NASCAR Oval = modern chariot racing (…and crashing)
Yea, the restrictor plates are absolutely ridiculous. They complete take everything out of racing and if anything are making it more dangerous. They better change something quick or they are going to start losing a ton of fans.
I know nothing about nascar…but it looks like the guy in 3nd place performed a pit maneuver to the guy in 1st.
People said that ten years ago. No change.
What do the restrictor plates do?
limit the power output of the cars. Which basically equally matches all of the cars and doesn’t allow any ‘better’ running cars to get away from the rest.
this sport is such a joke.
I don’t see the point of running “spec” cars on an oval. Nascar needs to be replaced with v8 supercars.
I am not a Nascar fan but any series you can have 30 cars or 20 cars all that close on the last lap is going to be exciting. Also, if there is a chance you can hit a truck filled with Jet Fuel everybody related to anybody with a mullet is going to watch.
“Have you ever wondered how restrictive a NASCAR restrictor plate is? Well, Rusty Wallace decided to toss his and find out. On June 9, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Wallace hit a trap speed of 228 mph in his Miller Lite Dodge. “We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway,” he said. Wallace’s top lap speed was 216.306 and was 25 to 30 mph faster than with a restrictor plate. “It was a helluva deal that I certainly will remember for the rest of my life,” Wallace added. “We’d all been wondering what it would feel like to run at Talladega again without the plates, and now I know. I’ll bet we could be running speeds up to 235 without the plates if we spent time doing some tweaking. But I’ll tell you this—there’s no way we could be out there racing at those speeds. It was neat to be out there running that fast by myself, but it would be insane to think we could have a pack of cars out there doing that.” The officially recognized Talladega track record is Bill Elliott’s 212.809 mph set in a qualifying run in 1987”