NAC: NASCAR and other oval track racing

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Michael-
I disagree. It does take skill in driving one of 40 cars, tightly
packed, around
an oval track at 190mph. I know that I couldn't do it. While that skill
may not be
anywhere near the skill level of an F1 driver, it still takes skill. The
one thing
that NASCAR requires that most other forms of road racing don't is
insanity- there
cannot be a single guy out there with his head screwed on right to be
doing that, running
2ft. off of some guy's rear bumper at 190mph, surrounded by a bunch of
other cars doing
the same thing. Not only that, these guys intentionally bump each other
and cause each
other to crash, on tracks that are concrete-walled all the way around.

I only saw two CART/IRL drivers make it successfully to F1: Montoya and
Villeneuve.
Zanardi was a huge disappointment, as was Michael Andretti.

The only NASCAR racing I like to watch are the two road course races-
Sears Point and
Watkins Glen. Those two races are quite entertaining, considering that
most of the
NASCAR guys don't know how to turn right, brake or downshift. You never
see that many
off-road excursions in other top classes of road racing at the same
tracks. :-)

Taka