Originally Posted by humancongereel
except nascar racers don't have to work to go fast. oooooh, you can point your toe downward on the gas pedal. now THAT **** deserves some respect...
sure, there's maneuvering, but track racing and nascar are about equal in that respect.
I call BS on this. I'm a car guy, I don't care for NASCAR... Formula One is more my style.
Strap yourself into a car, and run 200mph... 293 feet per second. 1 football field per second. Do this on a track like daytona that is about 45 feet wide in each turn. Banked at 31 degrees, I've tried walking up it, gave up.
Now, 200 mph... throw a car into a turn... where your going to fight 3 g's of force on your arms. Go 2 or 3 cars wide with inches in between them. Follow the same line each lap varying the entry point +/- 6 inches, hit the apex by the same margin and get back out... at 200 miles an hour. I can't hit an apex by 3 feet in a car... at 60!
Do it in 130 degree heat... for 5 hours. Drivers come out of the car dehydrated having sweated off ten pounds.
Care to have your ego stroked? A lot of formula one, Nascar, and Super Moto drivers and riders train on bicycles in order to think quick with a high heart rate.
You can think that all it takes is putting a right foot down, but I'd have to agree to disagree.