Approaching a degree banking at Daytona International Speedway doing close to mph, the track feels like it shrinks by ten, and the g-forces on the banking make you feel as if you're being crushed like a can. It's insanity. Christopher Bell, the year-old behind the wheel of the No. I was trying to keep breathing and not soil the flame-retardant racing suit I was wearing. At the same time, I couldn't stop laughing. You liked that? Why was I there?
Because Toyota was introducing the new Supra for the model year. It has a more powerful engine and a revised chassis, and Toyota added a four-cylinder model for the U. The cool thing? Toyota chose to unveil it just ahead of the Daytona With open wheel racing in IndyCar and F1 , the drivers need to be in a completely different frame of mind. They are sitting lower to the ground and have less visibility as a result. They also need to be far more careful when near other drivers, as the fragile nature of these cars means that they can only handle very small bumps.
The technical side of things is one area where the sports differ the most. This means the two drivers need to be able to focus on very different things. The bottom line is, all motorsports are hard at the highest level, and even if you think the sport itself is easier than others, you need to remember that the competition is one of the hardest parts. There are 39 other drivers that are all trying to win the race, and so regardless of whether the track or car is easy to drive, you still need to be better than everyone else , which is difficult as it is.
Between the ability required to beat the 39 other top-quality drivers, and the strategy and timing needed to pull of the right moves at the right times, NASCAR requires a lot of skill. So sometimes the drivers find themselves turning right more often than left! Flow Racers is a reader-supported site. Purchases made through links may earn a commission.
Two Cars Not only do the drivers need to have the skill to drive fast on both the oval and the road course tracks, but they also need to be able to do it in two different cars. Maximum Concentration That could not be further from the truth. Making Contact Unlike in F1, where the drivers do their best to stay away from other cars as they are so fragile, NASCAR drivers regularly need to bump their way to positions.
Reaction Times This means they also need to be able to react to situations as they happen within milliseconds, in order to avoid disaster. Would the same drivers excel? It would generate a lot of interest. Seems to me one of the biggest problems would be that most all? This would turn that completely upside down.
Sitting on the outside of the turn rather than the inside would probably trouble the drivers getting on their preferred lines and slow lap times of course this is just my guess.
Modifications to the cars would be ridiculously expensive: E. Every part of the design is tuned for the left-hand turn. Obviously, you have never watched a race in your life. Otherwise, you would know that most of the drivers were hired from other series like Sprint cars, dirt cars, etc.
Also, most of them participate Rolex 24 at Daytona road course and yes they do have the road courses every year. Lastly, they use different cars for each track so the teams would build a car that was optimized for right handed turns. Why they don't do it more often is more than anything based on their own history. The cars went down A1A for two miles, turned onto the beach, and came back up for two miles. No matter the historical perspective, NASCAR's format is by no means strange, and is in fact deeply rooted in the history of motorsports all together.
In fact, NASCAR is simply one of many racing sports , and even sports in general, where racers speed around an oval shaped track. Indeed, even track events are competed within an oval, where athletes run counterclockwise. Surprisingly, the tradition of running and racing counterclockwise in an ovular pattern may have scientific implications. It is believed that human bodies are more easily attuned to moving in counterclockwise motions, although the science mostly serves to possibly explain why track athletes move this way as opposed to serving to explain how NASCAR races are held this way.
As a sport becomes regulated, certain absolutes and standards become a part of the sports identity, for the sake of consistency during the sport's execution. A widely held belief among theorists who speculate why races are held counterclockwise i. Because NASCAR race cars have the driver positioned on the left side of the car, a driver is less likely to suffer serious injury if they were to crash into the walls of the track.
This is because the right side of the racecar, in theory, would absorb the initial brunt of the impact, assuming the impact occurs on that side of the car which is most likely to be the case.
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