Racing Related: Open Wheel vs. Stock Car

[TLK]

From the "NASCAR points system" thread:

My buds rip on me all the time about my preference of NASCAR over their precious open wheel stuff and I stopped caring long ago. Let them smack their legs and cry "Wee Doggie" and "always going in circles" all they want. To each his own.

With a little more than usual racing talk going on here, I thought it'd be a good poll to post. It seems, if you're a racing fan, you lean one way or another, as Bonegavel stated in his post.... So which is it?.....

[RendeR]

I could be rude and state for the record that open wheel racing is a kiddie game, Go-karts no matter how many horse power you give them are still go-karts and are not automobiles. Put some fenders, a hood and trunk on them and then you have a car.

oh wait, I didn't want to be rude.....

but honestly, I completely prefer Stock car racing to open wheel. The competition is the drivers, not the manufacturer. In open wheel you have maybe 5 teams a year that will win everything in site, the rest are fodder. In NASCAR there are 36 out fo 43 cars that can legitimately challenge for the win every week.

There is much better racing action in NASCAR, in open wheel they get on a road course and it may as well be a circle jerk because no-one ever passes. it sucks. Yes NASCAR races can become tedious at some tracks, but the action still outweighs open wheel on a weekly basis by at least 10-1 when it comes to sit up and take notice moments.

Open wheel racing came to the US from europe, supporting it is like chjoosing japanese baseball over the major leagues. Yuck.

NASCAR is the only truly home grown sport in this country, the heart of this country was built on rebels and dissenters taking charge of things, NASCAR is grown from moonshiners and runners who fought the law and sometimes even won!

I won't argue the driving talent of either side, it takes amazing skill to do what those boys do in either circuit. I will say that the NASCAR bunch is far and away the better athletes of the two. I dare ANY open wheel driver currently running to jump into a stock car and still maintain his level of ability after 4 hours at 130+ degrees non-stop.

open wheels races are shorter and a LOT less heat intensive as their engines are behind them and shielded. they also tend to run much cooler climates than the NASCAR series, although I'll give props for the rio and mexico races. you couldn't pay me to run a race car in either climate.


so to sum up, NASCAR is more exciting, more competitive, and more AMERICAN =) (no offense to non-american open wheel fans, I understand you don't have much choice in your racing pleasure)

let Cart and indy die, they're already half in the grave as it is. no big loss.

[pskov]

Formula One is good, but Rally is proper racing.

In NASCAR they go round in a circle 100 times. Sometimes they crash just to liven things up a bit. Big deal....

[pskov]

Dola

Is the WRC popular in the US? I noticed in the other thread it wasn't even mentioned.

[TLK]

Dola

Is the WRC popular in the US? I noticed in the other thread it wasn't even mentioned.

It has a following, but not anything huge. I have a lot of respect for those drivers but could never get into it. I'm not even sure if it's on Speed anymore. I'd assume it is, but I got rid of Speed when they dumped CART and went to NASCAR 24/7.