Good video!!

 

Absolutely nothing changes. It's a different sticker.

The Nationwide series started running Mustangs this year. They look pretty good...the stickers, I mean.

O/T, this year's 500 was entertaining for the first time in like 5 years for me. I think they're starting to go back in the right direction.

 

NASCAR is so lame. All of the cars are freaking twins.

The other categories are so much better. GT and Rally (even though its all stages) are my favorites.

 

when I think of Camrys, Impalas, and Fusions, I think of "Old Man Tan" and a constant left blinker.

 

It needed a recoat for sure...last year's race was marred by delays when a small pothole developed between Turns 1 and 2 during 500.... it was a sloppy uneventfull race outside of seeing the #1 car take the checkered. I still couldn't believe that it was delayed for more than two hours. What was a worn, slick surface has been transformed into a grip-rich billiards highway now. Until the track surface gets broken in the handling for the cars is going to stink. Though Goodyear did a great got at the 500 here for what tire they brought.... prob one of the best superspeedways tires they're ever had in terms of wear and tear.

 

hey....for what its worth, and we know its nothing like any mustang we drive, but carl edwards did drive that mustang to victory this weekend in iowa

 

I agree. While I approve of the development I'd be more excited if an actual Mustang was raced. Would love to see it take on the rest of the GT field in ALMS, tho.

 

I may be showing my age, but I remember when you could actually recognize stock cars for the cars they purported to be... and they were usually the manufacturers sports cars not the ones they were trying to advertise to the public. Come on now, a Fusion rather than a Mustang...ugh

 

Don't forget, it was the Taurus before that. And the Monte Carlo instead of the Camaro or even the Lumina?! I have followed Nascar for the past 15+ years, I am 26, but have been going to races for as long as I can remember. That was one thing I never understood, if its all about speed, why aren't the muscle cars racing? The only thing I could ever think, is back to the old NASCAR adage, what wins on Sunday, sells on Monday and that it was done to drive sales of those models. Because really, the Camaro and Mustang sell themselves. Everyone is familiar with those models, but the Fusion, Taurus, Monte Carlo, and Lumina, maybe not so much.

 

Used to be, it was the muscle cars, and that was before your time (before Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s career as well). Intermediate sedans that in stock form would comfortably seat four or five full size adults and powered by large-displacement engines rather than ponycars (which ran in SCCA's Under 5-liter Trans-Am road-racing series). Go HERE for a hint of what NASCAR race cars were like before the sanctioning body got carried away with rule-tinkering and equalization.

You could perhaps argue that the current Mustang, Camaro and Challenger are "big enough" to qualify as "musclecars", but that is not their heritage and the back seats are still not fit for adult occupation for extended lengths of time. There haven't been any real (read: traditional, if you must) muscle cars built in over 20 years.


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