The Best (and Worst) Parts of Every Major Racing Series
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- F1 or NASCAR? Road Racing or Rallying? Fan opinions often clash based on which motorsport they think is the most exciting to watch or takes the most driver skill. Whether you’re a Ford guy who loves NASCAR, a Red Bull Racing Max Verstappen superfan, or an IMSA fanatic, all motorsports have elements that make them worth watching. In this video, we’ll talk about what makes each motorsport special along with potential roadblocks for new racing fans based on each series. Share your opinions in the comments!
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00:00 Intro
00:38 F1
02:03 NASCAR
03:47 IndyCar
04:55 Road Racing
05:56 WRC Rallying
07:10 Outro
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Probably should have mentioned my criteria for which series got included in the video: 4-wheeled racing series with the most global viewership/popularity. Needed to keep the video from becoming hours long, so forgive me if I didn't specifically mention your favorite series, but definitely leave a comment to let everyone know about it!
No motorcycle racing?
Motorcycle series i can think of: MotoGP MotoAmerica Super MotoCross Theres probably others I don’t know about theres also electronic racing series like Formula E and Extreme E as well as Short Track and Dirt Track only series to!
Hemingway allegedly once said “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games”. Today there is only one motor sport that still fits that distinction: Isle of Man TT.
It is the only sports event that still has the danger and daredevil aspect of Grand Prix racing from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. 266 racers have been killed in the race during its 85 years. The only year without a fatality was 1982. In 2005, 11 drivers died, in the last race 2022 6 drivers and passengers (in the side car class) died.
Since 2000 F1 has had one racing death, NASCAR Cup series has 1 (DE in 2001), WRC has had two (a driver and separately a co-driver). In those series more drivers die in testing and practice than racing. Safety is an excellent thing, but reduced risk does remove some of romance and thrill. I do not want more drivers to die, but I do miss the gladiator aspect of old school racing.
You also missed off-road racing such as what ever championship runs the baja 1000, pro 4wd, pro 2wd, the Dakar rally, and stadium super trucks
You should've put some motorcycle racing tho😢
MotoGP
WSBK
Motoamerica
BSB
And so on
Please give Rallycross a go if anyone in the comments sections haven't watched it. The races are short quick-fire rounds so there's no worry about spending hours to watch a race(well if you follow it live then the whole weekend is kinda long but feel free to skip the waiting and do something else in between rounds right?), the racing is always close packed with actions, and there's strategic mind games when it comes to joker laps. The FIA sanctioned championships are a bit awkwardly organized in recent years but the sport itself is worth a watch. and Nitro Rallycross is fully FREE on youtube(except US, as the broadcast rights are sold to tv networks)
I went to a Red Bull Global Rallycross event (I think it's since been changed to the TitansRX series now) and it was hands down the most exciting racing I've seen live. I'm hoping Nitro can keep building momentum here in the U.S., as it always seems like sponsorship has been a big issue for previous RX series as the years go by. Thanks for watching!
Agreed, as a long time fan of rallycross, it's by far my favorite format. The crazy, ridiculous car behavior of rallying, mixed with traditional circuit racing makes RX a really entertaining product. Unfortunately, later seasons of GRC and WRX fell into utter VW dominance, but Nitro RX's spec FC1X has made for a really competitive series.
Clearly the most underrated motorsport IMO. Doesn't help when World RX had a massive step backwards in terms of coverage amidst the organizational and power transition (it's easier to blame going electric, but there are so many issues lying underneath with the process). I hope one day we'll see it progress from an European sport to a more global presence.
@@themotorsportstory hi The Motorsport Story! I am Damar Fadlan. Have u watched clips from Gran Turismo 5 Unseen? It is in both Purwanti Allan and Damar Fadlan RUclips channels. One clip featuring a trailer for Nijigasaki Next Sky and another is when all 12 Nijigasaki members singing Colorful Dreams Colorful Smiles.
RallyX (and NitroRX outside US) are streaming the races live on RUclips, so accessibility shouldn't be the problem. Good stuff. Maybe not the NitroRX head-to-head which is boring as duck.
As a German who grew up watching it a lot, I would consider diversifying the category of 'Road Racing' a bit more. You could put the Supercars Championship and BTCC into the touring car bracket, IMSA and WEC are sportscar racing series and championships like the Mazda MX-5 cup qualify as one make series. Then there are the several balance of performance controlled GT racing series like the GT World Challenge for instance. This 'supercategory' of road racing is definitely the most diversified of them all so it deserves a deeper dive in my opinion. Other than that you pretty much nailed it.
Agree completely. I wanted to fit it into this video without making it too long, but as a result couldn't really cover the intricacies of each series. Doing a deep dive on different kinds of "road racing" and what makes them unique sounds like a great idea for a future video. Thanks for the comment!
@@themotorsportstory can you please make that video, ive been a racing fan for a long time but its still so confusing and i want a new motorsport to follow
Australian here. I instantly fell in love with Nascar when I was 8 or 9 years old (25 years ago) and have followed it ever since. When Marcos Ambrose was racing, i'd record every race and watch it after work. The thing i love about Nascar is on any given day, at least 10 different drivers could win.
Man, Marcos Ambrose put on some shows, especially at Watkins Glen!
More than 10 nowadays !
Been a NASCAR fan for the past 9 years and I’m also an Australian.
Im part Australian and I also love Nascar.
Jeff Gordon was my favourite driver.
Could you explain a little about what makes Nascar work for you, outside of it being so competitive?
I've always figured that sprint cars on dirt were the most exciting.
Sprint cars are awesome to watch! Didn't mention them in the video as I was trying to keep it to the motorsports with the highest global viewership. Thanks for watching!
Personally under the opinion that Sprint Cars are the best thing on earth. Descendants of Indycars ripping around local dirt tracks at incredible pace while drifting the entire corners is incredible. And I highlight *Local*
Honestly the stakes in the racing is also a massive part of the viewership experience. Watching the cars slide inches away knowing that one wrong move could send your car tumbling out of the race is nail biting.
@@themotorsportstory i understand why you didn’t include them but yeah man, sprint cars and late models are some of the best entertainment you could see. And they’re not even restricted to the us. The aussies caught on and throw events down there too lol
@@TweezersUnlimited agree. WRC and IndyCars too.
Doesn't Nascar have the most diverse schedule?
Road courses, a street course, very short ovals, boring ovals, big ovals, huge superspeedways, where pack racing occurs. It's worth pointing out
Good point!
And the bristol dirt race!
@@captainwaffles940 I was thinking about it, but ended up not including it like a total doof
Watching the draw in the lottery is the same. Boring as hell.
You are joking, right?
I’m in Aus, generally the biggest motorsports here are the Supercars and F1. The biggest problem with Supercars though is that teams with larger budgets tend to absolutely wipe the floor with the rest of the gird. Supercars can be fun but is also quite processional at times
I've seen some Supercars races that I really enjoyed, and also love Mt. Panorama Circuit (always a go-to for me in any racing games!) What you said about budgets is unfortunate but seems to be true for just about every motorsport. Here in the states, there's maybe 4 or 5 NASCAR Cup teams that have the ability to win (due to their large budgets) and the rest are just hoping to finish top 20. Thanks for watching!
Coming from Finland, F1 and rally are of course the two of my favorite forms of motorsport. Here most of the media coverage is centered around those two thanks to the success of Finnish drivers in both disciplines. And with rally it definitely helps that we have tons of silent gravel roads where young people can drive their cars (sometimes even over the speed limit) and hone their skills, which makes the sport quite accessible even if you're not wealthy.
I think it's great how accessible Rally is in Finland! Here in America, a lot of people live where the roads only go straight and flat. I'm fortunate enough to have some twisty roads near me to enjoy 🙂
I remember watching the Grand Tour episode where they talk about Finland having the most car accidents out of any nation, despite having one of the most strict driving tests in the world. As an American who watches and searches for endless motorsports, my defense for the Finnish is I don't believe a lot of those car accidents were neccesarily... accidents. Like sure, they don't mean to crash but they certainly mean to release their inner-Marcus Gronholm and bolt through the Finnish backroads in their Peugeots and Volvos, going 130kph before ending upside down in a ditch. Those stats are skewed. Lol
@@lorddrac_dontaskmetodance I can see myself in this. Despite not having any big accidents (once clipped a sidewalk that bounced me into a ditch at a slow speed during winter) I know that many do drive over the speed limit, especially on roads they know. Someone I know had a crash at the road her grandmother lived because she knew the road and always drove way over the limit, until a car appeared behind a crest and she had to take avoiding action. I know for certain I drive way too fast on roads leading to my own grandparents in the countryside because I know the roads quite well, and even then my dad is even faster. But then again, I also know I'm in a different situation to most, where my parents have been heavily involved with the local motorsports club for decades and those roads I said go to my grandparents have been used in the Finnish Rally Championship years ago
Also to you I would add that we have folk racing (jokamiesluokka) where drivers get a starter level cars (I think the price that they have to be sold in races is around 1k) and anyone basically can buy a car and just have a go
I live in Indianapolis, so Indycar, NASCAR, and MotoGP were always the dominant racing series people payed attention to around me. Once I found out about F1, I neglected Indycar and NASCAR. Thanks to being a Ferrari fan, though, I’ve recently rejoined the Indycar fanbase and I honestly look forward to watching Indycar races more than the F1 races on most weekends. Additionally, Indycar is insanely more accessible than F1 as far as attending races. You can go watch an exciting race at a bunch of tracks across the country for a mere fraction of the price of an F1 race.
>Thanks to being a Ferrari fan
Don't-- don't leave F1 just because of Ferrari master🅱️lan. Laugh at it, in fact.
Thank you for this. As a fan of all of these at one time or another I think you really nailed down the important parts. I think WRC is a vastly untapped media resource. Can you imagine an American audience watch a live cam from inside a rally car? Getting to understand what the co-pilot does and how it all plays out at high speed?
I'm with you on that one. I really think that if there was more American media coverage and education about WRC, they might be able to drum up a more sizable fanbase. Maybe it's time for them to make a WRC streaming series like "Drive to Survive" haha
The WRC deserves countless times more media coverage than it gets.
Oklahoma born and raised. I fell in love with rally racing when my dad bought me dirt for the original Xbox. Since than it has by far been my most favored sport. Even at 24 I still hope one day I can get on a real track. The closest thing I can think of to rally racing here in the US, that has a decent amount of spectators is Pikes Peak. Still, it is a sport that will go under appreciated but will always be in our hearts 💕
Race in peace, Colin 🚙💨
Thanks for the comment! Admittedly, I first got into Rally after playing DiRT 2, so similar story there. Pikes Peak is on my bucket list to check out someday for sure!
I'm from the US and although I'll always be a nascar fan, imsa is probably my favorite. I love the different manufacturers go head to head at unique road courses, which seems like the polar opposite of nascar, but the environment around nascar for me at a young age I will always appreciate
I completely agree. I grew up in North Carolina, the NASCAR hotbed, but I seriously enjoy IMSA much more this year (and always have liked it). Imo NASCAR has too many kinks and quirks that turn off new fans and veterans alike, but with IMSA it feels like a gladiator match between teams and manufacturers. It feels more organic than the chopped up NASCAR races we have now. It's also easier to defend against haters than the "left turn" sport.
I'm from Spain, more specifically from Galicia, the epicenter of rally racing in the country, and obviously my favourite discipline. Watch some daily cars like the Skoda Fabia, Citroën C3, Peugeot 208, Hyundai i20, Ford Fiesta or the Toyota Yaris converted into absolutely monsters is something that fascinates me (the "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" philosophy), and you can go to a stage and watch them passing near you for free, no ticket entries. I know that rally is not mainstream like F1 and is more an european thing, but it's a shame that US don't have a good coverage of WRC at least, because is something that worth to watch.
That's awesome that you can just go out there without a ticket for free! And yes, I'd love to see the U.S. get better WRC coverage (as far as getting it on some major tv networks)
Something else is NHRA or dirt series like World of outlaws ( Sprint cars and late models). Seeing those cars full throttle inches from each other fighting for position is great. I love all them especially nascar and even two wheel racing like Supercross, MotoGP and Flat track
formula 2 has always interested me because the racing is close and its great to see the next young talent making it up the ranks.
Been into F1 for as long as I can remember, as well as MotoGP and rallying. Lately I've diversified a lot since I really got into Nascar in 2017, then Indycar etc. I still love F1 but the current fan atmosphere is really terrible and I don't engage as much in it beyond raceday.
Every day I love sportscar racing more and more (WEC, IMSA, BTCC, V8 Supercars, SuperGT, you name it) and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite types of racing if not my favorite. Cars you can actually tell apart beyond the livery, generally good racing, much less annoying, tribalist fans compared to other motorsports... still, if it has wheels, it's cool.
Thanks for the comment! I've been getting into sports car racing myself more and more for those same reasons.
I’m from the Western USA. I’m an endurance racing fan who tried to get everybody I can on IMSA, 24h, and WEC. Great series where there’s never a dull moment. Ever. Great stuff.
I'd recommend watching the IMSA spec Porsche Cup and Miata series over all other current motorsports. Lots of great on-track action with contacting racing and respect among drivers on tracks that the FIA would never allow to be built nowadays.
Love the MX-5 series myself!
Coming from Germany, I've become a huge Supercars fan and rewatched older races as they hit their channel. The Gen3 changes leveled the playing field quite a bit and the bigger teams are not as superior as they used to be. It's more about the driver and what they can achieve with the mechanical platform with their engineers. They hit the sweet spot performance wise as well. The cherry on the top is that most of the reporters and commentators are former drivers. Never knew how good that is for the viewing experience until I watched Supercars regularly. DTM should take note…
Both MX-5 and even some Formula E races have tought me that you don't need over the top performance figures and top speeds to create exciting races, espacially MX-5 series is hilarious fun to watch. Spec series are in my opinion required if you want to know who the best driver is. When it comes to engineering prowes, I think GTP/LMDh/Hypercars do a better job than F1, since the multiple drivers setup already de-emphasizes the driver part and make it more about the car and the team as a whole.
As you said, all forms have something to make them worth watching, so go have fun watching them all!
favourite racing series is definitely IndyCar, got into it about a year or two ago when Stan sports became a thing and picked up IndyCar as i heard Scott McLaughlin was in the series. McLaughlin being one of my favourite drivers in the V8s i wanted to watch it so i watched a few races and got hooked
The elefant in the room here is definetly GT3 racing. Feels like every country that has more than two racetracks has its own GT3 championship...sometimes even severall. Then you can also look in the smaller niches of racing: Rally Raid, Truck Racing, Stadium Supertrucks....if there is something with an engine and wheels on it, somebody is likely racing it.
Agreed! Like I talked about in the video with road racing, it always amazes me how many different championships and series there are which can be both a good and bad thing. Some of those smaller niches are very underrated too! Thanks for watching!
Yeah, the good thing from these global formulae (GT3, GT4, TCR) is that the same car can race pretty much anywhere, and even outdated machinery can stay active in local series
Yeah, Love GT3.
Watched the Fanatec series Nurburging 3 hour race today, great race.
The highlight was 24 hours of Spa though.
Plus its free to watch on GTworld channel.
I'm from Brazil, was born after Senna's death and grown up (trying to) cheer Rubens Barrichello, then the sport died here and I just started to follow it again in 2018 (before DTS btw) and got hooked ever since, but in 2021 I discovered Indycar and it was love at first sight, it has actually surpassed F1 for me now, great racing, the 2021 Indy 500 was the best experience watching a racing series I've ever had, obviously because a brazillian driver won it, but the racing was amazing either way
Agreed! IndyCar racing is severely underrated!
Biggest issue for Indycar is how off and on it's schedule is. Before Mid-May you get several 2 to 3 week breaks between races, then between the first Indy Road Course race until September the series pounds out races, and then vanishes into the ether mid-September (because of a justified fear of being made irrelevant by US Football).
Seems a bit...odd...to lump Multi-class/Endurance racing like WEC with the likes of touring car series. Maybe that's just a me thing, I really don't have much investment in anything that's not the Hypercar/Prototype and LMP2 classes in those series.
As someone who got into Rallying really big between 2016 and 2018 before falling out of it, my biggest issue was just how impractical and hard it was to watch it like an actual event. You'll have things like the officials youtube channel or RedBullTV which can give decent summaries, but only special stages and maybe one more stage gets proper 'live' coverage, so it feels like watching only the fourth and final innings of a baseball game while some randos give you a quick summary of what's happened in all the other innings. It's just really not practical to 'watch'. But to study/read about? It's fantastic.
Also shoutout to Formula E. While I do think most of it's popularity is artificial and terraformed, if you want a series that's not afraid of gimmicks and contact while being way shorter then a NASCAR race, it's a good way to go.
an interesting motorsport thats still around is Trials.
This was essentially the origins of rally special stages, which combined with the long road rallies of the time with long routes and co-drivers/navigators to make modern rally series. Essentially trials is a sport where you either win or lose, there is no ranking, and you win by simply making it to your destination.
Normal cars
2 wheel drive
normal road tyres
all on some of the most difficult offroad terrain imaginable without needing special suspension and massive wheels.
Trials is still very popular in motorcycle racing, where the rules are "dont put your feet down" while the rider clambers over ridiculous boulders and hopping from fallen trees, but car trials are still held in britain as they have done for over 100 years. its very entertaining to see the likes of the suzuki X90 and mk3 toyota mr2 "racing" with modified cars from the 1920s that are still going, all with cars like the classic beetle and triumph TR7 running with them.
That's really interesting! I've seen plenty of motorcycle trials videos, but wasn't actually aware they had it for cars as well. I've got something new to look up, thank you!
Hey man great video! I know I am 2 months late, but I wanted to say it anyways.
I'm from Australia but my background is Nigeria, and I am a big fan of NASCAR
I also recently started following F1 and WEC, and even started doing Go Karting for fun
Honestly it is tiring when people keep on stereotyping NASCAR as just "racing in circles" when it has its own type of racing. At least you brought this up to 7.3K current viewers. Thank's for a good video man, definitely excited to see what else you got.
I appreciate that a lot, thank you! Go karting is great fun, glad you've been able to get into that!
@@themotorsportstory thanks man. Great video.
My favorite series is well WAS DTM I stumbled upon it in 2018 and was and still am a super fan of Rene Rast a fellow German. But now that they changed the rules its not as enjoyable to I mainly was f1/indy and endurance racing.
I should spend some time watching DTM!
Currently, my biggest draw-ins are resemblance to road cars, variety of brands, shapes and challenges (why not?), and, of course, competitiveness. I love technical development, but more in the sense of taking an everyday commuter and making it go fast. I usually watch for the cars first. This is how touring cars, hillclimbs, rallying, drifting and drag racing stick out to me, but I just get excited about motorsports in general.
I'm really into Prototypes and F1 since they bring the most innovation to the table, however the racing is just insane in Supercars, FE(had 23 overtakes for the lead in the last event), MotoGP and even the Junior Formulas
Been meaning to get into Formula E more, but I think you've sold me to go watch it with 23 overtakes!
I hear many F1 fans say that oval racing is easy AF, you have infinite space to avoid crashing, but far from the truth. Oval Racing is hard AF, and driving on an oval with an 800 Horsepower brick is gruelling. And let's not forget the plethora of amazing racetracks they drive in, NASCAR outside of the Americas is overhated and underrated.
Agreed!
Agreed.
and... HE! IS! THE PAINKILLER!!
im from argentina and my favorite series is all endurance racing in general , i love see the teams evolve in the middle of the race , i watch a lot of argentinian motorsport like Turismo Carretera (from where canapino drived ) , tc2000 , turismo nacional , etc
but i think my fav is the imsa , is like the wec but well made.
I really enjoy IMSA also!
aguante el tc locoooo
@@juanmaagonz eaea
From a Brazilian neighbor, Turismo Nacional is amazing, and Canapino to IndyCar is one of the most exciting to follow moves I've seen so far.
@@edugj23 i watch a lot brazil stock car , is very cool and probably i gonne be if they race in buenos aires this year again. the only thing i dont understand from brasil is that weird nascar series , i dont get it but... if it works i think its ok.
There's still so many to cover from dirt track ovals to trophy trucks and things like Dakar I think we need a 2nd part.
Exactly! Stadium short course, to the Baja races!
There's a lot of comments like this! Maybe I'll try and put one together specifically focusing on off-road disciplines, although there's so many different kinds of dirt oval cars, that could even be its own video!
Loved the video cause it really matches what i think. Congrats from Portugal. Snd Yes; the Mx5 racing is insane. Hope you can also start thinking to do one about racing classics cars nowadays.
Thank you! Yes, some videos on the classics would be fun!
I honestly can’t even say there’s a bad Motorsport I love them all, from Imsa to f1; rally to Supercross it’s all fantastic
Drag racing sucks. Yeah I get it, it's loud 10,000 horsepower blah blah blah. The novelty of that wears off pretty quick and your left watching the same 4 second race down a straight line over and over. It's terrible.
@bradsanders407 I'm not a drag racing fan, bit I'd imagine the appeal is way more about the engineering then the actual race
i grew up as a nascar fan, but as i got older i got into other sports. and now my favorite has to be indycar, its like my sweet tooth of motor racing, once it happens its like a treat. its really hard to watch all formula one races since they are so early or late in the day for me so its a real struggle, but i really love open wheel racing. so punishing, and you gotta be smart in order to make your moves
Yes, some of the F1 races are on quite early in the morning for me as well! A struggle for sure.
I'm from Hungary and a F1 fan since I was 5, so obviously that is my favorite series, however, I love motorsports in general. I always try to watch Formula 2 and 3, and it's easier because they start before F1 events. Furthermore, I try to watch IndyCar and sometimes Nascar, but they start very late for me and I usually stuck with the highlights. If I have time, I try to watch WRC and MotoGP too. If there are 24h races I usually follow them as well, like this and last year the Daytona, Le Mans, Nürburgring and Spa. Almost forgot, I watch WTCR (previously WTCC) since I dunno, 2010-2011, but sadly It looks like it will be rebranded as an entirely different series this year.
In short, I love all kinds of racing.
Great! I have the opposite problem, haha F1 starts very early in the morning for me which can make it hard to watch live. I wasn't familiar with WTCR so you've given me a new series to watch. Thanks for the comment!
Im from the US and this is my introduction to your channel, and it was a great video! you've just got a new sub
I would also have to say my favorite racing series are INDYCAR and IMSA but I also like the engineering aspect of f1. also rally sometimes is something I will either watch highlights of or watch whole events depending on what else im doing. As well as WEC, I also watch the 24 hours of Le Mans every year no matter what.
Argentina here. We have the oldest league in motorsports... its call TC or Turismo Carretera. Its first championship was held in 1937 and the cars and competition evolved into what we have now. They first used coupes, ford, chevrolet, dodge. Races were like dirt rally, from point A to point B and also few laps around HUGE rural/main roads closed for the event. On mid to late 60's they swap the old coupes for modern production cars like IKA Torino, Ford Falcon, Chevrolet Nova, Dodge Polara/Coronado. They still raced on public roads and tracks... until mid 90's with the same cars, but heavily modified. Now they only race in tracks, and cars are prototypes shaped as those 70's ones, with spoilers, sidepods and weird bonnets. Its still one of the most popular motorsports in South America. Drivers like Juan Manuel Fangio (5 times F1 champ), José Froilán González (First winner ever for Ferrari in F1), Carlos Reutemann (He lost the F1 championship by 1 point in early 80's) and José María Lopez (24h of Le Mans winner, WEC Champ and 3 times Champ of WTCR), to name a few, have raced in TC.
I would argue that NASCAR has the most diverse schedule. Street courses, road courses, dirt oval, short track oval, intermediate oval, and superspeedways.
@@jordanfires9777 oh yeah 🤣🤣
Fair argument, I agree :) Chicago Street Course scare me a little in terms of how well it will race, but we can only hope it works out!
Americans and Aussies both have dirt oval racing, its all the insane car control, engineering and racing on tiny dirt ovals dotted around the US, its available basically everywhere here, its amazing
From what I see in my social circles, there will always be people that will egg on others for the motorsports they like just for attention or to belittle others. My perspective as a life long NASCAR fan usually saw people who watch F1 and WRC do this a little more, but I am aware that this can apply to anybody from any fanbase - that point you mentioned about "being conditioned to a certain style of racing" outlines that well to add to that. That's at least where I think a big source of division comes from.
Thanks to some neat individuals, I've been starting to follow IMSA and Indycar a little more now, and I'm greatly enjoying it! Though despite all the rule changes and landscape shifting, I feel NASCAR will always be apart of me in some way.
This was a great watch! We honestly need more people like you who strive to try and bring others together. Greetings from Canada!
Btw, because of this video I checked out a few of the others and am now subscribe. thank you for the work and passion.
When speed was around and they had recaps of WRC events, it really peaked my interest in the sport. I wish we had that still. I feel like the WRC are really missing out by not having similar recaps on their RUclips channel. I believe you could really grab attention by doing full recap of events.
I agree!
Okay, second comment:
I appreciate what you're doing here, and you've earned my subscription to the channel! I'm a racing/motorsports enthusiast, so any kind of speed-over-distance competition interests me.
I've been watching F1 steadily for about 10 years now. It can get tiresome seeing the same 3 manufacturers at the top, and seeing one team dominate most of the season. But the beauty in F1 comes mid-pack. Those teams who are fighting to be in the points. I do love seeing the fights for the win (when they happen), but the best action isn't usually up front.
I've watched NASCAR for nearly 30 years. I even own a number of NASCAR racing simulators, and got my first one at 8 years old. The appeal of NASCAR is definitely the close quarters racing and the variety in possible race winners. I doubt any other racing series can boast the number of race winners NASCAR can (partly because of the 36-race schedule), and it's neat because, especially now, nearly any car on the track has a shot at a victory.
Indycar I've watched for almost as long as NASCAR. My introduction to open-wheel racing came from Indycar, and now that I've become a bit of a motorsports historian, it's cool learning how many drivers (and even teams) have gone back and forth from Indycar to F1. Plus there's no oval racing more exciting than these things sustaining 210 side by side. Heart-in-your-throat racing.
I've gotten more into road racing recently, but I watch races from IMSA, WEC, Supercars, MX-5 Cup (probably my favorite), etc.
WRC and other rally events I probably watch the least, but I have great appreciation for that form of motorsport. In all honesty, rally drivers are the best drivers on the planet, bar none. They're also the most insane. Because a wrong move isn't just contact with the barrier. It could mean flipping into a forest, through someone's house, or off the side of a mountain.
I can't wait to see more of your content! As I mentioned in my last comment, I'm also a fan of drag racing, but there's also dirt track racing, short track racing, motorcycle sprint track racing, MotoGP and World Superbike, Motorcross, boat racing, drag boat racing... there's so much motorsport out there, I'm interested in seeing what topics you bring up!
Thanks for sharing all of that and the subscription! Love hearing about peoples' experiences and what lead to their enthusiasm for each kind of motorsport. And I'm with you on the simracing side, I always have the most fun driving NASCAR cars!
Never been too fond of Formula for the exact reasons you've mentioned, it's too damn engineered. The drivers have machines I'll never imagine being able to drive, and corner capability that puts me to sleep with how effective it is. NASCAR I couldn't care less about, I'm not from the US. Rally is king for me, just pure automotive PAIN. Cars break, drivers fail, the track is your greatest rival. Watched a rally back in my homeland, incredible stuff although it was just one or two cars passing every couple of minutes. I loved it. One guy ended up uninjured pulling his car out of a lake, another's Ford Focus had a good 2.6m drop of the side of the road, rolled about 6 times. EVERYBODY cheered. Best thing we had seen all day. Nobody was hurt thank God, maybe the drivers ego. Even had a modified LADA with original suspension, damn thing turned into a SWING on a corner. Had some GAZ trucks racing too, all modified V8s. 2 of them didn't survive the first race. Absolute insanity in Rally, I love it.
Sounds like a great event you went to! I'll make it out to watch a rally someday!
I love all, but my favourite does rotate year on year being from Uk nascar always intrigued me and I got hooked then after watching 2 full seasons just got fed up with all gimmicks. Now I’m full swing into Wec/Endurance racing I feel the level of drivers in pro entries are amazing.
Agreed on both points! As an American I grew up watching Nascar, but it has unfortunately gone downhill regulation wise. Unlike some people, I really like the current car, but the gimmicks like stage racing, inconsistencies with yellow flags and penalties, and so on get quite tiring.
Grew up watching nascar, and Indy. my neighbor was a big f1 fan so i found that from him but i didn't follow every race until around 2015. my favorite series is probably IMSA. I've been to the races at Road America the last 2 years and its great. i love multi class racing, it produces a lot of overtaking which is what i enjoy.
For the past over a decade now my favourite category of racing has to be anything with a GT3 category. Any manufacturer worth their salt has a GT3 model. The racing is pretty much always close, whether its a 40 minute sprint or a 24 hour endurance, and there are races of almost any length in between to suit any attention span.
The class has been adopted globally, regionally and nationally so anyone anywhere can find a series and watch a race on a whole variety of circuits from every corner of the planet.
But the best thing is that the teams and drivers that run a GT3 car are eligible for any of these races, so you see the same teams and drivers popping up all over the world to compete in these different races.
Even when the class isnt the main event such as the GTD class in IMSA, its always where a lot of the action can be found. Even the ACO have finally given in and are using it in WEC and Le Mans from 2024.
And its pretty much all free to watch on youtube. IMSA, SRO ('Blancpain'), British/Australian/French/German national GT, GT Open, Creventic 24H series to name but a few.
I love that it's all available here on RUclips. Really makes it accessible to new fans.
As an American, we really are spoiled for choice when it comes to motorsports. Indycar, NASCAR Cup, WoO Sprint Cars and Late Models, IMSA.
This Chanel deserve more audience
Njordwegian here, i got into F1 because of the technical and driver aspects combined. Clever innovations in aerodynamics, chassis structure and engine technology makes it interesting to geek into, looking at pictures of new upgrade packages and then watching the effect on track. And then 20 drivers, all with their unique driving styles that really come alive in cars that are so on the limit as F1 cars. I know all drivers everywhere have their own quirks of driving but it feels like it's more visible in F1. Anyways that's my take
Argentian Turismo Carretera also uses a elimination format, and its very exciting too
I’m from the UK - I partially grew up watching F1 (because of my dad, who’s now lost interest), and I’ve recently started getting into IndyCar - I think both series have their pros and cons, but they’re both entertaining to me.
Attending in person has got to be NHRA Drag Racing. There isn’t anything quite like 11,000 HP race cars. It’s definitely a snooze watching it on TV though, which is why IndyCar is my favorite to follow along with.
Formula E is worth adding to the ranks, especially now that the popularity contest of Fanboost is gone. The new cars especially evoke the same small-car open wheel feeling that F1 did a long, long time ago, but there are some pretty big issues still plaguing the sport, like bad marshall standards and a tendency to keep old, boring street courses on the calender even as they transition to including proper racetracks as well (looking at you, Berlin airport track)
I hadn't realized they ditched the "fanboost" thing until I started reading some of these comments. Honestly, that was one of the things keeping me away from it.
i like all of these racing series, im from canada so we get more nascar type stuff here
nascar and indycar are probably my favourites but i still like all
also i like how indycar kinda takes a bit from both nascar and f1 at the same time
I'm from México and i've been going to rally since 2011, best Motorsports ever, you get a lot of action if you get a nice spot, free to watch most of the times, great environments, you get to know the cars, drivers and teams so close that seems unreal. Also seeing a rally car in the street going to the stage is freaking awesome. Plus you get a full week of racing if you count the Mondays test, the recce and shakedown.
It killed me how much COTA (my home track) was in this video for NASCAR I saw both Next Gen races here and they were great
Must have been awesome to see them run there! I have yet to make it out to a NASCAR road course race. Been to plenty of ovals, but no road courses yet :)
I'm Peruvian, here in the continent we don't have that much of a space for racing since we're mostly focused on getting out of the "third world country" bracket and due to that, Motorsports kinda falls off, but recently it started to become something.
In Perú we have the CCTC (Circuit Championship Touring Competition) and it's ok. Here at least a new wave of Formula 1 fans has emerged after Netlifx's DTS series. From around 500K Peruvian viewers in 2020 we jumped to +1.25M for the 2021 Season after all the LH44 vs MV33 Season battle for the ages. Indeed it's becoming more popular, but also it's still a long way to go before something big gets done here to boost viewership.
Now me, I'm a huge Endurance Racing fan. IMSA, WEC, GTWC you name it, I watch it. The aspect of strategy across a long race which is not defined only by who has the best machine but rather the best squad, consistency and mind in the game is absolutely brutal personally speaking. I'm also into Indycar and F1, but F1 has been dying off for me a tad since they are going too far away from what made the series the most prestigious on the planet and going more for the show rather than focusing on improving the product.
That's my take.
Interesting to read, thank you for sharing! It is quite impressive what the DTS series did for bringing in new fans. And yes, strategy is one of the best parts of endurance racing!
Subscribed. 7:34 "Any and all forms of motorsports". I think that is exactly how you can describe each discipline's appeal. Each discipline has some *formula* that contributes to their own success. Growing up with IndyCar and NASCAR, I never knew much more than ovals but the global community of motorsports helped introduce me to other series. Jeff Gordon and JPM swapping cars, Jimmie Johnson and Fernando swapping cars. The communal appreciation for each other and the understanding that not every race or racecar needs to be the same.
Exactly! Watching those car swapping experiments was always really cool to see.
Aussie here of course love the supercars go to the Bathurst 1000 every year.
Also like the WEC going to Le Mans this year cant wait
But to me most exciting racing are sprintcars & speedcars
Great video by the way
American here, and my favorite motorsport is by far rally. Wish there was more coverage of the ARA, and I wish that WRC was more accessible to everyone else. I've gotten a handful of my friends into it already, and I'm proud of myself.
I plan on going to Poland one of these summers and seeing Rally Poland, it's not even an hour from my family's hometown and I missed it by a few weeks when I visited this past summer. Hopefully one day🤞
I’m from the United States. I’ve been watching NASCAR since I was in diapers(according to my mom) I got into F1 and Indycar in 2010. F1 really caught my attention because it was nothing like I had ever seen before, from the sounds to the stage. And with Indycar, I loved the close battles and stuff. Occasionally I’ll watch endurance and rally. But my big 3 are nascar, Indy, and F1. I’m 19 btw
Great video 👍 as an F1 fan since the early 2000's I always find other forms of racing to get my fix when there is no F1 on a particular weekend
I've been following both Nascar and Indycar especially since Grosjean moved over to Indy but I must admit I find myself only watching the road or street courses because I just can't understand the whole oval circuits and watching cars turn left the entire time 😅
I can fully appreciate the skill and courage required to race on ovals though.
American here. I grew up starting with F1 and moving to other sports, never really got into NASCAR or Indycar, but more into rally and GT racing. Would be a dream to participate in either one someday.
We need a video on the various types of dirt oval racing, it’s some of the most awesome racing I’ve ever watched
Sweden. F1 and previously WRC.
I grew up next to the Swedish Rally stage, so that's where I got my taste for motorsports. Later on I grew to love F1 due to the televised spectacle and the on-track action (and the end of Group B). Honestly, it's not that other motorsports are bad, it's just that there's something inherently visceral about watching drivers pass each other at 340kmh in cars worth more than most people earn in their entire lifetimes. Watching triple my yearly salary spread out over the track from just a front wing getting damaged isn't a negative for me, it adds flavor. Watching more money than I will make during my whole career go up in smoke when Charles LeClerc touches a gas pedal is just pure fun.
I'm weird, but hey, I love the sport for all the other reasons as well.
I love this content. United all motorsport communities!!! As an American, I’ll meet nascar fans and I’ll meet f1 fans but it’s so rare to find a motorsport fan as a whole like myself
Floridaman here. Live about just over an hour drive away from Daytona. I'm just a petrolhead. Whether it is road course racing or oval, I'll go watch it. People watching the different crowds that show up is cool too. I've been to a dozen or so nascar tracks, the rolex 24hr, and even made a stop in Perth Australia for a V8 supercar weekend. It's all good for me. Only problem,for me, is that formula 1 ticket prices are way to expensive. Miami grand prix tickets were almost 2k per seat.
Grew up on Nascar, but as I learned to drive tracks myself I now fully appreciate Indy and IMSA much more.
Ηi, excellent video !! But how did you manage to have copyright free content ?
The closest things that are popular in the states that are kind of like Rally would be stuff like Pikes Peak hill climb or the Baja 1000.
NASCAR's stage racing is awesome btw. They give points out at the end of each stage which encourages drivers to run good throughout the race instead of just worrying about the finish.
That's how I feel about it. Keep the points, but maybe not the cautions.
It's a good idea in concept but it's kind of lame in execution
Nice insight on every major racing series.
As a Bangladeshi 🇧🇩, motorsport culture isn't big here. It has very niche fandom (we have Avik Anwar who races in UAE 🇦🇪 organized races), perceived to be a rich man's sport because of it's barrier to entry involving a vehicle. From 20 years ago, I have casually watched almost all the racing series you mentioned here except the Mazda series maybe.
Been watching Formula E since around 2015, awaiting this series to become the pinnacle because FE is great to watch from an Engineering perspective.
I’m a Brit who’s loved F1 for most of my life, and yet a couple years ago I discovered Indycar and can honestly say I enjoy that series so much more than F1 now. It’s such a fantastic spectacle and every race throws up something different
Croatian here. I love watching SuperGT. The tracks are fenomenal and the racing is allways tight due to two classes and BOP
Watch Indycar!!!! love Indycar so much. Racing is almost always great, the field is the deepest and largest it’s been in years. I just wish the series had more fans to inspire more races and discourse-if you’re a motorsports fan, watch Indycar in May/June. You likely won’t be disappointed. As far as other series, The summation of F1 was pretty good, but the part I feel was left out is the dramatic aspect of manufacturer vs. manufacturer, country vs. country, team vs. team, and driver vs. driver. From an American’s POV, it just FEELS European-not a bad thing, but foreign and full of elitist sentiment. NASCAR hasn’t been the same in a while… less marketable drivers, weird schedule, cars aren’t even stock, bad rule changes, stages, and a joke of a points system. Road racing (IMSA fan) is fantastic, but could use more exposure even in the world of motorsports. As for rally… maybe I’ll give it a try.
As an American who grew up first with NASCAR it'll always be my favorite in that I focus on it more often, but I absolutely adore Indy-Car and have a soft spot for the endurance IMSA races, though I often only catch bits and pieces or put it on in the background. F1 is something I've desperately tried and failed to get into time and time again, I don't think it's necessarily because its boring, I think it's simply because it's hard for me to find someone to root for. And rally isn't something I necessarily follow but something I'll see highlights of on social media and gush over the talent of the drivers for a few minutes then go on with my day.
I'm from the Czech Republic and my favorites are F1 and rallying. I also try to follow WEC a bit, and rallycross (though even less than WEC). As for the American based racing series (as well as most others), I never really felt the connection to them, since I didn't have any means of watching them in the past or even following them (before I had Internet, as these series simply aren't covered at all in my country).
I watched F1 since the mid 2000s when I was a kid, it was always sort of a dream for me (I wanted to race in F1), it went away when the standard channels stopped covering it and I no longer had a way of watching it, so I fell out for a bunch of years, though at the start of the pandemic, I started following it again. Hopefuly one day, I get to go to at least one race.
As for rallying, our country is a bit of a rallying nation, and not far from me, the traditional Barum Czech Rally Zlín is held every year, as part of the European Rally Championship (and formerly part of Intercontinental Rally Challenge), so my parents were taking me there every year for a part of my childhood, as well as to other local rallies. Same as with F1, I started having other interests, so we weren't going anymore for a bunch of years, but same as with F1, the pandemic made me find rallying again, and I absolutely fell in love. I started playing a bunch of racing games again and in 2021, got myself a wheel and started sim racing. The next year, I started collecting scale models of rally cars too! I went to Barum Rally in 2021 and 2022 and I'm going again this year! Apart from that, I recently went to an amateur rally and to another round of our national championship, and will be going to one more next month. And of course, the big one in October, finally, for the first time, WRC will visit my country and I obviously won't miss seeing those Rally1 cars and all my favorite drivers with my own eyes!
Personally I like every series, I grew up watching Nascar and F1 back in 2010-2013. I moved to Rally and RX as my focus during 2014-2015 and rn I mostly watch F1 and Indy with sum important races of other series as my must watch (Le Mans, Bathurst 1000 or Daytona 500 for example) and if i have free time I watch sum drift series or Super GT. I'm also entering MotoGP as a regular watcher for the first time in my short 19yo and I rlly like it and i even had the chance to be in the local pro kart scene of my country (Perú) for a few years. Motorsport ia so rich and there literally something for everyone. I think the top 2 japan racing series and the Australian racing series are very underrated cause they give a lot of show everytime. Also RX is too underrated casue that is wild af. I feel that for people that are fans of cars like purists and love super close racing with less politics into it like the 90s stuff yall should try series like that which live out of the media focus or also watch feder series for the biggest series too
Rallycross is a great middle man between rally and roadracing, the track is almost always mixed surface (asphalt/ gravel). The cars are even crazier than the ones in WRC. And the best part is that they use slicks in those conditions. In general the sport pushes drivers and cars to their limit or beyond.
Love rallycross! I've been to one event (they never came back to the track near me unfortunately), but it was a great time! Thanks for watching!
I am from Brazil and i like all types of Racing, all of those are fun in their own ways and i like how they have their own twist, making them unique in their own way
My favorite type of racing to watch is supercross. It’s amazing the skill those riders have flying over those jumps. No cage to protect you in a crash either. Local dirt track racing is great too. That’s the grassroots of NASCAR, most of them got their start racing locally on dirt. Go kart racing would be fun to watch too.
I think that gt world challange (previously Blancpain gt challange) is extremally underrated as a "league"
basically agree with everything here. i just try to give all of it a chance. i could say F2 , F3 , moto 2 , moto3 and v8 sup are the most complete. Nascar is way better than we, the non States people think. im from DR.
Honestly motocross and supercross are the most exciting motorsports at the moment. Bar to bar action and there are just more techniques to get a dirt bike to go faster than a car it’s more dependent on rider skill
Imsa is easily my favorite series. The GT classes are almost always close together, and with multi class racing, there is always action on track
began watching nascar in 2004 & am in my 18th season of watching the sport. i didn't branch out into other forms of motorsport until the early-mid 2010s but it wasn't until 2019 that it completely fleshed out.
nascar, f1, & indycar are the ones i watch the most & give the most attention to. that being said, i've begun to pay attention to aussie supercars & wec a hell of a lot more. imsa is in a category of its own between those parties.
when it comes to the best racing, it's incredibly difficult to compare. nascar, indy, imsa, wec, supercars, all have decent (on avg.) on-track products at the least. f1 lags behind but makes up for it in spectacle & technicality, although it has produced some incredible races in the 10 seasons i've watched dating back to 2014.
*i do want to preface this by saying i believe f1 is a racing series first & that the engineering and drama play supporting roles, albeit strong ones
motorsport is something that i devote myself towards, as a us citizen i don't pay attention to stick-and-ball on a weekly basis other than the nfl but even then racing takes priority. it's just the passion i have for it. it's my life and one day i want to participate in these events as a driver, i don't know where i'd be today without the sport.
My favorite is stock car pro series from Brazil, there is so many close racing and the championship fight is always incredible! You should make a video about this category.
Edit: I am from Brazil
From the UK.. favourite series other than classic car racing is truck racing. 1000hp, 5.5 tonne 12 litre diesel powered monsters that can get to 100mph faster than a Porsche 911 going three wide into a hairpin never gets old. Watching them drifting round that same hairpin on their victory lap after the race, never gets old either.
I've watched a few videos of that truck racing, it's an absolute riot!
@@themotorsportstory I live about 45 minutes away from Brands Hatch and up until relatively recently would go and watch the opening and closing rounds of the BTRC that are held there. Standing up by the outside of the Druids hairpin was the best spot.
The videos are cool, but there's nothing like actually being there; although I guess thats pretty much the same for any motorsport!
Am from Uganda. This is a great video.
I grew up watching f1, wrc and moto gp.
But then i fell in love with nascar especially race for the sprint cup (logano fan).
Wouldn't it be awesome if F1 implement the new points system for the sprint cup as this would keep every team working hard till the end of the year.
I’m from the US and I just love watching motorsports 2 wheels 4 wheels doesn’t matter as long as it goes fast I love to watch.
Growing up in Arizona, desert racing has been a huge part of my life. With the Vegas 2 Reno, and the Mint 400 being the bigger races of the year. Also racing down in Baja
Awesome! I'd love to get more into the off-road stuff, but I'm on the other side of the country and there isn't much around here.
I'll toss drag racing's hat into the ring for this one. I don't know much about foreign sanctioning bodies, but NHRA over here in the states is probably the most open motorsport I can thjnk of. I've walked up and talked to the drivers and team members on qualifying days. The only thing keeping you from touching the cars in the pits is a rope (and even that is probably negotiable if you ask nicely enough). Granted, it gets more serious during eliminations, but during down time, they'll still talk to you.
Sure, a quarter mile and 2-4 cars, and a light doesn't sound exciting on paper. Frankly it sounds like golf on paper, but it truly isn't something to watch on TV; it is something you have to experience. The sights, the sounds, the feel of 4 nitro cars launching is nothing short of insanity (just bring some earplugs for your ears' sake).
Have watched all type of racing & Indy Car for me has it all. Open wheel, amazing sound, great tracks & the unpredictability is what makes it the best series out there.
Im Greek and i started watching f1 for the first time in 2007. Also, i live in a city that organizes rally acropolis and it’s literally 10 minutes away by car from my home. So, i would say i love f1 and i really like rally.
The more I get into racing the more I think Indycar is so underrated
An American who watched NASCAR in the 90s and early 2000s. Started watching F1 4-5 years ago and it got me interested in my current favorite racing series, NTT Indycar. But still love trophy truck racing. And miss the big rigs flying up the dirt on Pikes Peak.
Pike's Peak on dirt was something else!
I've been a long F1 fan for like a decade now. Started watching indycar 3 years ago. And today I prefer Indycar races over F1. Though I'm always interested in what the F1 teams can find in upgrades every weekend
Stadium super trucks is fun if you're looking for a bit of action. Rally cross would be my pick to watch in person, highly recommended. WRC, ARA or any other staged rallies will always have my heart though.
I've been to one Rallycross event in person and it was great! Excellent pick with Stadium Super Trucks too, probably some of the most action-packed racing I've seen. Thanks for watching!