Ovals kick ass

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09/28/2014 at 20:07 • Filed to: None

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fuck the haters. This summer has made me a believer. We hit Stafford today and we're probably doing Mahoney Valley next week and Thompson 2 weeks after that. Now we want a camper so we can go every damn weekend. I never thought I'd be into NASCAR.

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Ryan Preece, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour winner. These cars are incredible.


DISCUSSION (19)


Kinja'd!!! mcseanerson > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 20:10

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No matter the reason for hating nobody can deny the superiority of the amount of chest thumping exhaust per minute.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > mcseanerson
09/28/2014 at 20:14

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The sound of these mods blasting around a half mile is crazy.


Kinja'd!!! ITA Hondaboy > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 20:15

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I've never seen a modified on an oval (a guy has one that races road courses with SCCA, specifically at Watkins Glen). He is super quick, like races with a race prepped GT2 Porsche and GT1 (Trans Am)cars. If I remember though, they have more tire, less weight and just about as much power as a Nationwide?


Kinja'd!!! mcseanerson > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 20:16

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I grew up in a town with one of these lower tier ovals and that is one thing that has always stuck with me is how that exhaust not just reaches inside you and shakes every inch of you. They were epic.


Kinja'd!!! Sweet Trav > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 20:17

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What's not to love about a pushrod engine turning 8k all day.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > mcseanerson
09/28/2014 at 20:19

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Yup, I'm definitely going to have some hearing damage later in life. Worth it!


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > ITA Hondaboy
09/28/2014 at 20:29

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Yeah, Tour Mods have 625-700hp, and they run generally the same displacement as Sprint cars, but they run smaller carbs so they are down on power.


Kinja'd!!! PS9 > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 20:44

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Don't you know it's bad internet etiquette (netiqutte*) to profess affection for things other people don't like?

*You are legally permitted to punch someone in the face if you hear them say this word in real life without humor or irony.


Kinja'd!!! BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 20:45

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Driving on them is pretty fun as well, it lets you focus on things you normally wouldn't on a road course, specially if it's a short-ish one where there's traffic but you still keep you foot down most of the time.


Kinja'd!!! Racing Archivist > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 21:03

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The Modifieds, and the local NASCAR Home track scene is great.


Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 21:35

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Stafford's a great track. I worked there for about four years.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > Dusty Ventures
09/28/2014 at 21:44

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It really is. Our local track is Riverhead Raceway, which is a dump, so it was a nice change of pace to see some of our favorite drivers at a real track.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > Racing Archivist
09/28/2014 at 21:45

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Definitely. The fans are very passionate and the racing is great. I'm glad to be getting into it.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
09/28/2014 at 21:47

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I would love to get on a track. They used to do "spectator drags" at our local track, where anyone could run anyone on half of the 1/4 mile oval but those days were before I could drive.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > PS9
09/28/2014 at 21:48

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I used to always hate on NASCAR, but I genuinely like it now that I've gained an appreciation for ovals. It's good racing, regardless of the lack of right turns.

And the Sprint race at Watkins Glen this season was just good racing, period.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > Sweet Trav
09/28/2014 at 21:49

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Nothing I can think of. Even the Legend cars running street bike engines sound good.


Kinja'd!!! The Transporter > oldirtybootz
09/28/2014 at 22:49

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Mile and a half cookie cutters are the slow death of NASCAR, but races on those short half mile tracks are like watching a knife fight in a telephone booth.


Kinja'd!!! oldirtybootz > The Transporter
09/29/2014 at 09:41

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Supposedly the Gen 7 Sprint cars will bear even note of a resemblance to the production cars, perhaps even using real head and tail lights.


Kinja'd!!! The Transporter > oldirtybootz
09/29/2014 at 10:22

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NASCAR bodies are like the Las Vegas's plaster replicas of famous buildings thorough the world. Everybody knows its a facade, Lord help them if they don't, but people go there for the show, for the entertainment, for the spectacle. If those people in Vegas taking pictures of the fake Eiffel Tower wanted to see the real thing they would have gone to Paris. They're entertained by the fake one because they know its fake and they know it's part of a larger show. Trying to make the fake thing look more real will only draw attention to its fakeness, to the process behind the forgery. People watch a modifed race on a short track because they want to see a cage match on wheels. People watch restrictor plate races around superspeedways because they want to see a 200 mph demolition derby. Making left hand turns for 500 miles around a 1.5 mile cookie cutter isn't a rolling cage match, it isn't a demolition derby, and it isn't a race, it's a process, a piece of scaffolding that was left exposed. The more they try to get a modern "stock" car to look like a real car by slapping on a realistic grill, headlights, and taillights only emphasizes the fact that they weren't there before.