nascar vs street cars?

Question

can someone tell me why when we buy a car a good percentage of the price we pay for that car goes to emission control devices when nascar and other racing cars are not required to have them its not distance traveled because some races are 500 miles long a sgnificant distance to travel

Answer 1

think about it. 3 billion cars without cat. converters vs. 500 nascars pollution

Answer 2

Oh contrair mon Cherie. NASCAR has emission standards, they don't just run whatever.
CHeck this site...

Also they drive 43 cars 3-500 miles once a week for 39 weeks. you drive with 20 million others daily.....
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Lead was phased out of gasoline bought by consumers decades ago, but leaded fuel still exists. A few industries, including airlines and auto racing, were exempt from the rules. Today's NYT reports on an environmentalis campaign to eliminate the use of leaded fuel in NASCAR. Thus far, available substitutes have not done the trick -- or involved the use of other fuel additives (such as MTBE) that have their own problems. Soe other racing series (not named in the article) do use unleaded fuel.

Since the phaseout of lead from gasoline, ambient lead concentrations and average blood lead levels have dropped dramatically. So one could wonder whether the use of leaded gasoline by NASCAR drivers is much of a problem. Lead pollution poses the greatest risk to children, yet children would be among those least exposed by lead from NASCAR vehicles. Adult and chlid spectators alike are exposed to the emissions less frequently than NASCAR racers and employees. Yet no one knows the level of exposures involved here. Indeed, the NYT story notes that neither NASCAR, the EPA, nor any environmental group has tested air quality at a NASCAR race.

Answer 3

Easy answer: if street cars did not come with emission controls we would quickly overpollute the world. Think of it this way, there is a lot more street cars (daily drivers) than there are race cars in Nascar, drag, drift etc... Besides these vehicles aren't driven on public roads.

Answer 4

Nascar and other race cars are driven on private property, so they are not subject to the laws that govern vehicles on the highways. Street legal vehicles are used on public roads.

Racetracks are not owned by the government, they are owned by private companies and individuals. As such, they have the right to decide what use of the property is permitted!

Answer 5

race cars are not made for the street. they are made to race and they are not driven every day. and most race cars have their engines tore down and inspected after every race. with some exceptions