Nascar

I'm with Rat on this one. If you want to see exciting production car racing you need to watch the Oz V8 Supercar series. Here are a few pics.
 
Rat and gajinoz,
Sorry, but try telling that to the American public. It is the most followed/most watched spectator sport in the U.S.A. Not to mention the most dedicated and loyal fans.
 
Afraid any racing other than NASCAR sings me a lullaby . I have watched it evolve from almost factory fresh automobiles to the sleek,safer machines of today.In our world it is # 1 but I am gentleman enough to not knock other forms of racing.
In the South if you don't like stockcar racing people give you questionong looks as if the lace on your underwear is showing.


Uncle [58 years experience ] Alan :grumpy: ;)
 
wsyocum said:
Rat and gajinoz,
Sorry, but try telling that to the American public. It is the most followed/most watched spectator sport in the U.S.A. Not to mention the most dedicated and loyal fans.
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Rat Finkenstein said:
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Rat,
I'm sure you have a point, but I don't see quite what it is.
I could post pictures of every idiot who attends a major sporting event and they would be 10X worse than this guy who is guilty of nothing more than having a hairy back and being fanatical about Dale Earnhardt.
BTW, that "redneck" probably paid $300 or more for those Bristol seats and that's just for one of 36 races.
Let's see...an average of more than 125,000 live spectators per event...plans for a NASCAR track on Staten Island...sponsorship from lots of the companies in the Fortune 500...hmmm, someone finds it interesting.
Sorry bud, but people love it!
 
gajinoz said:
I'm with Rat on this one. If you want to see exciting production car racing you need to watch the Oz V8 Supercar series. Here are a few pics.
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Beditme so didn't read each & every particular . Who makes them ? What type engines & chassis ?
Guess why we are so rabid is the fact that there are racing families. We have the Pettys, Allisons,Bakers & some of the more recent drivers have sons that are starting at other levels .Lee petty was driving when I first became interested. In the early '60's I watched Richard race on a dirt track . His mom & dad [Lee] sat behind me & Kyle was running around in short pants . Kyle began racing & in recent years his son Adam began & showed great promise but was killed on a Northern short track. I met Ralph Earnhardt when Dale was a subteen . Then along comes Dale jr. that won today's race ,his first this year.
I just realized that this makes us a big happy family of sorts,eh ?
Hopefully I will be able to find your kind of racing on the telly. We have 188 chanels which is a bit of overkill.

Uncle Alan :)
 
leatherbird said:
Searched couldn't find thread for today so..................SUPER RACE!1,2,3. JR.,Kenseth,Johnson.
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And don't forget Stewart in 5th. I'm a Stewart fan to the dismay of most of my friends who are either Dale Jr. or Pretty Boy Gordon fans.

I drove past the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth this week. What a huge and unbelievable facility. The fact that racetracks like that are being constructed speaks volumes about fan support. There are two Nascar Nextel races there each year with something like 250,000 fans in the stands each time.
 
uncle Alan said:
Beditme so didn't read each & every particular . Who makes them ? What type engines & chassis ?
Guess why we are so rabid is the fact that there are racing families. We have the Pettys, Allisons,Bakers & some of the more recent drivers have sons that are starting at other levels .Lee petty was driving when I first became interested. In the early '60's I watched Richard race on a dirt track . His mom & dad [Lee] sat behind me & Kyle was running around in short pants . Kyle began racing & in recent years his son Adam began & showed great promise but was killed on a Northern short track. I met Ralph Earnhardt when Dale was a subteen . Then along comes Dale jr. that won today's race ,his first this year.
I just realized that this makes us a big happy family of sorts,eh ?
Hopefully I will be able to find your kind of racing on the telly. We have 188 chanels which is a bit of overkill.

Uncle Alan :)
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Hmm... lots of questions ....

Basically V8 supercars are either Holden, (an Australian manufacturer), or the Australian version of Ford. I doubt that you have either type of car in the US although you might have some sort of equivalent. The engines are, as the name suggests, 5.0 litre V8 and the body is a highly modified version of the "family car" road version.

This type of racing is probably the Oz equivalent of your NASCAR in that it has a large following and family members tend to follow on from their fathers as drivers.

One of the major differences is that we race them on circuits similar to say an F1 GP circuit rather than the oval(ish) tracks that NASCAR race on. The cars, while having a similar power output, are I think somewhat lighter.

The V8 Supercar series is being exported to Asia and it is also in New Zealand.
 
gajinoz,That's wonderful.Thank you and Rat both for contributing to this NASCAR thread.
 
It was good to see Jr win his first race of the year. Looks like Steve Hmiel is doing a good job getting all of DEI's resources behind the 8 team.

It was also good to see Kenseth and Tony Stewart have good runs. Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson I could care less about. Matter of fact, it is good to see Gordon struggling this year. A good reality check for him and his team.
 
gajinoz said:
Hmm... lots of questions ....

Basically V8 supercars are either Holden, (an Australian manufacturer), or the Australian version of Ford. I doubt that you have either type of car in the US although you might have some sort of equivalent. The engines are, as the name suggests, 5.0 litre V8 and the body is a highly modified version of the "family car" road version.

This type of racing is probably the Oz equivalent of your NASCAR in that it has a large following and family members tend to follow on from their fathers as drivers.

One of the major differences is that we race them on circuits similar to say an F1 GP circuit rather than the oval(ish) tracks that NASCAR race on. The cars, while having a similar power output, are I think somewhat lighter.

The V8 Supercar series is being exported to Asia and it is also in New Zealand.
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gajinoz,
Sounds quite similiar to our NASCAR series other than the predominance of road courses. I think I would find it quite interesting racing if viewing was available here in the U.S., as I actually enjoy some occasional road course racing amongst the "stock car" boys.
Looks as though you Aussies and us Yanks continue to share commonalities.
 
If your cable provider offers the SpeedChannel keep an eye on their schedule. They televised several V-8 Supercar races last year (tape delayed, of course).

Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon are both very good racecar drivers. Personally I prefer Gordon though, but only because he isn't an unrepentant douchebag. ;)

(Standing by for red chicklets :D )
 
oh well Bronco...looks like we are just going to be at odds tonight. :cool:
I'm a former Elliott fan, but as he has retired I find my self leaning more and more towards "Smoke"...a true wheel man who tells it like it is, sucks up to no one and hates all the corporate hullabaloo. I can't blame him, but he does have to realize who is really writing his paychecks.
I would think one would have to admit he's done a pretty decent job at self-control this year and very quietly is 3rd in points, only 140 or so points behind.
IMO, todays race was, head and shoulders above the rest, the best race of the year.
 
Amen Bronco,
Million Dollar Bill was the man. Just met him down here in Bainbridge about 6 weeks ago...courtesy of the local Coca-Cola distributor. Great guy, true gentleman, great race car driver and the last Georgia native to wheel it in NASCAR 'Cup'...until Reed Sorenson next year.
Gonna get up to the Dawsonville pool hall one of these years...
 
Cool gajinoz,
Differences I see right off the bat are a spoiler and the antennae(s).
Are the different manufacturers requiured to use their own variation of their power-plant?
What model Ford is that...production?
What do they sound like...a rumble...or a whine...?
 
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