[KS circutguy]

Trying to compare a NASCAR racing to INDY or F-1 is well retarded/

[Alvin]

Having driven 20,000 street and track miles on one of my Sport Bikes from new (Ninja 900), Formula Ford open wheel racer @ Oahu HI Skip Barber Racing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_Ford), and Full Fendered Pontiac GTOs, TAs, Catalina's, etc. down the 1/4 mile and Gymkhana's I can tell you that those open wheel cars garner drivers' respect for barriers that are parallel to the drivers head height. For me it was unnerving.

I'd had no problem going over 150mph at will on the Ninja and 2-wheels, but those barriers and exposed suspension "bits & pieces" of the Formy FORD/ F1 / Indy can be claustrophobic and when driving amongst others who "don't respect" the vehicle spacing can become interesting immediately.

This from the same guy who's 1st street car was a '68 440cid Chrysler New Yorker who learned how to drift the car on ice, snow, mud and dirt back roads and pavement. Parallel parking? Piece-O-The-Proverbial-Cake!

Banging fenders should be a comfort to "Princess D"....

[PonchoV8]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

Trying to compare a NASCAR racing to INDY or F-1 is well retarded/

Yes, please don't compare real racing to a parade. But KS is completely wrong about what is "hot". Unless you like what Scott Stapp of Creed looks like and you think he's hot.



She looks like she has the same pumpkin eyebrows that Ross has.

[David Holmberg]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

She sure looks hot in this picture driving a real race car.lol

And Michael Andretti said the day she left his organization was one of his best days, ever. Then added something about all the high school drama leaving as well.

[65blackplate]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

She sure looks hot in this picture driving a real race car.lol

I don't know about hot in the pic she almost all ways has that scowl on her face
unless it is a commercial...........
I bet she is a lot of fun to live with

[KS circutguy]

I fail to see the resemblance.

[PonchoV8]

WOOOOYOOO, LOOK AT ALL THE AIRBRUSHING on Antonio Banderas!!! I didn't know he stuffed his bra.

[65blackplate]

that's better but I bet she is a REAL bitch though

[KS circutguy]

The real question should be;
Why is it looking up pics of Antonio?

[Sirrotica]

A real female race car driver:



Driving a real race car:



Winning feature races at a real race track:



She's 20 years old, Touring princess take note !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alvin]

This 1st http://youtu.be/2qOX-9YUI6k
And then this http://youtu.be/UC9Zi1Fpq1Y

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by David Holmberg

And Michael Andretti said the day she left his organization was one of his best days, ever. Then added something about all the high school drama leaving as well.

Reminds me of this: "best 2 days of boat ownership are: day you buy & day you sell!"

[MikeNoun]

This is NOT a good picture of her, but the look is familiar....

Wait! I got it!

[MikeNoun]

Alvin, I'm a fan of the MotoGP series, and I marvel at how much guts (and talent) those guys have. One mistake going into a turn in NASCAR and you slide up the hill, maybe tap the wall, and keep going. In MotoGP, one mistake and you usually end up with a broken wrist or collarbone.

Supercross has to be one of the most grueling both physically and mentally, along with Formula 1.

PonchoV8, I didn't quite get the Scott Stapp reference? Please explain!

Stapp sang the National Anthem at a NASCAR race a few years ago, and he was simply awful.

[PonchoV8]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

The real question should be;
Why is it looking up pics of Antonio?

Your misdirection isn't working, dummy. You think effeminate looking men are "hot". Danica isn't a woman. She's Antonio. She's Scott Stapp.

[PonchoV8]

Shave her hair back and you have it nailed. There ain't nothing "hot" about a 12 yr old boy's body with manly hands and jack-o'-lantern eyebrows.

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

This is NOT a good picture of her, but the look is familiar....

Wait! I got it!

Hey, Steve, doncha just think Tom Cruise is so hot?! Do you like him without facial hair?



Or with the facial hair?

[David Holmberg]

As for more talent in Indycar or F1 over NASCAR, I don't agree. Two different types of racing with different needs.

Test: Take an average 16 yr old girl to a local makeshift parking lot auto course. Let her get comfortable in a 96 Impala SS, then make a couple full out laps.
Then put her in an average go-cart and repeat. I promise you the go-cart will be much easier to drive and go much quicker with more confidence.

The F1 drivers have all the info they need on the steering wheel. They push a button to up or downshift. They have computer programming to manage just about any situation.

Yes they race very close, side by side and any slight contact can be disastrous. However, if that is the criteria for talented racing then perhaps you should check out the top levels of AMA racing.

I forgot what it's called, but every year they take the top racers from Europe and include a NASCAR driver or two, in a rally car based challenge race. Normally the NASCAR guys do very well in this.

Michael Jordan, arguably the most talented basketball player ever was only a mediocre baseball player, and an average golfer. My point, every activity takes a different skillset but that doesn't change the degree of difficulty of each.

[KS circutguy]

As for more talent in Indycar or F1 over NASCAR, I don't agree. Two different types of racing with different needs.

Here are five things you need to know about F1 compared with NASCAR:
1) Formula One is a sprint; NASCAR is a marathon.
The Abu Dhabi race, F1’s last event, had 24 cars covering 190 miles over 55 laps on a 3.5-mile road course with 21 turns (right and left). The race took an hour and 45 minutes. There was one lead change.
The AAA Texas NASCAR Cup race in Fort Worth had 43 cars running 500 miles over 334 laps on a 1.5-mile, high-banked oval. All left turns. The race took 3 hours, 41 minutes and had 20 lead changes. There was time for a lunch break, channel surfing NFL games, bathroom pit stops.
ESPN’s television coverage sprawled over five hours. Formula One is neatly packaged into 2.5-hour TV windows.
NASCAR is like baseball — no clock. You race until its over. If an F1 race reaches 2 hours, it’s over. Whoever’s ahead wins.
Even the pit stops are shorter in F1, taking 3-4 seconds, while a full NASCAR stop is 13-15 seconds. And some F1 races have only one stop.
2) Do NOT miss the start of the F1 race.
NASCAR takes a bunch of warm-up laps and gets off to a rolling start. The first lap is an impressive display of thunder but is no indicator of how the day will go. Good cars routinely come up through the pack.
F1 cars begin from a dead stop. Once those five red lights in the tower turn off, it’s chaos, with cars zigzagging for position while accelerating from zero to 100 mph in a few seconds. At Abu Dhabi, co-favorite Mark Webber got off to a terrible start, was passed by four cars and was toast for the day. Two guys crashed out; several others had their fate pretty much sealed by slow starts.
3) F1 is a game of finesse; NASCAR gets physical. Stock cars are like tanks compared with the F1 jitterbugs. In NASCAR, it’s bump and grind and three wide at times.
At TMS, Brad Keselowski and Jimmie Johnson, the two championship leaders, pushed on each other’s fenders in the closing laps. At Phoenix on Sunday, drivers and crews even came to blows. After Jeff Gordon wrecked Clint Bowyer in retaliation for previous sins, Bowyer and company fought with Gordon’s crew.
It was great theater, but you’d never see that in the highbrow world of F1. You also seldom see any bumper pool; the light, aerodynamically sensitive F1 open-wheel cars just aren’t built to take it.
4) The best car vs. the winning strategy (and luck).
In Formula One, the fastest car almost always wins. At Abu Dhabi, Kimi Raikkonen passed Lewis Hamilton for the lead on lap 20. Ballgame. Qualifying up front is critical.
The longer NASCAR races have more twists and turns than a Stephen King novel. It’s not necessarily the best car that wins. It’s the car that has done best with speed, maneuvering, fuel mileage, pit stops and restarts after cautions.
At TMS, Keselowski had to try to win the race three times in the closing laps because of somebody else’s wreck or problem. Twice he skillfully beat five-time champ Johnson out of the blocks, but on the third restart, Johnson got the jump on Keselowski and pulled away to victory.
“I had to choose between wrecking him and winning the race, and it didn’t seem right to wreck him,” Keselowski said.
5) Showcasing drivers or technology.
NASCAR emphasizes driver personalities with colorful, combustible characters like Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch and the folksy charm of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Deep down, NASCAR leaders had to be thrilled with the Bowyer vs. Gordon dust-up. You know, any publicity is good publicity, and there’s nothing like a fight.
Formula One? Brilliant engineers and technicians all trying to outfox one another for that razor-thin edge that means a world of difference. You’ll hear about telemetry, slipstreaming, wings, suspension and certainly speed-enhancing technology like KERS and DRS, which allow for much more passing.
The constructors, or team, championship seems as important to F1 as the driver title.

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[Alvin]

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[PonchoV8]

She was also in Kindergarten Cop. Pretending to be Richard Tyson. HOT, huh?!