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GREEN: Electric Focus Ready For Richmond
First electric NASCAR pace car is unveiled at the Virginia raceway prior to race weekend.
All dressed up for this weekend's NASCAR racing, the electric Ford Focus pace car was unveiled at the Richmond track. (Photo: Ford)
While the 2013 Ford Fusion Sprint Cup race car won't join the (mostly) oval fray until next year, the 2012 Focus Electric will be getting its NASCAR debut this weekend -- sort of. It will be the pace car.
Ford announced the Focus Electric as the pace car a couple of weeks ago, but now we have photos of the car decked out in its race-pacing gear. As you'd expect, the treatment is mostly composed of a set of neurasthenic vinyl graphics and a big light bar. Two examples of the electric Focus pace car were officially unveiled today at the Richmond circuit.
The Focus Electric joins the Fusion Hybrid in breaking gas mileage ground for NASCAR, as the 2008 Fusion Hybrid was the first hybrid to pace a NASCAR race; the Focus Electric is the first all-electric to do so.
There's a lot of marketing hogwash behind the reasoning for putting the Focus Electric in front of the nation's NASCAR fans, but we're most intrigued to see how well it handles the duty--the Focus Electric's 84 mph claimed top speed is well above the typical 55 mph pace lap speed, and the car's 100-mile range is enough to cover about 35-40 laps of NASCAR's longest ovals (Talladega and Daytona), or 133 laps of the three-quarter mile Richmond circuit where it will make its debut.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
Ford announced the Focus Electric as the pace car a couple of weeks ago, but now we have photos of the car decked out in its race-pacing gear. As you'd expect, the treatment is mostly composed of a set of neurasthenic vinyl graphics and a big light bar. Two examples of the electric Focus pace car were officially unveiled today at the Richmond circuit.
The Focus Electric joins the Fusion Hybrid in breaking gas mileage ground for NASCAR, as the 2008 Fusion Hybrid was the first hybrid to pace a NASCAR race; the Focus Electric is the first all-electric to do so.
There's a lot of marketing hogwash behind the reasoning for putting the Focus Electric in front of the nation's NASCAR fans, but we're most intrigued to see how well it handles the duty--the Focus Electric's 84 mph claimed top speed is well above the typical 55 mph pace lap speed, and the car's 100-mile range is enough to cover about 35-40 laps of NASCAR's longest ovals (Talladega and Daytona), or 133 laps of the three-quarter mile Richmond circuit where it will make its debut.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
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