@fatboy1dh I haven’t watched the Saturday racing. Guess I need to!
@KartingIsLife, haven’t seen a dry track race there yet so I can’t make a call on the dry racing.
Wet always mixes things up and is my favorite condition. Brings out the drivers with the best feel for the edge of grip. Looks like I need to take Derek’s advice and watch Xfinity.
As for the world stage, read plenty of Europeans mocking the lack of ability of American drivers to handle the wet. Don’t know that I care much what they think…different kinds of racing are fun because they are different!
More variety in Nascar would be nice. Too many 1.5 mile D oval and identical cars out there.
That’s fair. For me as a European living in the US I think the dismissal by some causes them to miss out and the general ignorance on the skill required for ovals bothers me.
All they do is turn left… well yeah but you are missing the point entirely… it wasn’t until I raced oval sim in the openwheel iracing series that I realized how subtle and incredible oval racing is. Prior to that I was similarly prejudiced against it.
Did oval ever happen in Europe or is 100% a USA thing?
Yep. Very entertaining race. And a wild shake up to the playoffs. Darlington will be huge to see who wins the regular season and gets the bonus playoff points. Finally, have you ever seen a better pre-race invocation? If you can quote Ricky Bobby and Darrell Waltrip in the same prayer, that’s a hell of a job!
that 4 wide rounds … was something memorable to watch . i was reading that it seems the new cars is slower that the previous models in the cup series on a wide and big track like this one . but to be honnest , at my european eyes … the do look fast as hell . but i am watching this sport as a rookie spectator .
yesterday’s race ending was kinda messed up. i’m waiting to see how nascar handles the race manipulation at the end. had the 1 and the 3 just gone ahead and passed byron, you don’t get the 23 getting a “flat” with 3 to go, and bell’s nothing really close to chastain’s wall ride. bell kinda got screwed, in my opinion.
I agree. I dont know if the NBC booth was that naive as to not call out the two chevys not passing the playoff potential person or if they were ignoring it. But that seemed just as bad as what Bubba/Bell did. Two wrongs here and I think you can’t punish one without the other.
the chevy’s definitely triggered the entire thing. the toyota guy’s should have just stayed cool and protested afterward, because the chevy guys were blatant. chastain especially came roaring up byron, then nothing. but i can see why the toyota’s reacted, you can’t really count on nascar to police things.
I no longer follow NASCAR on the regular, just FF through recorded races to catch highlights like pit stops, wrecks, or tight racing. Most of the tracks are cookie cutter 1.5 mile snooze fests with cookie cutter spec cars and cookie cutter corporate drivers.
Gotta say, I did enjoy the Bowman race more than I expected. Just reinforces to me that NASCAR’s roots are in short track stock car racing where contact is not necessarily the end of your race. Hopefully the start trimming out some 1.5 mile speedways and continue pursuing some more traditional tracks in the 1/2 to 1 mile length. Unfortunately the spec cars are likely here to stay…bleh.