the difference in nascar and most other leagues is the parity of the competition.
You don't have to have backing from the factory to have any chance of winning..
yeah, there are some teams with deeper pockets.. but there is no "team chevrolet" with limitless money to throw at the car for tenths of a second..
using the carbs, and restrictions are a way of keeping with the original idea (although admittedly they have strayed FAR away from a truly "stock" car) of racing cars that are as equal as possible.
in other words... the driver/team & mind of the man calling the shots are the biggest wild cards.
instead of checking the real time data coming from the onboard and instructing the driver what to do to fix it...
the driver/crew chief communicate about whats right, and whats wrong.. and they try to figure out a solution to try the next pit stop.
To me it's a much more "pure" racing environment just because of the lack of technology..
and for the record.. there aren't many 3800pnd, 800 hp cars running around with carbs BTW.
I think it's sorta laughable when you crap all over the entire sport, and it's fan on the basis that they aren't running the newest, unavailable technology.
hell,, an average joe (and I know thats a dirty word since we are all so much better than the normal american here) can go build his own stock car for probably 30 grand and have a legitimate shot at qualifying for a race every once in a while.
the basic frame/roll cage are readily available for really not that much money. A mechanically minded type could buy the block he needs to be legal and do all the work to it, set the car up, slap some tires on their and go racin'.
whats not to like about the idea of that?
I remember reading an article a few months back talking about the budgets of a nascar team compared to an f1 team.. it was ridiculous... for what 1 race costs for an f1 team you can damn near run an entire season of nascar.. haha.
Take it one step further.. I'm assuming all of you dislike the AMA, or SBK series also? It's the same idea.
Keep the bikes close to the way they come from the factory, put limits on what you can mod, and lets see what happens.
Personally I'd like to see a ban of factory rides in the AMA, and SBk... wouldn't that be interesting to have everybody on a more level playing field.
Wanna bet that some of the privateers names would start coming up more often.. and maybe it wouldn't be the mladin show (in ama anyway)
I'm not downing gp, or f1 or any of that jazz.. they have their places.. they are their to showcase what man is capable of if there are no limits on what you can do to make it faster, or stick to the track better.. but I don't understand this bash nascar thing.. and I'm not even that big a fan.
For the record... I personally feel that I saw just as many drunk rednecks (percentage wise) at the AMA's this year as I do at the few nascar races I've been to. (i've even been drunk a few times whoohoo!)
Course I also remember reading the big write up in motor trend about the 24 hours of daytona.. they opened the story talking about piles of empty wine bottles laying all around.. people passed out in chairs holding beer/liqour/wine bottles.. so whats up with all the rednecks showing up at the lemans?
I think you guys need to get over yourselves about this crap. I hate even opening these threads because I know I'm just going to think less of alot of the pricks replying to it who obviously have no clue, have never been, and are more worried about... or the best I can tell... more worried about not being associated with anything that may indicate they are more of a sheeple than they realized.
