Someone explain NASCAR to me.

[chuckywang]

What's the difference between the Nextel Cup series, the Busch series, the Craftsmen Series?
How does the owner/car maker play into the standings?
Do they get different cars for each race?

 

[Atomicus]

is there a point to going in circles/ellipsoids? wasting gas? rubber? precious land?

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
What's the difference between the Nextel Cup series, the Busch series, the Craftsmen Series?
How does the owner/car maker play into the standings?
Do they get different cars for each race?

Craftsmen Series are trucks. The Busch Series, I believe, are shorter races than the Nextel races.

 

[her209]

Ask this guy.

 

[oneshot47]

10 Start Engines
20 Drive in circles
30 Goto 20

 

[coolred]

Whats the differance between double A, triple A and major leauge basball? Its basically the same with nascar, they actually have several differant series which you can progress up through.

 

[Schadenfroh]

the point of it is

you might get to see a crash

compair it to the chariot races of ancient rome

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: digitalsm

Originally posted by: chuckywang
What's the difference between the Nextel Cup series, the Busch series, the Craftsmen Series?
How does the owner/car maker play into the standings?
Do they get different cars for each race?

Craftsmen Series are trucks. The Busch Series, I believe, are shorter races than the Nextel races.

Do the same drivers that drive in the Nextel races also drive the Busch series races?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

drive fast, turn left

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
drive fast, turn left

Beat me to it.
;(

 

[zbalat]

Originally posted by: oneshot47
10 Start Engines
20 Drive in circles
30 Goto 20

You almost nailed it. It should be:

10 Start Engines
20 Turn left
30 GOTO 10

 

[BRObedoza]

Originally posted by: her209
Ask this guy.

hahah wtf

 

[V00D00]

nascar is gay.

does it really have anything to do with the guy driving? couldn't some guy with a bigger/better engine just go in there and kick everyone's ass?

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: oneshot47
10 Start Engines
20 Drive in circles
30 Goto 20

Wow, old school. Lemme modernize that for you.

Hicks.StartEngines();
while(1)
{
Hicks.DriveInCircles();
}

 

[VWhed]

I love circle track racing, but I prefer mine in the dirt..... Check out the World of Outlaws (Sprint Cars) sometime if you ever get the chance. ASSCAR is teh sux.

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: V00D00
couldn't some guy with a bigger/better engine just go in there and kick everyone's ass?

Umm, no..that's all regulated.

 

[Evadman]

Go fast, turn left.

 

[Narse]

For all you guys that say go fast and turn left I would like to see you do it

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: digitalsm

Originally posted by: chuckywang
What's the difference between the Nextel Cup series, the Busch series, the Craftsmen Series?
How does the owner/car maker play into the standings?
Do they get different cars for each race?

Craftsmen Series are trucks. The Busch Series, I believe, are shorter races than the Nextel races.

Do the same drivers that drive in the Nextel races also drive the Busch series races?

They can and people in the lower levels can drive in the Nextel races if somebody sticks them in a car and they can quallify.

What I don't understand is why people that don't like Nascar feel so compelled to post about how much they hate it in every thread about it. I never see this crap in baseball threads.

 

[Wahsapa]

nascar is like football... only americans like it. the rest of the world likes real racing(you know... drivers with driving skill and such)

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Narse
For all you guys that say go fast and turn left I would like to see you do it

#1 It wasn't meant as a criticism you dork 😛

#2 Ok. Whatever you say.

141.2 MPH average lap speed @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Next question?

 

[Narse]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Narse
For all you guys that say go fast and turn left I would like to see you do it

#1 It wasn't meant as a criticism you dork 😛

#2 Ok. Whatever you say.

141.2 MPH average lap speed @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Next question?

I wasn't directing it at you, and 141 is not that fast, NNC runs 190. I have also done the driving experiance, loved it, I just wanted to race, but alas they would not let us

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Narse
I wasn't directing it at you, and 141 is not that fast, NNC runs 190. I have also done the driving experiance, loved it, I just wanted to race, but alas they would not let us

I know. 141 was max at vegas. I even had my window net blow out at speed. Yay.

 

[Narse]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Narse
I wasn't directing it at you, and 141 is not that fast, NNC runs 190. I have also done the driving experiance, loved it, I just wanted to race, but alas they would not let us

I know. 144 was max at vegas. I even had my window net blow out at speed. Yay.

I was in atlanta, 140 was my top, but the car seemed to just hug the turns, no feeling of loose ot tight, I loved it but I would rather get in an unrestricted car

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Narse
141 is the max for the car you were in, as I said I have done it as well, but I was in atlanta, 140 was my top, but the car seemed to just hug the turns, no feeling of loose ot tight, I loved it but I would rather get in an unrestricted car

My car certainly was not limited in any way besides my right foot. I had to stay a certain distance from the instructors car in front of me (2-3 car lengths), and if I passed him I would have been tossed. I missed a shift (2-3 IIRC) when accelerating on the back strech from the pit, and my instructor didn't notice. I punched the car though turn 3 & 4 to catch up. I shifted out of 3rd into 4th when the tach was straight up (which was about 7200k, it was rotated in the dash) and got all the way to ~6800 in 4th when I caught up to him on the front straight.

I got b!tched at majorly, because you were supposed to keep it under 5k at all times. (It was their own fault for not having a damn radio, so I could tell him to hold up because I fvcked up and missed a shift. The throw from 3-4 had to be a good 18 inches.) The highest I ever got the tach after that was almost exactly at 5k for the lap, which was 141.29 IIRC.

The car was (as far as I could see) unrestricted, and could probably do mid 170 laps without issue.