Wondering when California will have a LA 500.
Pit stops will be tire and battery changes.
Pit stops will be tire and battery changes.
No fast track fans?
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I left it when Dale left.
I haven’t watched in years. The politics and silly rules sucked the life out of it. For me the only car racing that’s interesting is at the local 1/4 mile dirt track, especially the 360/400 sprint cars. Drag racing is cool too. A good fit with my short attention span.
I love drag racing. In my younger days a bunch of us would go down to Edgewater drag strip in Cincinnati when the big names would race. Saw one of the first jet powered cars there.
Always wanted to go to the Gator Nationals, but still haven't. No excuse since it's only 77 miles from my house.
Ruthie's dad and uncle owned, maintained and alternated driving a dirt track car at Northern Kentucky Speedway. Her BIL owned and drove one there as well. A fun family thing.
That’s the best part.
Now if they took half the field and had them run clockwise, the other half counterclockwise, I’d watch. Halfway through, they could switch direction.
+1. I, too enjoy NHRA Drag Racing (TF & FC). I used to go to the old Dallas International Motor Speedway after getting my DL (as a spectator, my Dad never cared for drag racing). Fortunately the ET’s have deceased to about 4 seconds/1,000 feet as that’s about how long my attention span is these days.
My folks went to some kinda dirt track racing in Lawrenceburg Indiana a lot.
If I remember right, it was the weird cars with big spoiler things on top of them. I was pretty young.
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and Unlimited hydros need to go back to piston boats. those hair dryer powered ones just ain't natural.
Is that how "drifting" got started?
I had been a Nascar fan for 45 years and have seen a lot of change. They pretty much gave up on racing "stock" cars when they allowed GM to run Luminas and Ford Tauruses, which were front wheel drive V6 cars in the real world.That was the 90s. Then the corporate takeover and multi teams took control.After Dale died the sport really went into a nose dive with cameras everywhere,rules,regulations restrictions,fines fees penalties and everyone comply or pound sand. The segmenting of EVERY race into basically 3 separate races pretty much destroyed the whole endurance concept of the sport. 600 mile start to finish racing was gone. Today it's fuel injected smoke box controlled exotic engines, transaxle drivetrains, single lug wheels and $6500k car price tags all run by selected teams under the watchful eye of the Boss...NASCAR. Their rules..their game.When Nascar endorsed "wokeness" is when I left for good.
Now when a race is on I waste that time building my own vehicles and occasionally watch races from the past.
Now when a race is on I waste that time building my own vehicles and occasionally watch races from the past.
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Pretty much what Breakaway500 said.
I haven't watched it since Ward Burton won the 500.
I haven't watched it since Ward Burton won the 500.
I watched the race at the Tiki bar yesterday. Had a talk about it with the guy next to me, and we both agreed NASCAR has lost its heart and soul. We both noticed bits of racing thrown in between streams of commercials to pay for the race because a lot of seats were empty. I grew up in Charlotte, NC and used to play at Holman-Moody in Fireball Roberts wrecked cars. Handed Buddy Baker tools while he worked on his car in the old motor pool garage at the airport. Back then, if you weren't cheating, you weren't winning. That's where innovation came from.
IROC was an experiment with homogenized cars that expanded to the Cup series. It's not racing, it's an ad show.
IROC was an experiment with homogenized cars that expanded to the Cup series. It's not racing, it's an ad show.
I agree! Love the sound of those big Allisons and Merlins.
I enjoyed drag racing, both legal at the tracks and on the street. This was the 60s, lots less traffic and LEO problems. Note, far from what they now call street racing, that is just a wrong use of a name!
I campaigned 3 different cars at different times at the drags. If fact for a couple years worked pit on my buddies Pontiac national record holding car. Went to some of the big races and met many interesting people
Ronnie Sox, Grumpy Jenkins, Dick Landy, the Ram Chargers just to name a few. Knew Cha Cha Muldowney, from back in the Albany -Schenectady area before she went PRO.
For a fact car racing in general has changed a lot over the years. For the most part color me unimpressed.
Go to the Reno Air Races in September for the WORLD'S FASTEST MOTORSPORT, instead of those sad little 200mph car shows. You can also enjoy the sound of Pratt & Whitney round motors. National Championship Air Races | Reno Air Races
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Some of the drive for that came from the teams. In the early 2000s (pre segmented races) a top driver with an ill handling car at Bristol was screaming on the radio "I'm getting killed here. I'll be laps down by the next pit stop. We need a yellow. Somebody needs to spin." After that revelation the race talk at work on a Monday was "So I see driver XXXX was the designated spinner this weekend".
Yes, certain of the top teams and drivers couldn't hack the idea that they wouldn't be at the front at the end of the race. Apparently, NASCAR agreed, so now we have stage races and "competition yellows". That's just bovine excrement. If you car ain't fast enough, YOU need to fix the issue, not NASCAR. F1 had a rule where if your qualifying time wasn't within 110% of the pole time, you didn't race. They didn't allow "rabbits" on the track, as they called slow cars. Too much speed differential leads to bad situations.
