What is the point of NASCAR?
 

I just wanted to ask; whats the point of the NASCAR racing? The cars just go around a track a few hundred times, and it seems redundent to me. Why not just like 10 laps?

Can someone explain NASCAR racing to me? Mabey im just not seeing something. I occasionally watch minutes for the crashes but I dont see how ppl watch it for a few hours like it was football.

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

i feel the same way....boring.

except for the crashes :D

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

Racing for points and positions.
try this link for a brief explanation.
http://mwww.nascar.com/kyn/nascar_101/

History of NASCAR
http://mwww.nascar.com/kyn/history/

Saying you watch it for just the crashes would get you beat up quick around here.
Do you also watch football to see people get injured?
But for the most part the cars are REALLY safe, but there is always a chance of someone dying in a race and thats the risk they take.

As for it being boring,
F1 is boring to me but to each his own I say.
Some people think watching golf is not boring, so it takes all kinds, eh.

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

The fact is the people who watch nascar are relaly watching for the crashes, and the actual fans of the racing must have stared into the sun one too many times.

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

Thank you for proving my point that you, and lots of people don,t have a clue.
Good try at the insult tho ;)
Oh and shouldn't this be in the sports section?
Or should I expect another failed attempt at an insult that NASCAR is not a sport?

If you are looking for crashes, make sure to tune in this Sunday for the Daytona 500. there will be crashes.

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

It was no insult, anyone who watches nascar for the "points" are crazy, sitting for hours watching cars loop around in circles. And about the crashes, do people not slow down to look at crash scenes?

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

Still proving my point, cool.
How connected to the NASCAR community are you to make these assumptions?
Anyway, with your opinions aside, which you are entitled to...
Yeah of course people watch the crashes when it happens, but race fans do not watch a race in the hopes of watching their favorate driver crash and get hospitalized. I know you are smarter than that.
Are the crashes cool to watch? hell yeah, especially when nobody gets hurt.

Now crashes at short tracks like Bristol are very fun, the track is so small and everyone is fighting for realestate and someone is bound to be shoved in the wall. Cars are not going as fast as say, Talladega or Daytona where a crash could mean death.

Most old school race fans have engines and racing in their blood, like me.
I raced go-karts as a kid and dirt track modifieds. Hobby got too expensive.
I did not have the financing to run the big leages.

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I agree Nite, NASCAR seems way too boring to just watch 50 cars going in circles for 4 hours.

I don't even watch NASCAR (OMG!!! a floridian who doesn't watch NASCAR, oh god!) and when i did, it was only for the crashes....Although i must say the Dale Earnhardt thing was tragic.

To me racing should be different looking cars on curcuits, not the same looking cars on an oval. Yes NASCAR has road-courses, but only two or three. I'll stick to watching my F1, my ALMS, and the occasional Touring Car or Rally event. :)

Re: What is the point of NASCAR?
 

What is so exciting about F1 to you?
I will admit an F1 crash is fun to watch :)
Those things come apart.

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Well, i guess next year F1 won't be nearly as good as it once was but i digress from that topic....

F1 has some of the best drivers racing in races (on real race courses) that require skill and technique. The drivers don't just race around an oval and turn the wheel right all the time. F1 also is liked and heard of around the world and every race shows other cultures, lives, fans, and auras. NASCAR is a bunch of rednecks driving the same looking cars around an oval track, the fans are almost all ridiculously patriotic redneck Americans. Generally the Fan base of NASCAR has never heard of F1, and tournaments like the Japan GT championship and the Le Mans 24 hours.

I don't wish to go on because this is NOT in the melee and i don't feel like getting into a flame war.:lookaround: