Why Do NASCAR Cars Have FAKE Lights? | Tales From the Bottle

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[@Idkbro726]

Nice details on the lamp in the vid

[@edwarddawson42]

My favorite Irish KZbin channel.

[@youxkio]

I totally agree with you. That is why I prefer the European Rally where manufacturers and pilots have really to put themselves in for many different types of terrain and weather. Those are the real conditions in which cars have to struggle every year.😁

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

You should really do a 'Last Moments' video on the Grizzly Man and/or on the 1997 North Hollywood shootout and the events that led up to it.

[@Cardboard_object]

Boop

[@TheRetroShepherd]

2:29 "When we first created the automobile, it wasn't covered in stickers to make it look more like a horse" FUNNY THING, there was ACTUALLY an attempted patent proposed for a "Horse head" hood accessory. The proposed reason was because back when cars still had to share the road with horse-drawn carriages, the horses would get spooked by the cars, so the idea was to make automobiles look as close to horses as possible. It didn't really work in calming horses and carriages were almost phased out entirely by that point rendering the idea pretty useless

[@skylined5534]

"Whoa what is that noisy wheeled beast?! Oh wait, looking the front it appears to have a disembodied midget horse head... phew! - *A horse way back when, probably.*

[@nevyn69420aylmao]

Indeed! little known facts

[@jacehackworth6413]

As soon as he said that I knew it had to be a real thing.

[@aaronbasham6554]

Waiting for the video on those now, just cause I want him to talk about the walking robot car from the 1800s

[@broccolirob5026]

It was called Horsey Horseless 🐴

[@virtualxboxracingassociati9466]

As a fan of the sport everything you said is practically correct, the issue with NASCARs population crisis is rooted alot deeper into the terrible decisions the executives have made the past 10 years. Between the terrible championship format that even diehard fans like myself still have inquiries about, to the terrible marketing team. NASCAR could really take a note from F1 and their social media power.

[@virtualxboxracingassociati9466]

Popularity* auto correct lol

[@gregthomson2299]

I think the pushing of politics into sport has had a negative effect, to varying degrees, to the support and enjoyment across the board. I know I don’t watch or support half as much as I did 10-15 years ago. One of the few sports with a growing audience, MMA, has wisely (in my opinion) not gotten involved. I think people want to get away from all theses considerations, and pushing messages seems to be doing more harm than good.

[@Blueturtle1]

@@gregthomson2299 I’m not in the loop on this; what points are they pushing?

[@gregthomson2299]

@@Blueturtle1 diversity over skill, social justice, quotas instead of ability, equitable outcomes and pushing neo liberal agendas. People watch sport for enjoyment, not political posturing, but hey, maybe the crowd was shouting let’s go Brandon. Believe what you want to, but the fall off in interest in a lot of sports is that preaching, virtue signalling nonsense instead of the celebration of ability, regardless of virtue points or any victim rating caveats/excuses.

[@wowssuckzazz]

Oh here we go from a self proclaimed expert but you wanna know why? Here's why, because Nascar removed the diversity of the Rebel flag, they snowflaked the hell out of Nascar. I mean look at how Wallace Jr can do whatever he wants no consequences at all because he's not Caucasian. Nascar technically died when Earnhardt Sr died.

[@dalemixon3653]

I’m a huge Nascar fan and all the points you made are correct. This new car is suppose to make the cars look different from each other and so far it’s been good. One of the reasons the sport isn’t as popular anymore is because the drivers aren’t as memorable as some of the other ones. A lot of people stopped watching the sport after Dale Earnhardt Sr die. I would like to see you do a video about that. Keep up the good work.

[@jacksonhall956]

a video on the 2001 daytona 500 and all the stories that went into it would be insane. the most popular driver ever dying on the last corner of the last lap right as his best friend and son finish 1-2 right in front of him

[@dalemixon3653]

Also, some of the old school mechanics and drivers were insane when I came to building their own cars. Just look at Junior Johnson and Smokey Yunick.

[@barrag3463]

Emplemon did a great video on Dale at least great to an person not really into Nascar), which made me a bit more interested on Nascar and racing in general; the story of that race with Dale Sr. dying while blocking the other racers so his team could win is one of the most terribly bittersweet endings to a story I've ever heard.

[@TheRunaway115]

I think what got me into it as a kid was hearing how these guys would build their car save em, climb the ladder and eventually become full on race drivers for nascar. Those days are long gone and it’s really about how many thousands upon thousands of dollars you can put into the sport that will really carry you.

[@ianc8266]

@Jackson Hall Emp Lemon made the video you want to watch

[@maw4734]

"I don't want Disney to sue me" > proceeds to draw Mickey wielding a pump-action One of the numerous reasons to love this channel.

[@w00154807]

A+ on the drawings on this one. very impressed by the car gun diagram and the horsey model T

[@alex22tp]

i loved the ,,mouse´´

[@mollysministuff]

The horse car will give me nightmares... in a good way

[@taquito2606]

Hord

[@tammyowen6769]

Me too!

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

In retrospect Nascar's decline began with Dale Earnhardt's death. It was ultimately rather symbolic of what would follow in the decade to come as the sport's biggest personalities gradually retired and no one was able to fill their shoes. It's also hard to ignore that the brand itself had done an abysmal job of marketing itself and presenting its product, from the questionable changes to the regulations to the format changes to the races themselves. Another aspect is the problems with the sports fanbase and culture, which in itself has been in decline. Whether this is due to the alienation of the sports main audience in the south or due to failing to quell some more questionable aspects of the culture and appeal to a wider audience across the country and abroad is a contentious subject, but the lack of consensus in a way speaks for itself. The sport has simultaneously been losing its core audience while failing to find new horizons. Nascar's days as a titan of motorsport seem numbered as it's main demographic is aging. Relevant in this discussion is the acquisition of the F1 brand by the American company Liberty Media which has aggressively sought to grow the sport a foothold in the USA and build its brand among a younger audience, a strategy that so far seems to be paying off and in the not so distant future could see Nascar lose its crown as the most popular motorsport in the USA.

[@MrChopsticktech]

Agreed. Although I have zero interest in it, I've been hearing for years how 'it died with Dale'. Another issue is with the fans themselves. Many I have met seem to be on the ignorant side and belligerent if you don't follow it, unlike golf fans who don't care if you watch any of the big games and can carry on a conversation about somethings besides American sports.

[@jrambo7495]

Hate it when F1 comes to town!! Bunch of non-tippers !!

[@falloutfart9917]

One more point that may play a bit more of a factor is the rise of video games. This might sound like a very strenuous connection to make but likely a major reason why people become interested in racing is imagining themselves as the driver winning the race. With the rise of video games and in particular racing games, they provide an experience a little bit closer to driving in a race than watching it on tv without any input. Video games also can make racing in itself more interesting with the classic example of Mario Kart introducing items that players can use to influence the race by giving themselves an advantage or giving other racers a disadvantage. With stock car racing the only real interesting thing that draws attention is the crashes which put lives at risk. Meanwhile in games you can freely hit someone with a turtle shell, shoot out their tires, or just ram them into oblivion, all without any consequences aside from maybe getting an ear full or damaging a friendship.

[@frankf2902]

As late as 2002, nascar regulations required teams to still use some factory body work (primarily in the rear quarter panel and decklid areas) on their race cars. While the rear templates were standardized in 2003, it wasn't until the Gen 5 Car of Tomorrow (or COT) in 2007 that every car was literally the same minus the decals. 03-07 fords, chevys, dodges, toyotas and pontiacs still retained different shapes until then

[@frankf2902]

Also, don't worry, this homogenization of body styles is just one of a plethora of big and small issues plaguing modern nascar (most of which are self-inflicted to boot)

[@Corvid-]

So many new rules over the past decade or two.

[@recitationtohear]

*kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHSTo6J7oNB-obM* Finally it's here.

[@frankf2902]

@@Corvid- Thats imo the biggest reason for the decline in popularity. NASCAR's statistical peak was 2006. Immediately afterwords, they would barely go a full year without some moderate or major overhaul of the cars, the points, the drivers, etc. Many of these decisions seemed illogical, and drove many fans away, or, people couldn't be bothered to keep up with each year's changes. Say what you will about the NFL, but for the past two decades the biggest change they made was increasing the schedule by one game.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

Looks like my previous comment was deleted, and you got your likes back. YT is weird. I'll just walk away, but thanks for the education on NASCAR.

[@15sherpinski]

In case anyone's curious, the reason it's called stock car racing is because all of the major components have to be "stock", in the sense that they're publicly available. So while things like the engines or suspension are usually made to order by the racing team, they have to be based on an existing part that you could buy off the shelf.

[@tuftyterror983]

Yeah, back then people would buy cars off the show room floor then put racing tribes on them and race in nascar, but the. Rules loosened and nascar became what it is now, but when it’s first started often people would race their family cars.

[@callummclachlan4771]

@@tuftyterror983 They'd been moving away from the whole 'ordinary car' since the late 60s/early 70s. Cars like the Plymouth Superbird, Charger Daytona, Torino King Cobra etc weren't exactly ordinary cars. Even when new.

[@tuftyterror983]

@@callummclachlan4771 Yeah, but in the 40s and early 50s the cars were strictly stock in the "strictly stock series" which has become the cup series.

[@spencerific93]

@@callummclachlan4771 That's true, but those cars were still cars you could theoretically buy at a dealership if you were lucky enough. So still technically stock. Once they moved to tube chassis, that was no longer the case.

[@justarandomtechpriest1578]

@@tuftyterror983 they would heavily modify the internals as it was originally Started during prohibition by moonshines and the like to show off and test thier modified cars used for outrunning the police

[@regularcasanova7137]

Something magical about a Irish dude talking about Nascar. It's the only way I'll willingly learn about Nascar

[@mischievousmonkey4939]

Id learn from a Scottish dude too

[@nickd3157]

Check out his original nascar video!!

[@mauricedavis2160]

I place NASCAR above golf, and brother/sister I hate golf soooooo boring!!!🙏😴😴😴

[@somedude8504]

it might be worth it to check out EmpLemon’s NASCAR videos. hes not irish, but they arr still really good

[@recitationtohear]

*kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHSTo6J7oNB-obM* Finally it's here.

[@who_am_you]

Actually with what you said about attendance, around 2013-2018 was the lowest it has been, it has since started making a comeback and with more races in more places (the new los angeles race they added this year being one) they are starting to regain those lost viewers and bring nascar to more people across america and in the future they are trying to expand to mexico and canada and possibly do another exhibition race like they did in the 90s at japan and australia Also about the 3 manufacturers, there is a 4th one in the works that has been announced to be talking with nascar that might join in a few years And also I like when big channels like yours talk about nascar, I would recommend making a video on Geoff Bodine’s crash in 2000 because it was a miracle he survived that and continued racing even a year before Dale Sr died at the same track from a way less scary looking crash

[@brianwebber6996_ROADHUNTER]

Mid 2,000s=2003-2007

[@jeffcampbell2710]

Just before Dales crash, Stewart had a horrible rolling repeatedly, debris flying. And wasn't scratched. This was the same race.

[@beratsbuilds]

We had the same problem with the German DTM cars. Win on Sunday, sell on Monday was a popular saying back in the day and you could buy cars that were really close to the ones racing (E30 M3, 190E Evo etc.). After many years of basically identical cars, now they've changed back to a GT3-style Reglement with "real" cars

[@lucas_sin_s]

Eh those still look a lot more like their real counterparts imo

[@beratsbuilds]

@@lucas_sin_s oh wow, they've really changed them back to a GT-Style form. So they're basically running the cars they run on the 24h of the Nürburgring in the DTM series.

[@recitationtohear]

*kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHSTo6J7oNB-obM* Finally it's here.

[@lucas_sin_s]

@@beratsbuilds yeah they're pretty much gt3 cars but faster right now

[@victim2077]

The issue with 2nd gen Class 1 DTM was that there were only 2 series that used this regulation: German DTM and Japanese GT500 and even then they weren't quite the same. So manufacturers weren't interested in it and that's why DTM changed to more popular GT3. Same will happen to GT500 as now only Nissan, Honda and Toyota have class 1 cars (but there already is GT300 which uses basically GT3 cars).

[@TheLockbeard]

Fun fact: the Chevrolet SS shown in this video is actually based on a Holden Commodore which was an Australian car.

[@jayartz8562]

And has about as much to do with the Commodore as an Australian V8 Supercar does, used to love the old touring car racing but the further they got away from actual stock cars the less interested I became.

[@TheLockbeard]

@@jayartz8562 That's understandable. I became the same but that was more became of the television broadcasting. I pretty much moved to GT racing and endurance because it was more accessible to watch.

[@allangibson2408]

And the Holden Commodore has been out of production since 2017. Basically you can’t even buy a car that even looks or performs like these. The whole “race scene” has disconnected from the commercial reality of the general population.

[@azazeldeath]

True but sadly our government decided to basically let Holden aus die long ago, then decided to stomp on it whilst saying stuff like "we don't know why it's not getting back up". IMHO the last good Holden's were the vz and to a lesser extent the ve. I think it'd have succeeded if aus had helped Holden Australia actually export them more as the ss and r8, grange, well the v8, performance v8 and the luxury v8 ranges were good vehicles. Sure they had their faults, was a mechanic I can say no vehicle I've worked on is perfect all have flaws.

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

100 correct does Chevy SS is a Holden from Australia it is based on a commodore which also underpinned the Pontiac G8 which actually was is that a platform which debuted underpinning a Cadillac.

[@janefkrbtt]

Hearing literally any accent other than American ones saying "NASCAR" will always be a treat. I also suggest emplemon's Dale Earnhardt video if this was interesting. He breaks the sport down so well, and actually makes it feel more than just left turns going fast.

[@ArsonRaboot]

Yeah. That video taught me that sometimes they go right (actually that was the art of revenge video)

[@benbanned1381]

he also has another video about nascar emplemon is gold.

[@Kahne-yy3vq]

As a nascar fan I approve emplemon’s video’s.

[@benbanned1381]

@@Kahne-yy3vq i grew up a nascar fan but grew apart because of what nascar became. After watching emplemons videos it kinda sparked that love for it i haven't felt since childhood

[@travistreadway3180]

That’s the video that made me love nascar like my parents did, my mom was still around but my dad had passed and that was his thing he liked to watch. So that’s what I watched to get insight on why he loved the sport so much. But now my moms is gone I go back to that video to just remember a time when it was easier for me it takes me back. Amazing video I would always rewatch it if there wasn’t always new content here

[@crimtsun]

I'd say the reasons behind NASCAR's decline in popularity goes a lot deeper than just the look of the cars differing from their real life counterparts. If anything, at NASCAR's peak in the early-to-mid two thousands the cars couldn't have been farther from 'stock'. The decline of NASCAR seems to be a combination of a dying middle class in America, and NASCAR's identity crisis of thinking they're bigger than they really are. They keep trying to reinvent the wheel to make it more 'exciting' in ways that inevitably hurt the sport and make it more confusing for new fans. Over the years they have alienated their old fans while they struggle to find new ones. There is some hope of growth and betterment, but for the time being I'd rather tune in to IndyCar every week.

[@shadowmancy9183]

Yeah, stage racing being one of the things that needs to go, or at least the mandatory yellows per stage. Teams are also trying not to get bad press via driver personalities and avoid fines, and every post-race interview sounds about the same.

[@ihateracin]

I’d beg to say middle class America is harsher split between rural and city, instead of income, and this has a bigger effect on NASCAR’s popularity now. Nascar fans from all over travel to tracks and spend thousands per race for slots in their at times millions of dollar mobile homes. Sometimes it’s just once a year for a special occasion and they all pack into a travel trailer towing it with the family dodge. City dwellers are usually more interested in faster paced content and an F1 race replay is much easier to fit into their busy Sundays than the average rural Christian churchgoing nascar fan who has Sundays off due to their typically business week jobs… or so people would have you think.

[@wizskinz9987]

@@shadowmancy9183 I’m telling you rn, getting rid of stages won’t do anything

[@marcusaetius9309]

Agreed, NASCAR has become politicized in a direction in direct conflict with it’s base. Go woke, go broke…..

[@shadowmancy9183]

@@wizskinz9987 I heartily disagree. Look at the lead McDowell held at the Glen and the time he lost towards the end of that stage. Without the forced caution, where would he have ended up? Could he have played strategy and properly shorted a pit stop against others on newer tires, rather than getting reset in the field? Would the wreck that took Raikkonen out have even happened? Stage racing is an artifact of car development making the aero impossible to follow behind, same as DRS in F1. They're both treating a symptom rather than the cause, and with cars in both series able to follow through corners significantly better than the previous version, it's time for both to go. There will be enough cautions to mess strategy up without forcing them. I think we can both agree that the more pure the racing is, the better it is to watch.

[@substandardabuse6028]

To quote a wise man. “There’s nothing stock about a stock car” Robert Duval - Days of Thunder

[@johnladuke6475]

"Rubbin's racin."

[@pipedgolf4634]

I mean in Ireland we still have stock car racing. £500, a roll cage and a helmet is all you need. Get to crash into everyone for an afternoon

[@TheRealEMURSE]

I am from New England and we still have all kinds of races

[@ashtar3876]

​@@pipedgolf4634hell fkin yeah

[@kasdanasal]

I'm a NASCAR fan. Everything you said is mostly correct. Safety concerns are huge factors in recent iterations of the cars. As far as entertainment value it has a lot to do with the personalities of the drivers, the history of the various teams that compete, and a respect for the skill it takes to drive these things. I would highly recommend EmpLemons Dale Earnhardt and talladega videos if you want to understand the sport better.

[@charlesshreeve319]

Safety is NASCAR's main challenge these days. Seeing those cars flip upside down, right side over, hit by a couple of more cars, and the driver comes out a okay, that's what we're talking about!

[@JTA1961]

OH the CARnage...

[@amentco8445]

boring, fake, cringe

[@stonedpaladin8632]

@Another Wackonobody cares about the race we just want to see wrecks hoss.

[@Failedprodegy42]

@@amentco8445 Completely untrue.

[@retardedsandwich101]

If they wanted to be safe then they wouldnt be racing. Seeing the same car with different stickers makes it boring, you're not rooting for any specific thing other than maybe the driver of the car, it really killed the dodge vs chevy vs ford thing

[@highseasmarinediaz493]

We do the same thing racing sailboats. We have "one design" racing where all the boats are almost exactly the same. It takes the "better boat" out of the equation and it's down to the driver and crew to win. In NASCAR's case it's supposed to be the same way, where it's the better driver and pit crew who win.

[@justjack1352]

this is the most bizarrely timed video upload for me. my partner got this nascar game for the ps3 a few weeks ago, but only waited until last night to play it, and as he played it he dropped the info of "oh btw nascar cars dont actually have headlights" right into my brain folds, and I asked why but his answer was less than satisfactory. then this video came. Im enlightened now.

[@dollarbill6877]

You sure did a good job on commentary for the video! I loved the question about stickers. Why not sticker inside car of a crank for the powered window! That's what makes your videos so memorable and entertaining while we learn something! Thank you so much!

[@MarcoStrange]

I'm still hoping you'll do a video on this, but one of the reasons NASCAR made the cars look the same has to do with Dale Earnhardt. After his and Alexander Blaze's death in 2001, NASCAR did everything to prevent that in the future, such as making the HANS device mandatory for all drivers. This carried over in the Gen 5 car, which was focused more on safety, which is where we start to see all cars look the same. At the time, NASCAR cared more about safety, then how the car actually performed in comparison to the Gen 4 car. There's also those that argue that NASCAR doing that has made the sport more dangerous because now that the cars are the safest they've ever been, that drivers are more likely to wreck there way to a win because there hasn't been a death since 2001, so they don't view it as dangerous as the previous generations did.

[@adepressedcatwithabadnicot246]

Funny considering is was NASCAR regulations that got Dale killed, even though they might have allowed Dale's driving style to shine he wasn't a fan of the restrictor plates, parapharsing he said "restrictor plate racing will end up killing someone" bet he never expected it to be him. Raise hell praise dale.

[@devilsson6660]

Sr has nothing to with 2022 car

[@dauntae24]

Sure, buddy.

[@Kohdok]

Even before that, there was the Restrictor Plate, which forced all cars to go the same speed, hence why they bunch up so much.

[@tempusfugit9009]

As a kid i had a cousin that drove for Cascar here in Canada, can still remember taking his car for test drives down the country road, 700 hp set free has quite a sweet smell,.. 30 years ago mind you.

[@Charlielizard]

Stock car racing got it's start from moonshiners bootlegged alcohol. Had to have fast cars to run illegal alcohol and keep ahead of the police. Excellent video! 👍

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

Percy Flowers ran moonshine around Kinley, NC. Fast cars and no police radios gave em a chance...

[@TurtleSauceGaming]

Maybe have the drivers drink everclear before the race. That'd be fun right? lol In all seriousness, there was an old UPN special called getaway. It's impossible to find anything more than clips on youtube and a dead IMDB page, but it was cool. Stunt and racecar drivers attempted to outrun cops to a specific end zone. IT was like watching wrestling in that it was so fake it was laughable, but still cool none the less.

[@presidentirinavladimirovna7054]

Also the first cars to implement turbochargers

[@md4luckycharms]

"All you fuckin' bootlickers forgot your roots You know why we started hot rodding stock cars? Because we were running from the cops You know why we were running from the cops? Because fuck em." - The ghost of ol dale Earnhardt

[@Charlielizard]

@@md4luckycharms Always refreshing to see the results of inbreeding along with a focus on gulping the "Fores & Heads." WTF was explained above?

[@redram5150]

Considering most of the people you draw aren’t detailed enough to have all their extremities, props to you for what it took to draw that headlight diagram.

[@frankf2902]

The biggest hurdle NASCAR has faced for the past few decades when trying to make their cars look like modern street cars is the fact that, for the most part, the average NASCAR race car and the average new car sold in the US has never been more different. Up until the late 1980s, most new cars in america were V8, rear-wheel drive coupes or sedans that, while certainly less powerful than their nascar counterparts, still shared that commonality. However, starting with the 1987 model Buick Lesabre and 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix, that was no longer the case. While the NASCAR versions had screaming V8s, the factory models sold to the public only had V6es, and were front wheel drive to boot. At least a drivetrain change like that could still be covered up by similar body panels for a while. None of the NASCAR race cars in the days of peak popularity were based on V8, rear wheel drive production cars, but you could look at a 2001 ford taurus, dodge intrepid, pontiac grand prix, or chevy monte carlo side by side with it's nascar counterpart and clearly see the strong resemblance. But now the year is 2022. Coupes and sedans are practically dead, and Trucks and SUVs are the chariots of the masses. Yeah nascar has a separate division dedicated to running trucks like the f150 and silverado, but it mostly fills a lower-level role similar to MLB's minor league, or perhaps college football. You hit on a great point that NASCAR's Next Gen (or Gen 7) cars have made some steps to returning to that race car/street car dynamic, but with the exception of the v6, front wheel drive camry, the average american doesn't see a lot of Camaro ZL1s or Mustang GT500s (both ~$80k performance cars***) on a daily basis. ***As a side note, it is more than slightly embarrassing that a present-day NASCAR-spec race car makes less power (~670+hp) than a street-legal Dodge Hellcat (~707hp)

[@adm1ralalex]

Facts

[@stepseven]

At least in the defence of Ford and Chevy i can theoretically buy a perfomance coupe with a v8 and 3 pedals from them today and pretty much for the last 50 years. What are my chances of finding a Toyota with a v8 coupe stick shift?? Maybe the soarer jdm back in the days, but even that I'm sure didnt come with a stick in usdm form as the lexus. At least make Supra decals...

[@jettlucashayes8508]

@@stepseven they had Supra’s for a while actually so v8 swap your a90 z4

[@MCMudkip]

The horsepower being less than some street cars is more-or-less on purpose; NASCAR cars have restrictor plates put into the engines to slow them down on purpose for the safety of drivers and spectators alike. This is also why modern stock car racing is super close quarters and very easily able to lead to pile-ups of half the field or more: the cars can't out-speed each other to create some space.

[@stephentroyer3831]

So, they need the option for front wheel drive if the road car is equipped that way, lots of v6's, and they should put a lot of advertising behind an all-new SUV class.

[@disposable_income_andy]

to be fair, most cars in general are nearly identical looking today. sure, a town car is different to an suv, and suv is different to a pickup truck. but, what's distinguishing one pickup truck from another? one suv from another?

[@salvatronprime9882]

I can still tell manufacturer cars apart on the road quite easily. Without knowing the exact model, I can see a car or SUV and immediately know if it's Nissan, Ford, Honda, Chevrolet, Toyota, or Dodge. Some European cars I can't distinguish. Alot of the "crossover" or "XUV" type vehicles do look very similar though.

[@ajra6143]

"Racecars don't need headlights, because the track is always lit." "Hey, so's my brother, but he still needs headlights!" Lightning McQueen and his sponsors

[@recitationtohear]

*kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHSTo6J7oNB-obM* Finally it's here.

[@petermontoya1796]

No. the track isn't lighted. It was only in the past few years that some tracks have lights. Sonoma has no lights. The older tracks in the 1950's had no lights, that's why the cars had headlights.

[@smoove_]

​@@petermontoya1796 clearly you don't get the very obvious reference

[@RustyorBroken]

You sir, win the internet for today.

[@petermontoya1796]

@@RustyorBroken I've gotten more replies to this post than I did when I told people about my adult film catalog on IMDb. Damn, you NASCAR fans are on top of it !! Cheers mates.

[@TheLocalScrub-m]

“Race cars don’t need headlights because the track is always lit”

[@gotyourtags30]

Was looking for this comment. Good job dude. 👍

[@resyrum5301]

The manufacturer bodies make some semblance of a difference in aero Historically speaking, different teams have struggled when manufacturers change what model they use (Chevy switching from the SS to the Camaro) and some tracks are historically better for one manufacturer than others (Michigan this weekend has had it's last seven races won by a Ford driver). I'd like to see your take on the playoffs in NASCAR as an outsider. Great video Q, keep it up👍

[@ATK10155]

A: Because they would look even weirder without the stickers B: The headlight and taillight stickers are part of the manufacturer sponsorship. You have to have a sponsorship/partnership with an OEM in nascar. C: I was at the race in the thumbnail. Fall Bristol 2021.

[@johnshark5219]

The only thing I would add is that the 4th generation of NASCAR stock cars were the last one where the shell was different between manufacturers. It is most likely that the recent one-shell-fits-all approach was implemented on the grounds of safety, since it was introduced with the 5th generation of cars, also known as the 'Car of Tomorrow', which heavily emphasized safety improvements.

[@Monty-sd6tc]

We were still making our own chassis though 6th gen lol.

[@joshjlmgproductions3313]

I'd love a racing series that actually uses nearly-stock cars. You get a street car, put a rollcage and safety equipment in it, (maybe mandate the wheels and tires) and call it good. I'd love to see win on Sunday sell on Monday in action, as I'm too young to know what that's like.

[@russianbubbawallace8681]

Sports car racing my friend. That is the closest you will get

[@75IFFY]

And it used to be good.

[@skydwellingmusic]

They have stock racing series for Mazda Mx-5s and Toyota 86 where the only real upgrades are for track safety

[@Gratia69]

That's how it used to be. Over-regulation ruined everything

[@kingj072]

This is called spec in racing, and examples to start you out are spec racer ford and spec miata. check em out.

[@justsayen2024]

I'm American and in the seventies there wasn't crap on TV to watch so my dad and I used to watch Nascar all the time. And there was Richard Petty, Donnie allison, Buddy Baker those were good times. Now it's turned in sort of a WWE meets NASCAR. I remember the day I was finally out it was when they played the Pledge of Allegiance the national anthem. Each driver and his wife and kids were standing next to their NASCAR car. And to top it off.. they had a sermon why would they have a sermon you ask? Ahh this is the genius👆 So they didn't have to go to church on Sunday and they could watch the race😇

[@aliatef7203]

i literally just started clapping as soon as i read that part about the sermon, absolute genius

[@pikkyuukyuun4741]

"Race cars dont need healights because the track is always lit" "So is my brother but he still needs headlights"

[@johnladuke6475]

It's been some years since I was made to sit through a race, and I gather that the cars became significantly more identical in that time. I can't say that it would be interesting to watch forty or so literally identical cars shuffling around for a couple hundred laps. However I always understood a lot of the appeal of the modern sport being the equal playing ground brought by having a template. When the cars are different but very similar within a narrow performance band, it really showcases the skill of the drivers and the effects of luck and strategy to help win a race. Nobody gets to have a magic winning machine, they just have to drive better.

[@howlerhusky8837]

I'm no expert, but to my knowledge all this standardization started because of the 1969 Plymouth Superbird, and Dodge Daytona. At the time, the regulations required a manufacturer to build a set amount of a car they wanted to race for it to qualify as a production car. This was to prevent the manufacturers from building purpose built cars to win races, and keep the racecars looking like the cars you commonly saw on the street. The problem was that they didn't want to set the number too high and prevent smaller manufacturers from competing. The Chrysler Corporation, which owned Dodge and Plymouth, took advantage of this by fitting massive aerodynamic nose cones, and spoilers twice as tall as the roof of the car to some of their fastest production models. They then sold just enough of them as a special model for them to be eligible for Nascar. The cars looked ridiculous, and Chrysler was hard pressed to unload them, however the aerodynamics worked and the Chrysler cars dominated that Nascar season. Nascar didn't like the direction this was going, and tightened regulations to keep things even. Regulations have been tightening ever since.

[@wizskinz9987]

Yup, you got this one. This is the answer

[@CybershamanX]

(3:05) Hey! It's my favorite car! The Plymouth Superbird! It's the lime green colored car with the crazy tail fin. They pretty much made that car able to go to the track right from the assembly line. Besides the fin, I love the cool space age flip open gas cap. 😜 What an insane car. I've only seen one up close once in my life. It just radiates speed when you stand next to it. Wish I could have driven one once. Just once... 😉

[@JTA1961]

Same here...

[@kabj06]

Funny that in its day the dealers couldn't sell them

[@CybershamanX]

@@kabj06 Interesting! I didn't know that. Was it because of availability? Or just too much of a pain to order? 😜

[@____________________777]

@@CybershamanX it was really due to being expensive and most people back in the day thinking they were ugly. That's why a lot of them didn't get sold. Did you know the Daytona was the first car to hit 200mph in nascar?

[@CybershamanX]

@@____________________777 Oh! Did I get it wrong? Is that a Daytona, not a Superbird? 😕

[@shoobsey]

kinda cool that you mentioned the lights breaking, this is why lots of old race cars had a tape "x" over their lights in the event that they broke, glass wouldnt get on the track

[@Meeehat]

Wow didn't know that!

[@Wheresmy240]

Being from Southern Louisiana and being alive when nascar was much more popular I feel like I have the authority to speak on the topic. You're dead on with everything you said in the video. I also believe that the cars being indistinguishable from one another hurt the sport as well as the brands they're supposed to represent.

[@jacobfleming565]

these last couple years theyve started to look like the actual production cars

[@MalcolmCooks]

its the same problem formula 1 has - strict regulation to ensure a standardised even playing feild, so that theoretically driver skill is the most important factor... makes for a fucking boring sport! motorsport isn't like athletic sports, where it's about an individual's prowess. it's a team sport, the cars and the engineering that goes into them are just as important as the driver.

[@jwalster9412]

I think they should allow more body styles. Like having some SUVs and some pickups just to throw in a bit of variety, mabye some short and longer wheel based, and some narrower and wider track widths just so you have some idea what's going on from a far.

[@basty_gaming5750]

@@MalcolmCooks Being perfectly balanced is boring, But being dynamic is cool

[@TurtleSauceGaming]

@@MalcolmCooks Yeah forumla 1 you watch for the drivers. In Nascar, yeah the drivers are part of it, but driver skill isn't the end all be all. It's like Competitive wrestling vs Smackdown. In Smackdown we don't care that the best guy wins. We wanna see someone get their face plowed in with a chair. For fun. (should note i'm not much of a wrestling fan, either one). In Nascar, you wanna see your driver win, not because he's better, but because fuck that asshole Jeff Gordon! Fuck your Chevy too! It's not something that really requires too much thought. Nascar has never been about prowess. Trying to make nascar a "legitimate sport" has killed it. It was always legitimate in it's own way, because people watched it. You tuned in for the drama created by the fans. Now it feels like the people in charge manufacture drama among these privledged kids and say 'see, this is what you want." It feels like when you have a canned laugh track trying to tell you when to laugh. Makes jokes LESS funny.

[@skylerwhitfield2]

Love that you covered this. A growing league of the sport is the Zmax CARS TOUR. They run on short ovals in the Mid-South of the USA. It is the best stock car racing from a fans perspective. Usually running 2 classes in short 100-125 lap races.

[@iliketorace18]

The whole “turning left” thing originates with the American revolution. Horse racing in the UK went around the track clockwise, so America chose to have their horse races counter-clockwise. Same reason why Americans have left side steering wheels, and drive on the right. Love your videos, sorry for the history lesson!

[@kingklaus2115]

There’s nothing but cool information here. You don’t need to feel sorry about it.

[@yeoldeseawitch]

america wanting to be different lead to them being on the wrong side of the road and history lmao

[@CharizardMaster69]

no the reason why is this: Back in the olden days when we had wagon trains, you’d sit on the back right horse to make sure you didn’t crash into a ditch, that translated to cars. But soon enough cars were so common that they switched to left hand drive so they didn’t have to worry about crashing head on

[@jaromir_kovar]

Hitler wanting to be different from UK is the reason why some of the EU countries drive on right. You can find old pre-war footage where cars drove on left in countries with right side driving nowadays.

[@BruhMoment-re8nc]

@@yeoldeseawitch tell that to literally the rest of the world mate, only the places the Brits held onto until cars existed use left hand drive, almost all the others switched to the proper side of driving as soon as cars came to them

[@SrimanasTheRacer]

"Race cars don't need headlights because the track is always lit."

[@St0RM33]

One correction..modern car lights are completely made from plastic..everything even the lens and the cover..and that's why the yellow out because of UV radiation..there probably hasn't been a car with glass headlights since 1993 (technically nissan 180sx in japan had its glass headlights up until 1997 when it was discontinued)

[@skylined5534]

Quite a few Japanese cars had glass headlamps into the 2000s. I had a Rover 620ti (CD Accord platform) and two GC8 Imprezas which featured glass headlights. Also the likes of Citroen Saxos, Peugeots and Renaults also featured glass headlights up to the late 90s. There probably are more. That said, I don't currently own a single car with glass lights now and the newest out of the lot is 2007!

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@Kevin75668 If they can run headlights on endurance racing cars they can do it on NASCAR or Trans-Am cars if they desired to.

[@St0RM33]

@@Kevin75668 yeah you are talking about the lens of projector headlights, most don't have them, plus you can have a plastic one with led bulb so again there are always ways to cheaper

[@callummclachlan4771]

Weird. I have an Escape from 2003 and I'm pretty sure the headlights are glass. Certainly feel and sound like it. I know for sure that another car I have from 99 has glass headlights, and that model continued to 2002.

[@realmackle]

I'm a fan. I will say most fans don't care about cars not looking that different. Honestly the main reason for nascar's decline is the sanctioning body that holds it together. Basically they're overly controlling and have implemented these terrible bracket systems and ruined how the cup works. They've made all these useless rules and basically alienated their drivers. The reason the cars look the same is because of regulations due to deaths (mainly Dale Earnhardt in 2001). Several safety measures were implemented and this is where the Gen 5+ template came in. A safety measure Dale Earnhardt hated was restrictor plates, which made racing more like chess by limiting the engine... however he became the greatest restrictor plate racer of all time. This could be a whole other video tbh.

[@slime_street]

Keeping all of the cars exactly the same actually makes things more interesting because the only way to have a real competitive edge is to find a way to cheat that no one else has discovered yet.

[@greyfox78569]

Amen!

[@CharizardMaster69]

I disagree.

[@recitationtohear]

*kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHSTo6J7oNB-obM* Finally it's here.

[@rubber_nugget5999]

@@CharizardMaster69 right... restrictor plate racing capped speed and phase racing is pointless lol

[@GG_1318]

no

[@flyinjay18]

Qxir as a nascar fan recently in the last 1-2 years it’s had a resurgence races has had sold out race Attendance. Tv ratings have gone up since the record lows.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

Stock cars only do night races on artificially lit tracks. If they ran road courses at night they could use headlights just like how endurance racing uses headlights. Silhouette race cars are common in other types of racing that were mostly historically production based, like touring car and GT racing. Stock car racing is essentially the American South's version of touring car racing, using full sized (and later intermediate) cars, mostly on ovals.

[@timothyhayes9724]

I have to say your drawing is getting better and better. Very well done

[@britsboy2967]

"Race cars dont need lights cause the track is always LIT" -Owen Wilson car

[@lilstinker5475]

Insert fire emoji

[@mawnkey]

Fun fact: if you take your average vehicle to a track day (just a day that they open a professional track for amateurs) you're forced to remove or tape anything glass (headlights, mirrors, etc) to reduce the glass on the track in an accident as well. My friends and I have learned to get creative with it since it can be a bit of a chore.

[@TheMCCraftingTable]

Ah yes I should put electrical tape over my whole windshield

[@VidyaCentral]

This is why a lot of people that watch racing have moved to watching GT3 class cars in stuff like IMSA and WEC, because while heavily modified, the cars are still actually based on the production models you can actually buy. The GTD C8 Corvette is just a heavily modified C8 at the end of the day

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

GT3 cars are pretty much silhouette cars at this point, even the GT3 badged road cars aren't full-on homologation models like used to be normal.

[@tylergleckler]

Artwork on this channel is massively underrated.

[@MrChopsticktech]

Check out Plainly Difficult for more great artwork.

[@playgroundchooser]

@@MrChopsticktech hahahahaa, you're so right. I can't get enough of the Radiation guys.

[@gingernerd971]

Instead of answering the question about the draw of NASCAR, first I've got a question: what's the difference between it and the Formula 1 races? From the outside looking in, they seem incredibly similar, as far as car design and shape. I've never been a HUGE fan of NASCAR, but I live around and, at several points in my life, with die-hard fans of the sport, so I've got a bit of knowledge. And the biggest reason, to me, that all NASCAR cars are the same: the drivers. Here in the Southern US, NASCAR drivers were, and still are, treated like rockstars. I remember in my early years at least one or two honest to god fist fights over who the better/cooler driver was. Who was more skillful and who went the fastest... even though the cars are the same and they just turned left. But that was what fascinated people, even for non-fans like me! You had a fairly even playing field when it came to car types, all you had left to win was wit and strategy. When to pass, when to drop back, when to slow down, and even when to get your car fixed/refueled. Add on to that the dirty maneuvers, the crashes, and the decals/car appearances and you had a fairly exciting concept. Tl;dr: Drivers and their skill was the showcase and less the actual car.

[@SeekerGoldstone]

I think you must be thinking of something else... while Nascar/stock cars look like "cars", Formula One cars look like "racecars".

[@adenkyramud5005]

F1 cars are, while staying within regulations, vastly different. The teams design the entire car, not just the shell. Usually if something works particularly well it will get copied by other teams, that will probably happen with the new rear wing Aston Martin introduced in Hungary (will probably be banned for next year tho as it goes against the spirit of the regulations while complying with the letter of it), but the cars are still distinctly different. Look for example at the Ferrari and then at the red bull. Completely different design philosophy.

[@adenkyramud5005]

Also, formula 1 is part driver competition and part constructor competition. Building the fastest car is part of the challenge of it. Not just "take this thing and tweak the setup", which I know is an oversimplified view of it but still works to compare the two. Getting the right engine for your team is also important of course, because not all teams make their own. Only redbull, Ferrari, Mercedes and alpine do. The rest buy one of those engines and build their car around it.

[@wizskinz9987]

Thank you

[@SlyBlu7]

An Irishmen threatening to mess with my car hits a little different when it's, y'know, an Irishman.

[@Dual_80]

5:30 dont worry mate i gotchu Ill add a TLDR since this like a long explanation at the bottom The reasoning for the cars being the as similarly spec has to do with 1980's "aero wars" the manufacters at the time (ford, chevy, pontiac, and buick) were starting to push the limits on what they could do to the bodies in order to gain an advantage on track, much resulting in entire manufacters domination with the 1986 ford thunderbird being a famous example. And it only got worse in the early 2000s with the "twisted sister" concept to provide an aero advantage making the cars look far different from what the street variants did. In 2008, Nascar made the COT (Car of tommorow) gen 5 car for 2 main reasons, 1. Was to improve safety, which worked given that there hasnt been a death since 2001 in the sport, and 2. To no longer allow manufacters to try and skirt the rules on what is allowed body wise so that the teams and drivers have more control as to whos the best car out on track every weekend. The 2013 gen 6 tried to allow the manufacters to more resemble the street versions a little without letting them do much with the body, which only kind of worked. But the 2022 gen 7 next gen car is allowing teams to make bodies differently again as you mentioned, allbeit only in certain sections and tighter rules that both the manufacters and teams both have to adhere too, with ford early on having to changr there front bumper due to these rules. As much as older fans complain how it isn't stock car racing anymore. Truth of it is that it hasnt been since the 1970s really, there did use to be a rule where the car you raced on track had to have a street variant of the 1960s, but that ended up getting cut because teams like dodge would make nascar specific cars for the sport, then sell only 200 street legal versions, so that they can build the nascar specific Dodge challenger Daytona, which ended up being a flop compared to the prev. Charger they ran. TLDR; The bodies are same mainly because these manufacters didnt really care about their car resembling the street legal product, rather having their cars look better by being out front more. A person will more likely buy the car of a brand whos car wins races, than the brand whos car doesnt.

[@ajitpai2156]

As a previous NASCAR fan, the issues of the sport go a lot deeper than the car design. I’m from North Carolina, and most of the reason we don’t care about NASCAR anymore is because they don’t care about us. They tried to sweep their core audience under the rug, decommissioning small but popular race tracks in rural areas in favor of super speedways in metropolitan areas. When NASCAR did that they took the money that propped up these small towns with them. Many towns lost their identity and their livelihood because of a corporate big wigs idea to move rural races to cities. Only now are they crawling back to the core fan base like a battered housewife because the races in places like New Hampshire and Las Vegas and hell even Texas, just aren’t popular anymore. TL:DR NASCAR gambled on big cities and lost their core audience. Destroying alot of their history and fan base.

[@beratsbuilds]

Wow, loved the detailed explosion drawings of the lights

[@strawberrymilk9767]

as I Nascar fan, I wish that Nascars were still built on a road going chasis instead of one built specifically for racing

[@zebsauber4503]

Being a car guy born and raised in the US ment that I knew most of this already..its a law. But I still watched in sheer support! (Plus if uncle Sam learned there was a Nascar video and I didn't watch, I'd be imprisoned)

[@L30GH05TDUD3]

To help Qxir with what he probably meant, there’s a quote at the beginning of Cars where McQueen says; “Race cars don’t need headlights because the track is always lit.”

[@nickakers7985]

The stickers thing has been a long running joke. I remember as a kid asking the same question. back in the 70s and 80s the cars had the lighting assemblies removed and were covered up with bodywork. I don’t think it really wasn’t till the 90s that stickers became popular, possibly the late 80s. The modern cars look so similar largely because of how deadly NASCAR really used to be. After Dale Earnhardt died in 2001, the car of tomorrow became sort of the standard safe car, and safety became top of mind.

[@emilyadams3228]

The version I heard, about the performance regulations, was this: In the late 60's, Chrysler products were stomping the dogshit out of Ford & GM cars to the point that Ford & GM pressured NASCAR to implement things like maximum horsepower, cubic inches, no use of fuel injection, etc etc. This was in 1969-70.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

Safety was the main consideration when they forced the aero cars to race with 305s and started restricting big blocks (eventually replacing them with 358 ci engines entirely). The tires of the era weren't up to the task of keeping a heavy car planted at superspeedway speeds. Fanboys of each brand always bemoan rulechange they deem unfair but ultimately NASCAR has their own agenda that isn't aligned with those of the brands.

[@Beakz_]

As a car enthusiast with passing technical interest in motorsports (call it racing bi curious) I feel the alienation Qxir talks about. But its not just Nascar, many top level motorsports cars are similar. Endurance racing(eg 24hrs Le Mans) cars, GT3 cars, even Time Attack and Drift Cars which stem from grassroots events and enthusiasts have all gone this way to a certain extent. Not quite to the full fiberglass body on a specified spec shell, but they've gotten to a level where they've more or less re-engineered the whole car into something completely different. Don't get me wrong, I love bonkers over engineered cars. But the years of homologation requirements (race cars must have road going counterpart for sale, like literally everything short of a rollcage and race spec safety equipment) are mostly over. That's why enthusiasts get so excited for cars like the Toyota GR Yaris/Corolla, it's a car you can see tearing up the rally circuit that you can see and buy on the showroom floor.

[@randomusermaximuss]

To restate your comment I'd describe it as treating the race with it's regulations as a solved game. There is little room for change, innovation, or excitement because everyone is already familiar with the limits. A tuned/modified/custom street car are still cool because they become more than expected. NASCAR already effectively has templates that are the objective best and even if aesthetics changed it would result in generally uneventful races.

[@icrafterchips]

The biggest factors in why nascar is less popular are having stages in races and the playoff championship format. Both of them take away a lot of meaning from the races.

[@GetDougDimmadomed]

6:35 It doesn't matter if you replace my car's brakes with stickers, because my brakes don't work anyway.

[@PALM311]

I’ve been around NASCAR for over 55 years and I have seen some incredible changes. NASCAR started to lose its appeal for people when it went,I guess you could say generic. They did away with a lot of the older shorter race tracks that people love that was the grassroots of racing and NASCAR took that away and started spitting out cookie cutter tracks,kind of like one mold of a track will fit in a bunch more of them. It got boring, it got predictable, and a lot of the guys that were real popular when Dale Earnhardt was still racing are all gone now and there’s a whole different breed of drivers. at one time you had to earn your way into a ride or in other words to be able to race one of these cars for a living. You had a show that you were good enough and you had to pay your dues. Today the driver can come in with a bunch of money and by himself into driving a race car for a living.

[@krissteel4074]

I think that's the same for touring car racing here in Australia, it used to be open to smaller teams that did up a stock car within the parameters given by the organisation running it, you got your drivers and maybe you'll be finishing, coming last , but learning along the way as the season progresses to help improve everyone from the pit crew to the car and the drivers. Now your entry level is 100's of 1000's and you have to buy 'a car' and a set engine from the org itself and everything is restricted to make it safe and fair. Its essentially as dull as formula 1 has become which only the die hards watch in the unlikely event something comes unstuck or there's some kind of drama.

[@PALM311]

@@krissteel4074 I had read an article from another Australian that said the touring car Series is vastly different than what it was even a decade ago.

[@davis4555]

It's true. The saying for NASCAR used to be "drive on Sunday, buy on Monday." With the term "stock-car" now being useless, why not watch F1 or Indie Car? They do what NASCAR does, but better. The whole charm of NASCAR was the fact that those cars were attainable by a common person. You could buy the car and soup it up. Without that, it's just fast driving in a circle.

[@dougsundseth6904]

If the cars are different enough, the series becomes an engineering contest. See F1 for the canonical example of that; only certain cars have any chance of victory and the "race" becomes a parade around the track with minimal passing. With nearly identical cars, the series becomes a driving contest. And many of the rules of NASCAR (and rules changes that NASCAR has added over the last decade or so) increase the chances for cars to be very close to one another throughout the race (closed wheels, wide tracks, stage racing, full-course yellow, side-by-side restarts, green-white-checkered finishes). Many of those changes have also increased the role of chance in the outcomes. There are certainly arguments to be made for more competition in F1 and more variety and less randomness in NASCAR. But the results of most NASCAR races are in doubt until very close to the end of the race, which has its advantages for a televised sport.

[@mattd6085]

A driving contest in which the ability to hold the pedal down and turn left are the primary skills. Sticking all the cars close together does nothing except give yanks a big crash to cheer at because watching three versions of the same car turn left is boring as fuck.

[@MaddJakd]

Apparently not in practice.... If it had it's advantages, the sport wouldn't still be considered dying by the very folk running the thing.

[@JasonFlorida]

At 2:31 you absolutely had me laughing like an ass with covering the old car to look like a horse! I actually went back and paused it and your drawing had me dead!!!

[@E60foamer]

Wasn’t expecting a nascar video from you!

[@MayBeSomething]

Not only do I agree with you, I also learned something (or at least realized something I probably could have figured out). Thanks!

[@101bravohotel6]

i just recently in the last few weeks have gotten into nascar and my god the circuit races ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD! these last few weeks the races have been so damn good that ive been watching every sunday, the speedway races are good to but the circuit races are so damn competitive and wild i highly recomend tuning in right now cause nascar has definitely taken notice to the surge they have had in audiences at and in watching the circuit races, wisconsins road america was packed this year and the race was as good as the circuit race they just had at indianapolis

[@johnforrestboone1]

Are you mentally ill?

[@6bj032]

‘Caz the track is LIT’ -lighting McQueen

[@falchion1966]

No shit. He only said it at 1 minute 29 seconds. That's what illuminated means

[@randompurpleslime8963]

I swear people have probably seen more nascar from the movie cars than the actual nascar itself

[@11regretful31]

For me personally, it’s the top speed limitations. It would be a lot more action packed if they were going 200+ instead of 180-

[@Claytone-Records]

Stickers are everywhere: the Texas band ZZ Top use decals to make the guitar look like the bass and vice versa and those things on airplanes that look like wings, more stickers.

[@JeffGordonRamsay]

I'm a huge NASCAR fan love the content ❤️ I think their finally starting to take the sport in the right direction again.

[@gh0stb014]

I actually just got into NASCAR and I have to say it's more interesting than it seems from the outside. Yes the cars are almost identical but it means you root for the drivers and there's still plenty of action. As my brother told me before I got into it, picking a car to support is the key to enjoying the race rather than just staring at a bunch of cars driving round mostly ovular tracks. For anyone wondering I support Denny Hamlin in car 11 and I only picked his car because it's sponsored by FedEx and I found that funny.

[@littleNorwegians]

I'm a Norwegian, so pretty much as ignorant as you can be about these things, but wouldn't it be so much more fun if everyone had souped up cars with unique designs to where it looked like Wacky Races? Do the same with the racers, have them do promos like it's the WWE in the 90s or something. (I realize that I may be asking a sport to be a spectacle, hehe.)

[@anonymousperson7861]

that's the 24 hours of lemons, main rule is you can't spend more than $500 on the car and mods and they're allowed to be quite aggressive while driving, there is all sorts from armoured mazda miatas to $450 engines in a $50 car, to $500 cars straight out of a scrap yard Problem with having no rules is that someone is gonna run away with it while everyone else lags behind, it sounds great but it's boring to watch.

[@pouringblood]

@@anonymousperson7861 Isn’t that due to the low bar for entry? If more funding was involved, you could get more competency in design/staff, and reduce the margins between racers due to technological limits instead of financial ones. Would make the races incredibly interesting since any company / individual of means that backed a car would actually be putting more of their reputation on the line - publicity from a big win would be spectacular for the winner and potentially quite damaging for the loser, which would create massive amounts of incentive from those participating.

[@kingofrivia1248]

Dude your humor and worldview is so awesome thx for these videos.

[@alisilcox6036]

"When we first invented the automobile it wasnt covered in little stickers to make it look more like a horse" No, but *just imagine*

[@groundedgaming]

You can't. Because the car you saw was actually a horse.

[@keganritz4418]

Racecars don't have headlights because the track is always LIT.

[@patjohn775]

NASCAR is actually really interesting once you know the personalities. I never seen to get into current season though

[@MrChopsticktech]

I'm American and don't find it interesting at all, personalities or not. I didn't need to learn anything about the personalities of the athletes in the Olympics (or any sports) to be interested. Many athletes inspire people to take up sports, I have yet to meet anyone to become a Nascar driver.

[@misterboot6682]

0:00 Can someone tell me why his intro sounds like a Korean man saying ''Kim Chi'' through a radio? Now that you have read this comment you will never be able to unhear it.

[@Not_The_FBI_1992]

This is coming from a 40 year old, long time NASCAR Fan. NASCAR started back in the years of prohibition. Moonshine runners would see how suped up they could make their cars to outrun the law. Awesome. It then became a national sport to see how each successful bootlegger could outrun each other. From then on the sport was fucking amazing. More engineering was down to "stock cars" to make them safer for legalized racing, and the sport grew. The 1980's and 1990's (when I got into the sport) was epic! I've been to many tracks. Las Vegas, Kansas, Talladega and the Iconic Daytona track. I've accepted the engineering accomplishments NASCAR has made with cars, especially traveling at 200mph coming out of turn 4 at Daytona. The athleticism of pit crew members and of the drivers, they regularly experience cab temperatures of 140° for 500 miles at 200 mph... but the decline of NASCAR viewership is not because of the evolution of the car..... its because of wokeism. Bubba Wallace Jr. Claimed he had a noose hanged in his garage at Talladega some years ago. In fact it was just a rope pull down for his garage door. Ever since then, NASCAR has been promoting BLM and LGBTQ+ propaganda driving away their core base of fandom.Fandom. Edit: This isn't just happening with NASCAR. This is happening with sports worldwide. We hate your woke agenda. Just drive the car or catch the ball, or throw the ball in the hoop. Shut the fuck up! You're not oppressed! Second edit: One sport I've been getting into is Australian Stadium Super Trucks! Which Bobby Labonte (mediocre NASCAR driver) is dominating the sport!

[@johnforrestboone1]

Spoken like a true Nascar fan. No one will miss you

[@Mree17]

Bobby Labonte is a Hall of Fame NASCAR drive so check again.

[@Dragonlord826]

Had every chance to say "cause the track is always LIT"

[@AlanWiltsie]

Just to defend NASCAR a little bit here, they've actually been growing over the last 7 or 8 years. It's not a lot of growth but with most other major sports losing fans at a drastic rate, it's certainly a healthy sign for NASCAR to have a solid fanbase.

[@wizskinz9987]

The last 2 years have been good for nascar and hopefully we see a huge uptick.

[@MrChopsticktech]

I believe you mean other American sports. The World Cup will feature 48 finalist teams in 2026 and the Final was watched by over a billion people in 2018.

[@nasha4540]

Race cars don’t need headlights cause the track is always *LIT*

[@geoff3610]

The transition from literal stock cars to modern stock cars has turned nascar from an automotive man's event to a sporting man's event. They accidentally dumped their old demographic. Same with F1 although it's kind of the point there. Races with varied cars are the races I feel like I enjoy the most, as a real life car guy. Street racing is big around me and you see all kinds of guys and gals line up next to eachother to burn some race gas. Betting on the various cars that line up is one of my favorite pastimes.

[@Bulls3ye86]

That's why I like WRC. Road legal, production cars modified for racing on back country tracks. It's closer in spirit to NASCAR's origins than modern NASCAR itself!

[@willypete1354]

Holy shit, Qxir and NASCAR? Couldn’t ask for anything better

[@benracer]

My big thing that led to my breakup with NASCAR (I live in THE NASCAR state of North Carolina) was all the drivers I knew had retired, and NASCAR races were becoming more and more of premium cable channel races. More and more all the fun races would be aired on ESPN and SPEED and other dedicated sports channels. It really hurt that the race that happened around my birthday would be on ESPN. It also hurt that all the cool unique tracks were on ESPN and SPEED. All the road courses and Pocono races would be on those channels. NASCAR and Jeff Gordon made me a fan of Chevy back in the 2000's so I say the race on sunday sell on monday still worked for me. But thank you for helping me think back to my nostalgic childhood days of watching NASCAR on TV. The big thing I'd say is races are more fun in person on small tracks.

[@WhuDhat]

us Americans tend to get plastic headlights, but the reason is the history of success of: "win on Sunday sell on Monday" or as you said brand recognition

[@Ganerrr]

bro if I wanna watch car racing I want it to have no rules on what cars can race. I want whatever abomination of speed and danger that pushes the fastest lap down by even a second

[@nsahandler]

QXIR lad, They had to start reeling in the race for "fastest car" because the crashes were becoming more and more deadly by the year while races became more and more irrelevant to the vehicle which was being driven.

[@patrickspringer6534]

NASCAR is the Professional Wrestling of motorsports.

[@coacheinerson84]

NASCAR has seen a resurgence in the past two to three years. I think the personalities of the sport have done a lot to bring new fans into the mix while also bringing some old ones back. Dale Jr and the Door Bumper Clear podcasts are a great example of this. NASCAR's biggest problem today is that they sold their souls in the early 2000s with massive tracks that make for terrible racing if the cars aren't identical. Even the slightest aero difference gives one manufacturer a huge advantage. Because it's an air and horsepower game on big ovals, this can't be rectified with a BOP regulation. So from an outsider's perspective, it may be easy to say "okay so ditch the big ovals for short tracks." Well, that IS ideal for literally everyone but we have one major problem. The biggest race of the season is on one of those massive ovals. The Daytona 500 is the Monaco GP, LeMans, Indy 500, Knoxville Nationals... and it's only competitive if the cars are equal.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

4:28 The U.S. Air Force logo on the hood looks really classy next to the Monster, 'Liquid-Candy for Adult Children' logo above. Pretty much sums up my time in the service.

[@edwardfisher7953]

Hey man,you got a wicked sense of humour. Thanks for the vids. (an Englishman living in New Zealand)

[@iainballas]

I'd love to hear you cover the Ash Street Shootout in Tacoma, Washington, back in 1989. US Army ranger threatened by Crips gang, invited a few buddies over, and they all threw a giant USA-style party with hundreds of rounds exchanged. Sounds like a great 'Tales from the Bottle'!