NASCAR's car of tomorrow...is everything we don't like.

[Perfectlap]

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]

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]

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]

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?

[unklekraker]

65 post and all of a sudden would leave comment like that

Originally Posted by unklekraker

65 post and all of a sudden would leave comment like that

Unkle, member PrOk has been on the Forum for over one and a half years...he just does not post much.

[unklekraker]

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Unkle, member PrOk has been on the Forum for over one and a half years...he just does not post much.

I see
I'm okay now...took my nap already

mah bad, prOk

[der Geist]

Quote:

"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."

Originally Posted by prOk

Originally Posted by Chills

Directing your comment at anyone in here specifically?

With the risk of being flamed here I have to say that prOk makes a very valid point here. I don't think he is directing this at anyone in particular but I have been following this board for quite a while and have seen quite a number of RICER this and HEE HAW that type of comments. It does exhibit a certain amount of close mindedness. A lot of the same people who bash others are the first to cry foul when the sacred Porshe marque is dissed. Personally I see nothing wrong with Japanese cars, drifting, oval or dirt track, dragstrips or NASCAR. Diversity is what makes up the world. Just because you don't care for it doesn't mean you have to bash it. Let's not forget that NASCAR racing is the largest spectator sport in this country with most of the events taking place in the south.

Besides everybody knows you watch NASCAR for the crashes.

[racer_d]

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.