NationStates Jolt Archive

Which is your favorite motorsport to watch in person and which when televised?

Ive watched every kind of motorsport competition I could find televised. Ive participated in as many as I could afford or find a free ride in or needy pit crew or a course that lacked corner workers. In person the major ones Ive seen are

NASCAR: Winston West, Craftsman Trucks, Busch, and the Cup cars.

USAC: Indy cars, Indy lights, midgets, sprint cars (also WoO winged sprints) Pikes Peak

CART: CART cars

AMA All forms of roadracing from50cc amateur to Pro Superbike, Formula x and pro sidecars +vintage non AMA events. All forms dirttrack ammateur-pro.Short track, half mile, TT, mile. Speedway, AMA and outlaw nitromethane. All classes novice-pro observed trials. All classes amateur-pro motocross + vintage. Hillclimb. Bonneville and lake elsinore (not positive AMA sanctions these, they have a plethora of sanctioning and timing officials from everywhere) Also the 1/8th mile sand drags

SCORE: Baja 500, 1000, and Barstow to Vegas

FIA: Formula 1, Bonneville, and I swear Ive seen another FIA event but it escapes me now.

FIM: All disciplines of roadracing from when there were. 125, 250, 350, 500, 750, Superbike, Moto GP, supersport, sidehacks etc etc. Bonneville. World Outdoor Observed Trials

NHRA, AHRA, DRAGBIKE, NHBA. Everything from bone stock pintos to Top Fuel dragsters and Top fuel bikes and Top Fuel boats and nostalgia drags and Funny Cars.

Unlimited Hydroplane boats (Jet and the old 12 cylinders) and offshore cigarette boats and K boat waterski races

Air Races from the Texans to Unlimited. Sadly not at Reno. Yet.

Steamboat springs run-wht-you-brung city sponsored street races.

Of all these my favorite one to watch in person is the AMA dirttrack mile. Head and shoulders above the rest for me.

Televised I cant decide between AMA/FIM 600cc roadracing and a kind of Australian jetboat racing done in shallow muddy canals with ridiculously overpowered boats.

used to be f1

now indy/nascar

None. I dislike motorsports.

I like The Red Bulls Air Races
The Nextel Cup
Bush series
I also like to watch Go Karts.

mario kart is fun to play:D

mario kart is fun to play:D

My brother used to race Go-Karts. Now I'm not talking like your yard carts, I'm talking real modified karts that were build and design for racing. He used to race for the WKA. World Karting Association.

http://www.worldkarting.com/

Formula 1 because it has the fastest, most technologically advanced vehicles.

Something awesome with planes.

Either that, or lawn mower racing.

Something awesome with planes.

Either that, or lawn mower racing.

Then you will love the Red Bull Air Races!

http://www.redbullairrace.com/

Then you will love the Red Bull Air Races!

http://www.redbullairrace.com/

So...awesome... :D

I will be insulted, but I care not.

Demolition derby.

I will be insulted, but I care not.

Demolition derby.

Yay, cars smash into cars!

Yay, cars smash into cars!

The kind I watch is where there are two teams of five cars, and to win, one car has to make it around the track three times. So pretty much two cars try to sprint around the track while al the rest destroy each other and the ones racing.

Formula 1 because it has the fastest, most technologically advanced vehicles.
What about Top Fuel?

I like vintage drag racing (Super Stock, etc.) and vintage Trans-Am racing. I'm heading to Leguna Seca next year to see me some musclecars that can handle...

If it does more than 100mph, I'll enjoy it. Doesn't matter if it is on 2 or 4 wheels.

When I was a kid, and well into my teens, our neighbor used to drive a Modified on the small tracks in California. My dad was part of his pit crew so everytime he raced at Saugus Speedway, we'd get to go watch. Got to watch everything from Street Stock races to Demolition Derbies. The cool ones were when they let people do a timed set of laps in their street cars. One night, the 3 fastest cars were a heavily modded 57 Chevy Bel-Air, which sounded alot like the Modified Class cars, and a pair of lowered Datsun 510 sedans.

I miss those nights.

Too bad Saugus didn't survive the '94 quake.

Mine is a toss-up between F1, WRC and the V8 Supercars. I also quite like production car championships.

Back when I still lived in Germany I hugely enjoyed the DTM as well, but that's changed a lot since then. And Le Mans and GT Racing isn't on free to air TV in Oz, so I can't watch it.

F1, Touring cars, A1. Ive tried watching US motorsports, but the tendency to drive round in a big circle makes me kinda bored...i guess maybe they're better if you're actually there rather than watching it on tv.

F1.

Nascar

Nascar
Apart from the ovals, the thing that bothers me most about Nascar is that the cars are so....ugly!!!

Compare:
http://www.wikif1.org/illust/3/31/A4_DTM_2006.jpg
http://pix.crash.net/view/193760.jpg
http://www.jamesdean.com/images/products/nascar.jpg

Apart from the ovals, the thing that bothers me most about Nascar is that the cars are so....ugly!!!

Compare:

I hate that you cannot moniter the entire track at once. How do you see the crashes if they are on the otherside of the track.

V8's!

Mine is a toss-up between F1, WRC and the V8 Supercars.

^ that.