speedemon90

any nascar fans up in here????

I dont think anything can get better than nascar!

HeartTLs

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speedemon90

i did not write this...

teranfon

I've tried to like NASCAR. I really have. I love the history of it and the cars used in the fifties and sixties. The legendary teams and the fabulous battles. Then sometime after that, it all went wrong....................

I try to watch, but then start hearing comments like, "His car just all ate up with motor!", or "He just done took Junebug intuh the wall!". Then a hotdog wrapper falls on the track and a caution is thrown. After I've filed a tax return and mowed the lawn, I tune back in only to hear that the the caution flag is still out and that "There's gonna be a sprint to thu finish!" "Gonna be checkers or wreckers!!!". Then the restart gets waived off because another hotdog wrapper falls on the track. Click.

Really, I have tried. I just can't.

Ken1997TL

If it were more like the Circus Maximus of old I'd probably watch it.

People have been making left turns quickly for millenia...

speedemon90

for the record, i kinda hate nascar...


All about F1

madcaps

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Rally/F1 > All


Well, it's not cars, but I love Superbike too.

Gfaze

Meh, watching cars drive in circles for 3+ hours is not appealing to me. I've tried watching it but I get bored and change the channel. If there's any good wrecks I'll see them on the sports highlights during the news.

ThermonMermon

Going to my first event...got company seats in homestead this Sunday....all good as long as I stay under 75 mph haha

AZuser

I prefer watching touring car races (BTCC, WTCC) and sports car races (24 Hr of Le Mans, 12 Hrs of Sebring, American Le Mans Series)


Watching cars go in a circle is just so boring.

Costco

Australian Supercar Racing is what NASCAR should be

I've seen parts of a few NASCAR road races. The skill was never a question, it was the entertainment value. Road racing is much more entertaining, it's a shame they don't do it more often.

dallison

I've been watching NASCAR since i was born. The earliest race i remember was the infamaous 1st daytona televised live on tv with the fight at the end with allison and yarborough. I really enjoyed the 80's and early 90's nascar. The cars still looked like cars compared to what they look like now. There were old men who dominated and youngsters who tried their best to unseat the best and older drivers.

They weren't as concerned with the money and sponsors like the business is today. It really started to become very corporate in the 80's and had its grip by the mid 90's.

I do watch a couple races or at least the beginning and the end. Sometimes that is all i can tolerate w/o falling asleep, esp at tracks were there aren't many cautions.

I don't really like it as much b/c of corp. america and the high price tag of doing business.

I don't buy any nascar stuff either now. That was done in the 80's/90's when davey allison was alive.

06cmv6

You can appreciate it more if you go to a race...I watch the races every week...I'm going to homestead too this sunday

gatrhumpy

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The only thing more boring would be watching paint dry.

HeartTLs

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^^
+1. I do occasionally watch F1 and enjoy it, at heart I'm a fan of F1 in the late 80's - 90's which had better battles.

imj0257

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MarbleGT

The only thing that I can think of thats different than grinding through watching it on TV, is maybe the sound. I've been to a couple of them and its more people watching than anything. After about the 5th lap, im over it. To me, theres no retaining feature...nothing that makes you go "wow." Watching dragsters is similar, but when a tiny car that has 3000hp whisps by you at 300+ in less than 4 seconds and makes your eyeballs jiggle it keeps you coming back for more.

I think it may be the only type of race that is almost unbareable to watch. The people, the drivers, the "scene."

CarbonGray Earl

I've been to a race, got to get on the track, into the pits, and everything. I follow it on sportscenter. But I am not a fan. Its absolutely boring.

I watch other types of racing, but that oval stuff isn't exciting to me. When Indy goes oval, I can only sit through a little of it as well.

F1, BTCC, DTM, World Challenge, ALMS, Indy road races....that's more my style.

dallison

Races are fun, Sometimes boring though. I do want to go to either talladega or daytona sometime in my life.

dallison

I've been to the indy 500 and you can really fall asleep like i did depending where you sit. The cars are so fast that you almost don't know who is who.
I have been to Pocono to watch arca grand national and sprint cup. Sometimes a snoozefest esp when it's 90 degrees out. You get absolutely baked in the sun.

At watkins glen i saw grand national, maybe porsche cup imsa camel gtp and whatever other series runs up there.
Watkins glen isn't bad, that's more fun.

Lime rock park is cool too. I like the road courses the best so far.


I have a few trunks of older nascar stuff that is in a cubby hole. One day i'll break it out.

Moog-Type-S

@ this thread

1killercls

Aussie V8 Supercars > NASCAR

madcaps

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This is the only reason why I ever know whats going on in NASCAR. I really don't consider myself as "following it" on SC, rather it is more like, " Look a NASCAR highlight in between baseball and football highlights".

speedemon90

yea my friend keeps making fun of me for watching F1 and says its like nascar... and now they all joke around that I love nascar and decided to put this here when I left my computer open on azine.

madcaps

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You need new friends.

speedemon90

yea...

Finding people who like watching motorsports is hard to find.

I mainly watch F1, but I only know a handful of people that actually watch some type of motorsport.

Stapler

I think I would have fun watching a race at bristole with a field full of gutted tauruses, camrys, stratuses, and Malibu.The actual production cars mind you. All weather racing and some sort of crane with a electromagnet to clear crashes would probably help too.

imj0257

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F1 is so much more exciting to watch than NASCAR

madcaps

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Same here. Two of my friends sort of keep up with the WRC, but other than that, nobody I know watches any motorsport events on a regular basis.

speedemon90

Where do you watch WRC?

They dont show it on speed

madcaps

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Discovery HD Theater. Unfortunately, they don't show the races until two weeks after race day. But, at least you get to watch it.

http://dhd.discovery.com/tv/world-ra...hip/about.html