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

porsche986spyder · 06-05-2007, 01:49 PM

Now I know that these spoilers have their purpose at high speeds and on the race tracks, but now all the rice cars out there are going to say, I TOLD YOU SO! This looks stupid, I.M.O. Starting next race season all of the NASCAR vehicles will look this way. Did they realy need to go this route? Was the areodynamics really so limited to the original design of the car? Tell me what you think.

Chills · 06-05-2007, 01:57 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, 02:02 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, 02:17 PM

Chills · 06-05-2007, 02:19 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, 02:53 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, 03:02 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.

kelly1005 · 06-07-2007, 03:30 PM

I'm not a NASCAR fan at all, but my wife is totally into it (she drags me to the race at Sears Point every year). She's not a fan of their 'car of tomorrow', but I think it's just because it's ugly to her.

She admits it's not the most exciting racing in the world, but she's in it for the entertainment value. It's just a big soap opera, and she does watch all the commercials.

Ronzi · 06-07-2007, 05:30 PM

Frankly, I don't know if there IS an exciting racing series anymore.
F1 hasn't been exciting since the FISA/FOCA political struggle 25 years ago. We don't even have Schumi to kick around, so it's a dreary parade regardless of which colorless robot wins.
The only thing I can figure out about NASCARs Car of Tomorrow is that Mike Helton got tired of listening to Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge ******************** about the rules favoring whichever one of them had a little run of luck, so he made ONE car that everybody had to use, so no more arguing, and no more playing with spoiler height a 32nd of an inch at a time.
The next thing on the horizon is a spec engine that everybody has to use, put whatever sticker you want on the valve cover, so everybody's equal, and no whining about cylinder heads.
Fine with me as that will kill the whole redneck bull**************** series.
Is it football season yet?

rebeltown · 06-07-2007, 11:38 PM

What bugs me most about NASCAR is the number of and reasons for the the Yellow flags... NASCAR officials throw "yellows" for crashes, bumped walls, spins-even if there is no contact, debris on the track or not, drizzle, rain, to get someone a lap down back on the lead lap, to get the pack back closer together, or any reason that they deem necessary. And the length of the "yellow" is long enough to make you switch channels and forget to go back to watch the finish! It is one of the only racing series NOT to race in the rain. Even motorcycles race in the rain!!! I'll watch only if there is nothing else on and nothing else to do...