2012 NASCAR thread

Well that was boring. What kind of Bristol race goes 150 laps without a caution (Nationwide)!

I've actually just given up on watching any more of that race. It was the very typical round and round and round and round that everyone thinks NASCAR is :(. Shame, because Daytona was great.
 
Not in my opinion. Bit like the Indycar race, only small things happened but the track is too flat and too wide that they are able to run 5 abreast without too much worry.

And certainly not the Sprint Cup race. Got half way through and is currently rained off :(
 
It's never normally worth watching anything from Fontana. That being said, this one wasn't as dull as the Bristol race (they really need to return that track to how it used to be before they re-paved and re-banked it).
 
Wow. Bruton Smith, listening to fans. Guess there really is a first time for everything.

Hey, if this is how the universe now works....

Drop Fontana from the schedule
Add a road course to the Chase
Give Darlington two dates

:)
 
The way it is right now, the progressive banking has turned Bristol into a 2-3 lane track. Cars can run side-by-side all day without really getting all that close to each other. And who wants to watch two-by-two processions at fairly low speeds (compared with larger tracks)?

Before, you had a track that was maybe a lane-and-a-half wide. You could use your bumper to move someone up out of your way if you had big balls, you could pass on the outside tradin' paint if you had even bigger balls, and you could punt them right into the fence if you were Dale Earnhardt Sr ;)

They need to get the cars forced together a bit more. As it is, the progressive banking leaves them free to rumble around quite happily without beating and banging on each other. That's not the Bristol Motor Speedway that we all love.

Martinsville this weekend, Trucks and Cup (no Nationwide race). The track has been likened to a couple of drag strips with a handbrake turn at each end. And there will be close, hard racing there.
 
Can you imagine the uproar if they added a road course to the chase, they should do it just for that :p

Looking forward to Martinsville :)
 
I can see the arguments for it, and I think it would be great to see as some of the NASCAR drivers are utterly awful at turning right whilst others are fine with it.

But you would get a huge uproar from the americans/rednecks, I've seen more than one comment on the iRacing forums that NASCAR shouldn't run any road courses at all, let alone adding one to the important bit :p
 
SKILL said:
I've seen more than one comment on the iRacing forums that NASCAR shouldn't run any road courses at all, let alone adding one to the important bit :p
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Meh, that's only because they can't remember the awesomeness of Riverside....utterly criminal, what was done to that place.
 
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If anyone wants to watch some classic NASCAR action:


From green flag to now-infamous spot of fisticuffs, the 1979 Daytona 500.

The second points-race of the '79 season (yes, the Daytona 500 didn't used to open the year), it was the first NASCAR race to be shown live, the whole way through, nationwide on US television. Viewers got one hell of a show.

It would probably be a good idea to use a browser extension to save the video, since it's nearly three hours long. But it's worth watching just to see what's changed, and what's stayed the same all those years.
 
I want Travis Pastrana's life!

"What you doing this weekend Travis?"
"Oh, just thought I'd go race some NASCAR, you know, because I can..."

:D
 
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