Quote Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm View Post
I dislike the hell out of NASCAR. I like F1 and other racing where they are more complex with varying degrees of turns and people can build and tweak their cars in different ways to gain advantages. NASCAR takes all of that out and reduces it to trying to attain perfection on the course. The more perfect you take the same 2 turns on the oval the better you are. It is an exercise in precise repetition and that is how I view it.

While viewing it that way, to be that perfect still requires a crazy amount of skill to do it. But NASCAR eliminates everything I like about racing from the engineering, weather, off track recklessness and the different types of turns (it boils down to perfection in turning to an extent but with more than two type of turns per course and the speed up/slow down required I think it adds a ton more). I like the street courses and the uniqueness that comes with them.
There are two road courses on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Circuit: Infineon Raceway in California, and Watkins Glen International Speedway in upstate New York. These two courses have both left and right turns (the latter of which has predominately right turns). The rest, however, are oval courses with left turns.

While I think that oval tracks are simpler to navigate, the different twists and turns of road courses certainly makes those courses more interesting, too. Daytona International Speedway is basically a "track within a track," if you will, because it has two layout configurations; while the Daytona 500 and other NASCAR events use the standard tri-oval design, other events such as the Rolex 24 use the road course design.

Quote Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon View Post
Carburetors are more fun.

if you think it's all about left turns then you obviously don't know what you're talking about. The whole point of this type a racing is to take a stock car, implement your engineering within a very strict set of parameters and race with careful planning, a good fuel plan, a lot of strategy and the ability to of pit teams to respond quickly and forcefully to unexpected mishaps. Stock. Car.

If you want to be an ass about it then all forms of racing, greyhounds, horses, people, etc. Are all about left turns and that's it.
You accidentally posted that message twice...

Anyway, there are many factors that determine the outcome of races in NASCAR, including pit road strategies.

And they actually had fuel injection for a very brief time back in the late 1950s, before switching back to carburetors.