NASCAR!!
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Topic: NASCAR!!
Posted By: Clark Kent
Subject: NASCAR!!
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 3:21pm
| So who is excited about http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/01/23/toyota.cup/index.html - Toyota coming to NASCAR this season? |
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Posted By: Pate
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 3:21pm
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Damn rednecks....
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 3:23pm
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Meh. NASCAR is one thing I've never cared for. Along with most professional sports, save hockey.
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 3:25pm
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nascar isnt fun, the only good thing is tailgating before... ------------- 
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 3:33pm
Never could get into Nascar....It's not the redneck idiot rumble that it used to be, but it's just not cool enough to hold my interest for very long.... http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70140-0.html - This , on the other hand, is interesting... -------------  |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 3:37pm
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I used to be big into NASCAR. Toyota's entrance has been long in the making.
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 4:07pm
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My dad is going ballistic. Same when it happened to the Truck Series. Me: Meh. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 4:14pm
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I've never been into NASCAR, though a lot of my relatives are. I'd rather watch something...productive, like rooster fights. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: Pump Scout
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 4:26pm
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I think it was going to happen eventually whether people wanted it or not. It was just a matter of finding a "foreign" nameplate willing to pony up the bucks to gain entry and approval (note - Nissan looked at the truck series, but didn't want to pay NASCAR's price). I find some of the flap about Toyota amusing, since Monte Carlos and Impalas are built in Canada, Fusions are built in Mexico, and Chargers are a product of a company now headquartered in Germany.
Beyond that, boogity. Let's get back on the track! The only reason the off-season wasn't painfully long was because I moved in the middle of it, thus effectively shortening it. PS - RIP Benny Parsons. ------------- http://www.geocities.com/limitedpump - Limited Pump Paintball |
Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 4:39pm
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NASCAR is great when you go see it at the track, like Daytona. I cant sit and watch the race anymore. I do watch INDY racing once in awhile. ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 4:40pm
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nascar= invented by rednecks, played by rednecks, watched by rednecks.
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 4:46pm
| The coolest racing seriesesessses aren't in the US much. F1 has one race here, I don't know if the WRC comes here at all, etc. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 5:59pm
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It's funny, since none of the nascar race cars share common components from their street varients, that anyone would get that worked up over the "manufacturer" of the race cars...
Anywhoo, I don't watch racing anyway...so, meh. |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:04pm
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"NASCAR welcomes Toyota to the greatest auto racing in the world," said NASCAR chairman Hehehe, thats funny. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:12pm
| wonder if it has better gas mileage than the other cars... |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:17pm
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When it comes to racing now, Rally is where it is at. Nothing even comes close to the badassary that Rally drivers pull.
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:28pm
Actually Nascar was made up of mostly Bootleggers. Had a thing on the History Channel the other day. To this day the most races won record is being held by a Convicted Bootlegger. ------------- 
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carl_the_sniper wrote:Posted By: Roll Tide
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:30pm
QFT I don't think it'll matter that Toyota joined up. Seems like Chevys are always winning the races, but it has more to do with the team working on the car than the car itself. ------------- <Removed sig for violation of Clause 4 of the New Sig Rules> 
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Posted By: Predatorr
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:56pm
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 6:59pm
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Posted By: Squishey
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 7:00pm
 is it wrong that i laugh? ------------- Canadians do it on top. 
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Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 8:29pm
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Posted By: Predatorr
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 8:50pm
says the forumer with a strike for open prejudice. |
Posted By: STOcocker
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 9:36pm
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Le Mans racing is where it's at. It's the only racing that I watch. Toyota was bound to enter. Not big deal. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 9:39pm
Trophy trucks. 
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 9:49pm
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If I could do one form of racing, give me an Evo and let me do some rallying. Rally > *
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 10:08pm
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Real racers drive straight to the finish line while the others drive in circles looking for it. NHRA > NASCAR |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 11:50pm
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I hate NASCAR, all they do is drive around in a circle. I dont consider hopping in my focus and going to the grocery store a sport, NASCAR isnt either. cant remember where i read that, but i liked it. I like motorcycle racing. NASCAR won't run if the track is even slightly moist. Motorcycle racers drive in downpours, with speeds in the 100's, and only 2 wheels. rally/MotoGP>* |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 12:07am
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 12:26am
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 1:09am
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Posted By: Pump Scout
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 8:50am
Which driver? I know Richard Petty (200 wins) had made a deal with his mother not to do any alcohol endorsements ever, which is why neither of the two Petty cars carry the Bud Pole Award contingency sponsorship. I'd love to see some changes to NASCAR's equipment myself. I've always thought it would be interesting to see - even if it were just for the two road-course races - the cars required to match the template of their street car equivilant. I'd like to see the schedule drop a few of the 1.5 mile tracks that are visited twice in favor of a few other tracks. Kentucky, Road America, Laguna Seca, bring back North Wilksboro and Rockingham. Throw in a dirt track like ARCA does, too. NASCAR may not be perfect, but it's certainly attracting drivers from other series like crazy. Tony Stewart came over from Indy cars, as did Robby Gordon. Ricky Carmichael is doing a transition to NASCAR from motorcross racing. Juan Montoya is the big news guy this year, coming over from F1. He's making the other drivers laugh a little in the pits, because of his crew of assistants that follow him around handling little details for him. I believe it was Jeff Burton who referred to them as the "Juan-terage".  It's where the money is, it's where the sponsorships are, and it's where some of the best drivers in the world show up.
For anyone who wanted to take a look at NASCAR, but not sit through a three- to four-hour race, check out the Craftsman Truck Series. They're shown on the Speed Channel all season long, and open their season at Daytona right along with Cup and Busch. The races are shorter, the trucks handle different than the cars (they bounce around a little more), and the drivers tend to be pretty aggressive. Part of that is due to the short races, and part is that most of them have something to prove. Good mix of drivers, between young lions trying to step up to the Cup series, experienced veterans working their way into a slower schedule, and the handful of guys out there just shooting for the occassional truck win. Yikes... sorry, I get a little long-winded in the mornings when the topic is something I like.  ------------- http://www.geocities.com/limitedpump - Limited Pump Paintball |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:44am
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Yay, another variety of loud ass car to wake me up early on weekends.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 11:21am
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I get a kick out of the morons who throw the "redneck" gag out all the time. I for one, can't stand NASCAR, its boring....but I've got a pretty well off cousin stationed in Alaska who watches it with regularity, testament to the negation of the idiotic stereotyping of the fans of a particular sport. It'd be like saying "everyone who plays paintball is a 14 year old doomed to virginity for the rest of his life." |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 11:30am
Have you been to Alaska? It's pretty redneck itself... |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 5:27pm
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NASCAR is the reason other countries laugh at American races. With cars that are basically all the same and drive in ovals for hours, whats to love? Real racing is Formula One, Rally, those "Trophy Trucks" or any other racing that involves using the brake and turning right. ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:29pm
| i agree rally is pretty badass... however dirt track racing, even though 99% redneck, is pretty full of action.... it's like a giant drifting race... except the rules are pretty straight foward.... but still, rally is the best... if only it was televised more. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:36pm
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I <3 you. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:40pm
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So no on the NASCAR in the sky thing? You're prolly right, I mean, any wrecks would be more tragic than exciting or cool, and minus the wrecks, it'd just be a much of planes flying around in circles....Unless they do races from one point to another, and still, not that exciting...
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:41pm
Just because someone has a lot of money, does not make them any less redneck or white trash. Take Kevin Federline for example... |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:52pm
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Is Whale a redneck?
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 10:12pm
| ^^^i don't think so... |