2007-03-06 11:45:25 · 14 answers · asked by creedblue_69 2 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
They made it that way for safety. It is easier for a driver sitting on the left side of the car to see the inside line when driving hard and braking into a turn. It is also safer in case the car gets away from the driver and head toward the wall. In the old days there weren't any SAFER Barriers and the best thing the drivers had was the space between them and the right side of the car. +
2007-03-09 20:31:58 · answer #1 · answered by tow_tow_truck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from horseracing. In the US, horses have always raced counterclockwise... and it has to do with politics.
The first horse track in the US was build immediately after the American Revolution; at the time horses raced clockwise in England. As a result, the owner of the US track insisted that the horses race the opposite direction.
So all oval racing in the US for the past 200+ years has been clockwise.
2007-03-08 00:48:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That might have been inherited from horse races in the past, because they also only go to the left. It might also have something to do with the drivers of the cars being seated on the left of the car and their ability to see to the side.
2007-03-06 11:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because going left, the wall's waaaay over there.
Going right, they could touch it with there hand going 200 mph so screw that, plus the sparks and debris that fly up if they do scrape the wall etc.
2007-03-06 13:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Frankie Coletta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the placement of the guidance wheel. even as NASCAR began the gasoline tank could were on both aspect reckoning on the variety. additionally they began racing before the walls were in position.
2016-12-05 08:30:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because like every redneck holding a beer, they rest their left arm on the open window. It's easier to turn the wheel left with the right hand alone than to turn left with the left hand alone.
"NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles."
- Eddie Irvine
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2007-03-07 10:47:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
correction: they sit on the LEFT.
it makes it less wrong than if they went the other way. Imagine being towards the wall on the banking.
They did it for safety too.
2007-03-06 12:31:06 · answer #7 · answered by junior_fan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
would you want to be right next to the wall goin into turn four, when they race 4 wide?
2007-03-08 08:50:45 · answer #8 · answered by weasleywanabe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't even picture them going around backwards in the Daytona 500... That'd be f***in weird man.
2007-03-06 12:15:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its because drivers sit on the right side of the car, just like all cars in the US. By going counter clockwise it makes it easier for cars to pass each other.
2007-03-06 11:56:01 · answer #10 · answered by Bangston 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋