Any AudiogoNers Winston Cup fans?

Slipknot,

I live close to Davey Hamilton's home track. It's actually only about 10 miles from my house. Many of my friends are circle track participants and they have been great help with my NHRA car. I don't follow NASCAR because there just isn't enough time but I admire the level of professionalism required to compete. The IRL, CART, NASCAR, Formula 1, Bonneville...there's just too much to take in. It's funny but performance car enthusiasts probably invented the synergy concept. Talk about ultimate tweakers......

Lugnut-
Bonneville and Black Rock are my other two performance car fetishes! There is something wild about flat out "how fast can you go" Gary Gabelich was one of my idols as a kid.

I have attended both NASCAR and Formula 1 races. TV cannot possibly convey the speed these cars run. The first time I sat trackside in a practice session and watched an F1 car go buy at 215mph I pissed my pants. F1 cars represent the ultimate in tweaking... eveything is computerized: traction control, launch control, automatic transmission shifts (count 'em 7 speeds), engine performance (V10, compressed air valves and 17,000rpm) and telemetry. Some teams even have engineers at the tire plants full time. They even make computer models of all the tracks to set up their shocks and springs. I also love NASCAR because the cars can bang into each other, and the wall, without disentigrating. No high tech here... they use old fashioned carburetors, fuel pumps, and 4 speed manual transmissions with clutches. If you go to a race, wear your earplugs... race cars are seriously loud.