NASCAR's car of tomorrow...is everything we don't like. - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Chills · 06-05-2007, 02:57 PM

Preface: I hate NASCAR. What is more boring that watching cars turn left?

As to that new wing if it helps then I can see them all doing it. NASCAR is incredibly competitive and every 0.001th of a second the teams can wring from their cars they will do.

Ricers can say "I told you so" but I'll be laughing at them and their dumbass wings until they reach NASCAR speeds.

porsche986spyder · 06-05-2007, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Chills

Preface: I hate NASCAR. What is more boring that watching cars turn left?

As to that new wing if it helps then I can see them all doing it. NASCAR is incredibly competitive and every 0.001th of a second the teams can wring from their cars they will do.

Ricers can say "I told you so" but I'll be laughing at them and their dumbass wings until they reach NASCAR speeds.

Good point. There are 2 races during the regular race season that use an actual road course instead of the boring oval. Just thought you may want to know that. And what about that front end splitter? I've been seeing those thing s on street cars for years.

djomlas · 06-05-2007, 03:17 PM

Chills · 06-05-2007, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by porsche986spyder

Good point. There are 2 races during the regular race season that use an actual road course instead of the boring oval. Just thought you may want to know that. And what about that front end splitter? I've been seeing those thing s on street cars for years.

Damn, didn't even notice the splitter. That is a weird lookin' front end. It is cool, however, that they can get it that close to the track surface. I bet it really improves the handling, keeping the car down.

Perfectlap · 06-05-2007, 03:53 PM

I'm going to my first Yee Haw race this weekend. One of the driver's and I have a friend in common he used to race against him in junior formulas.

The new car looks awful. I'll never understand why they still use NYC taxi cab wheels.
All other tin top racing series like DTM, BTCC, Grand Am, etc. use trick looking wheels...Really makes a huge difference. NASCAR gets a low tech rap and dem wheels aren't helping.

I saw the old car up close last year at a sponsorship event and its actually much smaller than it looks on TV. Lower too.

As far as the racing, I have been to many oval races and its maybe one of the most mind boggling things you will ever see up close. Completely lost on TV.
This is the most dangerous racing formula in the world when you look at the number of fatalities in the last five years.

steve00s · 06-05-2007, 04:02 PM

NASCAR is all about entertainment. Yes, there is real racing that goes on but they will modify the show to attract fans. Maybe they saw that their demographics were down with the rice crowd and figured the wing would allow more fans to identify with their product. I have been to several events and they are fun though once every couple of years is enough.

prOk · 06-05-2007, 04:09 PM

Funny how people with porsches cry the blues when people hate on their cars and those same people hate on someone elses taste in racing.

Chills · 06-05-2007, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by prOk

Funny how people with porsches cry the blues when people hate on their cars and those same people hate on someone elses taste in racing.

Directing your comment at anyone in here specifically?

racer_d · 06-05-2007, 04:11 PM

What drew me to watching Nascar in the 1980s and early 1990s was the drivers. Waltrip, Yarborough, Petty, Earnhardt, Kulwicki, Rudd, Allisons, Martin, Early Rusty Wallace etc. The cars became more homogenized and slowly too did the drivers. the "id llike to thank sponsers 1-50 .. and all the guys in the shop.. blah blah... Boring (in a homer simpson like voice)"

The more "restricted" and the tighter the screw on the driver, the less driver character has been seen. Except for maybe Tony Stewart, I can't think of a current Nascrap driver that speaks his mind (right or wrong)

In becoming full fledged "entertainment" and a demographic "nascar dads" I don't really watch anymore, unless nothing else is on.

The "nascar yellow" gets conveniently thrown. The lack of "technology". Although, i would put forth that even for a lack of "technology" in an F1 sense, they do a mighty good job of getting what they can from what they have.

The COT and its bland look, to me, should bother sponsors (GM, Ford, Toyota) more than anyone. The cars SO no longer resemble what manufacturers produce, you may as well just call it a "spec" series.