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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
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Originally Posted by BOO
You Know I am gonna get hell for saying this...lol But .. What Driving skills do you need when you are just going around, and around... lol
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I know NASCAR guys get bashed for driving around in circles, but even that takes a lot of skill, concentration & years of practice to be competitive at the top level. It also takes a pretty high degree of intestinal fortitude to drive a car down into Turn-1 at Charlotte at 180mph and hope it sticks (with a concrete wall less than 100ft away). More than is required in a lot of road racing. |
I'll say this... in oval track racing, the cars are at the limit a whole lot more than cars are in road racing. That's why when someone drops a little oil on the track, 5 cars go flying into the wall... they're using 10/10ths of their traction.
And Austin's right... it's certainly not as easy as it seems... just driving a slow ass CAM car at Altamont at full tilt over the turn 4 transition onto the front straight is very unnerving. And I nearly wet myself when the back-end of the Legends car I drove at Shasta stepped out!
That said, sports car and open wheel road course racing is far more entertaining to watch IMO.