why are nascar tracks asphalt, rather than concrete?
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there are 1 or 2 tracks that are concrete and a few have concrete turns. concrete can be hard on your tires. asphalt is easier to maintain.. thanks for asking...
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NASCAR is not consistant with their penalties.The major teams(Hendricks,Roush,Yates,Childress) get their wrist slapped on told their bad boys,but the monor teams does the same thing the lose points and get fined and don't get their chance to redeam.\n If there is an infraction for any team treat them the same.
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k...let me put it this way. dirfting is for turns that are really sharp like a 90 or less degree turn then you will have to swing the back end of the car around to be able to get through the turn without loosing lots of speed. but F1 drivers don't do that because the track is wide enough and the turn is not that sharp. rally drivers do that because on dirt the tires won't be worn down so they can drft just for the fun of it.(and also because it looks cool) but on pavement the tire will grab on to the road causeing severe wearouts on the tire and when being drifted too many times there are chances for the tire to catch on fire due to the friction.
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I think Nascar needs the following improvements:\n\n1) A track that isn't ALL lefts or rights! Mix it up some, fellas!\n2) Land Mines\n3) Concrete pillars that randomly eject up from the track\n4) Speed bumps\n5) No more yellow flags! They're professional drivers - let 'em navigate around car parts!!!!
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Bad thing about Chicagoland Speedway is if you want to go to a race, you have to but tickets for all the events for that season.  You can't buy just Nascar or IRL tickets. kansas City Speedway is the same way
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The difference is as listed\n\n1 The horsepower on the motors are less than the cup cars\n2 The cars are built very close to the cup cars and with slight mods can race in the cup series.\n3 Less Laps equals less $$$ tires and fuel cost alot of money.\n4 The teams and only use so many sets of tires during yellow flag stops. Once again helping with the money factor.\n5 As far as the semi pro crap. Its not semi pro. Many of the cup race in the busch series "Buschwackers" For more track time and race time. The talent is said to be less in the Busch series when most of the time its just equipment and money that will hold down a great driver. Example Jimmy Johnston never won a Busch race goes to Hendrix and has had more win than Jeff Gordon in the last two Years. Tony Stewart great drive Busch stats not that great. Cup stats two champ years and alot of wins. \n\n6. rubbing is racing\n\nhope this helps\nCoach tim
159678
With NASCAR it is diffcult to nail down an exact time on when the race will start because of constant weather changes, local events, or the track conditions.  Now as far as NCAA Baseball weather conditions, feild conditions, players.
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Pocono Raceway has a unique design. Each turn is modeled after turns at 3 different tracks. Turn One was modeled after the now defunct Trenton Speedway, Turn Two is like Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Turn 3 is similar to The Milwaukee Mile. It could be said to be a tri-oval, but the turns are much more severe than those of a more typical tri-oval such as Daytona and the track is really nearly a triangle. They have been likened somewhat to the hairpin-style turns of road courses. An additional complication is that none of the three turns are identical, nor are any of the three straights identical in length. The long frontstrech often requires a gear change due to the high RPMs attained. The banking of each turn is considerably less than on many other long ovals. Although the track is long (2.5 miles) the sharp nature of the turns tends to make the overall speeds much lower than at other tracks of similar lengths thus restrictor plates are not needed here.\n\nThe odd design makes the setup of the car and the crews' ability to make chassis adjustments even more crucial here than at many other tracks. Often it is the difference between a winning performance and near-disaster. Drivers tend to either love the track or hate it, largely depending on how well it suits their driving style and their crews' abilities
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yeah i do i dont care i like any kind of racing but dirt tyrack is better because just like they say asphalt is for getting there dirt is for racing.
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Nascar cars run on a multimillion dollar budget. yes the sponsors have to put up a lot of money millions. A lot of drivers have to prove themselves and work they way toward better sponsor's. I guess it helps to know people too.
598120
I wish they wouldn't use any of them. NASCAR is AMERICAN BORN AND BRED and shouldn't be contaminated by non american cars!!!! I don't care if parts of the car or the whole car is now being made here, it is a foreign auto and shouldn't be allowed in the GREAT AMERICAN RACE!!! Just my own opinion.
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Nascar doesn't decide that.  You may have to contact the track officials, or if the city/county board runs the events at the track you will have to find out from them.  Other than that, you won't be able to look online or anything.
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Yesterdays cars were very different from todays NASCAR entries.  They were much less aerodynamic and the engines, although much larger, turned at lower RPMs.  Today's cars all have the same size engine as well.  \nIn the past  the manufacturers would actually producce a limited number of some of the specialized racers, such as Superbirds and Daytonas for sale to the public.  These were street legal cars that would , with a few minor modifications, actually have been able to hold their own on the race track.  Todays NASCAR vehicles are built from the ground up to be race cars and could never be made street legal.  That's one of the reasons you hear them talk about the modern era.\n Which cars are better, is entirely a matter of ones opinion.  Personally, I like a car I can easily recognize and one that is actually a stock car.  Todays cars can barely be called stock. When you compare todays cars to yesterdays cars it's not really a fair comparison, but if The King was driving . . .
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NASCAR TRACKS...Check the NASCAR site...
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To begin,the 2 ppl who said not always 43 are wrong ,It has been since the 98 season,The only time there hasnt been 43 since 98 was at the Fall 01 Race @ New Hampshire because a team that had qualified had Ceased Operations.Another reason was for safety,many tracks back in the day had 2 pit lanes 1 on the front and 1 on the back...that caused much confusion and chaos when the fields were un-limited.And another reason is the economic factor,while in real dollars even in the old days of the sport it was expensive,it cost about 15-18 million dollars a year to field 1 cup team,most of it coming from sponsor money.Lastly,on the entry forms for all races it states 43 starters ,36 on time,6 provisional,and 1 PAst Champions Provisional...
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I'm a nascar buff and can say a lot about this, but the previous posts pretty much say it all. I'll only add that NASCAR is bigger now because they are expanding into bigger markets. The competition on the track is closer, but I just don't think it's as exciting as it was 10 years ago. The rivalries and driver personalities are so bland now. I think in 5 years, the "popularity" of the sport will fade as the "new" fans move on to whatever else is popular at the time. Maybe soap box derby?
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Here goes nuttin'.... Trust me on this, I used to design and produce asphalt. Air voids in the asphalt are the most likely cause. Asphalt is designed with a certain percentage of air voids to help it shed water and to allow for expansion and contraction of the asphalt due to temperature changes. As the water seeps into these voids, air escapes. totalabyss, I agree with you. As far as oil being used while everyone else can't spill oil all over. Asphalt Cement, and automotive oils differ in many, many ways. You cannot pour asphalt out of a container at ambient temps. If it were a liquid @ 90 degrees, what would the road you drive on look like? The oil you spill all over actually hurts the roads us taxpayers pay for, plus it gets into the water system. If you ever come across an old chunk of asphalt, try this. Pour some hydraulic fluid or diesel on it, it will turn to mush. So, if this were to happen, say on one sq. ft. of road on every block in your neighborhood, the city would have to cut out the area, and replace it before it eats into the ground. So now this $3 used oil on our road is now costing us taxpayers $1800 to repair.