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I can’t speak to what happend last century in NASCAR, but I assume which pace car is presented now is a manufacturer marketing decision. There are still a lot of 2018 Camaros for sale, there’s a little controversy over the look of the 2019 Camaros and I wouldn’t expect the 2019 Camaro to appear with a big fanfare until Daytona next year - if Chevy is still the pace car provider of choice.

BTW, the pink pace car at Martinsville is not the ‘19 pink SS Chevy has been showing - black bumper bar, flowtie and all.

Also, the pace car situation varies from one sanctioning body to the next and one track to the next. There are two types of pace cars - some supplied by the sanctioning body, some supplied by the manufacturer and some supplied locally. The lead pace car (first one on the track) often is driven by a celebrity during the parade laps, which may include several “pace cars.” Sometimes the celebrity will start the race, and sometimes the last car in the line of pace cars, with an approved driver or sanctioning body employee, pilots the real pace car to start the race and take control during caution periods.