What other motorsports do you follow?

EngIceDave wrote:

[i][b]"Put two turtles on a table and I'll watch 'em race"[/b][/i] Been saying that most of my life and it's pretty true, at least once. I...

"Put two turtles on a table and I'll watch 'em race"

Been saying that most of my life and it's pretty true, at least once.

I regularly follow F1, MotoGP, Nascar (all three), MotoAmerica

RoflCopter726 wrote:

I've really been following F1 a lot closer this year after stumbling onto "Drive to Survive" on Netflix. I know it's dramatized a bit but I...

I've really been following F1 a lot closer this year after stumbling onto "Drive to Survive" on Netflix. I know it's dramatized a bit but I got hooked instantly and learned a lot more about the sport. Admittedly though it's boring as fuck to watch Hamilton win everything.

luke11 wrote:

I’ve heard on the grapevine Netflix are planning a ‘drive to survive’ following the MotoGP, now that would be amazing!

Zesiger 112 wrote:

My father in law drag races this no time 10.5 car and a dragster for bracket racing. I do the tuning. Between dirt bikes and that...

My father in law drag races this no time 10.5 car and a dragster for bracket racing. I do the tuning. Between dirt bikes and that car my time is spent.

Zesiger 112 wrote:

No time racing comes from the grudge/street racing crowd. Where the races are challenges/call outs. It would be easy to call someone out and bet big...

No time racing comes from the grudge/street racing crowd. Where the races are challenges/call outs. It would be easy to call someone out and bet big money if the times were shown on the scoreboards. But since they aren’t it’s a complete shot in the dark. Sometimes they will even go as far as to not take the hood of their cars with a crowd around.

Unlike street racing we do race on prepped tracks and do get time slips.
It adds a challenge to the racing of trying to predict just how fast the other car is and how you should tune your car if you race them. If you can convince someone your car is faster than it is then they may over play their hand and blow the tires off while you cruise on down the track. Where as if the boards were on they would have know they have to run X and set their car up accordingly.

For example we were at a race and there was a car there I know has been 4.17 in the 1/8th mile or faster. If we had to race him I would have swung for the fence and prayed it stuck because our car has not been that fast yet. However at the end of the day I found out he was only running 4.60s that day because the track wasn’t capable of anything faster.

We also race straight off the trailer, no shakedown runs. So you have to know your car well and be able to read the track conditions.

Zesiger 112 wrote:

No time racing comes from the grudge/street racing crowd. Where the races are challenges/call outs. It would be easy to call someone out and bet big...

No time racing comes from the grudge/street racing crowd. Where the races are challenges/call outs. It would be easy to call someone out and bet big money if the times were shown on the scoreboards. But since they aren’t it’s a complete shot in the dark. Sometimes they will even go as far as to not take the hood of their cars with a crowd around.

Unlike street racing we do race on prepped tracks and do get time slips.
It adds a challenge to the racing of trying to predict just how fast the other car is and how you should tune your car if you race them. If you can convince someone your car is faster than it is then they may over play their hand and blow the tires off while you cruise on down the track. Where as if the boards were on they would have know they have to run X and set their car up accordingly.

For example we were at a race and there was a car there I know has been 4.17 in the 1/8th mile or faster. If we had to race him I would have swung for the fence and prayed it stuck because our car has not been that fast yet. However at the end of the day I found out he was only running 4.60s that day because the track wasn’t capable of anything faster.

We also race straight off the trailer, no shakedown runs. So you have to know your car well and be able to read the track conditions.

philG wrote:

Thanks, that makes a shit ton more sense, drag racing wasnt my thing at all., but i have gone deep into KSR's YT channel and love...

Thanks, that makes a shit ton more sense, drag racing wasnt my thing at all., but i have gone deep into KSR's YT channel and love the work that goes into these cars. I have followed Rocky Mountain Raceweek the past few years, so get all that 'off the trailer' stuff too.

Lockdown has taught me, it that you cant beat a good 2 step, and that forgetting a couple of gussets on a roll cage aint great when you want a 7 second cert..

Cheers for the reply.

xrmark wrote:

I like goin and watching the wingless sprint cars at Perris on Saturday nights in the summer. Those guys get after it. Speedway is great too