So I think all of the clips you saw are from super speedway races, in which the tracks are so big and the banking so high that the drivers do not break and instead the challenge comes from running that close to each other. It's important to note that this type of racing only makes up about 4 or 5 races a year. They race at road courses as well as short tracks an intermediate courses which all come with different sets of challenges and provide a different type of racing. Just thought you should know. A lot of European racing fans think that what was shown in the video you watched is all that nascar had to offer.
I you want to see a legend in this sport Google search the name Dale Earnhardt Sr. He was killed in one of these races in an accident. Earnhardt Junior that those announcers are talking about is his son...
2:00 that’s called a blow over. It happens when a car takes off like an airplane. It’s going fast enough to fly. They go about the same speed that a plane would on takeoff but the car weighs less than the plane. If you wanna see this happen right in front of you, grab a sheet over paper and slide it across a smooth surface. It will do a flip. Same as nascar.
You are correct that NASCAR is pretty much only an American sport although they are trying to branch out into Le Mans but definitely WAY more popular than F1. NASCAR vehicles are based on production American cars and raced at top speed, the faster the better (usually around 150-200mph - 240-320kph). In the early days it was just modified stock cars, but these days there is nothing stock about them. Custom tube frames and thin metal bodies made to look like their real life counterparts. The cars are made to withstand some abuse so they bump into each other trying to get position and they also use drafting techniques and slipstream the air to go even faster, but they can also block by trying to move in front of them which causes the majority of these wrecks. These guys also have well built cages to protect them from intense crashes. It was REALLY popular from 1970-2000 but dropped off for a bit, now it seems to be making a comeback. Its really ingrained in our culture so much that there are movies about it. Like Days of Thunder ruclips.net/video/oPXL4_eZ4-M/видео.html and even comedy versions like Talladega Nights ruclips.net/video/YfGRg0FLxtE/видео.html and even cartoon animations like the Cars ruclips.net/video/W_H7_tDHFE8/видео.html
There hasn't been a fatal crash in NASCAR's top series since 2001. Driver injuries are usually very rare nowadays, but this year has seen an increase for some reason.
Last year too if you include concussions. It’s the current Next Gen Car, apparently it absorbs impacts more making is not the easiest go around for drivers
@@Wisconsin222 While the Next Gen certainly has caused more injuries in Cup, I'm also referring to the Truck Series having injuries more commonly as well.
Yes as others have said the next gen car hasn't been the safest, but it's also because social media is just letting us hear about the injuries more often. 10 years ago the national broadcast wouldn't bother telling us if a start & parker sprained their ankle but today Gluck or Pockrass will tell us about that stuff within an hour If you wanna go the conspiracy route, you could say NASCAR has been keeping ppl quiet about more minor injuries to save public opinion since Dale Sr's death, but once Dale Jr opened up about his own racing-related health issues it opened the door for NASCAR to be honest about that stuff
6:29 he was actually OK. He actually walked away from the car himself. This just shows how powerful everyone in the sport is. I love NASCAR. I’ve always been a fan of it.
The wreck at 10:30 was in the 2020 Daytona 500 and that was the first time I thought I'd see a driver die on live tv. And I've been watching for roughly 20 years. You might want to consider watching the Nascar Radioactive 2020 Daytona 500 video. It's highlights of the race, but with radio chatter and tv/radio commentary.
fun fact about that wreck: Ryan Newman had previously been one of the champions of adding a reinforcing bar to the top of the doorframe area of the roll cage, which NASCAR ultimately added. That reinforcing bar, which was already called the Newman bar, is credited as being the reason he survived that crash, as modeling showed that the impact his car took would have left him crippled or dead if they had still been using the old roll cage design. Instead, he spent 2 days in the hospital and then walked out on his own, holding his 2 daughters' hands.
The Last Fatality was in 2001 it has a 5 part video called the day we lost Dale Earnhardt is a great watch. He was the arguably the Greatest Driver ever but definitely a Legend!!!
Yes, we American's love our sports fast, violent, and physical. Wait until you see Bull Riding, NHRA drag car racing, and power boat racing. The cars in NASCAR can average over 321 kph. In the straights they can do over 360 kph.
@@Aiophgy Both are correct and have no need for rectification. What planet are you from? Every nation on earth either uses kph or miles. Perhaps I should use Lego units?
The first driver you said no way he's ok, the 3 car that went into the fence, he got out of the car and walked away! I remember watching the race live and thinking the same thing you did.
Whats left of that car is in racing museum near me. I was looking at it again recently and it gives chills. BUT, then look inside, the drivers cockpit is barely bent.
2:08 Those are aerodynamic physics. That generation of NASCAR race car had an emphasis on safety so even if it went into the air due to "dirty air" or an air disturbance, the driver should have sustained minimal injury. The cars are well over 900 kg (2000 lbs) and even though they are that heavy, at high speeds (200 mph, 300 kmh) like at this track, talladega superspeedway, they could easily go up into the air.
These two crashes are out of order, but you NAILED the rivalry with Carl Edwards (99) and Brad Keselowski (09). This crash started a huge feud between the two of them, with Edwards crashing Brad multiple times after that. In fact, the red 12 that flipped into the catch fence earlier in the video was Brad Keselowski. Edwards and Brad had tangled earlier in the race, and there were 3 laps to go. He was many laps down, and Brad was running in the top 10, so he retaliated and took him out. I was at that race.
Ironically and eerily Dales best friend Neil Bonnet lost his life the same way Dale did at close to the same spot on the track. Almost like Neil was standing there to greet him
The Last Casualty was back in 2001 February 18th at Daytona who was Dale Earnhardt Sr. all of the Crashes you have watched today no one died they managed to walk out un harmed.
Fun fact: The crash at 6:55 and 9:55 Were done by the same driver in the same year, only had a concussion from the first one, but the other one delt him a broken wrist and another concussion
The modern driver's seat in one of these cars or trucks is one of the safest places on earth. The roll cages are as close to indestructible as a man made product can be.
Even with all the insanity that NASCAR has for its wrecks, there hasn't been a fatality in the top division (The Cup Series) since Dale Earnhardt Sr. at Daytona in 2001. Sadly, the most recent fatality in NASCAR was in the Modified series back in 2020, where a wreck at Langley Speedway took the life of Shawn Balluzzo.
When you were asking if either car did anything wrong, the answer is no. That was hard racing for the win and nobody is lifting anymore. They push more, they get a little more out of control and sometimes(most times) there's a crash. I think if more people from other countries gave Indycar(the US version of F1, but much better competition) and NASCAR a chance, they'd would be quite popular. Indycar races a 17 race season mostly on road and street circuits with half a dozen ovals including the Indy 500. NASCAR has a 36 race schedule, mostly on ovals of all different sizes and shapes with half a dozen road courses thrown in. These guys over here are just as good at what they do as the drivers in F1 or Australian Supercars, etc, are at their sport. I personally believe auto racing is the best sport in the world and there's something for everybody. There's no reason we can't find common ground and just enjoy it all together.
3:40 drivers are backed by companies(hence all the stickers on the cars) which helped to rebuild new cars after a big wreck. Most drivers will have a back up car ready but a disabled car disqualifies you from the current race.
I was at the race of the very last accident. I was one section over. There were people getting wheeled out with bloody towels on their faces. The TV broadcast said "no injuries", but I saw it with my own eyes.
In the past 20 years only about 6 drivers died on the track following a wreck. In 2001 the death of Dale Earnhardt would bring in a series of rule changes and equipment upgrades, not to mention upgrades to the cars themselves. So nowadays it is rare to have a driver killed in a wreck.
Nah there has not been a fatal crash since Dale Sr in 2001. And most of these wrecks especially with the airborne ones usually end up with an unhurt and very mad driver
Just found your channel. Thanks for covering Nascar. I hope you check more than just the wrecks out someday. I will let you know at 6:30 the guy in that crash walked away from it and was ok to race the next weekend! The crash at 11:35 the driver involved was injured but raced the following week with his eyes taped open and finished in the top 10. Two weeks after that crash while his eyes were no longer as swollen but still showing the effects of that accident he won the race.
Check out Dale Earnhardt The Intimidator # 3. He was the greatest that ever Drove in the Sport. The ESPN Movie "3" starring Barry Pepper as Dale Earnhardt is a great Introduction to the Intimidator. He lost his Life in the final Lap of the Daytona 500. The Man Lived and Breathed Racing and became Legendary.
LOVE LOVE LOVE when Europeans see nascar for the first time! I’m leaving my comment where you just witnessed a blow over and questioned the physics. When the cars are going fast enough and get turned backwards they pretty much act like an airplane wing. They’ve invented roof flaps that pop up and mess with the air to sit the car back down. Shoutout to Coach Joe Gibbs for that one. I would say NASCAR is the reason F1 has struggled to get a foothold in the US. Our racing fans are overwhelmingly into this style of racing. Even our open wheel series runs a frick ton of ovals.
At 5:53 when there's a huge wreck and Dale earnhardt Junior just won they always switch to the winners radio immediately to hear them celebrate and thats why you hear an "on my god" over the radio. That was Dale Jr thinking someone died behind him. Especially heart breaking considering he pretty much watched his dad die in his rear view mirror in Daytona. He has talked about seeing that wreck behind him in thay rave and how shook he was
Tere have been several F1 drivers in NASCAR. Juan Pablo Montoya. Jacques Villeneuve. Kimi Raikkonen. Nelson Piquet Jr. Emerson Fitipaldi. And probably more. NASCAR is huge. Huge crowds at races.
Some of the races that you've watched were held at either Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida or the Talladega Super Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. Both tracks are the largest in the NASCAR circuit with Talladega being the largest of the two. They both have high banking turns at 33° of inclination which allowed the cars to run at over 200 miles an hour ( 321 kms. ) which forced NASCAR to enforce the use of restrictor plates on the engine carburetors of the cars racing on those two tracks ( Daytona and Talladega ), mainly for fan's and drivers' protection following Bobby Allison's accident at Talladega in 1986 ( there's video of that accident ).
I grew up in a family who raced dirt track stock cars for around 40 years, the grassroots level of American oval track racing, and raced myself. The tracks I raced on were dirt, not paved, and were less than 1/2 mile (804 meters) in length. The NASCAR cars are racing at 200 mph (322 kph), and when the cars get turned sideways or backward, the air just lifts them off the ground like the wing of an airplane at takeoff. Oval track racing is, by far, the most popular form of motorsports in the U.S. and Canada, and there are smewhere between 700 to 800 small dirt tracks across both countries. There are at least a half-dozen such tracks within an hour's drive of where I live.
The accident that you saw where the car flipped over the ones comming behind it happened in Daytona, and the driver ( Austin Dillon ) came out of the car, raised his arms and waved at the crowd to signal that he was 👌. He's still competing to this day.
I remember watching the Rusty Wallace wreck (6:50) live on tv as a kid. Dude not only got out the car on his own and walked away unhurt, he was pissed off that he got taken out by someone else's screwup.
More NASCAR content! I love seeing people who are 100% novice in their understanding of the sport react to it. You should watch closest finishes and more superspeedway content. Also content from the past two seasons with the new car. Been a fan since I was a little kid growing up in Alabama and going to Dega every year. Lost interest for about 10 years cause it got to where only 8 maybe 10 guys could win. This new car made the parity in the sport unbelievable where a good 20-25 drivers can win any Sunday. Its amazing.
Yeah Nascar is kinda big definitely further down south in the United States and yes we have three different series the Truck Seies, Xfinity series, and the main series the Cup series. This is what pack racing is high speeds, close racing and big wrecks
I'm not much of a NASCAR enthusiast, but if people enjoy it, hey, that's great. I actually live about 15 mins from one if not the of the largest tracks in the sport.
@@european-reacts It's quite popular to be sure. I think attendance near me is around 100 to 150 thousand and people come and stay in RVs and what not for a week sometimes. Can also watch a number of private jets coming in prior to races or as they're leaving afterwards.
While the wrecks where the car flips many times look like they are the most violent, in fact they are rarely the ones that cause injuries. The driver is surrounded by a reinforced cage inside the car that keeps the driver compartment safe, while the areas outside of this case like the front and rear of the car takes the brunt of the impact. The scarier accidents are the ones where this cage area suffers a direct impact, such as at 10:40 when the car that was already wrecked gets hit by another car squarely in its roof as it sits sideways across the track. That driver was hospitalized for a couple of days and to this day has no memory of the actual crash. Another question you seemed to have is around how the cars would get airborne when turned backwards so many times. This is due to the aerodynamics of the car which is intended to create lots of downforce (quite literally air pushing downward on the car). Think of it as the opposite of an airplane which is designed to create lift, or air pushing upward to lift the plane off the ground on take off. A lot of this downforce is based on the front of the car being lower to the ground than the rear and so as the car drives at a high speed, the air it passes is forced over the top of the car and the weight of that air creates the downforce. However, if that car gets turned around backwards, now you have the opposite problem. Because the rear of the car is higher, air can get under the car and create that lift that pushes the car up off of the ground in the same way an airplane uses air to take off. One of the biggest ways NASCAR counteracts this is by using the roof flaps that you'll see pop up when a car gets turned sideways. Those flaps deploy based on the change in air pressure and attempt to "catch" more air above the car to push it back down on the ground.
Nobody has been killed on the track since the Intimidator. A total fluke. You seen more violent crashes in this video. When Earnhardt died it was arguably the saddest day of my life. Throughout the late 80’s and all of the 90’s I had to have went to easily 100 races. The crowds, barbecues, everyone had their personal coolers of beer. If you brought them one Marlboro they’d trade you for a couple packs of Winston’s. That feel of when the pack goes by you at full throttle on the first lap. The smell of racing fuel, the cool ass military flyovers…goddam I miss those days.
Alonso Bolden said it best, "spend 5 mins in the southern United States and you'll see why a shiny car going around in circles for 4 hours would fascinate them".
On super speedways the cars use a technique called BUMP DRAFTING. Basically, the second car rides in the slip stream behind another car and literally bumps him as they go around the track. With this technique the two cars can go faster. Drafting on super speedways is so important that even the fastest car on the track would get lapped if it were to lose the slip stream from the main pack. A lot of this is because they run restrictor plates to cut down the horsepower. The cars were getting just too fast. In 1987 Bill Elliot set the fastest lap speed ever at 212 miles per hour. This slowed them down but now the bunch up.
During the big Daytona crash, the #3 car driven by Austin Dillon, was sent airborne into the catch fence and then back onto the track. He suffered no injuries in the wreck.
You just got another American subscriber. As a fan of many different types of racing as far as popularity NASCAR is Americas F1. And yes, many great drivers have lost their lives in NASCAR but not in a long time. The cars are very safe these days
11:12 I'm no expert, but it looks to me like the leader made a pretty risky block on a car that was coming in much faster than he was, and the resulting contact spun him out. Fault is mostly on the 9, but I also don't blame him too much for trying to protect his lead considering how late in the race it was, even if the block wasn't gonna work.
I just found this video of yours and can answer a few questions that you had. First, there can be a penalty for intentionally causing a crash, but those are usually only used for obvious retaliation crashes. Most of the crashes you watched occurred at super speedways where the cars run close to each other and any slight error causes a major crash. Everyone knows it can happen and most of the time the drivers accept that it can and will happen. Second, none of the accidents shown in this video involved a driver dying. NASCAR last had a fatal accident in 2001 when Dale Earnhardt Senior crashed into the wall at Daytona and died from whiplash. It was clearly a hard impact as his car went nose first into the wall, but the car was largely intact. That accident did result in some major safety rule changes that included a requirement that all drivers have some form of HANS (Head and Neck Restraint Safety Device). If you see a video showing a driver sitting in his car you'll notice that they can barely turn their heads because of the way they are secured into the car. Third, this video included 2 different times that Rusty Wallace crashed and had his car flip multiple times. If I'm looking over the correct information, one of those crashes occurred in 1983 and did put him into the hospital. The second occurred in 1993 and resulted in a broken wrist. Rusty would actually finish #2 in the points race in 1993 and had the most wins for the season. (a bad stretch of races cost him too many points and kept him from winning the championship.) Fourth, One thing I heard you comment was about the cars getting airborne. This has been a problem for a long time and NASCAR actually has done quite a bit to try to keep cars on the ground. In the video you can see that in many of the accidents panels open up on the roof of the car. These are hinged and weighted in such a way that should the car get turned sideways or backward and the air flow over them drop, they will spring up to try to change the airflow and push the tires back down onto the track. They obviously fail at times, but they have kept more than a few cars on the track rather than flipping over. Finally, these cars are far different from anything you have seen. The cars contain a very secure roll cage for the driver and then the rest of hte car is built around the cage. One of the crash videos shows a car that had the paneling on the right side ripped open and the announcer pointed out that the cage itself had received minor damage. Add in the seats the driver is secured into and the drivers are surprisingly safe. As I said earlier the last fatality for a NASCAR driver in the top 3 divisions (Cup, Xfinity, Truck) was Dale Earnhardt Sr. in 2001. Most drivers who are in a crash return within 3-4 weeks if they do miss a race. The series is probably safety than Formula 1 and is definitely safer than Indy, which has had multiple fatalities in the last 2 decades. Glad to see you enjoyed the video.
Completely agree. There is a lot more to the sport than the insanity of Daytona and Talledega. They race on short tracks, ovals, road courses, concrete, dirt, and recently even a street course. It's actually the most diverse racing series on the planet, in terms of racetracks. I definitely agree that "NASCAR Best Finishes" or "NASCAR Greatest Battles" would give a more complete picture of why Americans love this sport.
A little physics lesson: when the car picks up off the ground from a spin at high speed, it's from aerodynamic forces similar to how an airplane wing works. When a car spins at high enough speeds (300 km/h+), the aerodynamic features that produce downforce while going forward like the spoiler, splitter, and side skirts no longer work as intended. The air rushing under the car lifts it up off the ground and can turn it over. The flaps you see come up on the roof were introduced in 1994 and come up on their own when a car spins. They face into the wind and create more downforce during the slide to set the car back down.
Nascar is our most popular form of racing and at some points has been our biggest sport. Currently nascar has slowed down drastically in popularity because of interest and certain changes. Also yes we have trucks in nascar! It’s the third tier of nascar so it’s like our developmental series for younger drivers
Nascar has three speedways at 2.5 mile ovals, two speedways at 2 mile ovals, several at 1.5 mile ovals, and several "small tracks" at less than a 1.5 mille ovals... Two of the big super speedways with very high banks are Daytona and Talladega where most of the tightly packed racing and flips occur... Most of NASCAR racing is done on smaller tracks without the tightly packed racing...
NASCAR is huge here in the US. You'd be surprised that with all the crashes, serious injuries and death are not common. Those cars are built with such safety .
13:14 They actually were! That incident at Talladega didn’t spark anything, but the flip from when Keselowski was in the 12 was actually part of a rivalry, as Keselowski had dumped Edwards earlier in that race, and a similar thing happened in the Busch Series in 2010 (The Busch Series is like NASCAR’s second tier) and Edwards got Keselowski back by wrecking him on the final turn of the final lap out of the lead at Gateway. So yeah, they definitely had some bad blood, Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski.
Just seeing this video now, but the crash at 7:37 was actually payback in a semi-rivalry from the crash at 12:35. Same two drivers but reversed roles in very similar crashes
Most of the races in the NASCAR circuit are run in none restrictor plate tracks, so you don't normally see pack racing as you do in Talladega and Daytona.
NASCAR has three series, Cup series which is the main one, Xfinity series and Truck Series which currently called Craftman’s series. I’d say it’s pretty popular here in America. F1 seems to be the most viewed, but I don’t know if it’s popular in America.
As a kid who grew up watching this, this is hands down some of my favorite type of content to watch. Yes it is beautiful, and a disaster at the same time
You asked "what are those Physics?" in that crash clip at around 2:00 What you're seeing there, is the inversion of the downforce on the car. These cars are optimized to keep the car glued to the track.... while they're moving forward. They don't have the same effect if the car goes backwards and gets air under the car. that's why you see those flaps on the roof come up as he's flipping, as those safety flaps are designed to try and minimize the risk of the car going airborne, as well as helping in slowing a spinning car down. but they're not a guarantee. It's all about the aerodynamics and downforce, very similar to what you see in F1
Nascar is actually pretty safe. Most of the crashes in this video take place at what are called "superspeedway" tracks, these have all that super close racing and are usually 2.5 miles or about 4 kilometers. But they race at those only 6 out of the 36 races of the season. Nascar has a super diverse schedule with 1.5 mile (2.4 km) ovals, half mile (.8 km) short tracks, 1 mile ovals (1.6 Km), dirt ovals, road courses, street courses, and in a football stadium (La Colisuem).
Yeah, I'm late, but I made it!! A couple of things. Those cars/trucks are designed to have their best aerodynamics at around 200 mph (320 kph).... moving forward!! Any angle and you are suddenly along for the ride in a shoe box with a rock in one end... in a hurricane. Danger!! Check out the four most deadly motorsports events held annually. Cars, "Pikes Peak International Hill Climb", "Baja 1000". Motorcycles, "Isle of Man TT/Senior", "Isle of Man TT/Sidecar". Just for fun check out "Motorcycle Racing, Ice, Oval". Yeah, wide open throttle, ice track, and... uh... 300 steel spikes on each bike!!
At the longest speedways (Daytona and Talladega) the fastest way around is to push each other. When racing at Talladega all drivers keep the gas pedal to the floor except when pitting. A single car at Talladega racetrack can go 180-185 mph. If 2 cars are side by side they both go about 175 mph. If you have a car behind you within 6 inches or pushing you can both go 195-200 mph. Many times there are 10 or more cars in line connected and pushing each other. In that case they all go about 205 mph. The fastest lap at Talladega was 216 mph by Rusty Wallace in 2004. You MUST be able to feel the airflow around your car to go fast in a group. Formula 1 drivers don't know how to use the draft of other cars like NASCAR drivers do. You can slow down another car by side drafting him. The fastest car at Daytona seldom wins the race. The driver who is best at drafting usually wins. Nowhere in any Formula series are the race lap speeds in traffic 25 mph faster than the fastest qualifying speed.
Crashes and contact is apart of NASCAR, unlike F1 the cars are made to take hits and give them back. It allows the drivers to bump and push others out of the way while the cage of the car and safety bars inside keep the driver safe from crashes. If the car rolls too it's even safer, it's the crashes that go from moving to stopping in an instant that kills most drivers regardless of the type of car/sport, but NASCAR hasn't had a death since Dale Earnhardt.
You need to watch NASCAR's Greatest Photo Finishes and NASCAR's Craziest Finishes. Both videos highlight the most important difference between NASCAR and F1. In F1 the technology is insane. In NASCAR the competition is insane. Last there are 3 videos - NASCAR's Most Insane Helmet Cam First Person Crashes which put you in the car so you get to see and hear how these wrecks appear to the drivers.
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You should watch some of the crashes from like a decade or more ago. Before they got the aerodynamics designs to help keep the cars on the ground. They would launch and flip multiple times.
The cars have had various flaps added are hekd down when normal airvliw goes over them, but lifted up when the sirgliw turned, like if the car is sideways or backwards. They can spin thd car back around, but the primary use is to reduce the car velocity, therefore the impact energy the driver experiences if and when the car hits something. Fir tye same reason, hood and ttunk panels are designed to break free under certain conditions as that also take kinetic energy from the car, reducing the risk of driver injury. Its unfortunate that, as with other racing types like F1, and like air travel, many rules are printed into the rulebooks in someone's blood. But safety does reach a point where drivers walk away from a crash that would have been fatal only a decade ago. Want something spooky? Dale Earnhardt, Sr died from injuries he got in a wreck the first race of that season. His race team sat out a few races before putting the car Earnhardet would have driven on the track under a new driver. In the meantime, the broadcast network observed a silent third lap in hinir if Earnhardt's traditional number 3. In race after race, a crash or spin would happen before lap 3. Kevin Harvick drive what was now number 29, selected to replace the 3 as "2.9" at the first race in Atlanta, and just barely won it, putting Dale's car in Victory Lane again. And the pre-lap-3 incidents stopped.
NASCAR is third in popularity amongst professional sports in the US behind the NFL and Major League Baseball and just before the NBA and the NHL. it's most popular form of auto racing in the US, outranking IndyCar and Formula 1.
Part of NASCAR's appeal over F1, at least for me, is the focus on oval racing. When you go to a race, even at the big ones like Daytona, you can see the entire track and never miss any action. An oval racetrack is a stage in the round; it lets the fans feel part of it all. I've been to MLB, NFL, and NHL events and they all pale in comparison in both excitement and spectacle to NASCAR.
As crazy as it sounds, with most NASCAR wrecks like these, the drivers are fine, and back racing at the next week's race. You generally won't see videos of wrecks where a driver actually died. Out of respect for the drivers and their families, those videos don't tend to get replayed. As other as mentioned Dale Earnhardt Sr, who would probably be considered the first or second both best and most popular drivers in NASCAR history, was killed in the Daytona 500 in 2001. NASCAR really accelerated their safety protocols after that, installing new walls to the track that were made to absorb and dissipate energy rather than the solid concrete that was used before, requiring drivers to wear restraints that prevent their necks from snapping forward during a crash, etc. There have been wrecks since then that probably would have killed drivers before those safety technologies were implemented, where driver now walk away with not much more than some sore muscles.
One thing I had never considered was that from a Europeans perspective these crashes probably appear much worse simply because if some of even the more minor NASCAR crashes occurred on an F1 circuit then it would likely be an infamously deadly crash simply due to how much more exposed an F1 driver is and how much less vehicle there is to absorb the damage.
NASCAR is pretty popular in the US southern states. I prefer WRC, or F1, or even drag racing. The history is pretty interesting though. Apparently it started during the prohibition of alcohol in 1919. Bootleggers who were illegally making and selling hard liquor modified their cars so they could outrun the police. They started racing each other, to prove whose car was best, and that eventually became NASCAR. The rules are interesting too. There are strict requirements for the cars, so they're all basically Identical. So it is more a test of driving skill than a test of engineering.
in nascar its the biggest thing in auto racing its quite popular next to formula one and monster trucks they all have a big fanbase all over the world we just dont know it yet
The reason most of these cars go so fast at these kinds of tracks is that due to high speeds, the engines are purposefully limited by what's called a restrictor plate. Therefore, the only way to build up the kind of speed to win is to use the draft to cut your drag and go faster in a pack, like you see here. The reality is though, most of the tracks NASCAR races at aren't this big and fast and ergo don't necessitate restrictor plates.
Look for the 2015 Daytona Coke Zero 400 Crash of Austin Dillion. Then after you watch it look for Austin Dillion Daytona crash front row view. in that video you are sitting in the stands just where his car strikes the fence. It is a much watch for sure.
Lot of questions you're asking....How popular is NASCAR? Much more than I'd like. More than half my extended family cannot stop talking about it...hence my reluctant knowledge of the 'sport'. They are closely packed because they are taking advantage of the aerodynamics. Two cars can go faster than one. Some races and tracks require this sort of tactic to even be competitive...opposing teams will make deals to pair up. The cars are going in excess of 200mph (or 321+ in your imaginary units) and the cars are half the weight of your average car. Getting them to fly is quite easy. The physics are not abnormal. The truck "got loose". The cars are inherently unstable. Much like F1, they require the air pressure to hold them down to the track. The offending truck lost traction as a result of a change in the aerodynamics. There hasn't been a death since 2001. There have been horrific crashes where the driver walks out and waves to the crowd a few minutes later. I would say NASCAR is more popular that F1 for the most part. There is crossover. We Americans have a fascination with speed. You might be surprised how often a 'wrecked' car may end up back in the race. They have no chance of winning, but NASCAR has a weird scoring system, which I barely understand. It's sometimes more important to complete more laps than to win a race. Okay, I'm tired and so done.
11:13 To answer your question here, no one did anything incredibly wrong. The 12 got a huge push from the 11 that caused it to swing out. The 12 had a bunch of momentum so the 6 went up to block but got loose and wrecked. You could pin blame on all 3 drivers but no one actually did anything wrong.
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So I think all of the clips you saw are from super speedway races, in which the tracks are so big and the banking so high that the drivers do not break and instead the challenge comes from running that close to each other. It's important to note that this type of racing only makes up about 4 or 5 races a year. They race at road courses as well as short tracks an intermediate courses which all come with different sets of challenges and provide a different type of racing. Just thought you should know. A lot of European racing fans think that what was shown in the video you watched is all that nascar had to offer.
I you want to see a legend in this sport Google search the name Dale Earnhardt Sr. He was killed in one of these races in an accident. Earnhardt Junior that those announcers are talking about is his son...
You should watch the Ryan Preece wreck that happened in 2023 at Daytona
2:00 that’s called a blow over. It happens when a car takes off like an airplane. It’s going fast enough to fly. They go about the same speed that a plane would on takeoff but the car weighs less than the plane. If you wanna see this happen right in front of you, grab a sheet over paper and slide it across a smooth surface. It will do a flip. Same as nascar.
You are correct that NASCAR is pretty much only an American sport although they are trying to branch out into Le Mans but definitely WAY more popular than F1. NASCAR vehicles are based on production American cars and raced at top speed, the faster the better (usually around 150-200mph - 240-320kph). In the early days it was just modified stock cars, but these days there is nothing stock about them. Custom tube frames and thin metal bodies made to look like their real life counterparts. The cars are made to withstand some abuse so they bump into each other trying to get position and they also use drafting techniques and slipstream the air to go even faster, but they can also block by trying to move in front of them which causes the majority of these wrecks. These guys also have well built cages to protect them from intense crashes. It was REALLY popular from 1970-2000 but dropped off for a bit, now it seems to be making a comeback. Its really ingrained in our culture so much that there are movies about it. Like Days of Thunder ruclips.net/video/oPXL4_eZ4-M/видео.html and even comedy versions like Talladega Nights ruclips.net/video/YfGRg0FLxtE/видео.html and even cartoon animations like the Cars ruclips.net/video/W_H7_tDHFE8/видео.html
There hasn't been a fatal crash in NASCAR's top series since 2001. Driver injuries are usually very rare nowadays, but this year has seen an increase for some reason.
Last year too if you include concussions. It’s the current Next Gen Car, apparently it absorbs impacts more making is not the easiest go around for drivers
@@Wisconsin222 While the Next Gen certainly has caused more injuries in Cup, I'm also referring to the Truck Series having injuries more commonly as well.
The safer a car seems the more vicious the drivers might become.
Yes as others have said the next gen car hasn't been the safest, but it's also because social media is just letting us hear about the injuries more often. 10 years ago the national broadcast wouldn't bother telling us if a start & parker sprained their ankle but today Gluck or Pockrass will tell us about that stuff within an hour
If you wanna go the conspiracy route, you could say NASCAR has been keeping ppl quiet about more minor injuries to save public opinion since Dale Sr's death, but once Dale Jr opened up about his own racing-related health issues it opened the door for NASCAR to be honest about that stuff
3 do it for dale
6:29 he was actually OK. He actually walked away from the car himself. This just shows how powerful everyone in the sport is. I love NASCAR. I’ve always been a fan of it.
It shows how good the engineers are.
@@bf5175And the welders.
The wreck at 10:30 was in the 2020 Daytona 500 and that was the first time I thought I'd see a driver die on live tv. And I've been watching for roughly 20 years. You might want to consider watching the Nascar Radioactive 2020 Daytona 500 video. It's highlights of the race, but with radio chatter and tv/radio commentary.
fun fact about that wreck: Ryan Newman had previously been one of the champions of adding a reinforcing bar to the top of the doorframe area of the roll cage, which NASCAR ultimately added. That reinforcing bar, which was already called the Newman bar, is credited as being the reason he survived that crash, as modeling showed that the impact his car took would have left him crippled or dead if they had still been using the old roll cage design. Instead, he spent 2 days in the hospital and then walked out on his own, holding his 2 daughters' hands.
Haven’t had a driver pass away in 22 years and we hope it remains that way
Well hopefully it goes past 22 years.
The Last Fatality was in 2001 it has a 5 part video called the day we lost Dale Earnhardt is a great watch. He was the arguably the Greatest Driver ever but definitely a Legend!!!
Yes, we American's love our sports fast, violent, and physical. Wait until you see Bull Riding, NHRA drag car racing, and power boat racing. The cars in NASCAR can average over 321 kph. In the straights they can do over 360 kph.
NHRA cars accelerate to about 540 kph from a stop in 305m. I just wanted to type that, those seem even more outlandish in the metric system.
I no understand kph or m, rectify your units
@@Aiophgy Both are correct and have no need for rectification. What planet are you from? Every nation on earth either uses kph or miles. Perhaps I should use Lego units?
@@helgar791 Km/h is preferred over kph.
Not with the restriction plates 😂 nascar cars nowadays with their 550 hp can go a top speed of 320 knh / 200 mph
Many of the safety features we have in our cars today have come from NASCAR. These cars are incredibly safe. Love this sport!
The first driver you said no way he's ok, the 3 car that went into the fence, he got out of the car and walked away! I remember watching the race live and thinking the same thing you did.
Whats left of that car is in racing museum near me. I was looking at it again recently and it gives chills. BUT, then look inside, the drivers cockpit is barely bent.
2:08 Those are aerodynamic physics. That generation of NASCAR race car had an emphasis on safety so even if it went into the air due to "dirty air" or an air disturbance, the driver should have sustained minimal injury.
The cars are well over 900 kg (2000 lbs) and even though they are that heavy, at high speeds (200 mph, 300 kmh) like at this track, talladega superspeedway, they could easily go up into the air.
3600 pounds, to be exact.
These two crashes are out of order, but you NAILED the rivalry with Carl Edwards (99) and Brad Keselowski (09). This crash started a huge feud between the two of them, with Edwards crashing Brad multiple times after that. In fact, the red 12 that flipped into the catch fence earlier in the video was Brad Keselowski. Edwards and Brad had tangled earlier in the race, and there were 3 laps to go. He was many laps down, and Brad was running in the top 10, so he retaliated and took him out. I was at that race.
To inform you, the number 3 car in the terrible wreck where he hit the fence is Austin Dillon, and after that he was perfectly fine.
Ironically and eerily Dales best friend Neil Bonnet lost his life the same way Dale did at close to the same spot on the track. Almost like Neil was standing there to greet him
The Last Casualty was back in 2001 February 18th at Daytona who was Dale Earnhardt Sr. all of the Crashes you have watched today no one died they managed to walk out un harmed.
Fun fact: The crash at 6:55 and 9:55 Were done by the same driver in the same year, only had a concussion from the first one, but the other one delt him a broken wrist and another concussion
The modern driver's seat in one of these cars or trucks is one of the safest places on earth. The roll cages are as close to indestructible as a man made product can be.
the last death in Nascar was in 2001.... Dale Earnhardt Sr.
the safety systems are crazy good these days.
Even with all the insanity that NASCAR has for its wrecks, there hasn't been a fatality in the top division (The Cup Series) since Dale Earnhardt Sr. at Daytona in 2001.
Sadly, the most recent fatality in NASCAR was in the Modified series back in 2020, where a wreck at Langley Speedway took the life of Shawn Balluzzo.
When you were asking if either car did anything wrong, the answer is no. That was hard racing for the win and nobody is lifting anymore. They push more, they get a little more out of control and sometimes(most times) there's a crash.
I think if more people from other countries gave Indycar(the US version of F1, but much better competition) and NASCAR a chance, they'd would be quite popular. Indycar races a 17 race season mostly on road and street circuits with half a dozen ovals including the Indy 500. NASCAR has a 36 race schedule, mostly on ovals of all different sizes and shapes with half a dozen road courses thrown in. These guys over here are just as good at what they do as the drivers in F1 or Australian Supercars, etc, are at their sport. I personally believe auto racing is the best sport in the world and there's something for everybody. There's no reason we can't find common ground and just enjoy it all together.
Very well said
NASCAR hasn't had a driver that died in the cup series since 2001. Not a stupid question at all.
As a nascar fan myself i like other people from around the world react to nascar and i just think it is so funny
3:40 drivers are backed by companies(hence all the stickers on the cars) which helped to rebuild new cars after a big wreck. Most drivers will have a back up car ready but a disabled car disqualifies you from the current race.
I was at the race of the very last accident. I was one section over. There were people getting wheeled out with bloody towels on their faces. The TV broadcast said "no injuries", but I saw it with my own eyes.
6:32, that's Austin Dillon. he was fine. He got out of the car on his own and waved to the crowd.
In the past 20 years only about 6 drivers died on the track following a wreck. In 2001 the death of Dale Earnhardt would bring in a series of rule changes and equipment upgrades, not to mention upgrades to the cars themselves. So nowadays it is rare to have a driver killed in a wreck.
Nah there has not been a fatal crash since Dale Sr in 2001. And most of these wrecks especially with the airborne ones usually end up with an unhurt and very mad driver
Just found your channel. Thanks for covering Nascar. I hope you check more than just the wrecks out someday. I will let you know at 6:30 the guy in that crash walked away from it and was ok to race the next weekend! The crash at 11:35 the driver involved was injured but raced the following week with his eyes taped open and finished in the top 10. Two weeks after that crash while his eyes were no longer as swollen but still showing the effects of that accident he won the race.
Check out Dale Earnhardt The Intimidator # 3. He was the greatest that ever Drove in the Sport. The ESPN Movie "3" starring Barry Pepper as Dale Earnhardt is a great Introduction to the Intimidator. He lost his Life in the final Lap of the Daytona 500. The Man Lived and Breathed Racing and became Legendary.
LOVE LOVE LOVE when Europeans see nascar for the first time! I’m leaving my comment where you just witnessed a blow over and questioned the physics. When the cars are going fast enough and get turned backwards they pretty much act like an airplane wing. They’ve invented roof flaps that pop up and mess with the air to sit the car back down. Shoutout to Coach Joe Gibbs for that one.
I would say NASCAR is the reason F1 has struggled to get a foothold in the US. Our racing fans are overwhelmingly into this style of racing. Even our open wheel series runs a frick ton of ovals.
At 5:53 when there's a huge wreck and Dale earnhardt Junior just won they always switch to the winners radio immediately to hear them celebrate and thats why you hear an "on my god" over the radio. That was Dale Jr thinking someone died behind him. Especially heart breaking considering he pretty much watched his dad die in his rear view mirror in Daytona. He has talked about seeing that wreck behind him in thay rave and how shook he was
The best videos to watch for Nascar is the passes. The last few laps is when everything really starts to happen and strategy kicks in. It gets wild.
Tere have been several F1 drivers in NASCAR. Juan Pablo Montoya. Jacques Villeneuve. Kimi Raikkonen. Nelson Piquet Jr. Emerson Fitipaldi. And probably more. NASCAR is huge. Huge crowds at races.
Mario Andretti won the Daytona 500 one year.
@@darrellgrant7615 one of the best!
Often, a trip to the pits and several yards of duct tape, and they are back on the track.
Hence the term "200 mile per hour tape"
Some of the races that you've watched were held at either Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida or the Talladega Super Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. Both tracks are the largest in the NASCAR circuit with Talladega being the largest of the two. They both have high banking turns at 33° of inclination which allowed the cars to run at over 200 miles an hour ( 321 kms. ) which forced NASCAR to enforce the use of restrictor plates on the engine carburetors of the cars racing on those two tracks ( Daytona and Talladega ), mainly for fan's and drivers' protection following Bobby Allison's accident at Talladega in 1986 ( there's video of that accident ).
6:12 I’ve seen that 3 car that was flipping in a museum, thing didn’t even look like a car anymore
I grew up in a family who raced dirt track stock cars for around 40 years, the grassroots level of American oval track racing, and raced myself. The tracks I raced on were dirt, not paved, and were less than 1/2 mile (804 meters) in length. The NASCAR cars are racing at 200 mph (322 kph), and when the cars get turned sideways or backward, the air just lifts them off the ground like the wing of an airplane at takeoff. Oval track racing is, by far, the most popular form of motorsports in the U.S. and Canada, and there are smewhere between 700 to 800 small dirt tracks across both countries. There are at least a half-dozen such tracks within an hour's drive of where I live.
The accident that you saw where the car flipped over the ones comming behind it happened in Daytona, and the driver ( Austin Dillon ) came out of the car, raised his arms and waved at the crowd to signal that he was 👌. He's still competing to this day.
I remember watching the Rusty Wallace wreck (6:50) live on tv as a kid. Dude not only got out the car on his own and walked away unhurt, he was pissed off that he got taken out by someone else's screwup.
More NASCAR content! I love seeing people who are 100% novice in their understanding of the sport react to it. You should watch closest finishes and more superspeedway content. Also content from the past two seasons with the new car. Been a fan since I was a little kid growing up in Alabama and going to Dega every year. Lost interest for about 10 years cause it got to where only 8 maybe 10 guys could win. This new car made the parity in the sport unbelievable where a good 20-25 drivers can win any Sunday. Its amazing.
Yeah Nascar is kinda big definitely further down south in the United States and yes we have three different series the Truck Seies, Xfinity series, and the main series the Cup series. This is what pack racing is high speeds, close racing and big wrecks
I'm not much of a NASCAR enthusiast, but if people enjoy it, hey, that's great. I actually live about 15 mins from one if not the of the largest tracks in the sport.
How popular it is in USA?
@@european-reacts It's quite popular to be sure. I think attendance near me is around 100 to 150 thousand and people come and stay in RVs and what not for a week sometimes. Can also watch a number of private jets coming in prior to races or as they're leaving afterwards.
What track is it?
@@heyogie3840i’m assuming talladega?
While the wrecks where the car flips many times look like they are the most violent, in fact they are rarely the ones that cause injuries. The driver is surrounded by a reinforced cage inside the car that keeps the driver compartment safe, while the areas outside of this case like the front and rear of the car takes the brunt of the impact. The scarier accidents are the ones where this cage area suffers a direct impact, such as at 10:40 when the car that was already wrecked gets hit by another car squarely in its roof as it sits sideways across the track. That driver was hospitalized for a couple of days and to this day has no memory of the actual crash.
Another question you seemed to have is around how the cars would get airborne when turned backwards so many times. This is due to the aerodynamics of the car which is intended to create lots of downforce (quite literally air pushing downward on the car). Think of it as the opposite of an airplane which is designed to create lift, or air pushing upward to lift the plane off the ground on take off. A lot of this downforce is based on the front of the car being lower to the ground than the rear and so as the car drives at a high speed, the air it passes is forced over the top of the car and the weight of that air creates the downforce. However, if that car gets turned around backwards, now you have the opposite problem. Because the rear of the car is higher, air can get under the car and create that lift that pushes the car up off of the ground in the same way an airplane uses air to take off. One of the biggest ways NASCAR counteracts this is by using the roof flaps that you'll see pop up when a car gets turned sideways. Those flaps deploy based on the change in air pressure and attempt to "catch" more air above the car to push it back down on the ground.
Nobody has been killed on the track since the Intimidator. A total fluke. You seen more violent crashes in this video.
When Earnhardt died it was arguably the saddest day of my life. Throughout the late 80’s and all of the 90’s I had to have went to easily 100 races. The crowds, barbecues, everyone had their personal coolers of beer. If you brought them one Marlboro they’d trade you for a couple packs of Winston’s.
That feel of when the pack goes by you at full throttle on the first lap. The smell of racing fuel, the cool ass military flyovers…goddam I miss those days.
Alonso Bolden said it best, "spend 5 mins in the southern United States and you'll see why a shiny car going around in circles for 4 hours would fascinate them".
😂😂😂
On super speedways the cars use a technique called BUMP DRAFTING. Basically, the second car rides in the slip stream behind another car and literally bumps him as they go around the track. With this technique the two cars can go faster. Drafting on super speedways is so important that even the fastest car on the track would get lapped if it were to lose the slip stream from the main pack. A lot of this is because they run restrictor plates to cut down the horsepower. The cars were getting just too fast. In 1987 Bill Elliot set the fastest lap speed ever at 212 miles per hour. This slowed them down but now the bunch up.
During the big Daytona crash, the #3 car driven by Austin Dillon, was sent airborne into the catch fence and then back onto the track. He suffered no injuries in the wreck.
You just got another American subscriber. As a fan of many different types of racing as far as popularity NASCAR is Americas F1. And yes, many great drivers have lost their lives in NASCAR but not in a long time. The cars are very safe these days
11:12 I'm no expert, but it looks to me like the leader made a pretty risky block on a car that was coming in much faster than he was, and the resulting contact spun him out. Fault is mostly on the 9, but I also don't blame him too much for trying to protect his lead considering how late in the race it was, even if the block wasn't gonna work.
I just found this video of yours and can answer a few questions that you had.
First, there can be a penalty for intentionally causing a crash, but those are usually only used for obvious retaliation crashes. Most of the crashes you watched occurred at super speedways where the cars run close to each other and any slight error causes a major crash. Everyone knows it can happen and most of the time the drivers accept that it can and will happen.
Second, none of the accidents shown in this video involved a driver dying. NASCAR last had a fatal accident in 2001 when Dale Earnhardt Senior crashed into the wall at Daytona and died from whiplash. It was clearly a hard impact as his car went nose first into the wall, but the car was largely intact. That accident did result in some major safety rule changes that included a requirement that all drivers have some form of HANS (Head and Neck Restraint Safety Device). If you see a video showing a driver sitting in his car you'll notice that they can barely turn their heads because of the way they are secured into the car.
Third, this video included 2 different times that Rusty Wallace crashed and had his car flip multiple times. If I'm looking over the correct information, one of those crashes occurred in 1983 and did put him into the hospital. The second occurred in 1993 and resulted in a broken wrist. Rusty would actually finish #2 in the points race in 1993 and had the most wins for the season. (a bad stretch of races cost him too many points and kept him from winning the championship.)
Fourth, One thing I heard you comment was about the cars getting airborne. This has been a problem for a long time and NASCAR actually has done quite a bit to try to keep cars on the ground. In the video you can see that in many of the accidents panels open up on the roof of the car. These are hinged and weighted in such a way that should the car get turned sideways or backward and the air flow over them drop, they will spring up to try to change the airflow and push the tires back down onto the track. They obviously fail at times, but they have kept more than a few cars on the track rather than flipping over.
Finally, these cars are far different from anything you have seen. The cars contain a very secure roll cage for the driver and then the rest of hte car is built around the cage. One of the crash videos shows a car that had the paneling on the right side ripped open and the announcer pointed out that the cage itself had received minor damage. Add in the seats the driver is secured into and the drivers are surprisingly safe. As I said earlier the last fatality for a NASCAR driver in the top 3 divisions (Cup, Xfinity, Truck) was Dale Earnhardt Sr. in 2001. Most drivers who are in a crash return within 3-4 weeks if they do miss a race. The series is probably safety than Formula 1 and is definitely safer than Indy, which has had multiple fatalities in the last 2 decades.
Glad to see you enjoyed the video.
should react to greatest battles instead of wrecks on 1 of 30 tracks
Yes please do
Completely agree. There is a lot more to the sport than the insanity of Daytona and Talledega. They race on short tracks, ovals, road courses, concrete, dirt, and recently even a street course. It's actually the most diverse racing series on the planet, in terms of racetracks. I definitely agree that "NASCAR Best Finishes" or "NASCAR Greatest Battles" would give a more complete picture of why Americans love this sport.
Watch the day Dale sr died and the day Dale Jr won at same race year apart it will make you cry
A little physics lesson: when the car picks up off the ground from a spin at high speed, it's from aerodynamic forces similar to how an airplane wing works. When a car spins at high enough speeds (300 km/h+), the aerodynamic features that produce downforce while going forward like the spoiler, splitter, and side skirts no longer work as intended. The air rushing under the car lifts it up off the ground and can turn it over. The flaps you see come up on the roof were introduced in 1994 and come up on their own when a car spins. They face into the wind and create more downforce during the slide to set the car back down.
Nascar is our most popular form of racing and at some points has been our biggest sport. Currently nascar has slowed down drastically in popularity because of interest and certain changes.
Also yes we have trucks in nascar! It’s the third tier of nascar so it’s like our developmental series for younger drivers
Nascar has three speedways at 2.5 mile ovals, two speedways at 2 mile ovals, several at 1.5 mile ovals, and several "small tracks" at less than a 1.5 mille ovals... Two of the big super speedways with very high banks are Daytona and Talladega where most of the tightly packed racing and flips occur... Most of NASCAR racing is done on smaller tracks without the tightly packed racing...
7:00 Yep. He is ok and still alive as a matter of fact.
NASCAR is huge here in the US. You'd be surprised that with all the crashes, serious injuries and death are not common. Those cars are built with such safety .
Unfortunately The intimidator is the reason why all these guys are walking away from these accidents.
NASCAR is as close to Roman Chariot racing that you’ll ever get.
13:14 They actually were! That incident at Talladega didn’t spark anything, but the flip from when Keselowski was in the 12 was actually part of a rivalry, as Keselowski had dumped Edwards earlier in that race, and a similar thing happened in the Busch Series in 2010 (The Busch Series is like NASCAR’s second tier) and Edwards got Keselowski back by wrecking him on the final turn of the final lap out of the lead at Gateway. So yeah, they definitely had some bad blood, Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski.
Just seeing this video now, but the crash at 7:37 was actually payback in a semi-rivalry from the crash at 12:35. Same two drivers but reversed roles in very similar crashes
Most of the races in the NASCAR circuit are run in none restrictor plate tracks, so you don't normally see pack racing as you do in Talladega and Daytona.
NASCAR has three series, Cup series which is the main one, Xfinity series and Truck Series which currently called Craftman’s series. I’d say it’s pretty popular here in America. F1 seems to be the most viewed, but I don’t know if it’s popular in America.
As a kid who grew up watching this, this is hands down some of my favorite type of content to watch. Yes it is beautiful, and a disaster at the same time
you can wreck opponents, its not illegal in nascar, same goes with pushing, cutting the track etc, the main goal is to win, no matter the cost
the beginning of the Nascar series is the trucks sseies followed by the ixfinity, then the nascar Cup series
You can drive retired NASCARs at the Richard Petty driving experience. Me and my uncle did it 3 years ago at Michigan Internation Speedway.
You asked "what are those Physics?" in that crash clip at around 2:00 What you're seeing there, is the inversion of the downforce on the car. These cars are optimized to keep the car glued to the track.... while they're moving forward. They don't have the same effect if the car goes backwards and gets air under the car. that's why you see those flaps on the roof come up as he's flipping, as those safety flaps are designed to try and minimize the risk of the car going airborne, as well as helping in slowing a spinning car down. but they're not a guarantee. It's all about the aerodynamics and downforce, very similar to what you see in F1
Nascar is actually pretty safe. Most of the crashes in this video take place at what are called "superspeedway" tracks, these have all that super close racing and are usually 2.5 miles or about 4 kilometers. But they race at those only 6 out of the 36 races of the season. Nascar has a super diverse schedule with 1.5 mile (2.4 km) ovals, half mile (.8 km) short tracks, 1 mile ovals (1.6 Km), dirt ovals, road courses, street courses, and in a football stadium (La Colisuem).
Yeah, I'm late, but I made it!! A couple of things. Those cars/trucks are designed to have their best aerodynamics at around 200 mph (320 kph).... moving forward!! Any angle and you are suddenly along for the ride in a shoe box with a rock in one end... in a hurricane. Danger!! Check out the four most deadly motorsports events held annually. Cars, "Pikes Peak International Hill Climb", "Baja 1000". Motorcycles, "Isle of Man TT/Senior", "Isle of Man TT/Sidecar". Just for fun check out "Motorcycle Racing, Ice, Oval". Yeah, wide open throttle, ice track, and... uh... 300 steel spikes on each bike!!
At the longest speedways (Daytona and Talladega) the fastest way around is to push each other. When racing at Talladega all drivers keep the gas pedal to the floor except when pitting. A single car at Talladega racetrack can go 180-185 mph. If 2 cars are side by side they both go about 175 mph. If you have a car behind you within 6 inches or pushing you can both go 195-200 mph. Many times there are 10 or more cars in line connected and pushing each other. In that case they all go about 205 mph. The fastest lap at Talladega was 216 mph by Rusty Wallace in 2004. You MUST be able to feel the airflow around your car to go fast in a group. Formula 1 drivers don't know how to use the draft of other cars like NASCAR drivers do. You can slow down another car by side drafting him. The fastest car at Daytona seldom wins the race. The driver who is best at drafting usually wins. Nowhere in any Formula series are the race lap speeds in traffic 25 mph faster than the fastest qualifying speed.
You're basically watching the WWE of auto racing here. So much aggression
Crashes and contact is apart of NASCAR, unlike F1 the cars are made to take hits and give them back. It allows the drivers to bump and push others out of the way while the cage of the car and safety bars inside keep the driver safe from crashes. If the car rolls too it's even safer, it's the crashes that go from moving to stopping in an instant that kills most drivers regardless of the type of car/sport, but NASCAR hasn't had a death since Dale Earnhardt.
You should react to more of these. Flips like these have become less common, but we did have a violent one at Daytona in the summer.
You need to watch NASCAR's Greatest Photo Finishes and NASCAR's Craziest Finishes. Both videos highlight the most important difference between NASCAR and F1. In F1 the technology is insane. In NASCAR the competition is insane. Last there are 3 videos - NASCAR's Most Insane Helmet Cam First Person Crashes which put you in the car so you get to see and hear how these wrecks appear to the drivers.
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You should watch some of the crashes from like a decade or more ago. Before they got the aerodynamics designs to help keep the cars on the ground. They would launch and flip multiple times.
The cars have had various flaps added are hekd down when normal airvliw goes over them, but lifted up when the sirgliw turned, like if the car is sideways or backwards. They can spin thd car back around, but the primary use is to reduce the car velocity, therefore the impact energy the driver experiences if and when the car hits something. Fir tye same reason, hood and ttunk panels are designed to break free under certain conditions as that also take kinetic energy from the car, reducing the risk of driver injury.
Its unfortunate that, as with other racing types like F1, and like air travel, many rules are printed into the rulebooks in someone's blood. But safety does reach a point where drivers walk away from a crash that would have been fatal only a decade ago.
Want something spooky? Dale Earnhardt, Sr died from injuries he got in a wreck the first race of that season. His race team sat out a few races before putting the car Earnhardet would have driven on the track under a new driver. In the meantime, the broadcast network observed a silent third lap in hinir if Earnhardt's traditional number 3. In race after race, a crash or spin would happen before lap 3. Kevin Harvick drive what was now number 29, selected to replace the 3 as "2.9" at the first race in Atlanta, and just barely won it, putting Dale's car in Victory Lane again. And the pre-lap-3 incidents stopped.
NASCAR is third in popularity amongst professional sports in the US behind the NFL and Major League Baseball and just before the NBA and the NHL. it's most popular form of auto racing in the US, outranking IndyCar and Formula 1.
nascar's great finishes is another good one to watch
Dude check out earnhardts wreck in the 1997 Daytona 500
Nobody has ever died from driving fast. It’s stopping fast that gets ya.
Part of NASCAR's appeal over F1, at least for me, is the focus on oval racing. When you go to a race, even at the big ones like Daytona, you can see the entire track and never miss any action. An oval racetrack is a stage in the round; it lets the fans feel part of it all. I've been to MLB, NFL, and NHL events and they all pale in comparison in both excitement and spectacle to NASCAR.
As crazy as it sounds, with most NASCAR wrecks like these, the drivers are fine, and back racing at the next week's race. You generally won't see videos of wrecks where a driver actually died. Out of respect for the drivers and their families, those videos don't tend to get replayed. As other as mentioned Dale Earnhardt Sr, who would probably be considered the first or second both best and most popular drivers in NASCAR history, was killed in the Daytona 500 in 2001. NASCAR really accelerated their safety protocols after that, installing new walls to the track that were made to absorb and dissipate energy rather than the solid concrete that was used before, requiring drivers to wear restraints that prevent their necks from snapping forward during a crash, etc. There have been wrecks since then that probably would have killed drivers before those safety technologies were implemented, where driver now walk away with not much more than some sore muscles.
You should react to the story of Dale Earnhardt.
One thing I had never considered was that from a Europeans perspective these crashes probably appear much worse simply because if some of even the more minor NASCAR crashes occurred on an F1 circuit then it would likely be an infamously deadly crash simply due to how much more exposed an F1 driver is and how much less vehicle there is to absorb the damage.
NASCAR is pretty popular in the US southern states. I prefer WRC, or F1, or even drag racing.
The history is pretty interesting though. Apparently it started during the prohibition of alcohol in 1919. Bootleggers who were illegally making and selling hard liquor modified their cars so they could outrun the police. They started racing each other, to prove whose car was best, and that eventually became NASCAR.
The rules are interesting too. There are strict requirements for the cars, so they're all basically Identical. So it is more a test of driving skill than a test of engineering.
in nascar its the biggest thing in auto racing its quite popular next to formula one and monster trucks they all have a big fanbase all over the world we just dont know it yet
It's like a modern version of the chariot races in the Circus Maximus of Ancient Rome.
4:40 im mad they didnt show the helmet-cam from Bubba Wallace's car. Hes literally drives right under Joey's trunk ad Joey is upside down
Watching cars drive around a track over and over would be boring AF without the potential for disastrous crashes. Murcia!
I like Alpine when I was a kid it was all amateur I don't know about now. When it was amateur it was the best NASCAR league.
You'd be surprised how much these guys can take.
The reason most of these cars go so fast at these kinds of tracks is that due to high speeds, the engines are purposefully limited by what's called a restrictor plate. Therefore, the only way to build up the kind of speed to win is to use the draft to cut your drag and go faster in a pack, like you see here. The reality is though, most of the tracks NASCAR races at aren't this big and fast and ergo don't necessitate restrictor plates.
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Look for the 2015 Daytona Coke Zero 400 Crash of Austin Dillion. Then after you watch it look for Austin Dillion Daytona crash front row view. in that video you are sitting in the stands just where his car strikes the fence. It is a much watch for sure.
Rubbing is racing! Boogety Boogety Boogety!
Keep in mind this is a video of NASCAR'S highest flips. Flips like this are actually few and far between.
Lot of questions you're asking....How popular is NASCAR? Much more than I'd like. More than half my extended family cannot stop talking about it...hence my reluctant knowledge of the 'sport'.
They are closely packed because they are taking advantage of the aerodynamics. Two cars can go faster than one. Some races and tracks require this sort of tactic to even be competitive...opposing teams will make deals to pair up.
The cars are going in excess of 200mph (or 321+ in your imaginary units) and the cars are half the weight of your average car. Getting them to fly is quite easy. The physics are not abnormal.
The truck "got loose". The cars are inherently unstable. Much like F1, they require the air pressure to hold them down to the track. The offending truck lost traction as a result of a change in the aerodynamics.
There hasn't been a death since 2001. There have been horrific crashes where the driver walks out and waves to the crowd a few minutes later.
I would say NASCAR is more popular that F1 for the most part. There is crossover. We Americans have a fascination with speed.
You might be surprised how often a 'wrecked' car may end up back in the race. They have no chance of winning, but NASCAR has a weird scoring system, which I barely understand. It's sometimes more important to complete more laps than to win a race.
Okay, I'm tired and so done.
We race everything here. Google school bus races and even lawn mower racing. Here in the south if it can be raced we will race it.
One of the safest racing sports. Love your reactions to it all. It may sound weird but we wait for the big wrecks.
11:13 To answer your question here, no one did anything incredibly wrong. The 12 got a huge push from the 11 that caused it to swing out. The 12 had a bunch of momentum so the 6 went up to block but got loose and wrecked. You could pin blame on all 3 drivers but no one actually did anything wrong.