Can anyone tell me what the point of NASCAR racing is?
I mean I like watching some car races they have in Europe where they don’t just go around in a circle over and over again. But NASCAR is just so boring. The way I see it is NASCAR: NON ATHLETIC SPORT CENTERED AROUND REDNECKS
To be the first driver to cross the start/finish line AFTER the designated amount of laps for the race. Do you know what your problem is? You are too smug and arrogant to realize what an ignorant dumbAs$ you are. Oh, and we’ve NEVER seen your little NASCAR explanation before. If you are going to ATTEMPT to rip on us at least try to come up with something slightly original.
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: nascar racing
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was founded by William HG France in 1948. Officially incorporated on February 21, its purpose is to organize and promote the sport of stock car racing on sanctioned high-speed oval circuits and a few road courses.
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Jimmie Johnson Rules !!!!
The point is to see who can go around in circles the fastest with the fewest mistakes consistently. At the end of the season, the guy with the most circles wins!!!! lol.
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GO Tony Stewart!!
To turn left of course haha… idk it is a very boring and unathletic sport though, haha and when i do find myself somehow watching it, i pray that someone will crash haha… i dont want anyone to die though, just a huge huge crash with lots of cars, to make it exciting ya know haha
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To be the first driver to cross the start/finish line AFTER the designated amount of laps for the race. Do you know what your problem is? You are too smug and arrogant to realize what an ignorant dumbAs$ you are. Oh, and we’ve NEVER seen your little NASCAR explanation before. If you are going to ATTEMPT to rip on us at least try to come up with something slightly original.
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NASCAR racing Rules!!!!!!!!!
The point is the same of basketball, all they do is throw a ball into two separate hoops. It’s not so much the actual racing, it’s what’s involved in the racing, the car, engines, brakes, the scientific aspect of how everything works together. There is a comradeship of people who watch and go to Nascar races, that you don’t get at a basketball game, or a golf game. To each their own!
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There is no sport or skill in invovled. As long as you can drive a manual and turn left, occassionally right, you can be a star in NASCAR. The only reason people are better than others in the races is because some cars are faster than others, and thats the only reason. People need to admit that NASCAR is boring, except for the crashes, but i can just watch shows about car crashes in NASCAR. Trust me, the racing events in Europe and other places around the world are much better than NASCAR. People need to stop thinking that much skill is invovled with NASCAR.
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Eyes am so ferever beholding two u’ems fer pointing out,the fact that dern Nascar aint no sport and that me is jist a hillbilly that dont know any better.My gosh where wood i be’ums if a mensa schollar like u’ems werent here to help a fool like me?Now git.
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it is the fastest growing sport in america! and all of us nascar fans love our sport! don ‘t get it? go watch some one hit a golfball around! (no offense to you golfers) drive for five!!! free the eight!!!!!! (yeah! i know! i lost ya there!)
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oh boy another dolt asking the same boring "NASCAR is lame" type questions.
Thanks for the two points dillwad.
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Nonatheletic? HA HA HA! NASCAR is one of the most atheletic sports in the world. Imagine jumping into a car and driving in it for 4 hours…when it’s an average of 130 degrees in the car. The only reason you think it’s boring is because you don’t REALLY know what’s going on with the cars, inside the cars, and with the drivers.
As for a sport centered around rednecks, you really need to do some research before you say these kinds of things. Not only is it one of the fastest growing sports in America, but it also has millions of it’s fans in the northern part of the country.
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NASCAR loving Wisconsinite from the bad side of a 100000 person city. Have fun explaining that!
Thats an ignorant way of looking at it. You need to learn alot more than about the sport before making a opinion like that. NASCAR may have its origins in the south, but today its 2nd most watched sport in America behind the NFL, with fans all across this great country from all walks of life. And the people who build the cars have extensive engineering knowledge, and the drivers raced many different forms of cars before reaching this level. And those cars are not easy to drive like the family sedan. It takes alot of talent to control a race car, and with the conditions they race in (140 degree cockpits, 2-3g loads in the corners, very few breaks) drivers need a high level of fitness and endurance. And most pit crew member are athletes from different sports who now use their skills in servicing the car. I bet you couldnt barely lift a mounted stock car tire, let alone run it over a wall to the car and slam it over the lugs on one shot.
Just because it takes a different skill set to compete in racing, doesnt mean its not a sport. Just like different athletic skills are required to play football then hockey, baseball then basketball, or swimming then wrestiling, racing takes a different set of skills to be competitive and those who possess and hone those skills the best are the ones who are successful.
And as the famous quote goes there are only three real sports; bull fighting, rock climbing, and motorsports. Everything else is just a game.
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Why refer to NASCAR fans as rednecks? Is it because they’re majority caucasian? If they were primarily made up of people of other races, would you still call them rednecks? Unlikely. How come it’s okay to say redneck, which by definition is a racial slur, but it’s not okay to say other racial slurs? The double standard is disgusting.
BTW, we also have road course races here in the USA, too, ya know (not just in Europe). Ever heard of the American LeMans series? How about Grand-Am? … Champ Car? I could go on…
And also, the "point" of NASCAR racing is just that… TO RACE (and also for entertainment, of course)!
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"I have never sweated so much in my entire life"
Juan Pablo Montoya’s first words after driving Jeff Gordon’s stock car for the first time.
Ya, it’s lots easier than F-1 You people who come here and spew this garbage are very ignorant of racing in general.
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If you have to ask, then it cannot be explained to you.
And no, I guess you can say Nascar is not a sport, it is a way of Life.
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If you don’t like it, then why the hell are you in this chat??? BYE!!!
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And yet you’d consider Formula One exciting racing?
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Its so you Eurotrashers have something to complain about while you wait for someone to pass in F1.
I see you have a lot of free time.
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Entertainment. Now go away.
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This answer is not like the others still I like to watch the NASCAR races, you have have seen races in Europe much different
I race my Fiat on a road racing track 2 1/2 mile track turns all around shifting turning it is great.
I have a ride on the oval track so I like it also But the Fiat is more fun because I am up against my times without a group
pushing me around. the oval takes more mental than I ever though possible…
Another difference the oval more people watch and yell
road it is me the wind the dirt at times and getting to go as fast as I can without getting a ticket
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just going in a circle over and over? whereas most sports are running back and forth with a ball over and over. Non athletic sport? i thought that was golf? centered around rednecks? might want to do some demographics on Nascar fans before you make such a moronic stereotype again. Its almost as moronic as saying all basketball fans come from the inner city ghetto’s.
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If you have to ask a question like this (which is an incredibly old, used up question, I might add), it proves you’re not smart enough to retain the correct answer. So why should I give it to you? Go back to your Tonka trucks in your sandbox, and leave the racing to the big dogs.
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Claiming that NASCAR is boring because all they do is go around in a circle is akin to claiming that all life on Earth is boring because the Earth travels around the Sun in a circle.
Guess what. I’m a redneck and I like F1,too, so I guess that makes you a redneck. All my redneck friends like F1.
We all can explain why an F1 car turns so well. It’s simply a function of physics. Exaggerated atmospheric pressure is greater than the centrifigal force acting on the car. The driver applies input and gets the expected result. It’s like a mathmatical formula, A+B=C, where A and B are constants, therefore C is always predictable. If an F1 driver applies a variable to A or B then C will be a wreck.
NASCAR drivers face a formula more like this:
A+B=X where A is a variable, B is unknown and they rarely wreck.
Take Montoya, as he had been using the F1 formula and is just now starting to learn to the new formula.
In F1, the car reacts to the driver while in NASCAR the driver reacts to the car and the way the car acts will vary greatly according to traffic, the racing line you are on as opposed to the preferred line, speed and track temperature (is the bump in the shade, is all the bump in the shade). Variance of position on the track as small as 6 inches can change the way the car reacts. Six inches higher, miss the bump. Six inches lower, you hit the bump.
You can hit the bump 3 times in a row and get 3 different actions from the car. It’s the driver’s job to solve the equation in a split second and get the car back under control. It’s something they do thousands of time in a race.
I don’t care what anyone says, battling a car that is constantly out of control is a lot harder than driving a controlled car, regardless of the speed or g forces.
Once you learn the line around a road course, they are a piece of cake.
It does you little good to learn the line around an oval because chances are, you won’t be on it anyway.
I’ve also seen a lot of fast cars lose to a fast driver in NASCAR. I’ve never seen a fast car lose in F1, at least not since 1966. That was around the time when F1 stopped using the same formula as NASCAR and turned the drivers into operators. When the car builders started telling the operators to "drive it on in there, it’ll stick!" When it doesn’t stick all the operator can say is, "oops". He’s going so fast, he doesn’t have time to solve the new equation, even if he could.
Montoya is learning to solve the new equation and when he does, A+B=FAST.
In summation, in F1 the car gets the driver to turn while in NASCAR the driver gets the car to turn. F1 is fine if you like cars that can do the impossible, which I do, but I prefer a sport where the driver does the impossible.
F1 cars are obedient slaves, while "Stock Cars" are cantankerous, rebellious independent beasts that force the driver to bridle them.
F1 cars are like “Tennessee Walking Horses”; beautiful to watch with impeccable timing and proud strutters while Stock Cars are wild, untamed bucking broncos.
Ride’m Cowboy!
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I hope you understand as I tried to keep it simple.
nascar is like anything else you watch.either you like it or you dont.i like it so if you dont like it thats your opinion.but there is alot of people that like different things and i think nascar is great.oh by the way im not a red neck. lol
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It must be pretty exciting, you keep asking questions about it.
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The purpose of NASCAR is to get stupid assh*les like you to ask obvious questions because you don’t have a girlfriend or social life. one hand plucking keys and the other plucking pubes!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t forget to wash your hand there spanky!!!
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How many races have you actually watched? You seem to have already pre-judged what you know nothing about. Too bad, it is your loss.
Go Jr.>>>>
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As in any sport, the point is to win.
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