2016 NASCAR Discussion ThreadNASCAR

[CCM284]

They need to do something about this grass. Just remove it already. You can always paint the asphalt green. Tough luck for Chase.

 

[Furinkazen]

The tri-oval grass needs to be paved over. It ruins too many cars with the splitter digging in.

Nah, the splitter needs to be removed entirely.

 

[Blitz24]

Any surface, other than pavement, would have caused heavy damage.

 

[AnthonyD1993]

Something tells me he wouldn't be so happy with that if Gordon was still driving the 24.

 

[Leadfoot530]

And, like Kyle Busch said, if we remove the grass and replace it with concrete, he'd only have to change four tires and he'd be fine.

But, no. "We have to honor our history and keep the grass."

 

[GTFan24]

They seriously need to take that grass out, or just take out the spliters

 

[Blitz24]

Shut up whinging with you silly vendetta.

You're asking a troll to be quiet. It does you no good.

 

[kolio]

Nah, the splitter needs to be removed entirely.

But really, it does suck that the grass ruins cars so easily.

 

[catamount39]

Everyone being salty about grass.

 

[Jahgee]

If pavement's there, Chase is sliding back up onto the track and into the pack, better to destroy 10 cars than 1 I guess

 

[ukfan758]

Nah, the splitter needs to be removed entirely.

Why not both? It's very dangerous when an accident occurs as cars cannot slow down if it's wet.

 

[Roo]

Nah, the splitter needs to be removed entirely.

It was.

By the grass.

 

[Northstar]

How could anyone with vision mistake a Chevy for a BMW?

Also, it sucks for Chase, but he deserves it for whatever it is that he did.

 

[Suzumiya]

Why not both? It's very dangerous when an accident occurs as cars cannot slow down if it's wet.

If there was pavement there, with the high speed crashes that happen at the trioval, the cars would be heading towards the pits or back on track

 

[Furinkazen]

Interesting pit entry.

 

[ukfan758]

If there was pavement there, with the high speed crashes that happen at the trioval, the cars would be heading towards the pits or back on track

True.

 

[Leadfoot530]

If pavement's there, Chase is sliding back up onto the track and into the pack, better to destroy 10 cars than 1 I guess

From what I saw, he wasn't sliding that fast once he hit the grass; he would have had to slide all the way across the tri-oval to make it back to the track, and I'm almost sure almost all of the field would have been out of the tri-oval by then.

That and concrete give something for the tires to grip. There's a ot better chance of stoping a car on concrete, where it has grip, than grass.

 

[Suzumiya]

Anything NASCAR does is basically a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, though, it's ridiculous

 

[Furinkazen]

From what I saw, he wasn't sliding that fast once he hit the grass; he would have had to slide all the way across the tri-oval to make it back to the track, and I'm almost sure almost all of the field would have been out of the tri-oval by then.

That and concrete give something for the tires to grip. There's a ot better chance of stoping a car on concrete, where it has grip, than grass.

No. Grass = more friction.

 

[ukfan758]

DW, please shut up, nobody likes your babbling. Let Jeff Gordon talk.

 

[catamount39]

From what I saw, he wasn't sliding that fast once he hit the grass; he would have had to slide all the way across the tri-oval to make it back to the track, and I'm almost sure almost all of the field would have been out of the tri-oval by then.

That and concrete give something for the tires to grip. There's a ot better chance of stoping a car on concrete, where it has grip, than grass.

Do you even physics mate? Grass slows them down, with pavement it'd be a straight shot back up to the racing line.

 

[Northstar]

If you were to replace the grass in the tri-oval you would also need another pit wall on the other side of pit lane. This would probably be more dangerous than the grass currently is.

 

[Blitz24]

Outside line has no momentum.

 

[ukfan758]

Do you even physics mate? Grass slows them down, with pavement it'd be a straight shot back up to the racing line.

My question is, if grass slows the cars down, why did they pave the backstretch and around turn 1?

 

[Eva]

My question is, if grass slows the cars down, why did they pave the backstretch and around turn 1?

Because on the backstretch at high speed it just flipped cars.

 

[catamount39]

My question is, if grass slows the cars down, why did they pave the backstretch and around turn 1?

Because it's a straight line and was an instant car flipping surface. We're talking about a banked tri-oval here.

Edit: Tree'd

 

[Blitz24]

My question is, if grass slows the cars down, why did they pave the backstretch and around turn 1?

Grass violently will slow the car down. Also, if it's wet it will do nothing to slow anyone down.

 

[The Bman]

You can't remove the grass. Otherwise, cars will crash at high speeds into the pit wall which has no catch fence and that would be extremely dangerous.

 

[GTPorsche]

Tracks shouldn't have unprotected pitlanes.

 

[Eva]

There's several examples that show that the paved backstretch doesn't slow the cars enough since a lot of them hit the inside wall. These cars are just too aerodependant. If you lift the car a little and remove the damn spoiler, the grass isn't so bad anymore.