Impala history

The Impala SS will be the choice of Chevrolet-powered teams in the 16 races in which the Car of Tomorrow will be entered in this year.
The Chevrolet teams currently use the Monte Carlo SS.
The Impala's debut will be at the first Bristol Motor Speedway race in Tennessee in March. Additionally, the Impala will be entered in the races at tracks that are less than a mile-and-a-half in length.
The return of the Impala to NASCAR marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of the car. It was first introduced in 1957 as a 1958 model and raced on Daytona Beach before hitting the speedway in 1959.
Bob Welborn scored a victory with an Impala for the qualifying race of the 1959 Daytona 500 - the first 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Impala drivers won consecutive NASCAR championship titles in 1960 (Rex White) and again in 1961 (Ned Jarrett). In 1963, stock-car legend Junior Johnson ran 32 races of the 55-race schedule in his white No. 3 Impala owned by Ray Fox and collected seven wins, 12 top-fives, 13 top-tens and nine poles.
"The Impala is a name associated with performance, from the earliest models which raced on the sands and Speedway at Daytona to the newest SS sedan," said Pat Suhy, GM Racing NASCAR group manager. "The Impala has been extremely successful in the marketplace (best-selling domestic car of 2005) and we look forward to aligning that success with additional accomplishments on the race track."