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Originally Posted by EightSix And then I did not care about it for so many years. But now after FourWheelDrift reopened this thread, I’m intrigued by NASCAR again.
So here is my humble request to NASCAR fans in the forum.
-Please bring me up-to speed on NASCAR.
-Describe me how it is different from F1
-Next, please tell me why I should watch it.
-Lastly, tell me how I can watch it in India and anything else I’d want to know before watching it. You may also share some more useful links where I can have a good start, and or create a separate forum if required since we don’t have one (as per R_R)
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While I'm not a NASCAR fan, I'm also not a hater. Just have enough time to follow F1. I'll attempt to answer EightSix's questions as succinctly as possible.
Do keep in mind that this only my opinion, as all of the answers to these questions are available on Google.
NASCAR is a mostly American series of "stockcar" races, with a long and storied history.
The specification of cars raced is heavily regulated and changes with the type of track (small oval, large oval, road course). While the outside silhouette of the car might resemble a road-going car, the car itself is far from stock.
Currently, there are a few different levels of NASCAR series championships. The top level is called the NASCAR Cup Series, which gets most of the publicity.
Per the Building Speed website mentioned in my previous post above, the season consists of 36 races, usually held at 24 different tracks from Feb through Nov. 28 drivers drove the full-season in 2020, while another 26 drivers drove select races or a partial season.
The recently crowned 2020 Cup champion is Chase Elliott.
NASCAR uses a closed wheel car, which is quite different from F1 which uses an open wheel car. NASCAR races are longer, typically 500km or longer. All F1 races are less than 310km. The differences are too numerous to enumerate here. Simply put, it is like chalk and cheese.
If you're into watching cars racing bunched together at high speed on an oval track, NASCAR is for you. There are far more crashes in NASCAR (on account of loss of control or bumping into one another or both), as the speeds are higher, there are more cars on track racing in close proximity to one another, and the cars themselves are more unstable at high speed on account of the minimal use of wings to generate significant downforce. One thing is for certain ... they don't do much braking / accelerating / decelerating / gear changes in NASCAR, unless they're racing on a road course.
I don't believe there are any channels that cover NASCAR in India, although I could be mistaken. Real NASCAR fans will inform us correctly on this one.
I'm sure NASCAR has an app or their own online channel, where one might pay and watch races live. See
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/08/n...ogramming.html and
https://motorsport.tv/
Cheers,
FourWheelDrift