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SouthernSilveradoGuy85 Senior Enthusiast

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Sure back in the day they took factory cars and raced them and got to a point of modifying factory cars. But, now a days there's nothing factory about them. Without the body all of them are the same other than the engines (same general numbers, just different power and TQ curves and so on).

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They're made by 3rd parties I think. Even if they are made by the brand, they share nothing with road going engines at all. The name stock car racing is a joke or at best just a holdover from a time when they were truly based on something your or I could buy.

 

 

Well I think of it like this. As the speeds got faster and needed to make them safer, there came a point where they just couldn't use a factory car anymore. Or at least it's cheaper to build from the ground up from how many different cars they use. They have certain ones just for plate tracks, short tracks, intermediate, road course and so on. There are racing series' that do start with factory cars, but they don't need a bunch of different ones since they race on the same type of tracks like a road course or rallying. So how everything has advanced in NASCAR why should they change the name? Especially since nobody says the name spelled out, just says NASCAR. Plus I don't see people complaining about the NHRA and other drag racing where it's advanced and they're more than what you'd call just a hot rod. Or how about Monster Trucks when they're just a chassis with a light body and not a truck anymore.

kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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I don't follow it at all anymore, but I remember a 500 a few years ago someone in a real car going highway speeds could have won, because they don't run in the rain. "Racing"

 

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Well I think of it like this. As the speeds got faster and needed to make them safer, there came a point where they just couldn't use a factory car anymore. Or at least it's cheaper to build from the ground up from how many different cars they use. They have certain ones just for plate tracks, short tracks, intermediate, road course and so on. There are racing series' that do start with factory cars, but they don't need a bunch of different ones since they race on the same type of tracks like a road course or rallying. So how everything has advanced in NASCAR why should they change the name? Especially since nobody says the name spelled out, just says NASCAR. Plus I don't see people complaining about the NHRA and other drag racing where it's advanced and they're more than what you'd call just a hot rod. Or how about Monster Trucks when they're just a chassis with a light body and not a truck anymore.

 

I could care less, my comments were directed to the OP who seems to think that the race cars actually share something with road going models. Using model names is still pointless since nobody is going to watch the race and buy a Camry because the race version won. Maybe 30 years ago but not now. As for other racing series, I don't really follow them but I don't think NHRA racers use normal model names. Monster trucks might, I don't know offhand but they get a pass since monster trucks are awesome. Haha

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I could care less, my comments were directed to the OP who seems to think that the race cars actually share something with road going models. Using model names is still pointless since nobody is going to watch the race and buy a Camry because the race version won. Maybe 30 years ago but not now. As for other racing series, I don't really follow them but I don't think NHRA racers use normal model names. Monster trucks might, I don't know offhand but they get a pass since monster trucks are awesome. Haha

NHRA use Camaro and Mustang. Possibly some FCA model
SouthernSilveradoGuy85 Senior Enthusiast

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I don't follow it at all anymore, but I remember a 500 a few years ago someone in a real car going highway speeds could have won, because they don't run in the rain. "Racing"

 

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Well it's more exciting than way back in the day when the winner could win by literally laps. I'm just one of those people that I like both the completely stock cars from back in the day and I also like the current cars. The only cars I hated was when that COT came out for the '08 season and had a dumbass wing on the trunk instead of a spoiler. The wing looked like it came off of a riced out Honda Civic.

 

Also when it comes to racing in the rain, racing on an oval in the rain is way different than racing on a road course in the rain. It's all about physics, on an oval the car automatically wants to go towards the outside of the track and that's on dry asphalt so imagine trying to do it in the rain. It's the same as if you took let's say a yoyo and spun it around over your hear, the yoyo wants to stay towards the outside. Plus they don't go near the speeds on a road course as they do on an oval around a turn.

Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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They could still race in the rain, they would just have to slow down their speeds. It would still be exciting because they would be on the edge of control making everything more interesting. At any rate NASCAR will never last forever, they're already having lower ticket sales this year let alone the last few years. The sport has become a joke.

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