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GM recently detailed their intentions to officially bring the iconic Mustang to NASCAR. After this announcement, speculation began circulating that the Camaro too would be making its NASCAR debut.

Well it seems that speculation was wrong as Mark Kent, GM Racing head-honcho, recently commented on the car’s NASCAR involvement:

We’ve looked at racing the Camaro, and one thing we do not want to do is to force the car where it shouldn’t be, We looked at NASCAR, for example–took a very hard look at running the Camaro in the Nationwide series. That was a request made of us by NASCAR, and we have had a tremendous partnership with NASCAR, so we took a very hard look at it. At the end of the day, because of the quest for very close competition and the need to have templated bodies in that series, we felt that by forcing the Camaro into the Nationwide templates that we were compromising the body lines of an iconic car. So at the end of the day we just could not get the Camaro in the Nationwide series to satisfy our requirements.

Don’t lose all hope though as Kent then went on to say that the Camaro will most likely be making some sort of racing debut at some point in the near future. Unfortunately however, those looking for a Camaro NASCAR vehicle to transform into Bumblebee on the race track will have to wait until a later date.

via AutoWeek

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