14 Clips That Prove Nascars Do More Than Just Turn Left
Here’s Tony Stewart beating Denny Hamlin to victory at Sonoma recently in the Nascar Sprint Cup.
The final laps at the famous Watkins Glen Sprint Cup race in 2014 are prime examples of just how much excitement Nascar can throw up while turning both left and right!
One of the aspects of road courses that Nascar drivers aren’t particularly used to are gravel traps, which several cars found in this 2010 pile-up at Road America.
Watkins Glen in 2011 produced more final lap brilliance as the drivers and leaders battled, drifted and traded paint, also including an absolutely monster shunt.
AJ Allmendinger perfectly demonstrates just how tough it is to wrestle a Nascar machine around a road course.
We’ve seen some great scraps at road courses, and this one between Paul Menard and Ryan Blaney in the Xfinity series last year at the iconic Road America is a great example.
The 2012 event at Sonoma proved just how much drama road courses throw up in Nascar!
But just like at ovals, there are always plenty of incidents as drivers race wheel-to-wheel at high speed.
Allow some well-known Nascar names go through just how to tackle a road course in a Nascar beast!
They may not be consistently lapping at top velocity, but Nascars still reach ridiculous speeds on road courses, and when that’s coupled with a barrier or wall, it has spectacular consequences. Fortunately all drivers involved were unharmed.
Nascar’s Trucks series also hops over the border to Canada and this classic moment at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park shows Chase Elliott failing to pull off a brave overtake on Ty Dillon on the last lap.
Oval and road course Nascar racing is very, very different, so it’s no surprise some drivers struggle on the latter – Mid-Ohio is particularly challenging!
Nascar used to race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve street track in Montreal. Jacques Villeneuve put the characteristics of road course tracks to good use by tipping Alex Tagliani into a spin. Oops!
On the topic of Montreal, the 2009 finish was a real treat, with leader Marcos Ambrose making an F1-esque mistake at the last corner to give Carl Edwards victory!
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just because they actually turn right dosent mean their good at it. same goes for pleasuring a woman
Yea i dont see your point i know just doing something doesnt mean your good at it…..but they are good at it so your comment doesnt make sence in this situation
“Nascar can do more than turn left” they can turn right too.
you mean “Clips that prove Nascars turn right too.”
I can honestly say that the last nascar race that i saw was quite more intertaining than yasterdays F1 race.
Next you’ll tell me that BMW drivers know what an indicator is
To prove that NASCAR can turn, you show NASCAR cars crashing in turns? I like Muscle cars and NASCAR, but that’s funny xD
He only thing I find wrong about this post is the fact that Jake refers to the race cars as “nascars.” I get it, it has xars in the name but thats not what their called. Most people call them this and personally it feels cringey to me because it feels like no one ever tries to look up what NASCAR stands for as an acronym: National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. I understand what most of the US fanbase is comprised of (most are called rednecks), but the sport is trying to become moreworld renown like for example, Forza motorsport 6, Gt 5 and 6, and Real Racing 3 are examples of the sport trying to expand their reputation virtually. This post here puts down two major stereotypes, NASCAR stock cars only turning left, and muscle cars not being able to turn, both are cancerous because the rimors are spread like wildfire by oher auto fandoms and I feel extremely helpless in trying to say anything so that when I look at a car and like it I don’t feel like a laughing stock. I get that car humor exists and yeah I like it here and there, but when it gets turned into “law” like mustangs being hungry for crowds fro example, I can’t help but stay silent, otherwise I’ll just get yelled at.
One time I saw someone bring up the NASCAR name topic on the Canadian NASCAR series post and he already had about 3 or 4 downvotes because “heaven forbid calling something by its proper name.” I’m sorry if this post seems sudden and long but I don’t wanna be silent everytime someone names something the wrong way.
“NASCAR race cars” rolls weird off the tongue.
Tl;dr they also turn right.
I quite miss the montreal race !
So they don’t only turn left they turn right too? OMG
The AJ win in 2014 still brings joy to my heart.
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