On one hand, I appreciate the challenge of screwing on five small lugnuts instead of a big easy central one like most racing series but on the other hand, the risks of those lugnuts shooting off like bullets has always worried me a bit and now with no lugnut rule, even more so.
Great reading all this, thanks. Those headrests look like novelty donuts. LOL
And some of them had no barriers at all. 
Still, you'd think a high banked turn with a drop on the other side would have had concrete atleast. Just seems so weird. Then again, the Germans thought it was no big deal either when they came up with Avus. I wouldn't have parked there, lest a race car landed on it..
In an effort to make AVUS the world's fastest race track, the north curve (known as "Nordkurve") was turned into a steep banking (43) made of bricks. In 1954, this shorter track hosted a non-championship Formula One race which was mainly a show by the Mercedes-Benz team, as no serious competition was present. In 1959, AVUS hosted its only World Championship F1 race, the 1959 German Grand Prix, won by Tony Brooks. This race weekend also saw the death of Jean Behra, as his Porsche flew over the top of the north turn banking, as there was no wall or fence. German driver and journalist Richard von Frankenberg had previously walked away from a similar spectacular crash.
This banking, which was considered dangerous by international racing standards, was dismantled in 1967 to give way to an expanded intersection under the Funkturm tower. From the top of this tower, one can see that the AVUS is not perfectly straight. Racing was continued with a flat north turn, but AVUS only held national touring cars DTM and Formula 3 events.
Guess France didn't make enough profit from the first two years of operating DIS to be able to afford a concrete wall all the way around the track..
Same here, Andy. Was hoping it'd have stayed green till the end after the restart where Harvick had pitted for tyres and Newman stayed out.
I was hoping he'd try a slide job on Harvick at the end there. Would have been a fitting end to a crazy season.
But he did great. Never thought he'd run as good as a he did. Was expecting Logano and Harvick to fight it out and Newman and Hamlin to run mid-pack.
2 of the final 4 Chasers have nine wins between them. While the other 2 have got there primarily on consistency. So in a way, this system has something for everyone, those who like to see wins at critical, pressure-packed junctions get rewarded and those who like to see their champions stay consistent and avoid trouble.
So what if some of the other guys with many wins are not going to be champions? In 2003, you had Newman with 8 wins lose to a guy that stroked his way thru the season.
Wouldn't say NASCAR brain trust didn't think this could possibly happen but still, it's a strong 3:1 odds against Newman. A long shot by any means. Pretty sure all three will run ahead of him on track and one of them will finish ahead of him.
If he does overcome those odds, he deserves it. Not like he's a random Joe that just lucked into it. Newman is one of the great talents in my book. You don't win 8 races in a season at any point in time otherwise. Not to mention his qualifying legend.
It's a website not a channel so if you have one of them newfangled 'Smart' TVs you can watch it on TV Leon, otherwise only on your computer, tablet or phone.
Won't be of much interest to purely stock car fans that's for sure as these guys' principle beef is how all their road racing and rallies, etc. got dumped in favour of NASCAR programming 24/7 once it became SPEED. Still, if you enjoy different types of racing, give it a try.
Would be nice if they could cover some of the big short tracks events like the All American 400 and Snowball Derby but seems like they aren't planning to do much more than simply lease coverage from other networks, that don't currently broadcast in America and not really do any coverage of their own.
