British Guys FIRST TIME reacting to Nascar - NASCAR Crashes Reaction 

The flaps that you see pop up in some of the accidents are called “roof flaps”. They shoot up when a car goes backwards to drag the airflow down onto the car to keep in onto the ground. Obviously sometimes they can’t stop a car going so fast.

they overtake by drafting, when your behind someone, your faster because the air doesn't hit you. so at those big full throttle tracks, its all teamwork and pushing

They're aren't crashing, nudging, bumping on each other.... They're rubbing..... And rubbing, son, is racing......

02:17 "this guy is lost, how is he gonna- " Literally 15 seconds later: 5th place

No one has died in NASCAR since 2001 with Dale Earnhardt Sr. although there have been injuries 10:00 you would be correct, this incident got the #99 parked for what was left of the race, and then he was docked driver points and fined like $100k or so as well put on probation 13:21 that's what we like to call aggressive blocking which a lot of times leads to the one doing it being crashed

You were asking about how cars towards the back have any opportunity to overtake? It is highly unlikely. The drivers have been started in order based on better qualifying lap times. The cars towards the back CAN advance by playing their cards right. There is a best path to take around the track with the least loss of speed. They should avoid getting too severely damaged in crash-ups. Since these races are several hours long, maintenance, tire changes, and refueling are necessary and must be strategically planned. The driver is part of a larger team (yes, this is a TEAM sport) whose members must be quick and highly practiced in their own right. The leading cars can fall out of the race, or gradually lose position because of deficiencies in these areas, as their followers pass them by. You don’t get out in front and complacently expect to just win. This is not Mario Kart with 5 laps, more like several hundred. You and your team must maintain this high level of performance better than your rivals can over the course of these many hours. This is plenty of time for all of your minor indiscretions and errors to significantly accumulate and punish you with lost time. This is a marathon and not a sprint. TL,DR: Drive smarter, and make fewer mistakes.

the big thing in nascar on a superspeedway (the big track where they are really close together) is to push the car in front of you to go faster than the other rows. When there is an opening one or multiple cars can move into another lane and pass the other cars. Sometimes one lane is faster than the other and you can get into that lane and move further up into the field. Then you also have to account for tire wear and fuel so theres more to the race than just passing someone. If you play it smart and be strategic you can gain a couple spots in one pit stop or so. And when your behind a big stocky car like that, theres a thing car bump drafting where essentially the wind goes around your car allowing you to go faster than the car in front of you but it makes your engine more hot and can also effect how fast you go. Nascar is basically if you stuck you everyday car onto a racetrack with a couple upgrades and tried to prepare it to last as long as possible without having mechanical failures and getting wrecked. Its alot more tha n just going in circles for the hell of it. Its alot of fun to watch at times and people just have to watch it themselves to see if the sport is good or not without assuming a car just goes in circles and its as easy as holding the wheel straight, becasue its not.

The wreck where you started asking if drivers died often wasn't even Rusty's worst wreck.

If you watch the full last lap of these super speedway tracks. You’ll see there can actually multiple lead changes during the last lap and often at the last moment.

If you want to see how to go from mid pack to win, watch Dale Earnhardt’s final win at Talledega. He went from 17th to first in just a handful of laps

You going to just have to actually watch a full race to see how they overtake; it's done all the time. These are long races and many lead cars will crash or have some problem along the way. You just have to stay close to the front and be ready to move up when you have a chance. Also, some cars will take pit stops and others will stay out.

Couple things to help you out: 1) the crowd cheers after accidents when they find out everyone is ok.. they’re cheering for the people surviving, not the crash… most of the time… 2) these cars are driving so fast that sometimes, especially out of corners, the car will “push” up the track regardless of what the driver is doing.. that’s what happened in that wreck you said was “illegal”…. 3) the right races are “restrictor plate” races meaning every car has essentially a “governor” on the engine allowing for a max speed for every car… so when every car is going the same speed, it then turns into tight, single file racing where the “draft” is used… 4) cars can pass on those “restrictor plate” races if they have another car behind them “pushing” them making them faster by about 5 mph… if you’re in the back in that instance you’re kind of just screwed… 5) if a car wrecks, the car that wrecks them continues racing… there’s certain rules you cannot break but causing an accident is not against the rules… Hope that helps!

In Superspeedway Racing, there are multiple lines of cars, and each line gains momentum, and people switch lines, which is how you move up positions.

Been NASCAR fan long time. I have gotten complacent with the crashes. Recently finding videos like this has given me new interest on how wild it gets. 3:10 the M&Ms car went airborne right in front of where i was sitting. I wish there was a camera angle that could show how far up in the air that car went, but the cameras are way up looking down on the cars. I was just looking at whats left of the #3 car in a museum few days ago. No front clip left, barely and rear end, look inside the roll cage for driver is barely bent out of shape. I saw the Bonnie and Clyde car they killed in, this was a close 2nd to give chills.

Those flaps that open up are there to add wind resistance and when the car is going backwards. It helps them to slow down and prevents flipping. My dad is one of the 2 people that invented them.

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Imaging being Harvick in that first crash and seeing the rear end of Newman's car just falling straight towards your fave

the commentators answered a lot of your questions lol

Generally most of these big crashes happen at tracks like Daytona and Talladega those tracks a pretty big and have really high banked turns so you don’t have to get out of the gas and because of that those tracks have pack racing where the slipstream/draft is how you race and most of the time they aren’t trying to wreck each other but this ain’t like f1 these cars are bigger and far more of a pain to drive than an f1 car

A lot of drivers hate that close form of racing because of how much more dangerous it is.

The second to last crash; that accident was actually instigated by the car that won. If you go back, the third car was riding close to the second, you'll see the second car move up to take a run at the first place car and the third car went with him. The you see the second car wiggle, the third car just ran into the back of the second place car, and the second place car shoots down to the bottom of the track. Between the extra momentum, from the push in the back, and the downhill acceleration, the second car is traveling the fastest. The first place car interprets the sudden move from the second place car as an attempt to overtake. Normally, being in front would have allowed him the ability to block the move, he's making that same downhill turn. The extra speed the second place car is carrying is too much for either driver to be able to compensate for. Result is the second place car running into the first place car, causing him to lose control crashing him into the outside wall, come back across the track and collect almost everyone behind the third place car and the impact slowed the second place car enough to allow the instigator to pass him and win the race. Go back and watch it now

People pass when others do pit stops. Also gaps do open up and u also have to make room to move up and pass other cars. Plus that piece of the roof that went up. It helps slow the car down if it’s going backwards and help preventing it from flipping over

He didn't rear end him, he rubbed him, and rubbing is racing....

Him: How does the white car with the orange roof overtake the yellow car Kaz: Ill show you how

There is drafting involved and winds betwen the cars causes the crash. they don't re-end each other they tap and can ride the bumper without problems. It's call bump drafting. They will be racing next weekend. They usually run 200+mph

I was probably watchied most of these but the Ryan Newman (@12:10) one where he took a direct hit in the driver's door while upside down sat me back in my chair. I was watching as an early teen when Dale Earnhardt died at Daytona. I thought for sure Ryan was gone. They brought out a big black screen to block the view when they pulled him from the car. I stayed up all night waiting for updates! Scary stuff!

As far as passing cars, the cars aren't bunched up like that for the entire race. Mostly just on the start and restarts. Otherwise it's a lot of strategy, "drafting" and being faster than the other cars. A good analogy is "Nascar is a 200mph game of chess"

11:20-It is a black car, not a purple car, I don’t want Dale Sr nation after you. Yeah the person who caused that wreck was Dale Earnhardt Senior and he was driving his iconic black 3 car

Really liked your reaction! To answer your question, they are running that fast, sometimes up to 230 mph / 370 kph. As for the rest of your questions, easiest way to answer all of them, is to have you watch a race. Start to finish. I suggest one of the Daytona, Talladega or Indianapolis 500 races. On a short track, there's Bristol, where they say, if you didn't hit the wall at Bristol, you weren't there.

If you want to see how they pass. Watch "Relive the final laps from Dale Earnhardt’s 76th and final win".

All of the engines are built to a specific NASCAR requirement they're basically all the same the way that they pass as they draft behind each other in a long line it might take someone 2 to 3 laps in order to set up to pass and the flaps on the roof that you see opening release air pressure so the cars don't flip !

0:26 Is this normal At that track? Yes Also welcome to pack racing. Where your never out of it completely until your either across the line or your wrecked thanks to the fact they use the aerodynmaic draft. At Talladega, the track in clip 1 and Daytona, clip 2, this is very common

For anyone who doesnt know the last race with Carl Edwards he actually took off and was rolling across the fence he later got out and ran tge rest of the way to the finish line

In the beginning yes lot people died 28 people died in NASCAR the last fatal accident in nascar was dale Earnhardt in 2001 R.I.P THE DALE EARNHARDT AKA THE INTIMIDATOR

As far as winning NASCAR uses a point system to judge where your at in the standing

Bro, there are reasons and answers for every question you asked. But, it would take a whole day to write out all of them, so you could make sense of it.

They were cheering because he got out of the car unhurt. They weren't cheering the accident itself.

Overtaking on those tracks is done by using the airflow over the cars. Many times, the car in front is at a disadvantage because they are pushing the hole in the air and cars behind don't have to push that hole in the air. It can be a 10mph difference 1 car alone vs several cars lined up. Cars do push each other also around cars. Biggest thing, it air manipulation (drafting), momentum, getting energy built up.

the tracks wit the big groups of cars all together is all about playing chess, you have to get yourself in position before it's too late.

Back in the 70's they would use fake safety equipment, lightweight wood instead of metal. A lot of people died back then. Now its much less common.

11:57 that’s the point! Too block the other driver from getting past you

The cars have to be super light for speed but when they go that fast they can turn into kites and flip into the air. fortunately the cars crumple like paper softening the impact.

The whole thing is a type of chess situation. They literally battle for positions. You should check out "The Hail Melon" Ross Chastain's wall ride.

They use drafting there’s stuff like bump drafting and side drafting to push your line to the front

What are the odds he asks how the orange and white truck in Craftons flip could pass anyone when he won due to the crash 😂

The best way to understand a race is to watch it and study. Highlights leave a ton of questions. 2 cars are faster than one at these big tracks due to a thing called drafting, which is where one car gets right behind the other, creating a slipstream of air

So running into other cars and crippling then knocking them back in rank and crashing them is allowed and a way to change ranks, only one car can win but they work in teams and try to advance each others ranks. MOST INTERESTING at least to me is nascars origins in prohibition where the bootleggers would soup up their cars and use basically any means to escape the lawmen so allowing these tactics is rather fitting.

The flap on the top of the cars is the best attempt to let air escape from the inside of the car. In theory, it ruins the flight aerodynamics of the cars. *In theory.

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They drive INCHES apart so the car behind can gain more speed from being in the air current from the car in front of them. (I'm sure I didn't explain it right, but its something like that.

Ask and you shall receive the same truck you choose 2:30 ended up in the lead after the crash. when 2 cars are front to back there may not be ANY contact it may just be in a wind turbulence from air pressure not pushing the back of the lead car down like is should

9:44 they cheered i think bc the driver of the 62 got out after the flip

4:22 i saw the first image, i knew it all

It's about driving the average race 250 to 500 MI at 200 plus miles an hour and make it to the finish line first

8:42 It is allowed. Welcome to NASCAR. crzy sport, man.

11:28 if it was intentional yes they can be fined or even be forced to sit out some races but if it was an accident then nothing

So these cars are reinforced on the front and rear bumpers so they can bump draft they actually push each other around the track.

heres the thing, they do crash alot. Theres not as many flips as there used to be becasue of safety features, but they are inevitable when you go 200 mph in parking spot closeness

its hard to understand the sport until you see how they use drafting to pass and the more cars they have in the line is the faster they go. so if one car were to jump out of line that car would instantly fall to the back. at short tracks its much different and they rely on others making mistakes, clean air and strategy to pass

12:38 i remember this race that was the last lap the 6 was ryan newman i wanted him to win because he just came back from retirement he was so close

the MOST amazing thing about this sport is to watch the drivers just literally walk away from these crashes! A LOT of technology they use in race cars end up in passenger vehicles.

How other cars get in front at superspeedways is from bump drafting, getting big runs, and in some cases drivers like brad Keselowski will wreck others for the win.

So you know Drs that you overtake some one in formal 1. So in nascar they use draft to pass others it like going beside them to get extra speed

😂😂"Is this normal?!? They're driving really fast and are really close together!" To quote my Dad, "Son this RACING, if they aint rubbin', they aint racin'.' Two wide on the track is nothing. Now when they go 4 wide (only certain tracks can TEMPORARILY fit 4) - that is racing at its finest and you actually find yourself holding your breath, because one tiny mistake could, and has, caused a massive chain reaction of wrecks to happen.

@14:40 , now see if you did THAT the driver you hit is gonna kick your ass. Incidental contact is one thing, but deliberately rear ending another driver is a BIG NO NO!

Big difference between a super speedway and normal oval. Most of these accidents were on a super speedway where they are all bunched and drafting is king

The closeness at high speed tracks is because... to put it simply, because I'm prone to talking like an aerodynamicist, air. A vehicle that big going that fast "punches a hole" in the air (leaves a large low pressure wake) where the air is thinner, meaning the car behind is actually faster being there, and the car in front is faster as well because there's less of the low pressure air to pull back on it. Two cars tight together can be 3-5 mph faster than a car running alone, at a *minimum*. More cars, more speed added though there's a point of diminishing returns. You get a car out of that line and it'll look like they stomped on the brakes. So, to pass? You have to coordinate with other guys in that line to make another line, and hope your combined speed is greater and nobody checks out or flakes on you.

that's called racing. that's the fun of watching a race.

6:23 RIP DALE SR.

I started lmao when he said I thought this is what racing was lmao

2:58 that is called an air flap it's to keep the truck or car down on the ground

Only two deaths I remember Earnhardt Sr and Adam Petty

How do you move up through the pack? Gradually, over the course of 2-5 hundred laps

2:15 "Technically, the guy in front wins, right?" Two seconds later the guy in front is upside down. Nice call.

It is a 500-mile race, there's plenty of time a jockey for position.

No they are not find, when Dale Sr clipped Rusty, the lap after he stopped and asked how Rusty was as Rusty was his friend

Driving skill bro. All the cars have the same engines with the same power with basicslly the same body design. So that the race comes down to driver skill in the end. Some people can drive better than others in such a formation. You have to be patient. That's why some of these races have 500 laps. Because eventually the skill of the driver will start to show in the pack of cars. They don't run that closely together the entire race, just for a little bit at the start. Then the pack starts to stretch out leaving much more space between. Sometimes though it can be a battle between a few cars running that close.

Rubbing is racing and side drafting and blocking are huge and sometimes you just got use the chrome horn Raise Hell praise Dale!!!!

You "overtake" or pass by pushing or drafting up to the other cars/trucks

And believe that Dale Earnhardt was the last death in nas car ….

According to the rules, the cars are made equal. So what you are seeing is “equal cars” running wide open throttle. Since their performance is near equal you’ll see pack racing ie: traffic. The drivers are goin as fast as they can and looking for openings to make a pass.

Its like f1 but a small difference they either have yellow or red like f1 but they go back green side by side but sometimes NASCAR says nope you crash to much orange starts single file

0:45 This is what most people call plate racing, or superspeedway racing. They call it plate racing as they had a metal plate known as the restrictor plate to stop the cars from going dangerous speeds. These made all the cars the same speed resulting in them being bumper to bumper, the effects of this would play into bump drafting. Where you use the inertia of your own car to push the one in front of you, obviously this comes to a major risk as one bad push can send 12 or more cars to the garage. 1:13 He got a bad push and everyone stacked up. 1:28 I explained above, but forgot one thing. They are all going about 190 MPH or 305 KPH around a track where there isn't any braking. Hence the name superspeedway racing. 2:04 He can pass by side drafting, which is staying at the rear quarter panel of a car which plays with aerodynamics and slows the car down. He can also try to push the car in front of him hoping to get some momentum and take the lead. All I can say is that this type of racing relies on patience, precision, and a lot of luck. 2:58 That's a roof flap, that is supposed to keep the car from well, flipping. About 95% of the time it works and keeps the car off the ground, but in the right conditions a car can lift off the ground even with the flaps deploying. 3:35 It's just a matter of luck, all I can say. When it comes to the end of a superspeedway race everyone is looking to get up front. They can try to start a new lane, they can try to push the car in front of them, and if you are Joey Logano (the dirtiest driver in nascar) throw a terrible block and wreck the entire field. 4:33 Oh yeah I forgot to tell you about draft. Imagine it like this, a flock of birds are flying in the sky. The bird at the very front is gonna have the most wind against it, therefor making it have to work harder. Now let's say there is another bird behind it, due to it soaking up all the wind and the aerodynamics of the bird pushes it out of the way, there is less wind for you to overcome. This plays a role in nascar as draft plays a major role in these sort of races. (If you didnt understand at all here it is in simple terms. Go behind car, car go faster) 5:13 They will either pace at like 60 MPH or 96 KPH, which would be the yellow flag. When the entire field stops its known as a red flag and they will continue to pace once the conditions have been taken care of. 5:57 You can get out of the car, as during that crash Austin Dillon got out of that car while upside down. They just really advise you not to do that and wait until they flip you over. 6:23 The last death in nascar was 2001, being Dale Earnhardt (conversation for best nascar driver in history). I don't know how many deaths there has been in the sport but I think its around 30. With the way nascar is heading right now though, its gonna be 31. The new next gen car they brought on has already sat out 2 people from the season with concussion like symptoms, and because of that crash one of them retired from full time racing. They also had another driver break their foot the same race the other driver had the concussion. So currently everyone is discrediting nascar as this is as unsafe the sport has been for years. 7:26 Yeah it is, it's just that is a different type of track. Those are called speedways and generally they go about 160 - 185 MPH on those tracks. Those tracks involve braking so the cars spread out in 5-10 laps. 8:21 Thankfully he wasn't injured, usually in a crash like that if you don't have any injures you are sore for a couple days. 8:40 Technically it is, sometimes dumping a driver will lead to penalties and sometimes they don't. Oh yeah fun fact about that wreck, they were in a heated rivalry. The 12 Brad Keselowski turned the 99 Carl Edwards before that at Talladega and almost put him into the stands, so Carl did the same to him. 9:40 Quote from the driver Brendan Gaughan after the crash "It was an easy flip". So he was okay, and a good reason why they are cheering is because, when was the last time you saw a flip in person during a race? Probably never. So its very exciting. 11:11 He gets away with it, he tried to push him and well, That's what happens if a push goes wrong. Don't know if you realized though but it is the last lap. 11:55 That's when a block goes wrong, usually they go well but the 12 Ryan Blaney just gave him a bad shove. If you don't block in that situation you're losing the most important race, the Daytona 500. 14:33 50/50 The 99 Carl Edwards tried to make a block going high but then the 09 Brad Keselowski (Yes this is when Brad put him in the stands) went low. So Carl went down to block again then wrecked, and the year before Reagan Smith got forced bellow the double yellow line and was stripped of the win. Oh yeah i forgot to mention, passing below that line result in a penalty that nascar has still yet to figure out. The rule is if the the driver is forced under the line they shall keep the position, if a driver goes under on their own free will its a penalty. So when Reagan Smith was forced under he lost, but Denny Hamlin in 2020 passed way under on his own free will and took the win away from lovable underdog Matt DiBennedetto, who has still yet to win a race in the cup series because of it. Anyways back to the wreck. Brad knows that if he goes under he will lose this race, and blowing a chance at your first win is what no driver wants. So he does the deed of wrecking Carl, almost putting him one with the fans. If he didn't win that race though, we wouldn't know Brad as we do today. (I spent like 45 minutes on this and it's 12:30 AM deer lord what have I done)

@9:04 - yeah, it's legal. If ya ain't rubbin' you ain't racin'! All things being equal, I'd rather watch NASCAR than Indy.... A wreck in Indy means dead drivers. Half the fun of NASCAR is SPECTACULAR WRECKS.... AND NO ONE DIES!!

there is a statement in NASCAR that if your not Rubbing your not racing

Some of these races are 500 miles....it turns into a chess match kinda...close to 200 laps at some tracks....

Also nascar has been very good with safety the last fatality in nascar was Dale Earnhardt Sr in the 2001 Daytona 500, the brand new next gen car which debuted earlier this year has been a death trap the car doesn’t bend and flex to much when it crashes, one of nascars best drivers in the modern era had a fairly minor crash at pocono a few months ago he’s been out with a concussion ever since and he just announced he will retire from full time racing after this year he’s the last active nascar driver to race against Dale sr, and the next gen car has caused the drivers to feel much more of the impact, nascar is working on the next gen in terms of making the car bend more when it crashes for next year but pretty much all of the drivers aren’t to happy with nascar at the moment

And for the size and how fast they are moving, the brakes on those cars do very little when they get up to speed.

The was they overtake is by drafting behind another car. For example 4 cars running in line are faster then 2 cars running in line.

Yep drafting,, more cars break airflow, so 4 cars together can go faster than 1 alone. It also depends on the line. Sometimes the rubber is better on the inside, middle or outside for better grip on the tires. It's alot of science even I don't understand. Camber in the tires, downforce.

You'd block the car behind you too on the last lap if your racing to win for 5 million dollars.

The races are 350-500 laps. Its all about endurance, intelligence, and waiting till the right time to over take. Like playing chess. Some drivers are dirty, and will intentionally wreck out others, sometimes their own team members. Im sure there's videos of Nascar Fights

The people were cheering because Nascar fans want to see the wrecks; that's why the regulations are written to make the racing as close as possible. That didn't use to happen back in the old days; it used to be real racing, now it's just spectacle.

Those flaps that pop up are called roof flaps and they are supposed to keep the car on the ground but they don't always work

@6:06 - Yes, that has happened. Tony Stewart was the unfortunate driver who killed the MORON who got out of the car. Now, this will rankle some NASCAR fans but for me, the key to winning a race is pit stop management. Anything longer than 10 seconds and you're screwed. Some debate on whether to take four tires or just two.

So it IS illegal to intentionally ram someone with the purpose of trying to cause a spin or a wreck. That said, bump drafting, banging doors etc is perfectly legal. In NASCAR they say “rubbings racing”. These cars are capable of topping out at over 200 mph but at super speedway tracks like Daytona and Talladega, they use restrictor plates on the engines to limit the horsepower so that when they do wreck they don’t have guys going into a wall at a 90 degree angle at 200 mph. The current racing format kind of sucks with competition cautions that bunch the field up but it used to be that on a long run the field would get strung out into single file and that was how you passed without wrecking. It still happens to a certain extent but it’s not as exciting in my opinion.

Normally what happens is when they start going into a turn that giant mass of cars merge into one long single line or a long double line they are close behind the front car riding on there air current (drifting then as they come out of turn they move out of line and attempt to pass the car in front of

The green car drove through the red car. That wasn't the first time that's happeded.

They drive so close because every car has a restrictor plate that prevents the cars from going over 305 Kilometers per hour. The reason for this is because of the 1987 Winston 500, in which legend NASCAR driver Bobby Allison's car was sent airborne from a blown tire. If you spin a stock car sideways at a fast enough speed the aerodynamics will force the car aloft like the wings of an airplane. Bobby's two ton car was lifted off the ground, straight into the catch fence in front of the spectators. Miraculously, his rear bumper clipped the concrete and bounced his car in the opposite direction of the spectators, leaving only a few minor injuries and no fatalities. If the car had gone even just a few degrees more, it would've gone straight into the crowd and we would've had a disaster on the level of the Le Mans Crash, which would've killed NASCAR. So in light of this very very near miss, NASCAR put a permanent end to the era of speed and installed restrictor plates on the cars to cap their max speeds so they won't go airborne, which introduced the concept of pack racing where it's all about timing, planning, and using slipstreams to overtake opponents. That thin metal plate completely changed the game and turned NASCAR into something completely unique versus other racing, essentially turning it into a high velocity game of chess.

I scrolled down the comments and no one talked about Ryan newmen blocking the 12 1 it was the last lap he would had lost if he didn't block if he didn't wreck but he clearly was gonna loose anyways cuz he blocked but the bumpers of both cars hit the wrong way that ended up spinning him.