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"Last race of the year" in New York, in November. mhmm mhmm "as big as Daytona 500" again, in new york, in november. mhmm mhmm "the huge racing fanbase in New York" [looks at attendance at the Brickyard] mhmm mhmm This is some subpar trolling by you, my friend.
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idk man if there's one thing that springs to mind when i think about NYC it's "potential NASCAR hotbed"
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 18:24 |
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Close Michigan International Speedway, Race Belle Isle
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 18:34 |
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Peanut President posted:"Last race of the year" in New York, in November. mhmm mhmm unlike most of the nation, northeast fans can tolerate the cold, it's 50's and sunny here in mid November also I don't think Indianapolis is dead center in the Northeast megalopolis where a fifth of the US population lives within 200 miles e- in November the Hudson Valley receives 3.5 inches of rain/snowfall historically, I bet Florida posts more! lol and the average high temp is in the mid 50's Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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VikingSkull posted:good reasoning, we better sell the football teams before anyone finds out I agree with Viking. NY/NY/CT/PA is stock car/modifieds/dirt track country. There's a legit fanbase there that NASCAR didn't really tap into it's full potential. (....they really should have saved Trenton as a track, but I digress....). I'm not sure a Daytona clone would have been the way to go. Perhaps a short track would have been better?
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VikingSkull posted:unlike most of the nation, northeast fans can tolerate the cold, it's 50's and sunny here in mid November The recent failings of the Brickyard 400 have more to do with NASCAR itself rather than the Indiana race fan. From 1994 to 2008? They had a hell of a weekend they could sell to race fans. They had USAC race with Trucks and Xfinity over at Lucas Oil. You also had a national series that was a great deal more popular than the hometown IndyCar/CART series and had homegrown talent running in said series. Then Goodyear happened, and then NASCAR started to oversaturate the market by putting races in nearby Kentucky, and Chicagoland. They're now left with what we're seeing right now.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:43 |
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I mean, yeah, it's short track country? But not really because our short tracks are 1/2+ It was going to be more of a Talladega clone, it was wider than Daytona. 300,000 people like they say? Doubtful. If they held a race there this year? 100k easy. Even if I concede the late year date, put that poo poo in May or September and you'll pack the loving place. Remember, New Hampshire is always loving packed.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:43 |
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Viking there are all of maybe 50,000 nascar fans north of the mason-dixon. New York probably has ~10,000 of them.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:30 |
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I would bet there are more in Indiana since it is the only southern state north of the line. Also see the quantity of Indiana NASCAR drivers it is oddly disproportionate.
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Elephanthead posted:I would bet there are more in Indiana since it is the only southern state north of the line. Also see the quantity of Indiana NASCAR drivers it is oddly disproportionate. Wisconsin man.....Michigan too. Wisconsin's short track scene is pretty legendary. Kulwicki? Kenseth? Trickle? Menard? New England...but that goes without saying. The Northeast is modified crazy.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:25 |
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elko "motor speedway" best sediffd
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:32 |
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Pearn Count: -1 http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm#20160302c
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Top Hats Monthly posted:elko "motor speedway" best sediffd It's up there. Iowa is also good.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 01:06 |
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I-70 or bust, that track always put on good ASA races.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 01:42 |
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LASTCAR posted:Pearn Count: -1 Looks like furniture row isn't as good at cheating as Joe gibbs is yet.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 03:55 |
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Don't know if this would be up any of you guy's alley. Some game company is trying to crowd fund a dirt racing game. This is the link to the Reddit post about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/comments/48mnz3/new_dirt_track_racing_game_crowd_funded_on/
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The Lazer posted:Don't know if this would be up any of you guy's alley. Some game company is trying to crowd fund a dirt racing game. This is the link to the Reddit post about it. I've been watching this, but it's the former Ratbag team so I don't have high hopes for realism. Probably still be fun, though. rFactor remains top dog for dirt sim racing for now. e- see, this part here quote:Dynamic Track Conditions (the track changes as you race on it. The groove you run on eventually darkens and gets slower which means you will have to search around the track for a faster groove) It's not always necessarily true that a rubbered over groove gets slower. At my local track, for instance, the big block guys sometimes set their car up to utilize it and they drive the track like it's pavement. The sprint car guys do it too, because the type of clay that we use allows this. Not all clay is created equal, and such broad statements like the above don't leave me with any hope that different tracks will be unique, just that the surface will do the exact same thing every race with a background swap. That's not a dynamic track surface, that's a scripted event. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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someone talk me out of this
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 16:32 |
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I can't becuse then I"ll be at ransomville cheering you on from the stands if they do vingage races there. But what's your hobby budget, I hope its high because you know what they say about making a small forutne racing.. start with a big one.
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tater_salad posted:I can't becuse then I"ll be at ransomville cheering you on from the stands if they do vingage races there. I'm actually looking for an 80's vintage mod to convert to a street car, which is why that one is golden. Junkyard engine and trans, plexiglass windshield with working wipers, and a set of lights and I'm good. I'd need bicycle fenders when the DMV issues the special construction tag but I'd be riding dirty without them once I got plates. e- though the vintage guys are exponentially cheaper than regular racing. 70% of those guys just stroke and probably only eat a few sets of tires a year Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Take $2,000 and a trailer and pick that up. Does that work?
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VikingSkull posted:I'm actually looking for an 80's vintage mod to convert to a street car, which is why that one is golden. Junkyard engine and trans, plexiglass windshield with working wipers, and a set of lights and I'm good. I'd need bicycle fenders when the DMV issues the special construction tag but I'd be riding dirty without them once I got plates. There is a vintage mod series that runs around New England (pavement mods) and they run scripted races. They do a draw at the beginning of the day to determine the winners of heats and the feature. Then they run around at like 3/4 throttle until the guy who is supposed to win works his way up to the lead and then "race" the rest of the time, so long as nobody passes the leader. Basically they are show cars that nobody wants to take a chance of crashing so they take the element of pushing it for the win out of it. Its cool to see them on track until you realize they are running 25 parade laps. There is another vintage series that actually races though which is pretty cool. They all race pretty clean and nobody breaks their stuff so it can be done competitively without wrecking every week so I don't get the fake races but to each their own.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 00:42 |
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Sounds fun I've seen Sprint cup races before
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 01:01 |
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http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/14891983/dover-financial-filing-sheds-light-nascar-concerns
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Boomer The Cannon posted:http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/14891983/dover-financial-filing-sheds-light-nascar-concerns Seems like that just restricts an Indycar like split and making sure they don't get any big tracks to run at. Makes me think of that loving SMI funded series that was DOA.
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bigbillystyle posted:There is a vintage mod series that runs around New England (pavement mods) and they run scripted races. They do a draw at the beginning of the day to determine the winners of heats and the feature. Then they run around at like 3/4 throttle until the guy who is supposed to win works his way up to the lead and then "race" the rest of the time, so long as nobody passes the leader. Basically they are show cars that nobody wants to take a chance of crashing so they take the element of pushing it for the win out of it. Its cool to see them on track until you realize they are running 25 parade laps. There is another vintage series that actually races though which is pretty cool. They all race pretty clean and nobody breaks their stuff so it can be done competitively without wrecking every week so I don't get the fake races but to each their own. OCFS gets the Atlantic Coast Old Timers and the Northeastern Vintage Dirt Modified Racing Club. ACOT I think runs scripted races but the NVDMRC runs like raped apes. Here's the NVDMRC running laps at OCFS The NVDMRC guys have zero issues totaling their cars out Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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BMB5150 posted:Seems like that just restricts an Indycar like split and making sure they don't get any big tracks to run at. Makes me think of that loving SMI funded series that was DOA. Ah yes, TRAC. I think you're right about preventing a split. What other stock car series are even out there which would be comparable aside from ARCA or whatever ASA's top class is now?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Ah yes, TRAC. It was entertained briefly (Very...briefly.) pre-IndyCar split. quote:Standing under umbrellas in the rain at Talladega one weekend, in an otherwise deserted garage area, one powerful team owner had posed an intriguing question to me privately. http://espn.go.com/racing/columns/story?id=5195237&columnist=hinton_ed&seriesId=1
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quote:Dear NASCAR Employees, http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/nascar-chief-brian-france-defends-trump-endorsement-to-employees-677132/
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 16:46 |
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Just about as dumb and awful as ***Allegiant Air*** becoming the official airline of NASCAR.
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CBJSprague24 posted:http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/nascar-chief-brian-france-defends-trump-endorsement-to-employees-677132/ "i personally don't support diversity and inclusion, but NASCAR will, even though my family has run NASCAR with an iron fist for the entirety of its existence"
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"This is my personal and not a corporate position. However, I still encourage each of you to make your own personal evaluations as our country moves forward in the electoral process." "This is not a corporate position", followed by "However". At least try to be subtle about telling people who they should vote for lest they be fired?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Ah yes, TRAC. None right now. It seems preemptive to me. NASCAR's not going away anytime soon, but the ratings and attendence have been declining long enough that maybe they're worried that eventually someday someone else competing with them won't be impossible like it is now.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Ah yes, TRAC. ASA is dead.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 19:56 |
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Goddamnit I thought Phoenix was this weekend not Vegas.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:36 |
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I can't think of a better way to attract a new title sponsor than to have the head of NASCAR endorse a bigot for president.
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daslog posted:I can't think of a better way to attract a new title sponsor than to have the head of NASCAR endorse a bigot for president. Nascar didn't Brian France did duh didn't you read the letter?
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 03:08 |
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lol if you think corporations aren't salivating over a Trump presidency
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 03:16 |
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Probably not the ones he's threatening to impose tariff on for manufacturing outside of the US, or really any companies given he's threatened to start trade wars with Mexico and China.
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Trump is reverse Obama and it's great
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