thats because denny isnt including the super expensive team lvl Skunkworks R+D. those 10ths can cost 100k each easily. he is talking about component cost. which i am surprised gen 5 was so expensive for what was underneath it. i bet gen 6 pricing is “future proof” pricing i.e stable to attract Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Honda.

@Scott George his point is it was a roadworthy car from 50 years ago. A full race engine can last now for a race or two at higher than 670hp

@Mathew Hosier if it actually looked like a race car and had a racing body and not a like a v8 street car maybe no spoiler would work

Your 454 gonna turn 8500 rpm for how long???

@Mathew Hosier not really. The cars have ground effect for aero now like F1 cars now and Peugeot’s no wing Hypercar. If they like ran the normal diffuser they use at intermediates and take the spoiler off but maybe leave like a gurney flap or something on the cars they’d just be removing some drag than completely removing downforce since all the downforce is coming from the floor. At least on short tracks and road courses. The smaller spoiler on the short track/road course package would make it a bit harder to handle on intermediates but not completely cause of ground effect.

@adamdoing6689  yeah, I’ve been hearing XFinity being called “the last old school series” recently as the team’s still build their own chassis and engines (those that can afford to do that anyway) or they’re able to purchase an older chassis to use. It’s pretty much the same with the truck series too, minus the spec engine course.

@Ryan Ward well according to Denny Hamlin on his podcast they already are in the engines are just restricted down to 670 currently. New manufacturers probably wouldn’t do it but we haven’t attracted any new OEMs so….

At least 750 everywhere but I’d say 850

Listen to 4:33 again