http://videos.streetfire.net/video/bc59d0eb-8df1-40fb-bbe6-99820087165b.htm
if it's a repost i'm sorry.
if it's a repost i'm sorry.
NASCAR driving coach
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JustAnotherVictim
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There's actually a lot of skill in driving circle tracks. I know that 99.9% of people on this board have never done it.
Of course road racing is more fun than circle track racing, but don't look down on any kind of motorsport.
Of course road racing is more fun than circle track racing, but don't look down on any kind of motorsport.
bowsercake said:
Except Nascrap which is just a redneck infested atmosphere waiting for the crashes not caring about points and driver skill just "My boi Tony Stewart gon git ye boi's just wait WOO WEE!", in real autosports with variants in turning both left AND RIGHT it takes A LOT more skill and I don't need to be a circle track racer to know that, and didn't you watch the video "It's actually and oval track". lol
straight from Raphael Mato's mouth: "circuits require more finese and skill, but the level of commitment and focus needed to run a circle track is far above that of a road circuit."
I can't stand nascar, but after having a chat with Matos about them, i was given a newfound respect for those drivers. its not as easy as it looks.
I can't stand nascar, but after having a chat with Matos about them, i was given a newfound respect for those drivers. its not as easy as it looks.
Before anyone puts down NASCAR, consider this:
Why is it that every driver to come from a road course style series has not been very successful in NASCAR or at least not as successful as they were in other series?
Surely if it is ovals it must be easy...
The road course specialists who enter the road course races NASCAR has don't even win those. I can't even think when the last time a non full-time driver has won a NASCAR race. And the specialists records at oval tracks are even worse.
Honestly, its apples and oranges. They're both fruit, but there not the same just like ovals and road course racing. Both have their own challenges.
Why is it that every driver to come from a road course style series has not been very successful in NASCAR or at least not as successful as they were in other series?
Surely if it is ovals it must be easy...
The road course specialists who enter the road course races NASCAR has don't even win those. I can't even think when the last time a non full-time driver has won a NASCAR race. And the specialists records at oval tracks are even worse.
Honestly, its apples and oranges. They're both fruit, but there not the same just like ovals and road course racing. Both have their own challenges.
mkthree92 said:
Cause of them experiences from before make them wanna turn right all the time, and they gotta go left! They cant go left then real straight and still go fast. Plus, you cant be too smart, cause then you might not go too fast cause you crash, but you cant worry about crashin, you just gotta go fast.
actually, a lot of the NASCAR drivers have road racing experience. Stewart raced IRL and Montoya raced F1. There are probably more examples.
I want to know how to go fast tooo, but my damn'd computer won't load up the video. I bet you my computer is a Nascar fan.................:3d_frown:
I know I dont have the focus it would take to race for four hour straight at 180-200 mph like they do at Talladega. Your inches away from each other and the slightest swirve would cause a thirty car pile up if you're in the right or wrong position. I'd be like "Must go fast, must go fast, OOOHHH like at that pretty blue car......BANG BAM CRUNCH **%&$%(*)(*%^&%###:biglaugh:
Edit: I got to watch it finally. I had to compromise with my computer. I promised it lots of pRon later on today.
That guy is pretty smart. I bet that Jeff Gordon and all the other Hendrix drivers use him secretly......He really knows his shit. I just wonder how he keeps the non paying drivers from watching this video and finding out his secrets.............:dunno:
I know I dont have the focus it would take to race for four hour straight at 180-200 mph like they do at Talladega. Your inches away from each other and the slightest swirve would cause a thirty car pile up if you're in the right or wrong position. I'd be like "Must go fast, must go fast, OOOHHH like at that pretty blue car......BANG BAM CRUNCH **%&$%(*)(*%^&%###:biglaugh:
Edit: I got to watch it finally. I had to compromise with my computer. I promised it lots of pRon later on today.
That guy is pretty smart. I bet that Jeff Gordon and all the other Hendrix drivers use him secretly......He really knows his shit. I just wonder how he keeps the non paying drivers from watching this video and finding out his secrets.............:dunno:
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JustAnotherVictim
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bowsercake said:
and some come straight from nascar to lemans and spin out on their first right turn ROFL (corvette c5r anyone?
was a coupleo f years ago...) but nascar is very technical... i just dont like it... the cars are meant to go fast and in a circle not much else to it except drafting etc.
All ovals are not created equal.
When you "boys" can do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbFejukyAc
Then you can bitch to me personally about how bad oval track racing doesn't take any "skill".
When you "boys" can do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbFejukyAc
Then you can bitch to me personally about how bad oval track racing doesn't take any "skill".
From what I know of NASCAR, it has very, very strict rules about what can and cannot be done to every single part of the car. There's a very narrow wieght margin that all cars must be in, a very narrow horsepower margin, and all the cars are nearly identical with strict limits on downforce, weight distrubution, ect.
F1, lemans, ect, you can mostly do whatever you want to the chassis as long as you meet the weight and horsepower requirements. F1 has limits on engine size/design, I know... But NASCAR engines are all but identical.
For all intents and purposes, NASCAR is a race to see who can concentrate the hardest and longest to run the perfect line through the same left turns over and over and over. The first guy, last guy, and everyone in between and nearby, to lapse in concentration end up on the wall, in the grass, or end up seated in what used to be a racecar. The guys who don't lapse in concentration end up at the finish line. NASCAR, to me, is more about the meat in the seat than the seat itself.
F1 is more about who can throw the most money at pushing the boundries of engineering and physics without killing the driver... whoever leads the bleeding edge of technology will win: Lots of new technologies come out of F1 racing and into your average car... NASCAR still uses a carberator.
F1, lemans, ect, you can mostly do whatever you want to the chassis as long as you meet the weight and horsepower requirements. F1 has limits on engine size/design, I know... But NASCAR engines are all but identical.
For all intents and purposes, NASCAR is a race to see who can concentrate the hardest and longest to run the perfect line through the same left turns over and over and over. The first guy, last guy, and everyone in between and nearby, to lapse in concentration end up on the wall, in the grass, or end up seated in what used to be a racecar. The guys who don't lapse in concentration end up at the finish line. NASCAR, to me, is more about the meat in the seat than the seat itself.
F1 is more about who can throw the most money at pushing the boundries of engineering and physics without killing the driver... whoever leads the bleeding edge of technology will win: Lots of new technologies come out of F1 racing and into your average car... NASCAR still uses a carberator.