Question for you nascar fans?

Question

What is the appeal of watching a bunch of people turning left for hours? Wouldn't it be more interesting to see them turn right every so often? It doesn't seem as though they are actually doing anything.

Answer 1

What's so interesting about not having a life?

Answer 2

First off, they do "turn right every so often". NASCAR holds a couple of road races every year. It may look easy, but battling a machine going close to 200 mph is no peice of cake. First off, it gets REALLY hot in there, so that only adds on to the difficulty. It's not easy trying to keep your car stable and get around others going just as fast. You never really know what your competitors might do, so you've gotta be carefull.

The appeal is having your favorite driver and rooting for them. It's very suspensfull because at any one moment there could be a huge crash and change the race drastically. There's also a lot of strategy that comes into play, expessialy at the pit stops.

You watch a race one day and pick a driver towards the front of the pack so you can see them. Root for them, you'll see.

Answer 3

I went to my first Cup race in 1995. I had been chatting in a Nascar Chat room for months and about 50 of us decided to meet up at the Michigan race. The races were awesome. We camped out for 3 days just across from the track and had an absolute riot of a time. Alot of people go to the races for the off-track activities. Anyway, I was hooked and now travel all over the country to watch 10-12 races a year. Season tickets to Bristol are my most prized possession !!!
Try one race and you will be hooked for life !!! Watching the drivers going 180-200 mph and passing each other is awe-inspiring.

Answer 4

NASCAR is a sport that you can't really appreciate until you've actually been to a race. It's indescribable, the feeling in your gut when 43 race cars start their engines and head out on the track. The "rumble" is by far the coolest thing I've ever experienced. Yes, I have to agree, it can be somewhat boring watching on television. But, once you're hooked ... you're a fan for life and can't imagine not watching it!

Answer 5

Unless you have actually been to a race to hear the driver talking to the crew chief or the spotter for passing when you can't turn your head, figuring out changes on the car for more speed, a strategy for a win, trying to miss a wreck all at 180 mph you wouldn't understand!!! Not to mention hearing 850 hp engines run. Maybe you should stick with golf.

Answer 6

I used to think the same thing. Wow, left turn... wow left turn... wow left turn. I started being able to watch and understand by having one driver to follow. Pick a rookie who will let you follow someone from the start of their Nascar Cup career. Go to a race... even just a local track and stand next to that fence. Feel the power, the speed and just the sheer force of those cars. If you don't think it's such a hard thing to do and that anyone can do it, try sitting in one position while the temperature at track level is 115 degrees fahrenheit while working the gear shift, the steering wheel, gas, brake and clutch while mere centimeters from another car (in front of, behind of, or next to and perhaps all three at once) for 4+ hours at a time. Look at those men outside of their uniforms; see them before a race and 10-15 lbs lighter after they get out of their firesuits after a race. You can't do it, no matter how much you think you can. Still think you can? Go do the driving experience at a track (do a yahoo search for the Richard Petty Driving Experience) near you.. pay your money and get behind that wheel. You won't have anyone near you, it won't be as hot and you won't have to do it for 4 straight hours while your car continuously deteriorates, but you'll get out of that car with a whole new opinion.

Answer 7

Your description shows your lack of knowledge for the sport. I don't like basketball cause it's 10 guys running up and down throwing a ball in a hoop. NASCAR is stradegy, endurance, skill, and team work. Obviously it's more than what you claim cause it's the 2nd most popular sport in the USA and it's the #1 spectator sport in the world.

Answer 8

The appeal is in getting to know the drivers' racing styles and their personalities as much as it is about the races themselves. It's about seeing how they will react in different situations on and off the track and being able to pull for the "good guys" and root against the "bad guys" (whoever they may be based on your allegiances). - - - And take a look at one of those guys after a night at Bristol or after the Coca Cola 600 in Charlotte and tell me they aren't doing anything. That's B.S.

Answer 9

If you haven't gone to a race, just keep your mouth shut. Nobody wants to hear an idiot that knows nothing about what they are talking about. Nascar for me isn't all about the cars on the track, its about the building, the pit work, the fans, the tracks, sponsors, teams, drivers, and the beer.

Answer 10

they do race a few road courses as well as they are not just riding around the cars are hard to drive the heat is incredible and knowledge of the cars is invaluable..just one pound of air pressure in or out makes a huge difference in how they run as well as the sun coming out makes a race car do one thing then when the sun goes away it does something different them guys are working hard to keep the car set up to the changes of the track.and various other conditions some tracks are hard to turn at some eat your tires many many variables that you cant get watching one race..you have to sit and pay attention as well as having some mechanical knowledge...would help..

Answer 11

Well, There are diffrent kinds of tracks, some fast, slow, long, short and there also Infinion and Watkins Glen.

NASCAR has driffrent types of left turning oval tracks for more difficulty in each one.

Watch a couple races and you;ll see my point.