Nothing, really?

Did I insult some mindless NASCAR fans?

Ok, so if you were to breed those two into one, that would be me.
(Minus all the Junior B.S., I can't stand Dale Jr. )

Not all Nascar fans are red-necks, they just created it .
A small percentage of us did start out in open wheel and made an open spot in our hearts for this form of racing.   I'll watch bicycles race if it's the only racing on tv.

But honestly, is the Indy 500 really that popular in Europe?   I always thought it to be a faster, backwards, Nascar race, with less wrecks. If you hate watching cars just drive in a circle (as seems to be the biggest complaint with Nascar) then the Indy 500 should just simply drive you to tears with boredom.

Let them do the 500 on the road course there, that would be entertaining.

Monte Carlo Now that's a race .

I'm not saying it isn't tough, I just don't understand how Nascar can be mindless, while Indy, which you must admit, that while faster(but not by much), are incredibly easier to drive than a stock car. Take the wing off that indy car and give it a spoiler.   Now go 225 around that corner. Inches from other cars.

  It's all good racing, no matter the vehicle in my eyes. Bike racing however, is insanity!   Special breed those guys.   I didn't know they raced at the Indy r.c. now.

ShaneG wrote on May 7^th, 2009 at 10:14am:

I agree all racing is good, and this is not to take away from Nascar but it is a much simpler form of motorsport. It's designed to be. You have a few things on the car you can change to the setup and at the end of the day you have to drive through your problem. Because nascar dont take Indy flat out they break for the turns, it means the cars are easier to push through the turn. With the indy cars, they are foot to the floor every single lap, they enter the turn as fast as they are going and the exit it as fast as the g-forces will let them. That requires pinpoint accuracy, balls and a bit of luck. It amazes me watching the onboards at circuits like indy and the true ovals like Atlanta, The now gone nashville and so on, the reaction times these guys have, saving a car doing those speeds from going sideways.
I enjoy nascar from an entertainment point of view because it is fun watching these oversized over powered cars doing 190mph round the ovals.. I enjoy indy from a motor racing fans point of view because I know how hard it is to get these cars to a point where they can drive flat out for 3-4-500 miles at 220mph.
The main thing is every series could learn from each other how to make things more fan friendly. I think Nascar for instance could do with learning from F1 and freeing up what teams can do (yes the irony on that is not lost on me considering the latest FIA things)
I think F1 could learn from Indy and Nascar, and make the sport more accesible to the fans. Everyone can buy a pitlane pass to nascar and indy races, in F1 you need to be invited into the pit lane. Drivers are not required to sign autographs, and they only have to be made avaliable to the media for a set time. I think considering how they only have half the races of a nascar season, they could at least dedicate a little more time to meeting the fans and generally bringing us closer to the sport.

I miss Bill Elliot. nascar in the 80's and early 90''s was my favorite time for Nascar

You need to watch these 'COTs' then. They ride around the oval on their bump stops pretty much the whole way around, and judging by the extreme amount of sawing I see the drivers doing on the steering wheels, I'd say they're correcting.

They have bumpy tracks too, it's just a shame that ISC keeps smoothing the tracks out, the killer turn 4 bumps at Texas and Lowes were real treats on last lap dash for the wins.

  I enjoy it all, not placing one over another, each has it's purpose and market, hell, even monster truck racing is fun to watch,(and even better to see in person. )

  When the Indy 500 comes on, I'll be glued to the tv, unless Marlboro sends us tickets again like last year, every year we get them for Kentucky, but last year they sent us Indy tickets.