Yeah well, they don't come to races to have stock cars land in their laps...Originally Posted by Nitro Express
Yeah well, they don't come to races to have stock cars land in their laps...
True. Ok if the drivers kill each other though.
They oughta allow vehicles that look like shit out of Road Warrior, complete with flame throwers, cow-catchers, spiked wheels and all that other shit.
You get a big payout just for finishing the race at all, much less placing in it.
Last edited by Hardrock69; 02-24-2013 at 06:59 PM.
Racing with no torque is like fucking with no dick.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
People can choose to like or dislike whatever they want. No matter how much it pisses you off.
Beware of Dog
Pissed off? I could give a fuck what people like...
Is that from the trollMod manifesto?
For fucks sake can you stfu and give it a rest for ONE fucking thread with that shit?
Or do you really need to whine about mods here EVERY FUCKING THREAD?
If only you cared this much about getting a job.....
Some come to watch stock cars land in the laps of others.
street circuits are a lot more interesting than a constant left hand turn.
this is why F1 and our V8 supercar series is more of a spectacle. nissan and mercedes have entered the comp here this year; next weekend's clipsal 500 will be compelling viewing. racing 10/10ths through the streets of adelaide in 700hp tintops.
if you're a fan of motorsport, try and find it (or a replay) on your local tv
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Last edited by ashstralia; 02-25-2013 at 04:29 AM.
The biggest issue involving the supercars here in the states isn't the competition, which appears to be terrific. It has more to do with the appallingly poor coverage of what is going on. Apparently, there isn't much of a budget for televising these events, which means only a handful of cameras cover things, leading to howlingly awful cuts from the front to the back of the pack, missed passes for the lead and virtually zero replays of anything. And the announcers certainly do not help matters, more often than not getting involved in a discussion that has little (if anything) to do with the action they are supposed to be describing.
Hell, even the log-heads at F-1 figured this out and brought in the pros from SPEED TV to handle things. At the moment, Formula One racing is the best covered racing sport there is, while NASCAR seems to be relegated to an awkward NFL-like broadcast scheme that is not only off-putting at times, yet it is highly insulting to both the fans and the subject at hand.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
More or less yeah... But it somewhat beat the tandum crap we've had the last couple of years.
If they can figure out an aero adjustment that will allow more side by side drafting or less disruption then I think good racing could resume at Daytona & Talledegga.
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
The thing is that currently, the only place to run is the outside lane. Drop low, and the laws of physics and inertia demand that you are forced to go slower.
Also, the front and rear bumpers of the new cars are now all different, so any normal form of drafting has been chucked straight out of the window. No one wants to see a return to the 2 car jitterbug racing from the past few seasons, but crap, this event was tedious to watch. Even seeing a Lionel train set run around your Christmas tree would be more riveting.
Even stranger, NASCAR has introduced a bigger rear wing to increase down-force at non-super speedways. Which means that the races from Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA and Kansas should become even more ponderous. Seriously, if the name of each track wasn't posted on the grandstands, could you conceivably tell them apart?
Much like football, sitting home and watching it on TV is now much better for that!
It was better than the two car pack racing that's gone on for the last couple years. That was boring.
They were talking about raising the cars up to increase competition but after this it won't happen.
I see you're here to talk about Nascar. Good post.For fucks sake can you stfu and give it a rest for ONE fucking thread with that shit?
Or do you really need to whine about mods here EVERY FUCKING THREAD?
If only you cared this much about getting a job.....
Remember around five years ago when the crews would set up the cars to virtually run sideways down the straights like crabs in order to deal with the aero package and negotiate the turns? I wonder how long things will go on (probably about two weeks) until we see a return to that baloney.
Even better, I can't wait for the hype and fascination about this Gen 6 car to wear off, and Kyle Busch starts telling anyone who'll listen that in fact, the thing's a turd and quite frankly, sucks.
"Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" my ass.
At least the manufacturers are making a little effort to make cars that look somewhat like the ones they run in Nascar. The new Chevy looks like something that might catch on.
To me, it's just to early to tell. A restrictor plated race is no guarantee or barometer of what can play out over an inexcusably long season with several different sized (but mostly anonymous) featured tracks. Having the best aero package means little at destruction derby tracks like Bristol, Martinsville and even Richmond, so the real proof will come down not to a manufacturer's ability to replicate a show room model, but as to how fast the car is and precisely who is driving the damned thing. And at this point, it appears that even you or I could get behind the wheel and do a reasonable job. And if we wreck? Hell son, even Stewart and Harvick can manage that.
Seriously, Jeff Gordon gets a Twinkie wrapper on the front of his car, and the whole thing is so fragile that it overheats and sends him to the rear of the pack for the majority of the race? Sort of sends the message that a potential car buyer shouldn't think about driving a Chevy unless the weather is perfect, ya know?
I have seen some stuff from Monza. But never Nascar.
Is that the same thing?
The heart is on the left. The blood is red.
Kind of like rHomo playing QB
Without all the corners and teeth
Is that a cheese?
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It seems with lowering the side panels along with that new side shelf in the body profile has created a side draft that really inhibits passing. Also noticed there were people actually getting loose which was rare in the COT cars... plus it was mostly the upper groove cars getting loose. There was a turbulence in the Gen 4 cars that allowed freight trains but at least multiple grooves. I'd rather see that than this single groove freight trains.
Can't say what this Gen-6 car will do at intermediate tracks... allegedly it's supposed to increase grip and lessen aero-sensitivity to allow more side by side racing... We'll know in a few weeks if that's the case.
LOLNo
It's Monza... It's just Monza. How do you explain it. It's a city with races.
You won't see that anymore... NASCAR introduced about 20 pages of rear end camber and rear axle offset specs. They even designed a laser rack at inspection that will measure all the suspension geometry within a 1000th of an inch...
Is there a NASCAR translator app?
My karma just ran over your dogma.
Racing through an actual city? That could be interesting. Do you get points for what you run over?LOL
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Drink beer until it makes sense or you just don't care anymore, either way you win!
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LOL!!! They aren't racing through a city. It's just called Monza races (I think, we call it that anyway).
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc....1.UB-cRlvoh74
Damn, racing through a city sounded interesting, running down granny as she crosses the street, sending her walker two blocks backwards, scores the driver 100 points, whoever has the most points in two hours wins.
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I wanna run over a granny. As soon as I get my drivers license, I'll run over a granny just for you, and film it
Look out NASCAR!I wanna run over a granny. As soon as I get my drivers license, I'll run over a granny just for you, and film it
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Stock car racing used to be on the streets and roads. It was called making a moonshine run. The whole damn thing originally started in the streets and roads with moonshiners souping up old Fords to outrun the police in.
Easy points. Go for a jogger. They are bigger assholes and faster. Get an old Volvo. Those things are tanks. You could plow into a bicyclist and probably not even scratch the paint.I wanna run over a granny. As soon as I get my drivers license, I'll run over a granny just for you, and film it
Last edited by Nitro Express; 02-25-2013 at 01:39 PM.
Joggers and bicyclists AKA Fender Fodder
We could give 150 per jogger, 200 for cyclists, 500 if it is Lance Armstrong.
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I like the way you think.
Might as well go for Lance. I need some new shoes.
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