Video on why NASCAR is ‘Best motor-racing sport in the world’
October 27, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under Other Racing, Parc Fermé, SJ Skid
Hey, don’t attack the messenger (me!), I’m just reporting what I see out there.
On his Twitter account just a few minutes ago, Max Papis links to the following video as proof of NASCAR’s top spot on the motor racing ladder. Well, I’ll let you read Max’s tweet:
“look at this video , that is why #NASCAR is the Best motor-racing sport in the world http://bit.ly/UKLeD”
Now, I’m pretty sure I can speak for the team here at F1B that we like Max Papis. Good driver. Strong endurance racer. Great credentials across multiple series. And so I’m not really taking a shot at him, I just thought in the ongoing NASCAR vs. Formula 1 friendly battle this might get a few of you regulars a little hot under the collar.
The video is here.
Little bonus: Anyone watch “The Mentalist”? You’ll see a familiar face in the Shell commercial. And remember, Shell has Todd’s Seal of Approval.
Bigger bonus, by the way, that made me feel OK to post this: JPM’s included!
So, F1B community… time to wave the white flag and give NASCAR its due?
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I just don’t get NASCAR. I don’t understand how constantly turning left constitutes a race. A sprint, yes. Not a race. It’s just sofa king boring. I went to an IRL event at Texas Motor Speedway a couple years back, and left early. It’s that lame. Driving in a circle is not racing. It’s just not.
I’m from Texas. Aren’t I supposed to like this stuff? Oh, wait. I’m not a backwoods, inbred, hillbilly redneck.
I hope that is a joke because that was the lamest footage of any race I’ve seen. BORING.
I quoted his Tweet. Can’t tell you his motivation. I don’t get any sense of irony… and it would be the dog biting the hand that feeds it, more or less.
But we can find it funny.
So.. JPM bumping Jeff Gordon at a short track is why NASCAR is the “best motor-racing sport in the world?” This leaves me quite befuddled.
I must admit SJ. That video was a bit lame. Sorry, mate, but I think Max has taken one to many bump-n-runs if he thinks this shows NASCAR in a good light.
Could be. I was a bit surprised. Really, I just thought the Tweet was amusing and it caught my eye… so I thought it might have the same effect on others.
“Tums Fast Relief 500″? Seriously?
zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz
Just a big traffic jam. booooooring.
do not know why people keep comparing nascar to f1,they are totally diffrent in a lot of ways,i think max papis should
Oh wow… That was amazing racing…
F1 in Valencia 2008 looked way more exciting.
Nascar is the proof that even twitter can’t genberate the buzz if the product is rubbish. :-)
Well put Frenchie.
With all the contact and close drafting causing chronic yellow cautions, NASCAR average lap speed is rarely above 100 mph. Also, to me, watching cars in close formation at speed appears like they are in slow motion, thus I have always called it SLOCAR.
Let’s face it, SLOCAR is more about commercial advertising and happy sponsors than actual racing. The only enviable thing about it is the growth profile and full fields with many cars and teams. We need more teams in F1.
roller derby is fun isn’t it?
The problem I have with NASCAR is when you’ve watched someone earn their position at the front of the field and with 2-3 laps to go the person in 2nd place uses the chrome horn to boot the first place car off line or into the wall. Nothing, NOTHING, is more upsetting than to have these kind of shunts determine a race winner. If it happened once or twice a season, it wouldn’t be as big a deal. But when nearly every race you see a bump-crash scenario, it cheapens the racing.
A little bit of bump-and-grind is ok in competitive racing, but with cars that are traveling at speed and guys are rough housing all the time it makes it look more like WWF than racing. I guess the fans like to see the crashing as much as the racing, which just isn’t really racing in my book.