Talk:Stock car racing
From Academic Kids
"... equality of the machinery makes the racing closer and results much more of a test of driver and pit crew ability than more technically-oriented motor racing series..."
Must chime in here, its my opinion this is inaccurate, stock car drivers may be talented and rigoursly tested, but only really at one or two things, getting into position without crashing when the race starts and tailing the leader's envelope before jumping into a higher rank. For one, they do not have to deal with the much more difficult tracks like those found in F1 (ex. Monaco GP). I'm not going to even get into WRC.
Its not so much that you're exaggerating driver talent in stock car racing, but this entry badly trivializes the role ability plays in "more technically-oriented motor racing".
- First you seem to forget that a couple races are run on road courses in NASCAR. (The vast majority of races have simpler tracks, of course.) Second I think this comparison is mostly aimed at F1, not necessarily some of the other series. Do technical differences play a large role in, say, IndyCar or CART? Rmhermen 20:10, May 5, 2004 (UTC)
