debut in Samsung 500. "This engine now called the R07 actually started out as R99 because we ran it the first time in 1999," said Mark Cronquist, chief engine builder for Joe Gibbs Racing.
For this coming weekend it is expected that six teams will run the 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 exhaust is hoping to have the engine ready for this season's upcoming race but unfortunately a few technical difficulties slowed the progress of the project. Cronquist is very much excited to get the new engine into competition.
Chevrolet's 5 of 6The Chevrolet team has gotten to a great start this year in Cup winning five of the six races. The reigning champion Jimmie Johnson has won three of the five races while Hendrick with teammates Kyle Busch, and RCR's Kevin Harvick have won the other two for GM. The victory of Matt Kenneth's at California Speedway in a Ford is the only blemish on Chevrolet's record for this season.
Out of the eight Chevy drivers that are currently in the top 10 in Cup points, two have won at Texas. Jeff Burton won the inaugural Cup race in Fort Worth in the year 1997 but he was a driver of Ford at that time. Stewart won on the 1.5 mile Texas track last fall. The different drivers winning each of the 12 Cup races at Texas only two others have been in Chevrolets namely Terry Labonte who won in 1999 and Dale Earnhardt Jr. who won in 2000.
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Jerick Brooks is a BS Computer Science graduate at Columbus State University. He has passion for anything car-related especially car racing. He loves writing and currently works as an IT consultant in a company based in Atlanta.
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