Woot! Danica Patrick Nabs Pole Position (????) In Daytona 500!!!

[TFM_Dale]

Ill probably watch the beginning and end of this..these driver intros are awkward..funny to watch

Kind of like rHomo playing QB

[lesfunk]

I have seen some stuff from Monza. But never Nascar.
Is that the same thing?

Without all the corners and teeth

[TFM_Dale]

I have seen some stuff from Monza.

Is that a cheese?

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[ZahZoo]

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?

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.

[envy_me]

Is that a cheese?

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LOL No :D It's Monza... It's just Monza. How do you explain it. It's a city with races.

[ZahZoo]

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.

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...

[Zing!]

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.

Is there a NASCAR translator app?

[envy_me]

Without all the corners and teeth

I just googled Nascar course, it looks just like one of those Burda patterns my mom used to sew.

[TFM_Dale]

LOL No :D It's Monza... It's just Monza. How do you explain it. It's a city with races.

Racing through an actual city? That could be interesting. Do you get points for what you run over?

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[TFM_Dale]

Is there a NASCAR translator app?

Drink beer until it makes sense or you just don't care anymore, either way you win!

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[envy_me]

Racing through an actual city? That could be interesting. Do you get points for what you run over?

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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?search_query=monza&oq=monza&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3..0l4.1170004.1171253.0.1171528.5.4.0.1.1.0.161.337.3j1.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.UB-cRlvoh74

[TFM_Dale]

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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[envy_me]

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 :D

[TFM_Dale]

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 :D

Look out NASCAR!

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[Nitro Express]

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.