Never the less the cars are visually similar, there is a great difference, for starters the horse power of a national stock car has 400 hp meanwhile a NASCAR has 660 hp at 7900 rpm. That’s why these cars are spectacular, obviously without making less our national cars, but Mexican drivers have demonstrated their quality in and out of Mexico.

Like we had mentioned before the case if the Mexican driver Jorge Goeters, whom surprised the NASCAR directives with his lap times when he was invited to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez to drive his stock car showing he has the hands and the character for this, making his time difference amongst test driver Jeff Burton a second higher.

These cars are designed to race in ovals, speedways and super speedways, were the cars are studied and built to only turn left, having the team mostly working in a car for each one of the tracks they visit during the season. The hardest part is to set the car for that specific course, specially in road courses like the one taking place next March 5 and 6 in the Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200 presented by Banamex.

A great number of foreign drivers have inscribed for this commemorative date, thats why the mexican drivers will try and qualify to represent our country, the talented Mexicans will give everything, such is the case of the ones seeking to participate in the Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200 presented by Banamex of the NASCAR Busch Series.

Only 43 drivers will be cosen for the first Busch Seres race outside the US, and there will be some that sign until the same weekend the race is taking place, even though they are starting to confirm and negotiate with their sponsors.

Confirmed :

*Rafael Martínez, three times champion of the Mustang Series, joining the corona Challenge in 2005, just signed with the Davis Motorsport team to race this particular race in Mexico.

*Jorge Goeters, Corona Challenge driver with the Team GP, will be in the

México 200 with the Brewco Motorsports team, having the 1994 champion David Green as teammate, both in a ford Taurus.*Carlos Contreras, also a corona Challenge Driver, will participate in the first four dates in the 2005 Busch Series, including March 6 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.

*Michel Jourdain, just left Champ Car for NASCAR and will be driving a Ford car for the PPC Racing throughout all the season, including the race in Mexico City.

*Rubén García Novoa, Another driver joining the Corona Challenge in 2005, has a Chevrolet Monte Carlo ready with the FitzBradshaw Team to participate in the Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200.

*Jimmy Morales, heading a national project to make NASCAR drivers will also be racing in Mexico with his own team with people from both the US and Mexico working with him.

Still to Confirm:

*Tavo (CT) Hellmund, the only Mexican driver to win in the NASCAR regional series (NASCAR West), is yet to announce his contract with an American team.

*José Luis Ramírez, whom actually races in the NASCAR West since 2004, is still negotiating with a team to fill the driver seat during the Busch Series race in Mexico.

*Freddy Tame, another Mustang champion that will add to the Corona Challenge in 2005, has really advanced in negotiation with a team from the south of the US to drive a Busch Series car here in Mexico.

*Mara Reyes, the best female driver in Mexico, thanks to her great demonstration in the NASCAR West last year has been talking to several sponsors that want her to race during the event in Mexico.

*Carlos Pardo, the Corona Challenge champion, is the most certain driver to get in the second car of the Mexican NASCAR team during March 5 and 6.

*Mario Domínguez, has been invited to run in several of the Busch Series teams but he hasn’t accepted the offers until he knows for sure his Champ Car and F1 calendars.

We are confident in all of our mexican drivers, hoping that the Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200 presented by Banamex will be a success filled with excitement.