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u/Notoriouslydishonest 1d ago
There's less than a second between when the finish line comes into view and when the race ends.
I know the cars are going damn fast, but there's got to be a better way to shoot that.
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u/Avadya 19h ago
There is. They did it in 2007… https://youtu.be/luhIFZE7Y-E?feature=shared
I know it’s appealing to show how fast these cars are, but sometimes broadcasters need to zoom out
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u/caughtinthought 14h ago
as someone that never watches this stuff... that was pretty wild haha gave me goosebumps
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u/Bar_Sinister 1d ago
Late restart obviously. But in any case, this is technically how I want all NASCAR races to end - everybody heel to the steel super tight.
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u/pretender80 20h ago
Why would you make the finish line around a turn and not in a straight?
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u/mustbe3characters 19h ago
When the track was built in 1959, they designed it with the curve in the frontstretch to make it easier for fans in the grandstands to see the finish line.
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u/Fatman10666 5h ago
To add to the other correct comments, there is no standing start in nascar so the track doesnt need to be straight or flat to start the race
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u/TheDblDuck 13h ago
Maybe my counting is bad, but I don’t see anything more than three wide, with first and second out front at two wide.
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u/Kush_the_Ninja 17h ago
I don’t understand how this “sport” is entertaining but I know there’s many who do like it. Probably much better to see in person, because on TV it’s extremely boring. To me.
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u/FitDingo7818 14h ago
It's like a lot of sports. Boring to watch. God damn fun to do. I've done close to 200 mph on motorcycles and cars on a track with the most advanced tech to keep me from crashing and dying. These cars didn't even have a speedometer
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u/bbbourb 1d ago edited 17h ago
Christ Almighty, who is driving the 12 and trying to block every line?
EDIT: WAY too many of you are forgetting it's a very frowned-upon practice to block that aggressively, it's subject to review by NASCAR if it causes a wreck, and if nothing else it might just get you your ass kicked in the garage or a bumper kiss in the next race.
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u/StickStickly963nyny 23h ago
You mean the guy that won be doing the only thing you can do that keeps you up front on a superspeedway? That number 12?
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u/buster_rhino 18h ago
So rude not letting other people win.
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u/RobertdBanks 18h ago
It’s illegal to do in most races. That’s how you cause collisions.
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u/lemaymayguy 17h ago
yeah I think it's safe to say getting hit in the bump is the trailing cars fault lol. Don't overtake if you can't make it without a crash.
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u/RobertdBanks 15h ago
A lot of people who know jack shit about racing here giving a lot of opinions lmao
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u/El_mochilero 19h ago
… the guy that won the race?
The guy trying to prevent cars from passing him? In a car race?
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u/Packfan1967 1d ago
Looks like a typical caution/white flag/finish to me. They happen all the time in NASCAR since all the new rules were put in in the last 15 or so years.
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u/notagrue 20h ago
Wrong sub, you needed s/therewasanattempt
There was an attempt…to make NASCAR exciting.
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u/FarAwaySeagull-_- Hendrick Motorsports 20h ago
NASCAR is exciting.
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u/notagrue 20h ago
Two plus hours of left turns only to take a nap and wake to watch an exciting final lap, sometimes. No thanks.
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u/reebokhightops 20h ago
Great news: it’s been decided that you will not be forced to watch or even comment on the thing you claim to be so uninterested in.
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u/FarAwaySeagull-_- Hendrick Motorsports 20h ago edited 19h ago
As opposed to the excitement of watching people throw/hit/kick a ball back and forth? It's easy to make something sound boring, but it's a lot more interesting when you look at it from more than just a surface level view.
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u/Lvxurie 1d ago
How hard can this really be if 21 cars can finish the race within a second of each other. Where does the suspense come in?
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u/Stump_Monster 1d ago
Restart with 7 laps to go and a drafting track. But it does some talent to run that close to each other at speed. The winner was in 12th with 2 laps to go.
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u/hoggin88 19h ago
I don’t exactly understand NASCAR. When there is a restart, does that basically wipe out all of the gains that drivers have made up to that point? Does it kind of make the race leading up to that point meaningless?
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u/FarAwaySeagull-_- Hendrick Motorsports 19h ago
It does reduce the time advantage that a driver has, but they still have the better track position, which is even more meaningful at most tracks than it is at tracks like Daytona.
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u/hoggin88 19h ago
It seems like such a strange concept. Like in track and field, if one person was crushing the field in the 10,000 meter, then they have to come back to the pack and restart with one lap to go. Maybe that’s an unfair comparison, I don’t know. And having better positioning would be much more important in nascar than in running, but it’s just always seemed strange.
Not trying to yuck people’s yum though. Whatever people enjoy, they enjoy.
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u/FarAwaySeagull-_- Hendrick Motorsports 21h ago
Ah yes, that's why they pay these guys millions. Because they are doing something that isn't hard.....
And races like this aren't representative of most NASCAR tracks.
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u/GooglyEyeBandit 1d ago
white trash superbowl
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u/FarAwaySeagull-_- Hendrick Motorsports 19h ago
I didn't know guys like Daniel Suarez and Bubba Wallace were white.
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u/jimbris 1d ago
Is that an Aussie commentator on NASCAR?