I was calling into a local talk show in Philadelphia tonight that was talking about NASCAR, and they had Larry McReynolds on as a guest. I asked if the time had come for NASCAR to update their technology such as replacing the carbs with fuel injection? Larry Mac said that the reason why NASCAR sticks with carbs is that the development of fuel injection would be very expensive almost to the point of being cost prohibitive.

Huh?

I don't buy this for a minute. Maybe I'm wrong, and if so, tell me why. I can't believe that NASCAR can't mandate a fuel injection system that would get everyone on the same page, much like what happens with restrictor plates, and use strict controls as to what the teams can do with it. This doesn't seem to be an issue with Indy Cars, ALMS, Grand AM, or others (lets leave out F1), and those teams have lower annual budgets than most NASCAR teams. NASCAR already worked with it in the old Goody's Dash Series, which shocased 4 cylinder powered cars, if memory serves. NASCAR needs to join the state of the art, and that might make it an even more useful test bed for new technological innovations that Detroit might come up with in the years to come. If anyone knows about this, I'd like to hear it.