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robdverity 05/20/2011 04:49 PM Report
If you removed the noise from NASCAR and car racing in general wonder what the affect would be. The left turn syndrome put-down works for me. Even the crashes have a repetitive aura. Kinda of a big ho-hum.
REMant 05/19/2011 11:16 AM Report
I've been to the Speedway many times during the month of May, and it's fascinating to experience the mixture of machinery and hokum. Best to go for the qualifications or some day when you can get close to the cars and drivers and spend some time in the museum. The race itself is probably better watched on TV, altho you'll miss the racket of those 33 "jet planes" taking off. I watched a squadron of B-52's scramble on an alert once and that's the only thing I can think of that comes close. A lot of ppl don't realize that unlike more modern tracks, the Speedway is flat, no banking, and only 2 1/2 miles around, designed when a car's top speed was more like 70 mph, not 230, and to keep within a margin of safety they have over the years had to eliminate several technical improvements that would push it well over that. I'd think the drivers must have some tolerance for being spun around like a centrifuge. Nowadays especially there is a great deal of strategy involved, despite advance in communications and computing, and of course the weather is always fickle and makes a lot of difference, as do the aerodynamic requirements of qualifying and racing.