Analyzing the 20-turn Circuit of the Americas road course | NASCAR ON FOX

[@NASCARonFOX]

Are you excited about the first race at COTA?

[@joeltrocino5903]

Yessir

[@chestercheeto2228]

yes

[@NASCAR12fan]

Whooo

[@lightningbolt9871]

HECK YEAH

[@pastelninjak5864]

Yes

[@jduke93]

This season has been pretty exciting, I’m happy I got back in Nascar when I did. I stopped watching around 2009 when my mom and step dad passed away since they were the ones who got me into loving nascar. My step dad was a huge Gordon fan which I also became and my mom was a Jarrett fan, I sure do miss tho days

[@Pliskin2894]

Same here dude. I stopped watching when I was like 12 in 2006. Then got back into it last year. Cool to see Sonoma on the schedule too, I remember that course among many others.

[@jduke93]

@@Pliskin2894 yea man me to, I back into it because I was still playing nascar games and didn’t know any of the drivers so I started watching again so I could know who the drivers were. I’m excited to see how this season ends and I’m more excited for the new nascar game

[@TheTotallyRealXiJinping]

Same man. I stopped around 2007 because I was a dumb teenager trying to fit in. I’m blessed to still have my parents around to enjoy nascar with me, keep strong brother

[@danielclark4624]

gunna be awesome. more technical tracks like cota please

[@2ndamendmentsupportingrepu706]

And one thing no one has mentioned is rain 😂😂😂

[@redtyrant24]

Because if we do, it won't happen, shhhhhh

[@N45C4R24]

@@redtyrant24 Yea it will as long as there’s no lightning in an 8-mile radius of the track

[@redtyrant24]

@@N45C4R24 shhhhhhh, if you mention rain at a RC it won't rain.

[@supertornadogun1690]

@@redtyrant24If it rains, it will storm, so no racing :/

[@sergeantmasson3669]

@@supertornadogun1690 At the 2021 Daytona road course race, they ran on rain tires and had windshield wipers.

[@SockmonkeyTheMusical]

I'm not even a big NASCAR fan, but this is gonna be awesome.

[@fredbanda5494]

Last road course at Daytona early in the year saw a lot drivers suffering from brake fade, that's how Christopher Bell managed to win over Joey Logano. So with the heavy braking zones at COTA brakes will be very interesting factor. Can't wait😊

[@roguesquadron521]

Is it me or does Jeff seem a bit envious that these guys get to race at COTA with him being not only one of the road course kings but also a huge F1 fan? Haha.

[@Huddle_House56]

He could always run one off races like MW and Jamie McMurray used to

[@jonathanapa8346]

Grade unf nathan j

[@user-bd8wv9hu4b]

Well Jeff got to test a competitive Williams F1 car a long time ago so I'm sure he's not that unhappy with his life lmao

[@Sharpiecar]

Gonna have to watch this I don’t know what it looks like

[@NASCAR12fan]

This is gonna be fun

[@DanArnets1492]

How don't you know? F1, MotoGp, FIA WEC, Indycar and many more have already raced there!

[@Sharpiecar]

@@DanArnets1492 I don’t watch any of those

[@DanArnets1492]

@@Sharpiecar - MotoGp is specially great. 22 motorbikes, 40-45 minutes per race, FIVE manufacturers have teams straight from their factories and the 6th one gives manufacturer support to their team, very physical and mistakes are incredible costly (going on the grass will easily get you a DNF). Top speed in CotA? 210-220mph Fastest speed ever recorded? 225mph

[@LeGoatedCenter]

@@Sharpiecar I feel that

[@petercopeland9456]

Please FOX I beg of ya please have about a 25 minute race Segment of Highlights of Practice, Qualifying, and Race Highlights each please and Thank You.

[@petercopeland9456]

Cause I actually don't have the channel FOX anyways.

[@michaelhansen5185]

Rooting for Chase to get the dub, but I'm not betting against MTJ

[@reactbs4510]

As an F1 fan these laps are going to be hard to watch

[@chrish6909]

*fun to watch

[@CM-ve1bz]

On single file tracks like these any type of cars are hard to watch.

[@YusufC51]

I'm a Sportscar Racing/Endurance Racing fan and I don't think it'll be hard to watch, if anything it'll be interesting to see how the Nascars are around the track in comparison to the higher downforce GT and LMP cars that I've seen race this track before.

[@MaBcMCLAN]

The cars will be pathetically slow, but the race will be more entertaining that an F1 race, no question. Just more passing, more cars, closer competition....

[@julianmx13]

Fox has way better announcers too. Can’t stand F1 announcers.

[@M16Joe]

A super difficult track under horrible conditions. Hopefully it'll be better next time.

[@austinblansett9900]

Jeff and Mike would be a great booth

[@LtLysander]

You can already see what Brad’s gona look like when he’s an old man 😂😂😂

[@daviclar867]

Fat and bald just like his daddy. He looks just like him.

[@coyote8198]

Fox is where I go for Nascar news.

[@nat-qz4sd]

It's gonna be tough for them, brake calibration'll be the battle.

[@brianbice2819]

That tracks design comes from different F1 tracks. The reason it’s going to be a challenge is because it was designed for F1 racing.

[@thecoinroom3352]

Yeah. It wasnt designed for full size sedans with Toyota Camry bodies.

[@brianbice2819]

@@thecoinroom3352 I already said that.

[@patrickanderson9023]

@Brian Bice COTA were not designed for F1, but the track was built for F1. COTA, just like most road courses, were designed to be a race track for all kind of different racing machines, on both two and four wheels.

[@brianbice2819]

@@patrickanderson9023 In an episode of Speed TV's Wind Tunnel program broadcast on August 22, 2010, Tavo Hellmund revealed that the circuit would be 3.4 miles (5.5 km) long and would be made up of twenty turns with an elevation change of 133 feet (41 m). The final plan of the circuit was released on September 1, 2010, showing a design inspired by the European tradition of sculpting the circuit to the contours of the land. The design draws from several European Formula One circuits, including a recreation of Silverstone's Maggotts-Becketts-Chapel sequence, Hockenheim's arena bends, and a replica of Istanbul's Turn Eight.[54] Other corners were loosely inspired by the Senna 'S' at Interlagos and the Österreichring's Sebring-Auspuffkurve.[9] A feature of the circuit is a deliberate widening of corners, to encourage drivers to follow multiple racing lines.[55] A similar feature was used at the Buddh International Circuit in India, where the circuit widens on the approach to certain corners. That’s from Wikipedia about the track. I was living there when it was built and that’s how I knew.

[@patrickanderson9023]

@Brian Bice Like i said, COTA were designed to be a multipurpose race track. Tavo Hellmund, Kevin Schwantz, Alexander Wurz and Mario Andretti all assisted track designer Hermann Tilke with the layout for COTA. COTA was built in order to host the US Grand Prix, but the track was by no means built specifically for F1 cars. I think COTA looks more like a typical MotoGP/roadracing type of a track than a typical F1 track.

[@jasonconrad5772]

Go wide if you don't want to slide. Go tight if you want to fight. #1

[@NASCAR12fan]

It is big get all 44 cup cars out there

[@user-rl7cw9eg8e]

Only 40 cup cars this week

[@sergeantmasson3669]

@@user-rl7cw9eg8e NASCAR races have been limited to 40 cars since 1998.

[@user-rl7cw9eg8e]

@@sergeantmasson3669 No they haven't. It had always been limited to 43 cars all the way to 2015. 40 cars since.

[@sergeantmasson3669]

@@user-rl7cw9eg8e I stand corrected. Since the charter system was implemented, the number of cars were limited to 40.

[@user-rl7cw9eg8e]

@@sergeantmasson3669 yeah

[@NickWuebker]

Turn #1 is gonna have a lot of drivers swearing on the radios.

[@chevy2666]

CHASE ELLIOTT WILL WIN THE ECHO PARK GRAND PRIX AT COTA!

[@sergeantmasson3669]

REALLY? You know that how?

[@elmurcis1]

Drivers after turn4: This is new territory... Just kidding - even if racing might be more single file, love Cup cars on road courses. And with potential for [not dry] it might shake field even more. With this long lap only wish that there are no unnecessary (quickly solvable if there are wide enough gaps in traffic) cautions.

[@MoDawdy]

I've run COTA and run iRacing of COTA. sure you get the layout, but you do NOT get the feel of the track. Especially turn1, and then 2-3 going down hill

[@Stator720]

VR helps a ton here, adds the depth and lets you really see how steep things are. I remember the huge difference running my first few laps of nurburg in VR and it was exactly as I expected when I drove it in real life.

[@kevinschmid238]

They are going so slow compared to F1 especially during acceleration! F1 turns laps around 1:36 while xfinity is around 2:17 per lap! So to put that in perspective an F1 car would lap a Xfinity car in about 2.5 laps which is crazy if you think about it...

[@codymoe4986]

Not that crazy at all when you consider the weight,, aero, HP differences....

[@compressor_stall]

There's gonna be a lot of cars going off track lol

[@nicholasholz7202]

I would be but I can't watch it since it's not on Fox so no not really.

[@jonathanapa8346]

Nathan j tmz lovapaloza

[@EduGloriani4208]

Hmmm, time to upgrade the brakes to carbon ceramics...

[@steveutgaard9381]

😎😎😎😎😎😎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎

[@scottbullard8795]

I could care less honestly im not big on the huge amount of road courses now

[@monsterouseggman627]

Let's goo Denny Hamlin

[@lsm4870]

Again first one but not fox

[@barbarajohnson1348]

You bet ya! I get to watch it Hooray! Go Kyle 18.

[@TheBillWeasel]

That was not a very in depth analysis

[@chestercheeto2228]

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