nascar's top speed when the engine is unrestricted should get around 220+

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, thats a very similar unrestricted top speed to F1 cars. Its impressive, due to NASCAR cars being heavier than their F1 counterparts

@shawntaylor2937

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders We got balls to the walls american muscle in those engines

@braxtonwilliamson8265

3 жыл бұрын

All I know is they have restricted plates because Cale Yarbrough learned how to do a backflip coming out of if turn 4 in daytona

@shawntaylor2937

3 жыл бұрын

@@braxtonwilliamson8265 he flipped because he was making engine noises with his mouth

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

@@braxtonwilliamson8265 lmao "learned how to do a backflip" that made me chuckle

The point you made about the cockpits of these vehicles being "cocoons" is 110% true. The chassis are built majorly with safety in mind, as well as the pedal area, & sides of the vehicles, where there is blue styrofoam fitted in between the sheetmetal & chassis. Not to mention, the seats are made custom-made to fit the driver, & also there are 6-8-point seatbelts & the HANS device strapped to the full-faced helmet to prevent whiplash in case of a head-on collision. In a lot of accidents, especially the ones you saw, the cars kept their integrity even when they were destroyed to bits & pieces. Goes to show that NASCAR racecars are the safest racecars in the world. A few things to note as well: -The crash you saw at 11:00 was Geoffrey Bodine's massive accident at the inaugural NASCAR Truck Series event @ Daytona in 2000. He would somehow end up surviving the accident, and race on in the sport for another decade before hanging up the helmet -You mentioned safety cars coming out in F1 grand prixs when big crashes occur, NASCAR does that, as with literally every major motorsport in the world. Instead of "safety car" however, NASCAR uses the term "caution" when the yellow lights come on to slow the field. Thing is about F1 & NASCAR, F1 is a circuit-based series, which means that when slight things happen like a short spin or debris falls off a car, you'll get a yellow flag signal by whatever sector(s) and/or corner(s) said things happen. NASCAR, however, is completely different. Despite the Cup Series seeing a total of 3 new road courses to the other 3 on the schedule for 2021, the sport primarily races on ovals, meaning full-course cautions come out, even for some small incidents. Those yellow flags at corners in F1 I talked about earlier? Those aren't done the same way in NASCAR on road courses, hell whenever a car goes off temporarily, drivers still race or even a signal of any kind isn't given. Big incidents only warrant full-course cautions whenever NASCAR hosts events at road courses. Both cautions and even red flags are more often seen in NASCAR races, and while it's obvious because car counts are larger in NASCAR than in F1, it's important to note because the different cultures of the two leagues need to be notified. One more thing to mention, NASCAR throws two mandatory cautions in the middle of races today because those are essentially used to give out mid-race points & create excitements on restarts. This rule wasn't a thing until 2017. - I definitely want you to react to more NASCAR-related content. Here's a list of NASCAR content creators that'll give you the best NASCAR content to react to: -S1apSh0es -Black Flags Matter -The Iceberg -Lewis Flockton -Jake Baskinger -RawGator -NasRushFueled -DannyBTalks -& RealRadman ----------------------------------- Btw I'm American, and although it's obvious because of the fact that I follow NASCAR religiously, I'd like to note that because there aren't as many people in the US that follow all forms of major motorsport as you'd think. I'm one of the few that do. F1 is something I love to watch whenever the race weekend arrives. Although there are some four events left on the calendar left I'm excited to watch, for many reasons obviously. I don't know how much you follow F1 on a regular basis but I want to know slightly, if you've caught up with the abbreviated 2020 calendar. I'd like to know simply because F1 is always a good time whenever it comes up, whether in conversations or alone time, or whatever.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the informative post! You've really provided a lot of background information regarding driver safety in the vehicles and crash protocols. It seems that yes, F1 and NASCAR share some similarities regarding safety car/caution. This makes sense - if it ain't broke, don't fix it right? I find it almost unbelievable that Bodine survived that crash. I was convinced he was done for. Unreal. Yes I follow F1 relatively closely, but only Mercedes and Red Bull. Its hard to keep appraised on the many different teams. Is there a NASCAR equivalent to Hamilton? Its interesting, because he's been dominating the sport with Mercedes for a while, a few people have started to claim its the car thats winning him the races, which I find laughable. Not to say that Mercedes do not have the best car - that would be disingenuous. But Hamilton has shown with McClaren that he can win a championship in a slightly average car. That said, it would be cool if Red Bull or Ferrari can really push Mercedes next season

@nascarnational

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders I don't think the safety protocols in NASCAR will be changing anytime soon. As for the F1 conversation, I honestly can't say there is a current equivalent to Hamilton & Mercedes in NASCAR at the moment. When looking at the Cup Series specifically, the competition is really close between the drivers & organizations that are capable of winning races in championships. *For example, Kevin Harvick accumulated some 9 wins in 2020, while his team, Stewart-Haas Racing, scored 10 wins in total, including Kevin's 9. Denny Hamlin was the next best driver in the Cup Series, scoring some 7 wins, while his team, Joe Gibbs Racing, scored some 9 in total, including Denny's 7. The last time NASCAR saw anything equivalent was when now-retired Jimmie Johnson & his team, Hendrick Motorsports, won 5 consecutive championships in a row from 2006-2010. And to note, there is no constructor's championship in NASCAR as there is in F1, although there is an owner's championship that includes the primary owners of each organization. I'd love to see Mercedes get a challenge from RedBull in 2021. It doesn't look like Ferrari will do anything special until 2022, so with that being said at this point I'm waiting on RBR to put in a new driver in their second car, since Albon looks as if he'll be out by season's end.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

@@nascarnational Yep, Albon looks done. He offers Verstappen no support in chasing down the Mercs and is leagues behind Max. Max is so fast though, probably tied for fastest with Hamilton and maybe Leclerc. There is talk of Red Bull promoting their young Japanese F2 driver, but i think it would be more sensible to go for someone experienced like Perez, after the misfires in Albon and Gasly

@nascarnational

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Either Perez or Hulkenburg. Sergio would likely be the better option overall since he brings the money. It's a big tossup between those two because I feel like that they offer a similar level of talent that's sought after. We'll see how it goes down, at this point it may be just a matter of when, ya know

@thecouch4702

3 жыл бұрын

I follow nascar, f1 and soccer/football pretty closely. I would like to see the field is more equal than in f1, owing to the fact that the cars are more spec than in f1, where mercedes is WAY ahead of everyone else. There are still slow, unreliable backmarkers, but there are also more competitive cars than in f1. Also, when cautions come out, here is the process. The cars that need to pit do so under caution. Then after a few slow laps, they stack them up 2 by 2 like they are starting the race again, hence the term "restart". I also must note that this video makes it seem like there are huge crashes every few races, but remember that this was a collection of some of the worst crashes over 30 years. And some tracks are higher speed than others. Daytona and Talladega are the only tracks in which drivers are always full gas all the way around. Because the way the engines are restricted at these tracks, the field bunches up, allowing for huge crashes and flips. Meanwhile at other tracks, its way less chaotic.

Also surprisingly nascar hasn’t had a driver die since Dale Earnhardt Sr in the 2001 Daytona 500

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thats an amazing record to be fair

@TalladegaNight

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders A driver in the NASCAR Modified series was killed this last year at a short track. tragically

@theotherside4998

3 жыл бұрын

@@TalladegaNight But not in the Cup Series, fortunately. RIP for the guy tho.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

@@TalladegaNight Ah man, that's terrible. RIP

@danielsnyder12

3 жыл бұрын

@@TalladegaNight the shawn balluzo wreck at langley speedway when he flipped and hit the turn 2 wall head on and passed away at the hospital cause of his injuries?

None of the crashes were fatal, as hard as that is to believe.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable. I was convinced that I'd just watched two drivers die. A fantastic testament to the engineering of the cars

@Tyfu39944

3 жыл бұрын

Safety has for a long time been the utmost importance in nascar, especially with the death of Dale Earnhardt “the Intimidator”

@RyTrapp0

3 жыл бұрын

For as much as everyone wants "REAL stock cars", based on production cars - the reality is that the cars are what they are today because of the way the racing is. To "modify a production car" to do this would only end up in the same result, there wouldn't be any production car left.

@rdfox76

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders The worst crash with the truck, the one you said was the worst crash you'd ever seen, was also the only one to cause serious driver injury. The rate at which the SAFER barrier (the "double-layer" barrier you might see around the walls on the ovals in the more recent footage) was adopted was driven through the roof by Dale Earnhardt's death in a seemingly-innocuous crash in the 2001 Daytona 500; SAFER barriers are sort of like a variation on TekPro barriers used in F1, but intended for heavier cars on oval tracks, and offer about the same cushioning as a good tire barrier at an F1 track. Michael Waltrip (the first one to hit the gate at Bristol and cut his car in half in that compilation) once said that it's amazing how much it helps, and that when you crash into one, "it doesn't hurt," compared to the bare concrete walls that predominated at ovals before 2001.

@LB1973

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdfox76 Yeah the Geoffrey Bodine injury list from that crash reads like a medical manual, broken vertibrae, wrist, cheekbone and ankle + concussion. Its certainly on my list of ' oh crap he's dead' accidents that I saw live where thankfully they weren't along with Berger, Stan Fox, Kenny Brack, Robert Kubica (Canada not rally), Ryan Newman last year and now Grosjean. Unfortunately I saw a lot where that fear was realised :(

The one at 9:54 where Kyle Larson hit the fence, sent 28 spectators to the hospital with one or two being critical due to being hit by a flying tire. All recovered.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I thought there would definitely be fatalities for that one. Such a relief!

@lillie1875

3 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing about that is, if Larson hadn't hit the crossover gate, I don't think there would've been much debris in the stands. His car basically went halfway through the fence before the fence started to actually do anything. The engine from the car was actually left in the destroyed fence.

@largol33t1

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders It's quite fortunate. Remember the horrifying accident at LeMans where Pierre Bouillin lost control of his car and it flew into the grandstand? Still horrifies me to this day. I think almost 80 race fans died. Just tragic.

@LB1973

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders I was a F1 fan that was actually at that race (did Daytona 500 in 2013 and Indy 500 in 2014). Was the scariest thing I've seen at a race track anywhere and sadly I've been in the stands for two fatalities. You could see from my vantage point the crowd being sprayed with Engine parts and clearly a wheel go about 30 rows back how no one was killed I'll ever know!

To comprehend why NASCAR even exists is to realize that it's the best form of oval track racing. Oval tracks get a bad rap sometimes, but they have an upside, while open-wheel cars don't make for a better race on an oval track. They can look tame and boring on video, but steep-banked oval tracks like Daytona and Talladega are inherently dangerous, and nearly suicidal to race in an open-wheel car. The upside of oval tracks is they produce the fastest races. Viewing the entire track at once (in person) offers a certain perspective of speed that can't be captured on video, and logistically speaking, can only be seen from high in the stands at a oval track. The other great thing about an oval track is standing near the wall along the backstretch seeing a "flyby" close up, it's truly amazing and a pack of screaming Cup cars is louder than you'd imagine. And while it's just an aesthetic bonus, no race engine ever sounded sweeter than an unrestricted NASCAR 5.8L V8 .

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. This somewhat validates my belief that watching a race live will be infinitely better than watching it on TV, you get a real appreciateion for the speed and noise of the cars. I'd love to catch a live race sometime. How much to good tickets usually go for?

@xxxYYZxxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsidersThe important thing about a live race isn't that it's necessarily so great to watch, but so that when you see races on video, you have a more realistic reference point. The size of large oval tracks is tremendous, as they're the biggest arenas ever built for sporting events. When you sen see how big the venue is, it makes the cars look much faster than through a zoom lens on video, where you can hardly tell if they're going 80 or 180.

@Drkfire_Yt

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders dude watchin a race on tv or video is nothing to real life ive nvr seen a nascar race irl but ive seen quite a few dirt track races an thise dirt track races live r so fun just watchin the cars fly around the track( pretty short track btw) an hearing those engines is surreal the atmosphere is so much btr then evr watchin evn nascar or f1 on tv or vid

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

@@Drkfire_Yt Yeah man, nothing like hearing that engine roar past you from like 20 meters away. I went to the Silverstone F1 circuit and hearing those beasts scream as they go past you at 180mph is unreal

@geoffreykoleff2297

3 жыл бұрын

Never been to a nascar race but four times I have been on the track before the grid and on pit row for engine start up through about the first 10 laps in Indy for the 500 before heading to the seats. That roar and power in your bones as they ramp up to 225-230 for green flag is incredible too and 9 degrees felt crazy walking on the track in the turns, I can't imagine 33. I definitely recommend a trip to Indy for any race fan that hasn't been.

9:41 this driver was fine too. Literally just undid his belts and stood up.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy

@RetroGamerr1991

3 жыл бұрын

Probably the easiest time Mike Harmon has ever had getting out of a cup car.

@LB1973

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Its worth just looking up that Mike Harmon crash on its own as its unreal how he walked away.

@thomasfletcher4765

3 жыл бұрын

@@RetroGamerr1991 that was Michael Waltrip in that crash .

@RetroGamerr1991

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasfletcher4765 no that was Mike Harmon. Waltrips crash happened over a decade earlier. They finally removed that gate after Harmon's crash.

What a totally great and genuine look of amazement on ur face Kabir. It may surprise you, but I believe that there is actually another video of out there where there are even more insane accidents than the ones in this video. Priceless reaction tho. Whenever these NASCAR's get turned around the will go airborne due to their design. NASCAR is Very much a regional sport here in the US. Popular mainly in the southern and midwest United States where it originated. There is a bit of strategy in NASCAR and many of these drivers are part of the team that work together to win or place near the lead. I'm really enjoying your channel. Rich in Seattle😎😎😎

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words Rich :), I'll have to find the video you're talking about, because I can't imagine seeing crashes worse than these ones! These were insane, particularly the one with the drunk that goes airborne and takes out the steel wall and then catches fire. People have mentioned that after most of these crashes, the drivers walked away relatively unscathed! Unbelievable

@tonypapas9854

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Please do. This video is actually really tame.

I just watched you react to the biggest hits in the NFL. Think of NASCAR as the NFL on wheels. Nicely done on both reactions!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching mate! Hopefully next year when everything has blown over I'll fly over and watch a NASCAR race and catch an NFL game live. Live games always provide an experience ypu cant really capture on TV

@Ashley-jp4nn

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders NFL stadiums and race tracks look way smaller IRL than they do on TV (not that that’s a bad thing). Definitely a different vibe especially with a packed house!

@RyTrapp0

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders If you ever go to an american football game, make it a big college rivalry game before an NFL game(I mean, the Superbowl is on its own level of course). I'm not a big college football fan myself, but there's no doubt that college football games are the biggest parties in sports - you don't go to see a game, you go to party hours before the game, watch the game, and party hours after the game! It's wild! Also, if you're gonna go to a NASCAR race, then you've gotta go to an NHRA drag race too so you can experience what two 11,000HP Top Fuel cars are like when they leave the starting line wide open. Pro Mods are pretty wild too, they're the fastest 'door cars'(full body cars with door openings and suspension front & rear - not rails like top fuel and not flip top bodies like funny cars, which are basically just really short rails underneath, axles fixed to the frame) on the planet, 2500-4000HP, high-5 seconds in the 1/4 mile at 250MPH. May even got to see Top Fuel Harleys too, they're V-twin drag bikes that run on nitromethane like Top Fuel dragsters, and the riders are basically considered the craziest people in all of drag racing(engines that run on nitro like to blow up on occasion - and they're whole torso is over top of it) Stick & ball sports, motorsports, lots of good times to be had! If you REALLY want to make it an experience, you could try to come over around the time for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb or one of the other big one-off events like that. The Indy 500 may be one of the biggest things you could experience as a motorsports fan. I better stop while I'm at it, I could keep going LOL

This reminds me of how I used to play with my Hotwheels when I was a kid. :D

The points system used to be like F1, then it was changed in 2004 where the top 10 drivers in points are reset to 0 and compete for the championship in the remaining 10 races. Now it’s a tournament style system where the last 10 races are divided into 4 rounds with 16 drivers competing. Winning guarantees advancement into the next round and points accumulated by wins earlier in the season carry over to each round. So winning races in the regular season can build you a substantial safety net for every round. Each round, except the last one, consists of 3 races each, where the bottom 4 drivers in points are eliminated at the end of those 3 races. So it goes from 16-12, 12-8, then 8-4. Those last 4 drivers compete in the last race of the season for the championship. Highest finisher of the 4 drivers wins it all. I prefer the original F1 style points system, but I can’t deny... this system is entertaining and emphasizes winning races above all else. Actually we just crowned our champion yesterday! Chase Elliott :)

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the detailed breakdown mate! Yes I can see how your new system incentivizes drivers racing to win, as opposed to merely accumulating points. I'll look for some more great NASCAR vids to react to it looks a very exciting sport

@Christopher_TG

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders The playoff system is...not popular among NASCAR fans. Probably the most popular NASCAR KZreadr, S1apSh0es, put out a video recently slamming the setup: kzread.info/dash/bejne/omF7p897g8i2fKg.html

@katiebug4992

2 жыл бұрын

I met chase Elliot when I was 6 years old with his dad at a McDonald’s

Mark Harmon’s crash at Bristol in 2002 was the worst crash I’ve seen a driver walk away from under their own power.

Idk if anyone’s said this but at 11:23 he survived. There’s a video of the whole extraction of him and he was moving while being taken to the hospital. Crazy how he survived that.

The worst you saw, the demolished truck that took out the catch fence, was Geoff Bodine. It was severe; he broke several bones (arm, cheek, collarbone, cracked vertebrae) but was racing again the same season. The two cars that were torn apart on the short tracks, Michael Waltrip and Mike Harmon. That's Bristol, a short 1/2 mile track so the speeds aren't terribly high, these two incidents were around 90 to 120mph but both in exactly the same spot showed a dire shortcoming in the track design, there's a reinforced steel access gate there that's *supposed* to be locked in position with several heavy steel tubes dropped into sockets in the pavement behind it.... that somebody forgot to fully place. Both cars blew through the gate and hit the edge of the concrete wall head on and were ripped completely apart. But here's the interesting part... neither driver was injured, through sheer inexplicable luck. Both were able to stand up and walk off after various bits of broken car were lifted off of them. And when I mean the cars were ripped apart, I mean fully. Both of them had their feet on the track when the car stopped moving, neither of them had a dash or steering wheel in front of them anymore. Michael's roof was *beside* him. EDIT: Ah, right. After the second gate incident the track completely changed layout and put in an access tunnel while completely encompassing the outside with stands. It's a racetrack that's pretty much also a supersized stadium...

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Holy cow, Geoff Bodine is a machine! I thought he might have died after that. The safety mechanisms in that car must be excellent because that car was totalled! Those 90 & 120mph crashes were insane too, incredible fortune by the drivers to leave unscathed!

@ryansheehan9462

3 жыл бұрын

Just to add to this, Bodine also came back Daytona and finished third in the 500 two years later

@mfree80286

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryansheehan9462 Geoff Bodine's one of those hidden badasses of the sport. You'd never think it just looking at the guy, but to heal and rehab that quickly to get back into racing shape... not just seat-warming but *competitive* racing shape, that's absolutely brutal.

@ryansheehan9462

3 жыл бұрын

@@mfree80286 agreed. Much like Ryan Newman this year, anybody who was watching or participating in that race surely thought they had just seen a fatality. I vividly remember my mom was working out while watching that race, and when Bodine crashed she stopped mid-push-up and starting to tear up.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

@Drew2400 I need to check that out

Whenever I see his intro start in a car I always think he’s about to freestyle rap to a beat

geoffrey bodine's wreck was crazy

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Yep it was crazy, that car was totalled

Part of the reason for these "big one" wrecks of 5-10 cars is a phenomena at certain tracks called "pack racing". There are some superspeedways that are so fast that when drivers drive at full speed, a vacuum forms in the wake of the car that creates a huge amount of drag. To compensate, drivers will bunch up and follow one another bumper to bumper, as two cars driving together like that will actually go faster than one car alone. The result is that all the cars in the race are bunched up in a single pack with chains of cars bumper-to-bumper with one another rather than spread out with each car monopolizing its track position. Fans love pack racing as its a lot of intense wheel-to-wheel action. Team owners, though, haaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Why? Because all it takes is one, just one driver making a slight error at a turn or overtake and suddenly half the field is taken out in a 10 car pileup.

@masonsteele1674

Жыл бұрын

It's hard to have a 10 car pile-up with an eight car field. 😉

I’m enjoying your content. Keep up the great reactions!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate!

You should watch some videos about the Battle at Bristol college football game between the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech that was held at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, TN. They transformed the track from racing on Sunday/Monday the 20th/21st of August to playing football on September 16th.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I'll try to find a good vid of it to put on my list!

Yes, we have similar flags to F1. The yellow is a caution flag, and drivers will drive behind the pace car with caution laps being counted. A red flag effectively pauses the race. They’ll stop the cars usually wherever they are when the flag comes out so no laps are being run. Also, most nascar races are ovals, but we do have road courses. They even added a bunch more to the schedule for next year, including COTA! But if you’re going to see a race in person, I’d recommend a short track or a superspeedway. They’re very different races, but those tracks usually provide the most entertainment. And yes, the cars have roll cages, along with numerous other safety precautions, from the seats to fire suppression systems. Safety has come so far and no one has been seriously hurt in so long that it was actually quite surprising when Ryan Newman went to the hospital after this past Daytona 500. I was at that race. It was insane. For hours we didn’t even know if he was alive or not. But before he was a driver, he was an engineer, and he actually recommended a specific safety bar for the roll cage. They actually call it the Newman bar sometimes.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for the information mate - there definitely seem to be a lot of parallels between F1 and NASCAR as to how safety and certain protocols are managed. It makes sense, adds a simplicity that will encourage fans to cross over between the different racing organizations

9:40 What's interesting about that full clip is that the driver steps out from that half a car almost completely fine. He was extremely lucky on a lot of factors.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Very lucky indeed!

@Kabir Considers I love the fact that you are one "reactionist" who actually takes the time to respond to comments. I love it! I love NASCAR, and F-1 as well, but sadly, I don't get to catch many F-1 races. My favorite racing series used to be CHAMPCAR until they were absorbed by The INDY organization. I do love INDY as well however. They run a series of oval as well as Road course races and are truly international with the majority of races run in the US, but several in Canada and iin Mexico as well. The INDY series is more akin to F-1 style racing. I really loved this reaction video. One really tiny complaint though. Turn the sound down on the video you are reacting to just a smidge though. It was a bit hard hearing your comments over some segments of the video. But seriously man! .... Liked and subbed. Looking forward to more of your reaction videos! Awesome.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the kind words Paul, it makes making these videos worth it! And noted, I'll make sure the sound of the video I'm reacting to isn't too loud from now on

That last crash is the one I told you about , the 2015 coke zero 400 , driver is Austin Dillon , crawled out without a scratch .

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I hope he thanked his lucky stars!

That last wreck the video showed made me change my season tickets. I used to sit behind the fence like on row 10 and when the car went airborne into the fence and parts of the car flew into the crowd... I moved my seats up higher in the grandstand. I didn't want car parts in my lap.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Out of interest, would you have gotten to keep any parts that landed on you, like as a souvenir?

@nancybrown4041

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders I imagine if the car parts were imbedded in your flesh then you could probably keep them...

Fun fact : the cars will sometimes fly over the wall before the catch fence was a thing

@masonsteele1674

Жыл бұрын

I'll bet that woke up the crowd ! 😎

To answer your opening question, yes, NASCAR races at different tracks in different states each week. Most races are run on ovals but they are starting to incorporate more road courses into the schedule. Especially since they are currently developing a redesigned car that is set to debut in 2022 that is equally suited for ovals and road courses with the switch from the four speed manual transmission to a six speed sequential transmission similar to the transmission used in the Australian V8 Supercars series, and the move to a single lugnut wheel with 18 inch tires over the current 5 lugnut wheel with 15 inch tires.

0:50 yes pretty similar 3:14 the cars have very strong rollcages in them so the roof doesn't collapse 4:25 yes if there's been a wreck the safety car comes out and the cars slow down and the yellow flag is shown, but if there's alot of debree on the track for example after the big one there's gonna be a red flag 6:21 it stops the cars until the track is cleaned up or the catchfence is fixed if someone went into the catchfence 9:43 no it wasn't it was just debree and the driver climbed out of the car on his own 13:11 all the drivers were ok with minor injuries except the truck one he suffered some broken bones and a concussion (10:58) 13:23 as i said earlier the cars have extremely strong rollcages to protect the driver

Welcome to NASCAR. You might be interested in the early days of NASCAR when there was very little safety equipment ( no fire suits driving in short-sleeved shirts, etc..

If you ever visit the other side of that pond called the Atlantic Ocean, you can pay for a track tour of race tracks like Daytona (in Florida) or Talladega (in Alabama). I live in Texas and took a tour of the Texas Motor Speedway. They put me in a car and the tour guide took it up to about 100 mph. The g-forces on your head and shoulders is INTENSE. The size of the track has a huge difference in how much pressure your body feels. Texas surprisingly is only 1 mile long while Daytona is over twice the size. Oddly, Daytona isn't an oval at all. Overhead, it's shaped like a D! And we were at HALF the speed of the race cars! Now I understand why some drivers retire after their eye doctors tell them their vision is all messed up. Sometimes it's worse: they have too much damage to their skulls from all those crashes or their backs are in so much pain that they limp around permanently. These race cars still use stick shifts so I wouldn't be surprised if one or two drivers quit because they were unable to properly change gears.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

A tour of the texas motor speedway sounds awesome! I love anything where I get to experience G's. I've put it on my list for when I'm next over, hopefully in the second half of the year!

8:16 the driver Michael Waltrip got pulled from the car and asked was his car alright, can I get back on the track!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

thats awesome! these cars are amazingly safe these days

The accident with the 18 and 22 had a very funny meme that was made from it. The heading was Candy Crush level 18 mastered! 18 is sponsored by M&M's candy. The red flag only stops the racing till the carnage is cleaned off. See Indianapolis Brick yard 400 2018. I think there were 4or 5 red flags. You call it a safety car, we call it a Pace car. It comes out during yellow and red flags.

When a wreck happens it's the same in NASCAR and Formula 1. The yellow flag is displayed, the drivers immediately slow down and the pace car (safety car) picks up the field.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I think its good that F1 and Nascar share similar protocols, it makes it easier for viewers to jump between them

The crash you said was the worst you've ever seen is probably the worst crash in nascar history in terms of damage and "he shouldn't be alive" factor for certain, not counting fatal ones. I really don't know how he survived that one, especially since that was before Dale Earnhardt died and nascar changed the sport to make it safer. Totally rank it the worst motorsports crash I've ever seen as well. I saw someone comment about "the day" the Dale Earnhardt documentary. It really is a good one!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Yep I think it was Geoff Bodine in the car. I was convinced he was very seriously injured

Fun (if you want to call it that) fact: The Ryan Newman crash in the end of the 2020 Daytona 500 (you know the one I'm talking about) the thing that saved him from death was the "Newman Bar"; he was pushing for it as a safety feature THE WEEK OF THE DUELS THAT YEAR. tl;dr, a safety feature he was pushing for 5 days before the crash SAVED HIS SKULL FROM BEING IMPLODED

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thats probably the biggest "I f*cking told you so!" moment in motorsport history

@glenbirdsell3555

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders no, it's when in the 2001 Daytona 500, Dale Sr. died, and THAT MORNING, NASCAR recommended that people were the Hans device. He said "I'm not putting my head in that noose." here's the kicker: the Hans device would've saved his life.

Yep, it takes a lot of spins, end over ends, and barrel rolls to dissipate the energy of a 3000+ lb. machine going 200 MPH!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Very true!

NASCAR drivers travel at extremely high speeds, over 200 mph or 322 kph. They accelerate so quickly that it takes them only around 3 to 3.5 seconds to go from zero to 60 mph/ 96 kph.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Quite similar acceleration and top speeds to Formula 1, the concentration levels of the drivers must be immense

@stphilomena911

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders the cars are also designed to turn left. On the straightaway, you're constantly fighting the car to stop it from turning left.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

@@stphilomena911 Oh wow I didn't know that, is that to help the drivers stay on the oval track?

@stphilomena911

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders yup, it's for the high speed turns. It reduces the chance of crashing head first into the concrete.

Wisdom from a former driver: Nowadays with the new cars, an airborne crash or even a serious injury resulting from a crash is rare. Examples of airborne/flips in 2020 include: -Ryan Newman: Daytona 500 -Ty Majeski: Daytona Truck Series -Kurt Busch: Yellawood 500 at Talladega -Anthony Alfredo: Kansas Autumn Race Xfinity Series -Ryan Preece: Kansas Summer Race Only Newman's wreck resulted in injury. Miraculously, Newman survived. The anatomy of the roll cage allowed for his survival, including a part he had invented himself: the Newman bar. Thank you for promoting NASCAR through your video, and be sure to tune in for the Daytona 500 in February!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for providing us with entertainment from behind the wheel!

Yes NASCAR and Indy Car both have safety crews. Red is full track stop, Yellow is full track slow about 60 MPH.

Yes every time there is a crash they will throw a caution flag everybody has to slow down to 55 miles an hour on track and follow the pace car while the people in the rack are being attended to by the ambulance and safety crew.

In almost every one of these crashes, with just a couple of exceptions, the driver walked away without a scratch. That last crash where Austin Dillon's car was already smashed and on his roof, then got hit by Brad Keselowski, Dillon was pulled from the car, waved to the fans and walked off unhurt. Since Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001 (the last fatality to date), safety has become NASCAR's primary concern. The points system championship used to be the case in NASCAR as well, but that was changed to a "playoff system". The last 10 races of the season are now a tournament where only the Top 16 drivers can still win the championship, but ALL the drivers are still driving in each race, so it's still a full 40-car field. A win during the regular season guarantees you a spot in the Top 16, with the remaining spots going to the non-winners on the basis of points earned thru the season. During the tournament, after three races, four drivers are eliminated from the tournament pool so that in the final race, only four still have a shot at the title. The driver out of those four that finishes ahead of the other three wins the title. There are a LOT of long-time fans (myself included) that wish NASCAR would go back to the old points system however. In NASCAR, they call it the pace car instead of the safety car (but it serves the same purpose), and the circuit goes into "caution" or "yellow flag" after a crash. If the crash is too big and leaves a lot of debris on the track, the race goes into a "red flag" and the race is stopped until the track is ready for racing again. The longest and fastest oval tracks (most notably Daytona and Talladega, as well as Atlanta and Texas) are noted for having major wrecks in basically every race, usually referred to as "The Big One", often taking out about half of the field in one crash. The biggest most recent crash was on the final lap of the 2020 Daytona 500, in which driver Ryan Newman was knocked unconscious and his car was on its roof and on fire. 48 hours later, he walked out of the hospital with nothing more than a concussion.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

The amount of time that has gone into the engineering and safety systems of these cars is paying dividends. I was convinced that a few of these drivers would have serious injuries!

@larrywt656

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Exactly. You should check out Michael McDowell's qualifying crash at the Texas Motor Speedway a few years back. I was there and standing about 100 yards away when it happened. I was convinced I had just watched a driver die. Instead, he got out of the car and walked away with only a sprained ankle!

The cars are aerodynamic going forwards. It is when they spin and go backwards at those speeds that they lift off. And those roof flaps are there to try and negate that lifting off, but at those speeds, well, you see the results. And the worst are when they are restarting after a flag, because that is when they are packed so close together, and if one of the cars in front goes, it tends to take a lot of others with them.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for breaking this down for me Helmut :)

You did clue into something which is that NASCAR stock cars don't generate nearly the same amount of downforce as Formula 1 cars. This makes them very twitchy and unstable, hence why the only tracks where stock cars can get up to speeds that can rival F1 are on large oval tracks. It also means that when they spin out, they're very liable to go airborne. Luckily NASCAR's implemented some aerodynamic flaps that pop up when a car gets out of its normal driving speed that helps reduce the odds of flying. Still, it can happen.

There were fan injuries in some of those crashes. When a car gets up into the catch fence parts go flying into the stands.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I hope nobody was seriously hurt

I would be more than happy to explain NASCAR to you and answer any questions just hit me up

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much mate

In nascar because of the constant top speeds drafting becomes a huge part of the race, that’s why you see a lot of them driving so close! Some of those wrecks were caused by the person behind getting a run and rear ending the car in front of them...

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I see, that makes a lot of sense. Cheers mate!

You asked about downforce, these cars definitely have some. The reason they sometimes flip is because, when the car is spun around, the spoiler has kinda the opposite effect and lifts the rear end up rather than planting it to the ground.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for letting me know

@PrideGoinNyooom

3 жыл бұрын

That was back in the early days during The Car of Tomorrow generation when they had wings. Now it only happens when a lot of air gets underneath the car but the flaps on top make sure that doesn't always happen

Not Sure if this was answered or not, but yes, NASCAR does have their own version of a Safety Car, we call it a Pace Car, to keep the Racecars at a specific pace before racing resumes. Also, most crashes bring out a Caution or Yellow Flag. This slows the cars down to a pace speed and continue to make laps while the crash is cleaned up. The lap numbers are also counted towards this. A Red Flag is rare and is only brought out in major accidents that pose a threat to both racers and rescue workers. The Cars will all stop on the track and wait until a safe path is cleared.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for getting back to me on this. Its fascinating to note the similarities between F1 and NASCAR, I wonder if it was intentional or just happened

It’s called a roll cage and it does exactly what it sounds like...protects from rolls and hard hits

Mazimo Ventura If was in point though. 😎👍

The wreck at 10:55 was during a race I was watching live on TV and my reaction was similar to yours. Geoff Bodine suffered some burns and several broken bones but he was back racing about 3 months later. Since around 1994 or so, Bodine has been involved in designing bobsleds for the US Olympic team.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear Geoff has made a full recovery! I was convinced he had either died or had life changing injuries. Happy I was wrong

@FH99

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders When I was watching the wreck live, I was certain that he was killed. I couldn't believe it when they showed him on the stretcher taking him to the ambulance and he was moving his arm. One of the pit reporters covering the race is also a doctor reported that he was conscious just before they removed him from what was left of his truck.

@ThatRacingKid1103

3 жыл бұрын

@@FH99 he only had 3 or 4 broken bones

These stockcars are some of the strongest and most safest cars you can drive. The power that the V8s these have are impressive and they're restricted too. I'm a jackman(pit crew member) and these big boys are fast and loud.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Whats it like working in the pits? I bet its pretty exciting

@Megacooler96_

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders pretty sweet. Very fast pace and stuff. I've been hit by a rookie driver a couple times which is normal. Its a fun job to have going about every weekend to another track/state. It does get a bit tiring but worth it. Meet many great people in this job including some famous drivers.

If you’d like to see the scope/scale of oval racing. Look into the Indianapolis speedway aka the brickyard. A 2.5 mile rectangle with an infield large enough for a 9 hole golf course.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I'll check it out, cheets mate!

When fifteen to twenty cars are taken out in a crash at Daytona and Talladega, they simply call on of those crashes, "The Big One." It's usually never a question of IF, they will happen at those tracks, but WHEN it will happen!!!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

20 car crashes are insane to see, fun though I must admit (assuming nobody is hurt)

Impressive thing about the 3rd clip where the 24 car flipped over. That was the first and only time the driver of that car flipped a car in a 20+ year career

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thats some really good luck!

For me the worst crash in NASCAR history is the one that killed Dale Earnhardt. I haven't watched a single race since that moment.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that one was tragic :(

For my comment below, I ran an energy calculator. The energy of a 3000 lb. car at 200 MPH is 40,00 foot pounds or 120 lbs. of TNT (among other energy units like joules, ergs etc.).

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a huge amount of energy!

@joannamcpeak7531

2 жыл бұрын

Love the pic!❤️

@lextek.

2 жыл бұрын

@@joannamcpeak7531 The one by my comments? well thanks!

NASCAR is one of the few full contact motorsports.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

It's epic and I hope they don't try and make it overly "safe" as time goes on

Nascar stats: Engine: 5.9l v8 Making ~900hp Weight: 3300lbs Fastest recorded speed: 215 mph @ talledega super speedway

At 5:35 you said that the cars look like they just take off. When the cars turn sideways at that speed, the little bit of aerodynamic downforce these cars produce instantly switches to aerodynamic lift. In 1993 Rusty Wallace suffered two massive airborne crashes so in 1994 NASCAR mandated that cars be equipped with roof flaps that deploy when a car spins to redirect the air flowing over the car and setting it back down, as well as windows in the passenger side door to keep air from entering a spinning car and lifting it off the ground. Sometimes the roof flaps don't have enough time to deploy or a driver suffers a "torque roll" where the car spins to the left, the driver over corrects to the right, and the car hooks and rolls due to the cars suspension setup not being intended for sudden right hand turns.

I've seen many nascar accidents. However, the scariest crash I've seen recently was Grojean's 2020 F1 crash.

At those speeds this type of car sucks into eachother because the air is less dense behind the car in front meaning you can go faster until your car starts to overheat

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Its fascinating how aerodynamics can change depending on the speed of the vehicles in motion

There have been far worse crashes in NASCAR if you can believe it. Some tracks can get 4 wide on a turn with inches to spare. Given that these cars are 3,400 lbs, they carry a lot of momentum. These cars can also wobble when following someone at high speeds and the car in front can lose downforce from the back end because of the air turbulence. You can literally spin a driver without even touching their car. The cars are also very aerodynamic and one dint can ruin a race for a driver.

9:43 Don't worry, that's just a bit of sheet metal. 13:00 The fence actually held, and tore Bodine's truck up. The only wreck I can think of in NASCAR where fencing has been ripped from its posts is Bobby Allison's 1987 crash at Talladega Superspeedway, which actually led to NASCAR mandating the use of carbeurator restrictor plates to lower speeds at the fastest racetracks on the calendar (Daytona International Speedway, where the last two wrecks in the video happened, as well as Talladega). 13:30 The cars have a roll cage, much like touring cars and sports cars (not to mention foam padding between the shell and the roll cage that the Car of Tomorrow [Gen 5 car] had). It takes a lot to harm the integrity of the roll cage. The only wrecks I can think of where that has happened both happened to the same driver, Ryan Newman. At the fall Talladega race in 2009, he spun backwards, the rear wing (that was thankfully taken off in 2010) produced enough lift for him to flip, and he landed on the nose of Kevin Harvick's car, then slid back across the track, hit the wall, and ricocheted back across the track, dug into the grass, and flipped. The roll cage was slightly caved from all the flipping, but it was just enough that he had to be cut from his car (not because of any driver injury, but just because he's stockier than most drivers, and couldn't fit through the window opening). This year, in the Daytona 500, he flipped on the final lap after a bump draft gone wrong, was hit upside down by Corey LaJoie in the driver's side, flipped again, landed on his roof, skidded a couple hundred feet, and had to be cut from his car and taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation (luckily, he was out a couple days later, but it was still a few harrowing hours while we fans didn't know whether he was going to survive [they had surrounded the car with black curtains while they were extricating him, which gave many longtime fans, including myself, flashbacks of Dale Earnhart's fatal crash]). The actual part that probably saved Newman's life this time around was his own suggestion to add to the Gen 6 chassis, which is a second bar across the top of the windshield, called the Newman bar (Newman's probably the best-educated driver on track, with a B.S. in engineering from Purdue University).

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for all the info! Its comments like yours that help me build my knowledge of the sport :)

The last wreck in the video was July 4th race in 2018. I was there in Daytona. It happend at about 2am july 5th. July 4th was a rainy day. The window opened around 10pm central time 11 eastern. They started the race and raced into the night. Dalr Jr. Won that race.

Indy and Formula one cars are built to "break" apart on impact to slow them down. Nascars are built to absorb or withstand impact. You should watch some NHRA (Drag racing) mishaps certain classes of these "Vehicles" reach over 300mph in a quarter mile.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate, I'll try to find som eNHRA vids that KZread is okay with me reacting to, they are getting pretty militant these days

If you like reacting to these NASCAR videos, you should react to uncensored NASCAR radio chatter!

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll try to find a good one to react to!

Statistics will say only 27 cars were involved in the 7:41 but many fans state 33 cars were involved in the wreck, known as The Big One.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Either way thats a huuuuuge number involved in one crash, insane!

That wreck at 9:35. It was during practice laps and someone didnt latch the gate correctly. Car got cut in half right down the middle. No idea how, but the driver DID walk away from the crash.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable. I don't know if it's the engineering or just plain luck, but after seeing that I would've bet money the driver was injured

@Andr3wE

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders here's the story if you're interested. I honestly think a lot of it is luck. speedsociety.com/15-years-ago-mike-harmon-walked-away-from-this-devastating-wreck-at-bristol-motor-speedway/

When there is a wreck a cation flag ( yellow flag) is displayed. And the pace car comes out and paces the field at like 45 mph. If it's a big or major wreck a red flag may be displayed and the field stops on another part of the track

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for explaining this Caleb

I suspect with the older 2012-14 engines and current aerodynamics they should be capable of 230-240 mph on the bigger ovals. They used to be making over 1000 hp with ~360 cubic inch engines before they limited them to 750 today.

NASCAR takes safety very seriously with full roll cages, foam blocks between the door panels and the side roll bars, steel and foam energy reduction barriers, etc. NASCAR has not had a driver die since 2001 when Dale Earnhardt Sr died in a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500

The majority of the death in serious injuries in NASCAR were pre-safer barrier. Formula One cars Indy cars and most other Open wheeled vehicles are designed to separate and to absorb the crash as much as possible before the driver himself is put in danger. NASCAR did not have any crumpled areas on their vehicles because these guys have a tendency to ram each other, bump each other, or just flat out destroy each other's car to get another spot or to get revenge for something to happen either earlier in the race or at a previous race. But that also meant when the drivers hit the wall there was no crumpling of the vehicle and driver took majority of the impact to where we had a large amount of head and neck injuries and deaths related to head injuries. The last major one I can think of at the top of my head was Dale Earnhardt. He refused to wear the halo brace which is believed to could have saved his life. Being old school driver, he wanted just enough safety to race with enough danger to prove who he was. Shortly after his death some scientists along with, I believe it was, the state of Nebraska University that developed the safer barrier system that we use today. Quite a few the accidents today the drivers are able to walk away from with very little bruising in comparison to the past where they would have had rib damage, broken collar bones, broken ankles etc. Glad you enjoyed the NASCAR. You get a chance to watch NASCAR and take a look at how the drivers work against each other or with each other and look at some of the rules we have here at comparison to formula 1, you'll see that gentleman is not a word known well among NASCAR drivers. Most of the guys, if given the chance, would push your nose around with their fist as well as putting you in the wall. Then go out fishing with you on Monday. It's nature of our racing here.

Yes there is a yellow and red flag situation, where yellow slows the field to pit road speed, and red flag stops the race

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Nice, thanks for confirming this

Nice videos

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate :)

Also when you talk about how the air goes underneath the cars and just picks them up ur spot on. Because they aren't designed to face backwards at that speed the aerodynamics of design combines with the air to send them flying. That's what those flaps on the roofs of the cars are for, to try and counteract that air effrct somewhat

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for explaining this to me!

Since you are an F1 fan, I think it would be cool to let you know that Kimi Raikonin made a couple of starts in the NASCAR truck series

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

No way! How did he do?

@TheMNrailfan227

3 жыл бұрын

Not that great

The Red Flag brings all the racers to a stop so the track crew can clean up the wreckage without having to worry about dodging cars coming around on a pace lap.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for explaining this to me mate!

@jondickison5802

3 жыл бұрын

If not real bad a yellow flag all slow down

The crash at 10:04 had made one dead and more than 30 injuries in the person come to see the race :(

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Man thats horrible :( RIP

9:36 Michael Waltrip, driver of the car that hit the wall managed to survive somehow. He is known as one of the most funny and charismatic drivers in NASCAR.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, do you know if he sustained any serious injuries?

@flyingjay2537

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Nothing serious, just a few scrapes and bruises.

@DPBGMODELRAILROAD

Жыл бұрын

His older brother Darrell Waltrip was one of the commentators in the press box covering this and had to stay there watching and hoping his brother was okay!

The reason they get airborne so much is because the cars arent built to go 180-200 mph in reverse So when they spin out the rear of their car lifts up and they flip over

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh I see

@CheezePlayzz

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Which is why in one of your videos... The 11 car had a little flap on the top of his car sticking up. Those are meant to keep the car to the ground if it were to spin out.

You should react to the compilation of pit crew stops. Their pit crews are as fast if not faster but do more and have more lugs to take off.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I've added it to the list, cheers!

@largol33t1

3 жыл бұрын

I also think you should type in the KZread search bar "biggest NASCAR fights" and see what comes up. It's fascinating how many times fights break out and they get just as bad as those in football! Fortunately, the spectators are far more civilized and don't climb over the fence and start rioting! 😁 Sure, some will get angry and throw a few beer bottles but I have never seen it get to the point where you have to call the police and start tear gassing everyone like with fans of Milwall FC! LOL...

To awnser your question about safety. NASCAR inforces that all drivers must have a safety harness and they also have seatbelts too.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for answering my question mate!

@CheezePlayzz

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Also, before Dale Earnhardt Sr died in 2001, the HANS device was not mandatory, that is a reason he died in that crash. The cars also have carbon fiber seats and have roof flaps which keep the car planted to the ground when it spins and is going backwards.

@CheezePlayzz

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders The cars also have a window net to keep and debris out of the car. NASCAR also has put safer barriers in most walls at tracks to make less violent crashes.

The wreck of the truck into the fence with the fire is the worst non fatal wreck in the series history. You should search for the driver interview in the hospital bed. He was very lucky to survive. Geoff Bodine, who now is one of the world leaders in making Olympic bobsleds.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

The Bodine crash was frightening. I was convinced he had either died or had life changing injuries. Glad to hear he's doing well now!

For the points system that determines a champion: The way you described is how most motorsports determine a champion including nascar until 2004, but as us americans like to do, we made it complicated and stupid. There have been a few iterations of what's now called "the playoffs" to determine a champion.

Just for the knowledge: the "shell" you were referring to is known as a roll cage, and yes, every single car in NASCAR is equipped with one. A lot of more custom street (racing) cars over here have em too when they can afford the work and such (racing was in parentheses since street racing is TECHNICALLY illegal, but some areas and some states in general are so big its almost impossible to enforce fully) ALSO, if I remember my stats correctly, you might want to look into the Isle of Man race; if memory serves its a once annual motorcycle race they do on... well the Isle of Man. averaged out, they have about a fatality a year due to the course and the speed at which they do. Lovely location with an INTENSE race

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Jeez, The Isle of man race averages one fatality every year?!? that's insane! I'll definitely put that high on the list, I cant believe this is the first I',m hearing about it.. cheers mate

@zacharyharwell351

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Sure thing! Also, to be VERY clear on the Isle of Man fatality thing: they don't ALWAYS have a fatality a year, some have none, others have multiple, but it's about a 1:1 ratio (hence the shorthand of "average" lol)

Having been born in Virginia, with family roots in Wise County Virginia, I grew up going to Richmond, Martinsville, Bristol, Charlotte, Darlington, Atlanta, Talledega, Nashville, and Kentucky NASCAR tracks in the summers. As any good NASCAR racer would say, "Rubbings racing." In other words, trading paint on the track is just a part of the race. Micro-seconds determine the winner in some races... Other races are determined by the car that has been lucky enough to not have any crashes during the race. The windscreens are made of a plastic called polycarbonate, which is better known by the trade name Lexan. The NASCAR windscreens must be able to withstand an impact from an oil filter shot at 200 mph at and angle the NASCAR windscreens are installed into the cars. The safer-barriers are a compressed rubber with fire retardant materials bonded together mounted with marine-grade rubber bumpers to absorb a larger part of the impact to dissipate injury to the drivers. The reason the cars have so much of a possibility of getting "airborne" is due to the loss of positive airflow over the top of the car, and increased uplift airflow under the cars. Since NASCAR decided to remove a specific rear spoiler from the cars, the aerodynamics has made the cars and trucks prone to going airborne once the tires of the car achieve 2" above the race track surface. NASCAR took away the rear spoiler due to teams adjusting the rear spoilers for more downward "push" on the rear of the car to allow dynamic traction loading to the rear-drive wheels. NASCAR officials said they could not control which teams were doing what rear spoiler adjustments, so... NASCAR decided to have all the cars and truck install a standard rear spoiler that does not allow dynamic loading to the rear-drive wheels. Not since Dale Ernhart's fatal crash has any NASCAR car or truck had an adjustable rear spoiler. Now, all NASCAR cars and trucks have the same standard rear spoilers. Every time a crash happens, the yellow cation is signaled, all cars must slow up and follow the pace car while the NASCAR maintenance crews clear the track of debris, oils, fluids, sand, and grass. Once the track is cleared, NASCAR signals the green and the pace car drops into pit row and the race cars accelerate to between 160 mph in the turns to 210 mph in the straightaways. If there are multiple heavy crashes, the red signal stops the field in the order the field was when they cross the start/finish line. Note, NASCAR cars are 3450 pounds and NASCAR trucks are 3750 pounds traveling at 160 mph in the turns to 210 mph in the straightaways, for 300 to 500 miles, in a circle, with bank angles of 12 degrees to 36 degrees.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for all the info Randy, its comments like yours that really help me to learn about the sport

At 9:41, if you look closely, you can actually see Mike Harmon stand up and exit the car

Enjoy your reactions.❤️

A lot of these crashes were many years ago, nascar today is a lot different, unrestricted these cars can easily get over 320 kph. However after nearly 80 meters of fence were destroyed in 1987 by a horrifying crash, they implemented restrictor plates that took it from around 900 to 400 horsepower at only Daytona and Talladega, this created very tight pack racing and the fans love it, since these will naturally be wild card races with nothing but slipstream. In 2019, NASCAR took cars from 750 to 550 hp and made spoilers about 7 inches taller to create this same kind of drama in a more tame sense on the smaller tracks. It worked only at certain places with less tire wear, and other places with more abrasive surfaces were made much more difficult to pass because of dirty air. Tracks under a mile and road courses remain at 750 hp with small spoilers

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, and you confirmed my observations that most of these crashes occurred quite a few years ago. I imagine that driver/viewer safety has improved drastically!

@russianbubbawallace8681

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders indeeed, just this year there was a crash where a car was hit on the roof driver's side and the driver, Ryan Newman, walked out of the hospital just 2 days later

its crazy bc those are 3400 lb cars being flipping like toys

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Its nuts, shows you how fast they're moving for them to flip like that

you're right with the backwards thing. The engineering required to keep the car down going forward leaches from its ability to go backwards. Think of NASCAR cars as negative aerodynamics once they turn 45-90 degrees.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

NASCAR stock cars are quite unique in a sense. They need huge downforce, whilst always turning to the left. Results in cars with very interesting aerodynamics

Each car has a fire suppression system.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thats pretty impressive

do a rally car racing reaction, i think the rally car drivers are the most insane and most talented race car drivers period

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers for the recommendation mate, I forgot about rally cars, I'll put a few vids on the list!

6:35 is about a 1.4 million dollar crash

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Yikes.. thats a pretty penny

3:50 thats my home states speedway

I wanna see your reaction to Juan Pablo Montoya losing control and running into a track cleaning truck. I forget which year it happened in but it changed NASCARS policies on cars and track cleaners being on the track together.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I just googled it, I think it was 2012. Man with the amount of fire on the track it looked like the gates of hell had opened

Yellow in nascar is cation red flag stops the race. Yellow flags last till all debris is cleaned up and then they are lined up 2 wide by position and the race is restarted

03:21 No. 24 (Jeff Gordon) co-owner of 48 Jimmie Johnson.

If you haven’t reacted to it yet, you should react to the day, February 18, 2001. That is the day in which one of the greatest racers in the history of NASCAR passed away.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reccomendation, I've put it on my list

@julian-zg3js

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders if you’re going to react to the day, i and many others will HIGHLY suggest watching “There Will Never Be Another Driver Like Dale Earnhardt” by EmpLemon. he put a tremendous amount of work into the video and is in my opinion the greatest video that covers the life of Dale Earnhardt.

From a performance perspective, the NASCAR level stock cars weigh in at 3400 US pounds. They're not light. While they are 'Slower', they're mostly just heavy. NASCAR's Fastest tracks (Texas, Atlanta and AutoClub Speedway until last year) see the cars get up to around 220 mph, but are very much capable of around 250mph if they were allowed to. To the contrary, Daytona and Talladega are NOT the fastest tracks in NASCAR - They're running on airflow restrictions which slows the cars down by cutting horsepower, so they get up to maybe 210 on these tracks, even though theyr'e MUCH larger and wider and would in fact allow the cars to get up over 240mph - If they thought the tires could handle it. You also want to take into effect that, while yes, they're just turning left *on most days*, the track itself creates dangers, as you saw with the Joey Logano (Orange #20) wreck. They go back up the track and eat wall. They cut a tire, they eat a wall. And they're hitting the wall with G Forces well into the double-digits. The tracks are now required to have SAFER walls all around and around the inside walls. SAFER is Steel And Foam Energy Reduction. They still hurt, but they hurt a helluva lot less than the old days of hitting pure concrete. As another commenter said, the cars have evolved for safety. Not just having foam padding installed between the body and side cages - The Halo Bar is similar to what IndyCar just recently introduced, but NASCAR has had for decades - There's a literal bar around the entire roof around the driver hidden under the body work. There are more bars, too, with names from drivers that either they conceptualized before it was needed, in the case of the Newman Bar, which is a secondary support just below the Halo Bar in the windshield, and saved his life in the 2020 Daytona 500, Search that one: 2020 Ryan Newman Daytona Crash, or the Earnhardt Bar, which is a bar that goes vertically from the dash/frame structure to the halo Bar and through to the rear cage. That bar was introduced after an incident at Daytona shattered Sr's windshield on track after, I believe it was a Seagul flew into the car. Either that or it was a tire hit the windshield. Either way, it flew into Dale Sr's windshield and prompted them to add that bar up the windshield. You can get a look at what lies beneath the body panels by doing some searching, but it's hard to know what to look for. A link to a website called macs motor city garage shows a 2017 NASCAR Cup Series cage and chassis design, which includes the Newman Bar. This will basically be the same until the new car is released in 2022. Nobody really knows what's under the skin for that car just yet.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for all this information mate, its really helping me build my knowledge base and identifying the similarities and differences between nascar and F1.

@rdfox76

3 жыл бұрын

The biggest reason for NASCAR keeping their top speeds around 200 mph is simply put... liability insurance. After Bobby Allison's crash at ~220 mph at Talladega in 1987 saw him nearly go into the grandstands and did tear down a quarter-mile of catchfencing, NASCAR's insurance company told them that they would lose their liability insurance if the cars were allowed to run faster than 200 mph averages any more. While there's always been a little wiggle room (witness the days when Michigan Speedway was seeing 203-204 mph average speeds), the fear of having a disastrous crash injure or kill spectators where the insurance company refused to pay a claim because the cars were too fast has seen NASCAR constantly work on keeping the cars slowed down ever since.