The new NASCAR commercial is awesome!

[97prizm]

Hey, whatever puts eyes on the tube, and bums in the seats!
I'm more of an F1 fan, partially because of the crazy levels of engineering details involved, but I try to watch the smashcar, ahem, nascar road races when I can.

That's why I like the IMSA series, four classes simultaneously. I wonder if the France family could do a spinoff "NASSUV" National Association of SUV racing" now that so few manufacturers have sedans any longer.

 

[ammolab]

NASCAR super speedway races: Am I the only one who tapes them just to fast forward through all the traffic jam freeway driving and watch the wrecks?

Come on, I can’t be the only one one.

 

[IndyIan]

NASCAR super speedway races: Am I the only one who tapes them just to fast forward through all the traffic jam freeway driving and watch the wrecks?

Come on, I can’t be the only one one.

You can just go to the NASCAR site and watch the "highlights"... I did for the Daytona 500 and it was basically just the last lap or 2 before the end of each of the stages.
https://www.nascar.com/videos/franc...inal-laps-lead-to-epic-finish-in-daytona-500/
2 minutes? I imagine they could put together quite a few epic saves from the drivers view in a race that long, but those aren't highlights I guess.

 

[Pablo]

Kind of a sad day….well let’s see how F1 is this year.

I prefer open wheel street circuit racing but absolutely have watched some good roundy round stock car racin

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

NASCAR super speedway races: Am I the only one who tapes them just to fast forward through all the traffic jam freeway driving and watch the wrecks?

Come on, I can’t be the only one one.

LoL. I did that for a long time if we were busy or out on race days. I especially like to do that with the NFL games. One can watch the over 4 hour taped game after in less than an hour by zooming past the aggravating +annoying same brain dead commercials they run over and over. Some commercials are so very bad lately one can watch and still not even realize "what they hey? What are they selling here?"

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Kind of a sad day….well let’s see how F1 is this year.

I prefer open wheel street circuit racing but absolutely have watched some good roundy round stock car racin

I like INDY racing too. I usually over dose myself on Memorial Day weekend with racing on that Sunday.
They run & televise the Indy 500 and then later , same day NASCAR runs the Coca Cola 600 from Charlotte motor speedway.
From what I understand , for some reason this year NASCAR has not committed to the exact (been same always for years) date yet for running of the Charlotte 600 race. Strange?

 

[CDNozzle]

Although F1 has more overall engineering involved, there's still ample engineering present in NASCAR since teams have to tune the engine/suspension per track. Also NASCAR can have 20 lead changes per lap while F1 can have the same leader for much of the race. It's awesome watching SVG mop the floor on road courses (which is what he's used to) but struggle on the superspeedways (since he intuitively wants to take the apex line).

Either way, both leagues are pricing their fans out (actually, isn't that true for all sports that aren't minor leagues?).

But IMO the NASCAR stage cautions have got to go since the driver's goal isn't to win races, it's to win stages for points.

 

[gman2304]

Real race car drivers turn left…





and right………

 

[loneryder]

Great commercial but TBD on the reality of it. I believe NASCAR has lost several fans recently with the format of their races, points system and next gen car with the single lugnut and sequential gearbox. I'm also concerned about the V8 engines as they try to recruit other manufacturers.

I'd love to see the old school transmissions with 5 lugnuts per wheel and more of an ABC body style. I guess more like the short track Super Latemodels.

It doesn’t matter how many races you win. You just have to get enough points to get into the playoffs then luck takes over. Luck can be boring to watch.

 

[hemitom]

I was a Fan in the 70's and early 80's when it was an all out war to the finish not so much now !
I find its groups of cars running in a circle for hours on end .
I guess that's the parody nascar wants ??

 

[burbguy82]

NASCAR and F1 are two different things, entirely. They should stay that way. Letting Toyota in was a mistake.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

I was a Fan in the 70's and early 80's when it was an all out war to the finish not so much now !
I find its groups of cars running in a circle for hours on end .
I guess that's the parody nascar wants ??

Oh yeah. Even in the early to mid 90s when I was taking my sons to the tracks. Man oh man they had some high flying and exciting races and finishes. I recall a late night race when Davey Allison and Kyle Petty crashed each other on the last few yards to the Checkered flag and I think it was Davy Allison who spun out - Kyle too but Davey ended up the winner crossing the line unconscious in the car. Rusty Wallace and Ernie Ervin contributed to many edge of your seat wild shoot out finishes going door to door. NASCAR today to me is not even a ghost of its former self. I have lost nearly all interest in it with all those silly segments and rules changes.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

I want no one hurt and it is great they have learned / installed and made the sport so much safer these days. This is the NASCAR I grew up watching: I will never forget STP ran this as a commercial and stated "Richard The King Petty exploring the outer limits of STP products!"

 

[hemitom]

Oh yeah. Even in the early to mid 90s when I was taking my sons to the tracks. Man oh man they had some high flying and exciting races and finishes. I recall a late night race when Davey Allison and Kyle Petty crashed each other on the last few yards to the Checkered flag and I think it was Davy Allison who spun out - Kyle too but Davey ended up the winner crossing the line unconscious in the car. Rusty Wallace and Ernie Ervin contributed to many edge of your seat wild shoot out finishes going door to door. NASCAR today to me is not even a ghost of its former self. I have lost nearly all interest in it with all those silly segments and rules changes.

Can't imagine what it must have been like to try and drive one of those cars when they started breaking 200mph in late to early 60's and 70's it had to be physically and mentally exhausting to hang on for your life for five hundred miles with little to no safety equipment when thing went south . Those guys were real drivers and really nuts ! god bless them they were the real trail breakers of the sport.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Can't imagine what it must have been like to try and drive one of those cars when they started breaking 200mph in late to early 60's and 70's it had to be physically and mentally exhausting to hang on for your life for five hundred miles with little to no safety equipment when thing went south . Those guys were real drivers and really nuts ! god bless them they were the real trail breakers of the sport.

It did get out of control and Big Bill France had to step in and stop it before Ford and Mopar killed some people. When they invented the Plymouth Superbird and and Dodge Daytona wing cars out of Chargers that set off Ford/Mercury into the race and they turned Torino bodies into Ford Talladega Torino with the slopped nose. Mercury followed up with the Cyclone and Cyclone Spoilers. General Motors not to be outdone created the last Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 that won so many races in 76 and 77 they were banned and the restrictor plate engines were created to slow them down. NASCAR has long since been no longer what once was stock car racing. For safeties sake because they were gonna end up with cars flying into the stands.

 

[Buckshot6]

Oh yeah. Even in the early to mid 90s when I was taking my sons to the tracks. Man oh man they had some high flying and exciting races and finishes. I recall a late night race when Davey Allison and Kyle Petty crashed each other on the last few yards to the Checkered flag and I think it was Davy Allison who spun out - Kyle too but Davey ended up the winner crossing the line unconscious in the car. Rusty Wallace and Ernie Ervin contributed to many edge of your seat wild shoot out finishes going door to door. NASCAR today to me is not even a ghost of its former self. I have lost nearly all interest in it with all those silly segments and rules changes.

Sammy, my wife and I were at that night race-May 16, 1992 in Charlotte, NC. It was called "The Winston", named after the series sponsor R.J. Reynolds tobacco company's Winston cigarettes. What a show! I'm looking at a 3' x 5' color picture on my wall of the start of this race as I type this. This race was the very first all star race that was held at night, and these drivers surely didn't disappoint us fans. If I remember correctly, Davey Allison ended up on his top with sparks flying when he went across the finish line, and it took the race officials better than 20 min. to decide who, between Kyle and Davey won the race! We had just recently moved from Flagstaff, Az. to Charlotte, NC. to be in the center of Winston cup racing so we could go to a bunch of Cup races, [and we sure did!]
That's back when stock car racing was a lot better- none of the idiotic "stage" racing and changing the rules every other race! And nowadays, they don't dare put somebody in the wall, or, God forbid, say anything to hurt somebody's "feelings"
Thanks for reminding me about a great time in our lives back then!
Bill

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Can't imagine what it must have been like to try and drive one of those cars when they started breaking 200mph in late to early 60's and 70's it had to be physically and mentally exhausting to hang on for your life for five hundred miles with little to no safety equipment when thing went south . Those guys were real drivers and really nuts ! god bless them they were the real trail breakers of the sport.

I recall us standing at the bottom of the stands at Atlanta Motor Speedway and looking straight ahead as the train of cars came by at full speed. It was wild as all one could see was a smear of color go past they were moving so fast. I recall Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty and Dale E talking on interviews about what happens to one in the car as the speed passes 110 to 120 mph. How they said one could start to feel the effects on your body in the turns and it took a while for your eye sight to adjust to it and eventually you were just on cruise and it started to feel normal UNTIL you have to swerved or smash brakes! YIKES....

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Sammy, my wife and I were at that night race-May 16, 1992 in Charlotte, NC. It was called "The Winston", named after the series sponsor R.J. Reynolds tobacco company's Winston cigarettes. What a show! I'm looking at a 3' x 5' color picture on my wall of the start of this race as I type this. This race was the very first all star race that was held at night, and these drivers surely didn't disappoint us fans. If I remember correctly, Davey Allison ended up on his top with sparks flying when he went across the finish line, and it took the race officials better than 20 min. to decide who, between Kyle and Davey won the race! We had just recently moved from Flagstaff, Az. to Charlotte, NC. to be in the center of Winston cup racing so we could go to a bunch of Cup races, [and we sure did!]
That's back when stock car racing was a lot better- none of the idiotic "stage" racing and changing the rules every other race! And nowadays, they don't dare put somebody in the wall, or, God forbid, say anything to hurt somebody's "feelings"
Thanks for reminding me about a great time in our lives back then!
Bill

WoW. That must have been an amazing night. I recall how big a deal it was to start the night racing stuff on tv back then. Neil Bonnet had a Sunday morning NASCAR themed talk show on CMT I really liked back then before the pull of getting back on the track took him....

As a fan from as young as I can remember , before any network would even broadcast a NASCAR race, I go way back. I grew up a fan of the Alabama gang, Junior Johnson, David Pearson, the Pettys and several of the old times. Cale Yarborough too (won two back to back Championships) in one of my favorite Chevelle Type S3s that I owned (3) of from 1976 to 2019.

I just let my last one (my avatar) go in 2019 due to health issues. It had been sitting under the cover in my back yard shop for over 5 years. Funny. I was all concerned and told the buyer all kind of things he should do and check before running it cause he winched it on to a trailer and bought it with out even knowing it ran. That one was a complete 100% rebuilt show car I owned for about 14 years. When he drove off he had the back seat full of boxes of trophies, plaques and even magazines it had been in over the years before and after I took ownership of that one. All my concern was for nothing. The guy put a set of new tires on it. Dropped and dumped the fuel tank and was driving it and even sent me videos on the road before he even had owned it a week! LoL I know he was happy.