DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The days of single-car qualifying runs in the*NASCAR Nationwide Series and*NASCAR Camping World Truck Series are over, and the sanctioning body continues to examine qualifying options for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series beyond the Daytona 500. That was the word Friday from Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president for competition, who said the traditional qualifying process for the Daytona 500 would remain in place -- but the starting lineups for the Nationwide and Truck tours would be determined by a format other than single-car qualifying yet to be announced, at*Daytona International Speedway and elsewhere. "I can tell you that the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series will not be single-car qualifying at all this year, and we're still working on some of the final details of that," Pemberton said during a media briefing at Daytona. NASCAR moved to group qualifying on road courses for 2013, and late last year in a meeting with competitors said it was considering the elimination of single-car qualifying beginning with the 2014 campaign.
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