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- JMarine25
GTPlanet, this topic is about cautions. The oval racers are king at them. One person's front tires meets another car's rear tires... you know what happens. The result can be much worse. Pileups. Crashes. Fires. Those who know and love racing know what to expect from crash-happy oval racers. So what happens then? The cautions are waved. NASCAR has done something good- not race back to the caution, as defined by the "gentlemen's agreement." Heh, yeah. Gentleman's agreement. Has to be loophole after loophole.
To speak from a non-American that may have seen what American racing is like, one might ask "why do American races have so many cautions, or rely on cautions?" One time on the show "Motorsport Mundial," a stock car race in France was shown, but these were real stock cars. I think there were only a few cautions in that race. And by the way, the race was in a stadium and with the oval setup, cars kept rolling around until they either bang into a wall or into someone else.
I guess what I'm asking is, what is the big deal about having so many cautions to a race, not to mention ASKING or HOPING for cautions. Whatever happened to "race hard or go home?" My last argument was on passing, this one is about cautions. Reply away.
To speak from a non-American that may have seen what American racing is like, one might ask "why do American races have so many cautions, or rely on cautions?" One time on the show "Motorsport Mundial," a stock car race in France was shown, but these were real stock cars. I think there were only a few cautions in that race. And by the way, the race was in a stadium and with the oval setup, cars kept rolling around until they either bang into a wall or into someone else.
I guess what I'm asking is, what is the big deal about having so many cautions to a race, not to mention ASKING or HOPING for cautions. Whatever happened to "race hard or go home?" My last argument was on passing, this one is about cautions. Reply away.
