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!