The Chevrolet Camaro Is Returning To NASCAR In 2025 With One Big Change
The Chevrolet Camaro has been out of production since last December, but it will still be carrying Chevrolet’s flag in NASCAR next year. Quite literally, it seems.
Several NASCAR Cup Series teams, including Hendrick Motorsports and Trackhouse Racing, have revealed paint schemes for next year’s cars that confirm they will still be using the Camaro ZL1 body with one significant update.
Chevrolet is allowed to keep racing the Camaro as long as it likes, but can’t make any changes to the body unless a new production model is released.
Ford and Toyota both updated their Cup Series entries this year, but Chevrolet has the most cars in the Round of 12, so it isn’t suffering any performance disadvantages yet.
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Where it doesn’t bring much of an advantage is to Chevrolet’s sales. There are fewer than 120 new Camaros left on dealer lots as of this writing, so winning on Sunday won’t do the brand much good on Monday, especially when they’re all gone. It appears that Chevrolet is aware of this, because the 2025 cars are all making the same change.
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The 2024 cars have the word Camaro across their rear bumpers, but it says Chevrolet there on the 2025 liveries. The rear bumper is some of the most valuable advertising space on the cars because it get a lot of camera time, especially on the in-car views from competitors trying stuck behind them.
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The cars still have ZL1 logos on the rear bumper and front grill, however, and a Hendrick Motorsports press release for William Byron’s car refers to it as a Camaro ZL1, so it looks like they are still technically Camaros, but Chevrolet has not responded to a request for comment from American Cars And Racing.
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Chevrolet hasn’t confirmed what the future holds in store for either the NASCAR Camaro or its production car lineup, which will soon be limited to the mid-engine Corvette as the Malibu sedan is being discontinued this November. Everything else it sells is either a truck or SUV.
NASCAR has demonstrated an electric Cup Series car with the body of crossover SUV, but the entire series would have to switch to that body type. It is taller than the current Cup Series car and uses a separate wing rather than a spoiler. A radical redesign like that would likely be years away.
The Camaro won’t be the only old Chevy racing in NASCAR next year, however. The NASCAR-owned ARCA series still features cars based on the Chevrolet SS Gen 6 Cup Series cars that were replaced by the Camaro in 2017 when the SS went out of production.
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