Well here we are, two races down with the much riduculed 'Car of Tomorrow'....'Today' now I guess....and what have we learned?

Chevy is still the car to beat....not much change there.

Gibbs, RCR and Hendrick running strongly....just as they were before.

And the final thing is that, despite many fears, the new car seems to be able to do the bump and grind.

I reckon that is the best news the last two races have seen. Many questions have been answered regarding exactly how strong the new car is (namely whether or not the front splitter and rear spolier were fixed well enough to the body) and if it will allow the drivers to race without being super cautious around each other.

Yeah, so Jeff Burton probably could have raced Kyle Busch harder at Bristol but he is regarded as one of the nice guys on the grid and even if they were racing the Monte Carlo I daresay he still wouldn't have shoved Kyle out of the way (unlike last year with Kurt/Matt and Matt/Jeff at the end). As for Martinsville....well, Jeff Gordon was giving it everything to beat Jimmie Johnson (short of spinning him of course....but you don't spin a teammate if you want to drive for the same team next race) just as he would have with the old cars.

I think the big test of how well the COT is constructed will be when they race on the road courses to be honest. I know a certain Australian driver in the Busch series will be rubbing his hands together in anticipation for it since these things now share a far better similarity to the Aussie V8's. The front splitter will be the biggest issue I believe since to get the most out of the car, you have to chuck it over the kerbs so we'll see how many bangs that thing can take before it buckles.

But that's the real tomorrow, right now I think we should just focus on the big positive from the short tracks....the racing is still as fierce as before and, given time, will only get better.