Nascar: I don't get it.

[wbks]

No one said anything about no skill, just that its boring as fuck. I'm sure theres a lot to golf, too, and probably fun to do, but its boring as shit to watch. Like NASCAR

[Swoop]

Just watching Nascar on TV. I don't get it. They just go around and around only making left hand corners, never braking, running at maximum revs without even changing speed, on a perfect track.

Did you know: That the right hand tyres are larger than the left hand tyres? Simply because of the going around in one direction all the time.

[Indiana_Jones]

NASCAR is pretty intense, doing 200MPH constantly and so close to one another etc.

Granted it can be a bit like "wow, they're going in a oval", but when you think about it, isn't most racing going around in a loop for a few laps?

-Indy

[discotex]

PS 2 does not allow for the many things that happen in real life racing.

No but PS3 does. Gran Turismo 5 will have NASCAR in it along with WRC. Fingers crossed for an xmas release

Linked to YouTube so you can watch in HD...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991WcoEPwb8&feature=fvst

[sil3nt]

No but PS3 does. Gran Turismo 5 will have NASCAR in it along with WRC. Fingers crossed for an xmas release

Linked to YouTube so you can watch in HD...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991WcoEPwb8&feature=fvst

And the physics will be just as shit as every other GT release

[discotex]

And the physics will be just as shit as every other GT release

How much have you played GT5 Prologue? The physics are great when using the Logitech wheels.

[puddy]

I find it OK. What I don't get is why it took you so long to work out how to use the indicators on ya bike! (sorry Bro, had to be said)

[peasea]

Philistines... Absolute philistines


do yourself a favor .. If you are ever in the states around Daytona, Talledega or Charlotte .. Buy a ticket.. Watch the race live and try not to be overwhelmed or put into the jitters from sensory overload ..


These guys are over 200 mph on the backstraight ...3 inches apart and trying to pass.. Daytona has a 33 degree bank.. You couldnt walk up it.. The pit stops are 5 lugnuts on 4 tires with manual race jacks and rattleguns and 2 20 gallon gas cans .. Pit crews are in as good a shape as the AllBlacks ( some NFL football players use their off season as pit crews just to keep in shape)

also .. Road america, Watkins Glenn, Chigagoland.. All NZV8 style road courses

best track is Bristol TN.. 1 mile hi banked oval.. 33 cars start .. 6 finish


not to mention the complete party atmosphere you get with 100 thousand drunk rednecks in a great mood.. a one day race means 2 days before and 1 day after pissup



rugby is 20 odd half naked metrosexuals feeling each other up for 80 minutes and chasing a pointy ball.. We used to call that game ' smear the queer'



yea .. Im a redneck .. So what?

What 'e said.
(What's wrong with burning crosses anyway?)

[Skyryder]

This is why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJ5jD6OJiE


Skyyrder

[sil3nt]

How much have you played GT5 Prologue? The physics are great when using the Logitech wheels.

Much better but far from great when you compare it with racing sims we have on the pc. But hey
well apparently i do but shhh

[Deano]

I 'get it'. And they do brake, accelrate, change speed as well so you're a little uninformed. With HP so close, it has to come down to driver skill and set up.

I quite enjoy a bit of Nascar on a rainy day. I find it very relaxing.

I also think maintaining that level of concentration for that long is pretty impressive.

My nana thinks bike racing is boring cause they just go round and round the track. Go nana's of the world eh lol

[P38]

Just watching Nascar on TV. I don't get it. They just go around and around only making left hand corners, never braking, running at maximum revs without even changing speed, on a perfect track.

I'm sure there must be some driver skill involved. But it just seems to be a race of who has the fastest top speed.

Boring.

Don't worry

Ya gotta be part redneck to understand it

[Dooly]

Credit to them.

Some of the drivers are in their 40s and fat and not the stereotype driver 'athletes'.

And to get those tanks which I think are over 3000lbs over 200mph with old tech, as in pushrod V8s with carb, yes carb, restrictors is very impressive.

[slowpoke]

I don't mind NASCAR, there's a lot more to it than you think. Sure they turn left all the time but it's just about always in a controlled drift at some crazy speed. Marcus Ambrose hasn't exactly set the world on fire since going over so it's obviously not easy.

Being trackside would be somethin' else I reckon. Huge packs of cars hammering past at maximum revs would be fuggin' impressive, like turn 1 in a V8 Supercar race repeated at every turn. The tech side is pretty interesting. On the face of it the machines are throwbacks to mechanical dark ages but they are developed to the Nth degree. Deliberately inducing valve float to get around maximum lift limitations on camshafts is no mean feat when your engine has to last 100's of miles at redline.

If you don't like NASCAR you have obviously got the volume too low....ya gotta play it LOUD!

[peasea]

I don't mind NASCAR, there's a lot more to it than you think.

If you don't like NASCAR you have obviously got the volume too low....ya gotta play it LOUD!

Like drag racing; there's more to it than meets the eye. So many people think going in a straight line is boring.