NASCAR who dat?

Under car aero does NOT make for good racing....ANYWHERE.

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yep

the more I see this next gen the more I wonder what the hell NASCAR was thinking.

 

They've made great strides with these cars over the years, but they always seem to take a good car and do one or 2 things extremely dumb with them every time they update. Remember the "Car of Tomorrow" with their huge-ass wing that was basically making cars into airplanes? The first thing I thought when I saw the solid underpanel on these cars is "airplane wing"...and look what happened.

 

Embry Riddle is down the street from NASCAR HQ, maybe they should all go take an aerodynamics class

 

Hamlin and that POS Wallace advance. It’s officially football season. I’ve never seen a worse Bristol race in my entire life. What garbage.

 

In other news, the long run of Xfinity at Road America has ended. No race in 2024. After Cup left after a couple of big attendance weekends, this news leaves one to conclude NASCAR wants more than RA wants or needs to give.
Mixed emotions as RA is a great place, but their prices, rules for fans, etc., are starting to give one pause.

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I had high hopes for NASCAR at RA, a track that suits big horsepower cars (see also: Trans Am), but the product was never very good IMO. always devolved into a demolition derby, which is what NASCAR seems to want to be these days.

RA should be fine, that place stays busy. still want IMSA to go back to the longer races (4-6 hours) there

 

Yes, and you may not know about a lot of the things that keep the place busy: teen driving classes, off road outings, open camping on non-race weekends, short distance drag racing, etc.
I think I mentioned it before here, but worth repeating, that RA, as part of the pit/paddock improvements, added lighting to both, and then rumored night races.

 

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So much slapping and jiggling of man boobs and swaying of beer bellies

 

more NASCAR wrasslin'

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So....is this stagecraft, or ?? What prompted it?

 

started with something on track but ended in this, so yes I think there's an element of stagecraft.

if Verstappen and Hamilton did this in F1 the internet would explode. but it's a nearly weekly occurance somewhere in NASCAR land (local short tracks etc)

 

2024 and Chicago is official again.

NASCAR Cup Series 2024 Schedule Features Return to Chicago, Break for Olympics (yahoo.com)

 

Or that NASCAR is tired of being shown-up by Indy Car and IMSA on like circuits to the point where they
don't publish their race's fastest laps...

Road America
4.014 miles

Indy Car 2023
Pole: Colton Herta 1:40:1945
Speed 144.50MPH
Fastest Race Lap. Will Power 1:42:891
MPH: 140.442

IMSA GTP 2023
Pole: Pipo Derani 1:47.730
Speed 135.271MPH
Fastest Race Lap. F. Albuquerque 1:49.676
MPH 132.871

NASCAR XFinity 2023
Pole: A.J. Allmendinger 2:10:574
Speed 111.16MPH
Fastest Race Lap. NA

Just saying...

BHW

 

Even the IMSA GTD cars qualified 8 seconds faster than the NASCARs

 

SCCA GT1 pole time (from 2020 Runoffs) is 2:02

granted, it was Ernie Francis in his Trans Am car. but still...SCCA GT1 is EIGHT SECONDS faster than Xfinity?

 

Even the GT3 Cup cars qualified at 2:07.5 this year at Road America.

 

if they'd just drop some weight....aka "Lemans spec"

 

It’s a nice morning at CMS…

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Meh…

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Hmm. What’s this running around the Roval by himself this morning. Sounds like paddle shifting.

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that’s the Garage 56 LeMans car (this was the backup car)

 

Interesting. It was a very sweet sounding and looking car.