Chicago’s NASCAR Race is a Marvel of Physics

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This video explores the intricate planning and design that transformed the heart of Chicago into a 2.2-mile race track for NASCAR's Next Gen cars. It comes from a combination of cutting-edge technology, historical motorsport legacy, and urban planning to create this unique racing experience. From the car itself to the layout and surface of the streets, everything works together to make the event possible. There’s another key development that helped make it possible as well. Sim racing, specifically iRacing who created a digital twin of the course to design and test the conditions, ensuring the best possible layout for both racers and spectators. Then Chicago made real-world modifications to the streets to address safety, performance, and spectator experience, based on data from virtual races.
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Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.
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[@supermaster2012]

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[@koolpapabell1]

@@supermaster2012 Still a good story

[@ghost21501]

I didn't realize my favorite architect is also a car guy. You just went up in my book, sir.

[@Storm10xx]

Just because he does a video on nascar doesn’t make him a car guy 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

[@stevengordon3271]

Incorporating a My Cousin Vinny clip is always a great idea.

[@__________________________bub0]

👍

[@WhoCares-wo2oc]

I worked on the resurfacing of this course. It was an awesome experience. Everything was lasered and mapped out before we milled the roads. Then done again to see how much we cut out of where and then done again once it was paved. They could see a bump that would need to be milled 1/8th of an inch with a micro mill. They had engineers try to figure out grade to make the bridge transitions smoother and everything. It was pretty neat.

[@dylanhobbs6249]

My favorite architecture KZbinr made a NASCAR video!!!!! I love it when I'm at the center of a Venn diagram that looks like two circles until you zoom in

[@fireteam_]

I've watched you for years, but seeing a video about not only racing but iRacing which i have thousands of hours on is a surprise! Great video

[@johnbarker5009]

This video is amazingly informational, accurate, and entertaining for an architecture blog taking on auto racing as a topic. My compliments! I consider myself a very well rounded racing fan, and I learned something too. I was extremely skeptical of this event before the initial running. Your discussion of the infrastructure improvements and sim racing exercise helped me understand how they ended up with an exciting but highly functional venue.

[@GenericRespondent]

Love your videos! Glad you're getting into autosports as it as fantastic mix of ingenuity and skill. But just to nitpick, since this an engineering focused channel, banked turns do not generate extra downforce. What they primarily do is angle the normal force vector of the car so that part of it is in the horizontal direction pointing inwards toward the center of the turn. This creates a centripetal force and reduces the amount of grip required to keep the car turning. In theory, you can design a bank where a car at a known mass and velocity doesn't need any grip at all to make the corner, although this is usually better suited for things like bobsleds than cars. The amount of downforce (which usually means aerodynamic downforce) does not really change as the surface banks, although the normal force vector does increase, which is why you feel compressed in banked turns.

[@nicholasorr4230]

I remember watching that iRacing broadcast in 2020 on FS1. That was utterly surreal to see that course *virtually* on a national broadcast.

[@ImusNoxa]

I wasn't expecting something so far out of your typical wheelhouse, but this was really good! It's actually fascinating how many kinks were worked out of the racetrack ahead of the time thanks to hardcore simulations and analysis

[@usagentcyclone]

I’m an avid fan of this series and I really appreciate this informative video about all that went into this race. The overall positivity of your take towards this event I hope can spark interest into anyone not following domestic Motorsport. I haven’t dug deep into your videos but highlighting IndyCar street races would be awesome as they need viewers even more than stock car racing. Hell even just a highlight of their new hybrid systems would bring interest to the sport that fails to get 7 digit views on anything but Indy

[@CatFish107]

I love that they had a bunch of pros race the simul model for testing. You can just let everyone have a go, and watch where and how the carnage happens without endangering anyone. Is the footage of that original test race available somewhere?

[@petergerdes1094]

So iracing is exactly just a racing game you'd play. Just a high end one.

[@colbemugen9932]

it’s like dcs vs warthunder

[@garysarpy835]

Great work! Ty! .. I'm a local and am stoked to see this again! 🏁

[@nannerz1994]

Another phenomenal video Stewart!

[@RonaldLadao]

I'm not a hardcore nascar fan or a hardcore car jock. Yet, I like racing animes like Initial D, or MF Ghost. And I'm a Chicagoan that have to navigate the city for work. When we first got word that Nascar is having a race in Chicago. I was like.. NOOOOO!!! because that means they have to do road closers and such. Which is an inconvenience for me due to my work. But When the race started. The race got interesting with the rain, causing more drama, and strategy. Which got entertaining for a regular person to watch on TV. This year. The first race of the the year Xfinity cup series. It was an okay race, the weather was fine. But I almost fall asleep watching. Yet on the Sunday race, when it rain.. yeah, it got the same intensity as last year's race. But I still think last year Nascar cup series race is better than last year in regards of action and entertainment. Would the third year Nascar cup race be any better if it was perfect weather??

[@agingmillennialmainer]

All cars have years of engineering behind them. Nice to hear you speak positively

[@diethersantos6404]

Would be fun if Indycar, Formula E, and IMSA (Weathertech or MCP) goes to Streets of Chicago that would be definitley fun to watch it

[@Novers]

Its really cool to me that the racing sim is a source of data you can't really get otherwise

[@mailboxmedia6655]

Really cool video! thanks for talking about all the things I wanted people to know

[@SwigerQ86]

I went to the nashville race last week and it blew my mind

[@MikeFerrell]

Can't believe I'm sending a link to one of my favourite Architectural KZbinrs to all my racing fan friends but here we are! Such a well done video, with such an interesting take on the subject.

[@VanillaSpooks]

Amazing video! I’d love to see more like this on motorsports!

[@markk3453]

im very impressed with you doing car content. nicely done !

[@sosedup]

i love non NASCAR KZbin channel talking about NASCAR

[@mikalmandichak8328]

Chicago has a history of Motorsports. for example, last week my boy Edward beat me in a street race from Harlem to Lagrange

[@stizanley3987]

I actually want to watch this race

[@alexfire53-ze7px]

Big nbc

[@aidanross2179]

6:08 funny enough you can still run the prototype course they were trying for Chicago on iracing still

[@MICHAELRG7321]

Cars are made cheaper lol, finally someone said it

[@dindog22]

I hope they get better weather this year

[@SirSpinalColumn]

5:38 I know turn 2 at Bathurst when I see it...

[@Gliese710_]

I may be moving to Indiana soon, so I’ll be able to see the race at Indy, and this one now, cool

[@JohnAzzi430]

When is nascar going to race in Central Park, NYC ?

[@themidnightwill]

Not the first street race... they did in 2000. Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/invYgml3mauWY7c

[@AuraHero]

That wasn't the top series, or even one of the national series. It was one of the regional series out west.

[@deathfrombeloved]

iRacing Official needs to update their b-roll, that computer man at 5:09 looks like he's working on Windows Vista

[@dannyarcher6370]

The rest of us: Americans can only do left turns! NASCAR: Ha! We'll show you!

[@itsjordanf4320]

You should do more racing videos!!

[@motianton]

Always wondered, how street races for motorsports worked

[@Gabensrightnut]

nascar out here fixing Chicago's streets before the Gov't

[@gavin5410]

Do you have any plans to talk about the destruction of the Zimmerman house, or other houses like it?

[@haouribi]

Rare footage of NASCAR drivers not turning left

[@zenquah]

10:43 > Chicago presents something unique, with its skyscrapers and dense landmarks that permeate the course Considering the existence of the Singapore GP circuit, this really isn’t unique

[@Ric-Phillips]

Why on earth has everyone suddenly begun saying ‘invested into’ instead of ‘invested in’?

[@JeremyLeech]

Woo NASCAR!

[@adamredwine774]

Very cool engineering

[@Thegeneralms1]

Billy Strings even made this video.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

Racing and cities go together very well. Albert Park in Melbourne, and Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal are some of the best integrated race circuits in the world, right in the middle of large and successful cities.

[@roeland_st]

but why is it necessary in the first place to have such big roads

[@ThatSkiFreak]

cool

[@javierpalomares2892]

I really, really hope the race comes back next year.

[@wolfgangbergstrom6224]

Iracing helped revive North wilksboro speedway

[@silverfox__12]

Someone was paid by iRacing... "Xbox" and PS5 racing games like Forza and Grand Turismo also use all of these methods to recreate real life tracks. To be fair, iRacing is more of a simulation, but not because they do a better job at recreating real tracks.

[@Red_Genie]

I know for a fact this will be impossible in NYC.

[@noahharris9192]

Just want to point out some of the changes did not infact make the car safer...

[@thabangmmese6240]

Are you related to Chick Hicks 😅😅😅

[@hfbdbsijenbd]

What's this channel about?

[@MyDogFulton]

Long time NASCAR fan. This is cool to see. If you are not a fan I encourage you to just give it a shot and not brush it off as “just cars going in circles”.

[@hakie.]

Super interesting, PLEASE link the mentioned videos from Nascar!

[@sinfulhappiness]

1:50 perfect substitute for an explainer. Lmao

[@CubeAtlantic]

The Chicago NASCAR highways are very detailed & kind of strange, but it's still detailed on TV.

[@sleepdeep305]

This was not the first NASCAR street race. They raced outside of the LA coliseum in the late 90s

[@MartinHoeckerMartinez]

See also Formula E and their circuits

[@CStoph1979]

That concrete block is not four feet high.

[@tomaszwojtasik5483]

Wish you had covered just how deeply unpopular the race is with city residents and even the local alderman

[@raybod1775]

I’m a Chicago citizen and turned from a “oh, come on, no” critic to a “it’s really good for Chicago” supporter. We need to get lots of people downtown as often as possible especially post pandemic with more unfilled office space.

[@P51DFreak25]

@@raybod1775He highlighted that it costed $50M but brought in $100M. That’s a good investment

[@chrisclouds4182]

​@@raybod1775there are so many better ways to get people spending money downtown. And this race does nothing for all the empty office space.

[@st3pp3nw0lf86]

​@@chrisclouds4182 you're being shortsighted and naive. But you still vote for pritzker and johnson

[@wtice4632]

Since when have politicians ever cared about what their citizens think? 😂

[@tonesthegrey6452]

Wait! I thought the "Chicago Street Circuit" on iRacing was a purely ficticious track! False advertising! Fake news! I think they (iRacing) should be required to provide 6 months free membership for the pain and suffering resulting from having been hoodwinked. 😉

[@maxfive2644]

So the Parks Department gained a one day event, which disrupts the city for weeks during Independence Day, is not popular with locals but rather a huge draw for curious suburbanites and die hard tourists, and is not profitable? Worse, the Parks lost a hugely popular 3 day event due to their bureaucratic nonsense... Riot Fest moved to Bridgeview?

[@briansierzega]

Friggin pain in my a$$ as a resident of River North!!

[@enotdetcelfer]

Don't tell me that living in the center of the poshest, liveliest part of a densly populated, world-famous city, home to literally millions of people, in the most powerful nation in the world, has some inconveniences and drawbacks leading up to a national spectacle?!

[@trnqulizr1289]

@@enotdetcelfer It's hard for him to walk his 10th floor Pomeranian on the sidewalk nowadays.

[@mind-of-neo]

Imagine being privileged enough to live in downtown chicago and complaining that someone dared host a high profile event in a high profile area

[@ronsblahblah]

It's across the river from river north, how did it affect you and no one else in RN?😂😂

[@P51DFreak25]

River north is like a mile from the race lol

[@stephenbritton9297]

Additional info. A lot was learned during last year's weekend still, and I'm sure will be incorporated into this year. An Xfinity car hit the wall driver's left at 8 so hard it moved the block almost a foot. A reinforcing block was placed there immediately. The signage on the blocks prevented drainage, and overnight security is important... Amongst other things. Every CPD and CFD member I spoke to, and there were plenty at the event, came away with a very positive opinion and were looking forward to this year. I hope the rain stays away Sunday afternoon!

[@LifeOnCoach]

🏁✌🏾

[@astunikgaming]

I've never seen someone who looks like they don't know NASCAR, explain NASCAR so perfectly. Fantastic video

[@raybod1775]

I’m a Chicagoan, former negative critic and now a 100% supporter. More events in downtown Chicago are really needed to keep the city going. It’s in an area outside the center and does not block major through street so doesn’t disrupt downtown too much. Downtown Chicago is huge, several miles long and a couple miles wide in case people don’t know.

[@jackieknits61]

I am a 3rd generation chicagoan. I totally disagree with you. Combustion engine racing does not belong in downtown Chicago. Or any downtown. We are trying to get cars out of congestion in urban areas. This is really not the way to do it. We are also having a problem with illegal street racing killing people. So again, really bad idea. We do need events in chicago, but not just downtown. Our whole city is pretty darn amazing. Time to spend on all our neighborhoods.

[@StephenCoorlas]

@@jackieknits61 Agreed - especially with all the illegal street car activities that typically take place during summers. The city could be great for so many other things. This is an interesting novelty, but I would argue more for publicity and remote participation in the form of watching drone footage etc. rather than actually providing a desirable event for city or suburban dwellers to partake in.

[@nick2128]

I’m a Phoenician

[@brandencurtin4210]

@@StephenCoorlas Maybe not shutting down race tracks and forcing them to adhere to unreasonable rules. Allows individuals to express their love for cars in a safe location. Like locals in my home state of New Hampshire not allowing to put lights for the track.

[@dannyguz1258]

I currently live in chicago and I love the willis tower

[@buckyjames1898]

Stewart Hicks doing NASCAR wasn't on my bingo card, but being Chicago I'm not surprised in the slightest!

[@ghost21501]

I think this is a successful move. I'm a big racing fan, but I just never got into NASCAR. This is the first time i'm probably going to watch a race.

[@mileskosik472]

I love racing, but always shrugged off Nascar as the stereotypical boring left turn fest. Last year I went to this race with my dad, it was my first ever race I saw in person, as well as the first Nascar race I ever saw, and boy was it fun, even with the horrible weather. I can't recommend it highly enough.

[@darylb5564]

I think of NASCAR a bit like baseball. You really have to get dialed into it or it’s just monotony.

[@piedpiper1172]

And it’ll be the last, or next to last, lol. The car itself is terrible. The road corse package is their least bad, so this race will be one of the least bad, but then you’ll tune into the next race and see how truly bad the cars are. They cannot handle the side air stream of a leading car, so they’ll get a run into a corner, pull out to pass, and it looks like they slam into a wall-just stopping. They also aren’t stable door to door, so they can’t race close through corners, needing almost a full car width between them to stand a chance of stable side by side racing. And all of that will be compounded when you realize the sport itself is just… gimmicks, not racing. With “stages” and a freaking “playoff” ladder that’s proven itself almost perfectly reliable at crowning not-the-best-team as champion.

[@_Sphaxz_]

​​@@piedpiper1172the short track and road course car is the worst aero setup for the current cup cars. There's simply too much grip for them to move around. I'm not real sure how you think the intermediate and superspeedway packages are terrible. The intermediates with the gen 7 car have been hands down some of the best racing NASCAR has had on 1.5 mile tracks in a long time. Go watch a kansas race from this or last season, and if you don't like the on track action, maybe oval racing just isn't your style.

[@abalakrishnan4152]

Miles Kosik literally was planning to write the exact same thing

[@tylerbogaard375]

You know what's funny though? The step down from the Cup series, the Xfinity series, also races on the Chicago street course and that car still has all of the older tech and it did just fine.

[@crunchie83]

Interesting point. I noticed the cars in iracing that raced on the virtual track at first were also the older generation cup car.

[@bluesmoke218]

You can definitely make the older tech work. Like solid axles can be set up to handle really well if you know what you’re doing.

[@Cuhh346]

They handle worse but race better

[@braaandon5716]

NASCAR always was able to race on street courses, just never really did, theres videos of the last gen car on street courses

[@jackarmstrong7285]

Nascars 5th tier west series also did street circuits in LA in the mid 00s iirc

[@Burrito.cruiser.builds]

As a dedicated nascar fan and a fan of yours, you did an awesome job with this video. Thank you for respecting the sport and the different things it’s trying to do.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

I am not a NASCAR fan, but these road races are a great idea.

[@BuffaloWarrior7]

That's super cool. Got into Nascar the past 2 or so years. Fairly new to it. Had no idea iRacing played such a big role in the development of the track layout.

[@nathanielbarkley7452]

also new atlanta, coliseum, and a handful of other tracks they are constantly testing new things

[@MokaBeats664]

10:06 The joke in my head when I saw "Designed in Germany"...

[@reissecupfilms]

Ring racer coaster at Nürburgring

[@soad3838]

"I wonder why Germany is so good at making Fences.... Oh yeah...."

[@MokaBeats664]

@@soad3838 oh no 😅😂😂

[@MokaBeats664]

@@soad3838 I mean, I was referring to the the fly stuck in the glass... Either the glass was made in China or the fly was made in Germany 🙂

[@Ecytrsi]

chicago isnt the only nascar race on a track that isnt left turns, watkins glen has been around for ages and was even used for formula 1

[@Stormynormy42]

Also: Sonama, COTA, Road America, Mid-Ohio, Charlotte Roval, Daytona Road Course, Portland, Mosport, Circuit Gilles Villenueve (Montreal), Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez (Mexico City).... just to name the ones nascar has raced at some point, in at least one of their series, over the past 25 years lol

[@ItzzzBeamo]

The “they only turn left” stereotype will prevail no matter how much truth you throw at it.

[@TheSaturnV]

@@ItzzzBeamo Yep, people are not just real good at learning these days.

[@mozellagi]

Architecture takes many forms. This is a great video for many of them. I thought I knew something about NASCAR and iRacing, now I know a lot more.

[@CatFish107]

Fantastic! I didn't know diddly squat about either, and now I'm super curious. Cheers

[@PrinceofPwnage]

Heard a rumor that F1 is also considering Chicago. Gridlife - one of the best grassroots motorsports companies out there is based in Chicagoland, there's a huge gearhead community here.

[@joshuamontanez3851]

Likely won’t go through because of the negativity of NASCAR. Unless they can do it somewhere outside of downtown, or somewhere more isolated, then the residents will fight to not let it happen. Next year is the last year of NASCAR’s contract in Chicago

[@nicoleskorupsky1007]

⁠@@joshuamontanez3851 The odds of the city government agreeing is high because it brings in money, the odds of the citizens liking it? Close to none. If they’re gonna bring any sort of races to Chicago it should be on the outskirts away from main roads and downtown. There’s a whole area of Chicago that’s empty because it suffered from industrialization, if the racing organizations want to invest in making that area into a track used for these things then they can but the state shouldn’t charge citizens higher taxes so they can fund it. NASCAR and F1 could fund the construction if they want to make races here.

[@ubroc]

@@nicoleskorupsky1007 Lots of big events bring in money to Chicago. Lolla paid more to use less of the park for a week than NASCAR paid for a month.

[@whoishim2998]

@@joshuamontanez3851Chicago seems to enjoy the races and they are popular, so it can definitely go through and the city may fight to renew the contract.

[@widdly-scuds]

@@joshuamontanez3851 That doesn't matter as much as you think it does when it comes to F1 and the insane amount of money that follows them. A lot of people in vegas were upset with the F1 track changes to the city and the way the event itself was handled where locals were blocked from seeing the vast majority of the track during race week. Still brought hundreds of millions of dollars in and will do so again

[@jonathanstensberg]

Indycar has been racing on the streets of several cities for decades. Street races this year include Long Beach, St Pete, Detroit, and Toronto.

[@Obecny75]

Indy car is not nascar

[@mileskosik472]

Nascar was probably the only major racing series to not use street courses.

[@naurrr]

then let them do it there instead of disrupting the already busy as hell tourist destinations all around Grant Park. the museums last year said they were losing guest attendance and revenue due to how long it takes the track to set up and break down in Grant Park.

[@sleepdeep305]

@@mileskosik472I mean, they used to. Very sparingly, but they did

[@nxt4150]

And the Detroit one has been great since it came back, its a fun course that brings tourism into the city and brings revenue to nearby businesses and hotels. Its like sporting events idk why people don’t like it

[@fennsk]

Chicagoans, how long before the race do the barriers start showing up, and how long do they stick around afterward? I'd assume the 5 ton blocks at intersections get brought in and taken out as close to race time as possible, but i wonder how long others linger before and after plus how disruptive they are to foot and car traffic.

[@NortherlyK]

It's like a month overall.

[@kevinkuenn5733]

Not a ton of car traffic passes through Grant Park, but I'd be curious to know how they handle Lake Shore Drive though, they must keep it open until the day of the race, it'd be hugely disruptive otherwise.

[@P51DFreak25]

Roads closed off this week and won’t be resolved till early August because Lolla comes to town

[@kevinkuenn5733]

@@P51DFreak25 So LSD is closed south of Jackson all summer? That seems insane to me.

[@chrisclouds4182]

They're putting up blockades and closing streets a month in advance and taking weeks to put it all back to normal. It's really disruptive to the folks who actually do commute through and use the park all the time.

[@joshuamessenger]

0:11 - Nascar has previously held street races in Tacoma, Spokane, & Los Angeles.

[@DeeBrow]

If Vegas could pull off Formula One, Chicago can pull off NASCAR

[@TheSaturnV]

NASCAR was "right turn racing" from the very start in 1947. NASCAR greats like Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Gordon, Rusty Wallace and Tim Richmond showed their talent with multiple wins at places like Riverside and Watkins Glenn. While the new car and all its tech is impressive, there are detractions. Side drafting is all but gone, and often one driver can run another one down but then becomes mired in "dirty air" making it almost impossible to pass. Another issue is the construction of this new independent suspension has proven to be fragile. One hit at the wrong angle and the toe links or control arms snap in two instead of bending, ending the driver's day. Having said that, the new cars look so much better than the clown wagon COT's of the early 2000's, but NASCAR still has a lot of work to do on them to make the week in and week out racing more competitive.

[@loganinnis3117]

You forgot one thing NASCAR did use the Chicagoland Speedway before they closed it and start using the streets

[@Da_Benski]

NASCAR still owns it and operates it for other races. Kind of silly to shut everything down when Chicago already has a NASCAR racetrack.

[@petergerdes1094]

I really dislike changing the contest to make it harder for teams to make engineering improvements. Half the point is supposed to be to incentivize R&D that can be later applied to consumer vehicles. Besides it's just fucking cool when teams come up with nifty improvements to the car.

[@ItzzzBeamo]

In most of racing history, the best R&D has been done by those who are trying to cheat so, seems just more of that to me. Look up a couple VINWiki videos if you want a better idea of what I’m talking about. “The Greatest Cheats in Racing History” and “Racing’s most Legendary CHEATERS”

[@bobsrandomchannel7589]

Then SVG come along & showed how street course racing is done

[@davidrepp7795]

I’m a huge NASCAR fan, your video was amazing and I’m definitely going to subscribe after looking at your other videos

[@andyjennings15]

0:55 It was not safer though during the first year in 2022 it was actually way more dangerous than the previous gen 6 car because it didn't have enough crumple zones. They would literally slam the wall on all 4 corners and the car didn't even look like it was wrecked. It also gave two drivers concussions and ended one of their careers.

[@noviranger88]

It was one of the best days of my life to see that race. I'd been a NASCAR fan since age 7 and for 13 years I really wanted to see a Chicago street race.

[@oscaraprile6609]

hi, just a little mistake, if the car it's heavy on the front, will OVERSTEAR, not understear, because the rear are less heavy and have less grip. And viceversa. good video btw

[@Alan_Hans__]

Nope. He's correct.

[@oscaraprile6609]

@@Alan_Hans__ i'm a karting driver, and I can assure you that if you load the fronts, you get more oversteer, becaouse the rears are lighter. (and viceversa)

[@widdly-scuds]

@@oscaraprile6609 Karting characteristics are very different from full sized cars at those speeds. Wheelbase changes everything

[@oscaraprile6609]

@@widdly-scuds yes, but the physic Is the same for everything

[@ronaldkonkoma4356]

Is your weight overloading the tire and causing it to lose grip or is the lighter part of the car not getting enough traction and breaking free?

[@UnknownProductions0]

i work for one of the equipment rental companies. the INSANE coordination and teamwork that goes into setting these events up (lollapalooza is our big one) is something so insane to even comprehend how much gets moved into/out of grant park all summer for these events and then gone without a trace at the end.

[@Aphelion969]

I am interacting with the content

[@quinton.chester]

So many people hate on this and I don't know why. I live in the downtown area and thought this was a neat way to bring a different crowd to Chicago so they can see for themselves that it's nowhere near as bad as they think it is. It was pretty fascinating to watch on TV as well. The first year might've been a net loss in terms of profits. But, rarely do things like this do well in the first 5 years or so. It's an investment that takes time to build upon.

[@P51DFreak25]

Didn’t he say it costed $50M and brought in $100M?

[@jspihlman]

I think it'll do well. The F1 race in Las Vegas, which was very similar, seemed to be successful.

[@skyerune]

​@@P51DFreak25 It brought $100M into Chicago, I don't think he mentioned the ROI for NASCAR

[@P51DFreak25]

@@skyerune seems like a good investment for Chicago

[@jackieknits61]

It's an awful investment for chicago or any city. Cars don't belong in dense urban areas. They can race other places. As a 3rd generation chicagoan, I want this gone. This was a total mistake.

[@Winters34]

Great video! Also nascar has raced at road courses since 1948

[@javidaderson]

I like the idea that all those kids that grew up playing play Gran Turismo are now in charge and they're just bringing there dreams to life.

[@aaronlarson4358]

notice how we don't destroy the city for most of the year like F1 did in vegas

[@arthurschultz-u8m]

So, you're saying there is at least 1 street route in Chicago without potholes?

[@billymanilli]

Nice vid! I think your understeer/oversteer and weight bias demo is backwards though

[@tonyandress]

Definitely backwards.