NSCR: Tell me about racing
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Never really followed racing until my wife bought me a few laps in a car at Talladega. Running at 150+ is a rush.
Ive done the 2 or 3 lap ride along at Newton. I cant imagine how crazy Talladega would be.
Dude why did you post about racing in the sports forum, it should go in off topic.
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I've gotten into more this past year, but at times F1 can be really boring. For every crazy 3 wheeled finish at Silverstone and the craziness of the George Russell driving for Mercedes at Abu Dhabi there are more than a couple that are just parades.
That said, if you want to see social media done correctly for a racing team, check out the Mercedes F1 team on youtube. They do a really good job explaining what's going on and essentially do a 10 minute review of what happened after every race with one of their higher ups. Very informative.
A lot comes down to the tracks, unfortunately some of them just aren’t laid out for exciting racing.
They had an option for a ride-along. I was driving myself. It took a couple laps to feel comfortable. Even at 150, the pro drivers who were driving the ride-along cars would blow by me like I was going at granny speed.
the Formula 1 sub reddit would be a good place too start, lot's extremely avid fans on there. Also F1 is a lot more fun to watch than Nascar IMO.
My dad and his siblings got Grandpa the driving experience. Took him a few laps, but he loved it. Even wrecked a guy.
Open wheel racing and sports car racing is like that. They aerodynamics of the cars is way different than a stock car. You can take a corner like Eau Rogue in Belgium without lift off the loud pedal but when you get into dirty air behind another car you lose all your aerodynamics. That's why on most of those tracks you only see passes on 2 or 3 corners. The other thing when you're talking about F1 is the stupid amount of money involved with those cars. A years worth of engines is like $30 million where as a whole Indycar team is like $3 million for a year.
When open wheel is great it's absolutely fantastic, when it's not great it's like watching paint dry.
You know you're an open wheel geek when you know who Robin Miller is.
Guilty as charged. I stopped listening to Marshall Pruett's podcasts because he is way too close to the drivers and teams and comes off way too smug.
As someone stated earlier, this weekend is the Daytona 500.
Daytona and Talladega are both considered super speedways so those races are a bit different. The aerodynamic packages on the cars makes it so cars in a direct line together will go faster than a car by itself. This leads to what is called pack racing and eventually what is called "The Big One" because when one vehicle wrecks it collects a whole lot of cars.
Some drivers will spend the majority of the race near the back of the pack just to avoid the big one. You can do that at a superspeedway because if you get a group together to run in a single file line they can pick up a tremendous amount of momentum and move right to the front.
Daytona and Talladega are both considered super speedways so those races are a bit different. The aerodynamic packages on the cars makes it so cars in a direct line together will go faster than a car by itself. This leads to what is called pack racing and eventually what is called "The Big One" because when one vehicle wrecks it collects a whole lot of cars.
Some drivers will spend the majority of the race near the back of the pack just to avoid the big one. You can do that at a superspeedway because if you get a group together to run in a single file line they can pick up a tremendous amount of momentum and move right to the front.
Fortunately Waltrip retired from broadcasting so no more "Boogity, boogity, boogity boyz!!!"
