NASCAR thread

[Creed Bratton]

NASCAR keeps adding more road/street course races to the schedule. I'm not sure if it's to try to compete with Indy and F1 or why. I for one am not a fan of road course races and never have been. Passing is nearly impossible so it makes it hard to recover from any sort of mistakes, it is purely a strategy based on when you pit and the track position you get and to be honest the racing just sucks in my opinion. What's your thoughts of those types of races.

 

[SWFLwildcat06]

I’ve never been a fan of road/street course racing for NASCAR or even Indy that much. It just never seems to turn into a compelling race. I remember when it was basically just Watkins Glenn and Sonoma on the NASCAR schedule, which would be perfectly fine. Leave the road tracks to F1 and all the GT cup series stuff. I wish they would have more short tracks on the schedule but I realize a lot of those tracks/venues just aren’t setup to host a NASCAR event. Thats probably why I enjoyed the SRX series so much.

 

[catsfanbgky]

NASCAR keeps adding more road/street course races to the schedule. I'm not sure if it's to try to compete with Indy and F1 or why. I for one am not a fan of road course races and never have been. Passing is nearly impossible so it makes it hard to recover from any sort of mistakes, it is purely a strategy based on when you pit and the track position you get and to be honest the racing just sucks in my opinion. What's your thoughts of those types of races.

"Passing is nearly impossible" "purely a strategy on when you pit and track position", sounds like most of the other types of tracks. It is not the tracks, its the damn Next GEN cars and everyone being "equal" that makes races boring. Having said all of that, road courses are not as boring as follow the leader and inside line surge, outside line surge, single file, rinse, wash, and repeat. Breaking in the corners, and other elements from the road courses actually make the drivers have to work, rather than just sit back and keep the pedal to the floor, break tap, draft lap after lap.

I will tell you what is STUPID, Christopher Bell being SECOND in points having won THREE of the four races. Way too much emphasis on stage points. The whole idea of racing is to, you know WIN the FN race. Without the wreck at Daytona, he may have won there also.

Daytona - Bell 31st / Byron - 1st
Atlanta - Bell 1st / Byron - 27th
COA - Bell 1st / Byron 2nd
Phoenix - Bell 1st / Byron 6th

I DO like the "Red" sticker tire option. Risk / Reward. At the very least it keeps every single thing from being uniformed. You can use them the reward is the car is faster. The risk, they wear faster, choose wisely. I like strategy added to the race.

 

[catsfanbgky]

Ty Gibbs should be demoted to ARCA

Fixed it for ya.

 

[Creed Bratton]

"Passing is nearly impossible" "purely a strategy on when you pit and track position", sounds like most of the other types of tracks. It is not the tracks, its the damn Next GEN cars and everyone being "equal" that makes races boring. Having said all of that, road courses are not as boring as follow the leader and inside line surge, outside line surge, single file, rinse, wash, and repeat. Breaking in the corners, and other elements from the road courses actually make the drivers have to work, rather than just sit back and keep the pedal to the floor, break tap, draft lap after lap.

I will tell you what is STUPID, Christopher Bell being SECOND in points having won THREE of the four races. Way too much emphasis on stage points. The whole idea of racing is to, you know WIN the FN race. Without the wreck at Daytona, he may have won there also.

Daytona - Bell 31st / Byron - 1st
Atlanta - Bell 1st / Byron - 27th
COA - Bell 1st / Byron 2nd
Phoenix - Bell 1st / Byron 6th

I DO like the "Red" sticker tire option. Risk / Reward. At the very least it keeps every single thing from being uniformed. You can use them the reward is the car is faster. The risk, they wear faster, choose wisely. I like strategy added to the race.

I just don't like the road course races. At least on short tracks or ovals you can come back and overcome trouble. It is very hard to do on road courses. I do agree with you on the points issue. I told a guy Sunday that Bell may win every race but unless he wins the last one it won't matter.

 

[kywildcatsfannumber1]

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[M4CAT]

I like COTA, that is it for road courses. F1 put a lot of resources making that a top notch facility. I was used to Riverside back in the day, but they built a big mall and housing complexes on the land. Short tracks and the big speedways are my favorite venues.

 

[vhcat70]

I just don't like the road course races. At least on short tracks or ovals you can come back and overcome trouble. It is very hard to do on road courses. I do agree with you on the points issue. I told a guy Sunday that Bell may win every race but unless he wins the last one it won't matter.

I think the short course races are more like road courses - many more turns - than they are like the 1m+ courses & particularly super speedways. With the supers, you're just waiting for all the end of race collusions & winning is a survival crapshoot imo. There may not be much passing at the front with road courses, but lots of it back in the pack. Much prefer 1-on-1 battles to bunched racing.