Toyota enlisted the help of retired
Nascar driver Carl Edwards to set the record, and after a few practice runs, he's able to nail that magic 230 mph number.
From
a Nascar driver trying to turn around in a tricky spot, to a single - seater driver pulling out right in front of a rival, there are some good lessons in this compilation video on how not to re-join a track.
It doesn't take an expert though to see just how badly wrong this stop went for
Nascar driver Justin Allgaier at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
There's
a Nascar Driver Rob?
and you're tied to a post... a post that somehow would do no damage to the innocent
Nascar driver who doesn't share your lazy, ignorant, hateful worldview.
Conoco is a big theme when it comes to DuPont, but it was no match for John Eleuthere du Pont's murder of Dave Schultz and the career trajectory of
Nascar driver Jeff Gordon.
But with every rule, there's an exception: In this case, it's Justin Marks,
Nascar driver and one of the purest entrepreneur / drivers in the sport.
Do you expect top Formula - 1 /
Nascar drivers to spray confetti from their cars whilst playing dub - step to keep your ADD from flaring up or is this burning desire to be more than an athlete only applicable in MMA?
Ya they get 100 times more terrifying when you are on a bus and your bus driver is taking curves on edges of mountains like they're
Nascar drivers!
You can choose from any of the current
Nascar drivers in the main career mode or go with a generic driver of your own creation.
Not exact matches
For the last 14 years, fans have voted Dale Earnhardt Jr. the most popular
driver in
Nascar.
This time it's Jimmie Johnson,
driver of the # 48 Lowe's Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports and winner of seven
Nascar championships.
So before you make such baseless, ridiculous statements like «the species is dying» I suggest you do us all a favor and go play on a
Nascar track... that's in use... by untrained, speed demon
drivers... who are blindfolded....
Although
Nascar can sometimes be a bit bewildering to European audiences, F1
drivers seem to be strangely drawn to it.
These days sim racing is a pretty standard part of being a young racing
driver, but imagining Fernando Alonso sitting down to play a
Nascar game with a mate (probably on a PS2 or something) is just delightfully surreal.
Nascar say the ambulance
driver failed to follow directions to keep out of the way, but the whole incident is going to be investigated to ensure it doesn't happen again.
There was a bizarre incident during recent Monster Energy
Nascar Cup race at Richmond when an ambulance
driver didn't quite know what to do during a caution period.
The pre-race grid procedure will take on a slightly different flavour in Austin as Michael Buffer (who's especially well known as a boxing announcer) is set to introduce all the
drivers ahead of the race, presumably in a similar way to what happens in IndyCar and
Nascar
The Haas
driver has in the past said he'd like to do a
Nascar race (unsurprising, give that Haas also have a
Nascar team), but like many others would never skip a Grand Prix to do so and even went so far as to question Alonso's commitment:
Nascar sees its fair share of brawls between
drivers, but even those are nothing compared to what happened in this Figure 8 race.
Other, more minor changes include the introduction of
Nascar - style two - lane rolling starts at every race, the addition of a series of complex mirrors and cameras to the Halo in order to make it appear invisible to the naked eye, and bonus points being awarded to the
driver who can exceed the pit lane speed limit by the smallest margin over the course of the weekend.
Some of the Penske
drivers from IndyCar and
Nascar gave it a go and the results are somewhat... well, terrifying.
Piloting the new Beetle this weekend was Rallycross and Formula D champion Tanner Foust, and
Nascar racer and ex-F1
driver Scott Speed.
This new
Nascar Fusion shares a lot of looks with the production model, but according to Ford, the interior has also been refined, bring a better and more comfortable interior to the
driver.
As such, I was looking forward to no less than what I was promised: a true, next - gen return for
Nascar Heat with modern trappings and expertly tuned gameplay made possible by no less than five Sprint Cup
drivers working personally on the game with developers.
The
Nascar app is particularly impressive because it allows you to track specific
drivers and set up a fantasy team.