Why NASCAR is getting boring

[birddog]

Just another example of trying to make something that's inheritly dangerous and make it safe. It's car racing for damn sake. If they want it to be safe they should go get macaroni and cotton balls and just have arts and crafts time.

[Zundfolge]

I've watched NASCAR for more than 30 years, but i just can't stand the announcers these days.

I hear this complaint about a lot of televised sports these days.

But what with all the on screen data you can really just hit mute and turn some music on.

Would be nice if since the video stream is digital now that you could isolate audio tracks and shut them off (so kill the color commentators but keep the track noise).

[funkymonkey1111]

I hear this complaint about a lot of televised sports these days.

But what with all the on screen data you can really just hit mute and turn some music on.

Would be nice if since the video stream is digital now that you could isolate audio tracks and shut them off (so kill the color commentators but keep the track noise).

three words: boogity, boogity, boogity....

i used to try and listen to the radio broadcasts and watch the TV but they were never synced. i just grin and bear it for the most part. fox also has the most ridiculous camera angles on the racing, too--for instance the asphalt level fixed camera. it was neat--once. surprisingly, it's really hard to see what's going on at 1/4" off the ground looking up a tires driving over a camera

[TAR31]

Nascar has gotten more and more boring over the last 10-15 years.

Real racing right here in CO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGYB2wQy9Es

[Ah Pook]

Real racing right here in CO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGYB2wQy9Es

Looks like my drive home.

[spyder]

...
Favorite car manufacturer (ish) on my favorite track? Yes please:

I would love to see what Dale Jr. or any of those other guys could do in their race cars against that RUF daily driver... That would be entertaining...

[XC700116]

With a road track setup stock car, it would probably be entertaining, for sure, but not even remotely competitive because the cars are just two completely different beasts.

But if you took say the top 20 drivers in Nascar and put them in equal cars with those of the road race world along with a little getting used to the car time and I think most would be shocked at the results. Many of the top drivers in Nascar have a pretty diverse background.

Tony Stewart for instance is one of those guys that can get in just about anything with a motor and a steering wheel and be competitive if not dominant.

Championships begat championships for Stewart, as the Columbus, Ind.-native came to NASCAR in 1999 by way of the IRL IndyCar Series, where he was the series champion in 1997. And before he made his mark in Indy cars, Stewart made a name for himself in the rough-and-tumble world of the United States Auto Club (USAC). He has four USAC championships, including what at the time was an unprecedented win of USAC’s “Triple Crown.”
USAC’s top-three national touring divisions are Midget, Sprint and Silver Crown. After winning the Midget title in 1994 and finishing 10th and sixth in the Sprint and Silver Crown divisions, respectively, Stewart went out and set a new standard of excellence in 1995 by winning all three divisions. No driver had ever won the Sprint, Midget and Silver Crown championships – divisions that run three very different types of racecars which compete on both asphalt and dirt – in a single season until Stewart came along.
A hint of Stewart’s impending success could be seen when he was still a youngster, for in 1980 at age eight, Stewart had won his first championship – a 4-cycle rookie junior class championship at the Columbus Fairgrounds. Two more karting championships followed, but this time on a national level – the 1983 International Karting Federation Grand National championship and the 1987 World Karting Association National championship.

[spyder]

You must drive a volvo...

[MrPrena]

MONZA circuit in Italy.

[MrPrena]

How about Formula1?
Monaco GP is always exciting.