Can anyone tell me what the point of NASCAR racing is?

Question

I mean I like watching some car races they have in Europe where they don't just go around in a circle over and over again. But NASCAR is just so boring. The way I see it is NASCAR: NON ATHLETIC SPORT CENTERED AROUND REDNECKS

Answer 1

To be the first driver to cross the start/finish line AFTER the designated amount of laps for the race. Do you know what your problem is? You are too smug and arrogant to realize what an ignorant dumbAs$ you are. Oh, and we've NEVER seen your little NASCAR explanation before. If you are going to ATTEMPT to rip on us at least try to come up with something slightly original.

Answer 2

Claiming that NASCAR is boring because all they do is go around in a circle is akin to claiming that all life on Earth is boring because the Earth travels around the Sun in a circle.

Guess what. I'm a redneck and I like F1,too, so I guess that makes you a redneck. All my redneck friends like F1.

We all can explain why an F1 car turns so well. It's simply a function of physics. Exaggerated atmospheric pressure is greater than the centrifigal force acting on the car. The driver applies input and gets the expected result. It's like a mathmatical formula, A+B=C, where A and B are constants, therefore C is always predictable. If an F1 driver applies a variable to A or B then C will be a wreck.

NASCAR drivers face a formula more like this:

A+B=X where A is a variable, B is unknown and they rarely wreck.

Take Montoya, as he had been using the F1 formula and is just now starting to learn to the new formula.

In F1, the car reacts to the driver while in NASCAR the driver reacts to the car and the way the car acts will vary greatly according to traffic, the racing line you are on as opposed to the preferred line, speed and track temperature (is the bump in the shade, is all the bump in the shade). Variance of position on the track as small as 6 inches can change the way the car reacts. Six inches higher, miss the bump. Six inches lower, you hit the bump.

You can hit the bump 3 times in a row and get 3 different actions from the car. It's the driver's job to solve the equation in a split second and get the car back under control. It's something they do thousands of time in a race.

I don't care what anyone says, battling a car that is constantly out of control is a lot harder than driving a controlled car, regardless of the speed or g forces.

Once you learn the line around a road course, they are a piece of cake.

It does you little good to learn the line around an oval because chances are, you won't be on it anyway.

I've also seen a lot of fast cars lose to a fast driver in NASCAR. I've never seen a fast car lose in F1, at least not since 1966. That was around the time when F1 stopped using the same formula as NASCAR and turned the drivers into operators. When the car builders started telling the operators to "drive it on in there, it'll stick!" When it doesn't stick all the operator can say is, "oops". He's going so fast, he doesn't have time to solve the new equation, even if he could.

Montoya is learning to solve the new equation and when he does, A+B=FAST.

In summation, in F1 the car gets the driver to turn while in NASCAR the driver gets the car to turn. F1 is fine if you like cars that can do the impossible, which I do, but I prefer a sport where the driver does the impossible.

F1 cars are obedient slaves, while "Stock Cars" are cantankerous, rebellious independent beasts that force the driver to bridle them.

F1 cars are like “Tennessee Walking Horses”; beautiful to watch with impeccable timing and proud strutters while Stock Cars are wild, untamed bucking broncos.

Ride'm Cowboy!

Answer 3

Nonatheletic? HA HA HA! NASCAR is one of the most atheletic sports in the world. Imagine jumping into a car and driving in it for 4 hours...when it's an average of 130 degrees in the car. The only reason you think it's boring is because you don't REALLY know what's going on with the cars, inside the cars, and with the drivers.

As for a sport centered around rednecks, you really need to do some research before you say these kinds of things. Not only is it one of the fastest growing sports in America, but it also has millions of it's fans in the northern part of the country.

Answer 4

Thats an ignorant way of looking at it. You need to learn alot more than about the sport before making a opinion like that. NASCAR may have its origins in the south, but today its 2nd most watched sport in America behind the NFL, with fans all across this great country from all walks of life. And the people who build the cars have extensive engineering knowledge, and the drivers raced many different forms of cars before reaching this level. And those cars are not easy to drive like the family sedan. It takes alot of talent to control a race car, and with the conditions they race in (140 degree cockpits, 2-3g loads in the corners, very few breaks) drivers need a high level of fitness and endurance. And most pit crew member are athletes from different sports who now use their skills in servicing the car. I bet you couldnt barely lift a mounted stock car tire, let alone run it over a wall to the car and slam it over the lugs on one shot.

Just because it takes a different skill set to compete in racing, doesnt mean its not a sport. Just like different athletic skills are required to play football then hockey, baseball then basketball, or swimming then wrestiling, racing takes a different set of skills to be competitive and those who possess and hone those skills the best are the ones who are successful.

And as the famous quote goes there are only three real sports; bull fighting, rock climbing, and motorsports. Everything else is just a game.

Answer 5

This answer is not like the others still I like to watch the NASCAR races, you have have seen races in Europe much different
I race my Fiat on a road racing track 2 1/2 mile track turns all around shifting turning it is great.
I have a ride on the oval track so I like it also But the Fiat is more fun because I am up against my times without a group
pushing me around. the oval takes more mental than I ever though possible...
Another difference the oval more people watch and yell
road it is me the wind the dirt at times and getting to go as fast as I can without getting a ticket

Answer 6

The point is the same of basketball, all they do is throw a ball into two separate hoops. It's not so much the actual racing, it's what's involved in the racing, the car, engines, brakes, the scientific aspect of how everything works together. There is a comradeship of people who watch and go to Nascar races, that you don't get at a basketball game, or a golf game. To each their own!

Answer 7

Why refer to NASCAR fans as rednecks? Is it because they're majority caucasian? If they were primarily made up of people of other races, would you still call them rednecks? Unlikely. How come it's okay to say redneck, which by definition is a racial slur, but it's not okay to say other racial slurs? The double standard is disgusting.

BTW, we also have road course races here in the USA, too, ya know (not just in Europe). Ever heard of the American LeMans series? How about Grand-Am? ... Champ Car? I could go on...

And also, the "point" of NASCAR racing is just that... TO RACE (and also for entertainment, of course)!

Answer 8

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was founded by William HG France in 1948. Officially incorporated on February 21, its purpose is to organize and promote the sport of stock car racing on sanctioned high-speed oval circuits and a few road courses.

Answer 9

just going in a circle over and over? whereas most sports are running back and forth with a ball over and over. Non athletic sport? i thought that was golf? centered around rednecks? might want to do some demographics on Nascar fans before you make such a moronic stereotype again. Its almost as moronic as saying all basketball fans come from the inner city ghetto's.

Answer 10

There is no sport or skill in invovled. As long as you can drive a manual and turn left, occassionally right, you can be a star in NASCAR. The only reason people are better than others in the races is because some cars are faster than others, and thats the only reason. People need to admit that NASCAR is boring, except for the crashes, but i can just watch shows about car crashes in NASCAR. Trust me, the racing events in Europe and other places around the world are much better than NASCAR. People need to stop thinking that much skill is invovled with NASCAR.