[Closed] Daytona500 crash

lets be honest though, this is all that Motorsports fans want isn't it. 😉

Gonna need a fair bit of T Cut after that.

Wonder what the 38 car’s driver thought

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Wonder what the 38 car’s driver thought

“Richard Petty wouldn’t even have felt this”

That dude had crashes so spectacular that they recreated one in perfect detail for a Pixar movie

Daytonaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

knew i shouldn't have clicked on that, now i know who won and am only 60 laps into watching it.
good job i watch the races to see racing and who wins doesn't really matter to me.

Proper racing with proper drivers,unlike the F1 snowflakes!

Well, that made that race format almost mildly interesting. 😳

Proper racing with proper drivers,unlike the F1 snowflakes!

yet the F1 fans claim nascar drivers only know how to drive in circles.

i remember a piece on tv where lewis hamilton and tony stewart had a drive in each others cars and hamilton loved driving the nascar(and being allowed to do donuts)

Wonder what the 38 car’s driver thought

DiBenedetto (95) " WTF is that dick Menard doing,everyone is going to think this is my fault"
Menard (21) " I might just get away with this"
Ragan (38) " FFS,what's this dick Menard doing trying to join in"
Hamlin (11) "Woohoo,I got this"

🙂

Amazing video and due respect to those guys but NASCAR seems to be about holding your foot down longer/harder than the next guy. Dozens of cars doing 220mph (+/-5mph) as one 'lump' doesn't appeal to me.

Neither does F1 - Engineers decide who wins not the drivers.

MotoGP and World Superbike is the best motorsport currently available. Plenty of overtaking, lot's of rider skill required and fantastic circuits 😀

Every time I see MotoGP at Motorland Circuito De Velocidad (Aragon) I think why couldn't Tilke build something like that for cars?

Good crash but I absolutely love the commentating. "Well that... ruined... everything"

Get out there and hit the pace car!

NASCAR seems to be about holding your foot down longer/harder than the next guy

which basicly applies to all motosport. if you think thats all it is in nascar though i don't think you realise how on the edge those cars are. the car control from the nascar drivers(well most of them) is up there with anyone.
i do like motorbike racing as well but just prefer cars and while i agree about motogp being very good, british superbikes is better to watch than world superbike.

but NASCAR seems to be about holding your foot down longer/harder than the next guy.

Go watch some more, there's more than that happening just in the run up to the crash (e.g. 2 cars working together for extra speed). It's not something I would chose to watch the full race, but there is plenty of skill and tactics and line choice (OMG!) on display - kinda like getting the hang of watching the pro peloton

Have they got a big spark switch on the steering wheel?

It's right beside the switch for the reversing flaps

best motorsport currently available

I'm not getting involved in that discussion, as they're all good (except F1, which has gone to shite/disappeared up its own arse) but Formula E is actually really good fun this season

Dozens of cars doing 220mph (+/-5mph) as one ‘lump’ doesn’t appeal to me.

The cars are right on the limit, any little thing can destabilize them, they sound terrifying to drive. Really close, unpredictable racing.

any little thing can destabilize them, they sound terrifying to drive.

yup, the fact that the guy behind can spin you into the wall without even touching you sounds horrendous!

I did a NASCAR simulator at the NASCAR museum in Charlotte, NC last year. You were sat in a car with a screen instead of a windshield and everyone doing it crashed. There had been about 200 people doing the simulator that day- it was set up to feel realistic and it was enormously difficult to keep it straight. I'd always thought it was just driving around in circles but it was genuinely difficult.

Go watch some more, there’s more than that happening just in the run up to the crash (e.g. 2 cars working together for extra speed).

It seems to be a lot more advanced than that now. On the morning of the race some guys were predicting a boring race because everyone had realised the guys at the top of the banking are consistently lapping so much faster than the rest and one driver said he could even feel the speed advantage as an eighth or ninth drive joined the line behind him. They were lapping so much faster than those down below didn't have a chance (maybe an effect of the wall alongside reducing drag?). Of course that does depend on not hitting the wall or the car of anyone else who did.

TBF, although it looked spectacular, it was all pretty controlled - nobody hit anything stationery and immovable so they all just bumped into each other a bit then came to a controlled (if somewhat sparky) stop.

I think Malcolm in the Middle summed up NASCAR

@eddiebaby
This is a very amateur question, but if the people up high are fastest why don't they all drive up high?

Where the car will be fastest on track depends on several factors, like tyre wear, fuel load, damage, setup, atmospheric conditions. Also, as they run in close formation, they can be badly affected by turbulence/wash from the other cars.

And just because a car it theoretically fastest in one place, doesn't mean the driver can control it!

weather conditions have a massive affect on it, sun coming out makes a big differance. the races that start in daylight and finish in the dark, big changes have to be made at pitstops to make a car thats fast in daylight be fast at night. the weeks before clash race was cloudy with some rain breaks and had a lot of single file by the wall racing whereas for the 500 the sun was out. also the 500 had 40 cars starting comparerd to the clash having only 20.

Get out there and hit the pace car!

not the pace car but montoya has hit something under caution