The Official every other type of racing is better than NASCAR 2009 thread

Biggravy22

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Nascar is the human equivalent of my dog chasing his tail.

On a side note...I'm glad that F1 did away with those shitty grooved tires. Back to slicks and competitive racing.
 

smokeh

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American football or Real Football?
ice skating or roller?
rofl


how can u say that anyway. its just different opinions. have u ever played or watched any other sport?!

Snooker/Pool is a great game when in the pub, along with darts.
rugby can be ok sometimes
swimming is pretty cool if ur on holiday or w/e
basketball is ok, i used to play in high school

theres loads and ur saying that whichever football and skating u mean is the only decent ones. pfffft. :shock:
 

jigfresh

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Are there no cricket fans in here?

I would imagine test cricket to be perfect for potheads. I know it is for me.

Kevin Pieterson: Amazing Talent or Idiot (or both)? Any opinions?

And about Nascar, you have to admit the races are just too long, no? Wouldn't 2 or 2.5 hours be enough?
 

fdd2blk

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Are there no cricket fans in here?

I would imagine test cricket to be perfect for potheads. I know it is for me.

Kevin Pieterson: Amazing Talent or Idiot (or both)? Any opinions?

And about Nascar, you have to admit the races are just too long, no? Wouldn't 2 or 2.5 hours be enough?
nascar is about building the better car. if it was a 2 hour race the cars wouldn't wear down. you have to build a car that can run at 200 mph for 6 hours straight on a stock engine. you really have to watch more than the cars spin in circles to understand. :-P
 

The Son of Man

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whoever spends the most money wins and there's nothing stock about stock car racing---it didn't use to be this way---but it is now---and that makes it lame.

The cars should all be built exactly to spec by the race track the drivers are going to---the teams have no contact with the car---they just rent it from the track. That way everyone's car is the same and there's no way to cheat and no money advantage---just driver talent---that would be stock car racing.
 

jigfresh

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I think spec racing is a little far, but agree that 'money = results' way too much. If people liked watching spec racing with the worlds best drivers IROC would still exist. I liked IROC, but apparently not many others did. Speaking of which did anyone see/ remember Steve Kinser on his roof like 3 times the final season. I miss IROC.

you have to build a car that can run at 200 mph for 6 hours straight on a stock engine.
I totally get that point. That is why I like endurance racing so much. 24 hours at Le Mans is the best. It is just so hard to watch the long races 36 times a year (like nascar runs).

I appreciate the endurance of the old push rods running at max rpm (at least during green), in fact I find it amazing that they can build engines that last, but Nascar makes it an endurance sport to be a fan. Maybe just run 500 or 600 miles 8 times a year. Seriously, California Speedway, single file, no passes, no grip, for 6 hours. That isn't fun to me. Now Daytona or Talladega, I don't know if I call that fun, but sitting on the edge of my couch watching those boys run inches from eachother for 6 hours, that is something to see. Lowe's, Texas, and Atlanta I could watch all day long as well.

And bristol/ martinsville would still be entertaining to me at 150 miles or so. But yeah, that's me.
 

miccyj

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Being Aussie, I never really understood NASCAR, I cant see the skill in racing on a round track for ages. I'm a big fan of V8 supercars here in oz, but my favorite driver (Marcus Ambrose) moved over to nascar after really killing it here. So it cant be to bad.............

On a side topic, I just read in the paper the other day that it cost F1 drivers hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be allowed to race, thats nuts. Thousands of dollars per point you got last season.
 
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