The WEIRDEST NASCAR Race EVER 

There's just something cool to me about big heavy nascar cars just drifting through corners on dirt like it's nothing.

The Chicago street circuit was actually really good

Funny how nascar is likely going to get rid of the dirt race for next year. Still, I’m happy you’re bringing awareness to what nascar is doing. Most diverse schedule in all of Motorsports whether people like to admit it or not.

Currently right now NASCAR is the most diverse motor sports when it comes to tracks Dirt Stadium Racing Ovals Super Speedways Street Circuit Road Course No other series has this much diversity. Indycar comes close but still lacks in comparison

You can watch full race replays on NASCAR RU-vid channel. The Kansas race this year was one of the best oval races so far. Thank you for covering NASCAR and dirt racing!

I really like all the changes except the center lug wheel nuts. It was nothing short of incredible to see just how quickly the mechanics could undo the 5 wheel nuts

Despite what some old fans are saying, Nascar is changing for the better by adding new courses. Tho the dirt race needs re-evaluating, but all in all, it is amazing. Great video.

NASCAR finally getting genuine love like this from channels like this just warms my heart. nascar needs all the good attention they can get right now and this is a great step in the right direction. so glad you're giving them their fair shake!! love the f1 & sports car content as a racing fan but this strikes a different chord for me considering this is the motorsport i grew up with & follow the most.. not to mention it's probably the most crapped-on racing series there is out there. thank you for giving this great sport the massive spotlight it needs & deserves!!

I love this. As a European, I never watched NASCAR, ovals were just not interesting to me. But now with classic and street circuits too (and mini ovals), I'm considering following it more. And the dirt track is an excellent idea. But maybe go to a permanent dirt track instead to lower costs and make it more sustainable? Either way, I'm really surprised this has been happening for a while and I had no idea about it.

Coming from motocross, dirt is REALLY a science as every different environment develops the soil differently. West coast races are known for being dry and slick whereas the farther east you go, the more the soil holds water getting torn up and “ rutted” ( when the powered wheels launch the dirt in the air leaving a groove). It’s also why most dirt races are ran at night so the sun doesn’t dry the track out leaving it a dust bowl like 2021 Bristol dirt.

3:27 that's actually a UMP Modified (some times called 2 barrel or 4 barrel Mods depending on what motor is in it) :p Late models aren't open wheel at all. They have big front noses with fender flares for aero :)

Thank you for trying to help the nascar community. I feel like we haven't go the big tick from f1 growing here. I was hoping it would bring people to all different forms or racing.

As a NASCAR fan since the 1990s this next gen car is the best change they've dine in a while

NASCAR should never loose it’s paved oval bread and butter, but the more types of tracks it runs at, the more all around good driver they have to be to be competitive. Can’t say win championships, cause I can’t figure this chase thing out anymore…

as a NASCAR fan, thankyou so much for your help spreading awarness of our sport. All motorsports are interesting, it'd be boring if it was all formula 1, or all oval races.

Anyone European that has Iracing and has never raced on dirt ovals you have got to give it a try it’s so much fun once you get the hang of it But you have to be patient. It’s amazing how much a dirt track can change in a long race with a big field. An interesting challenge when groove changes is quickly figuring out how hard to drive into the turn after running the bottom and going to the top that’s where the fastest guys make a lot of time

I had the privilege to meet and know a few young sprint car and quarter midget racers. Those short track dirt races are insanely fun to watch. The amount of car control needed to adapt to changing surfaces would make anyone think twice about how "you only turn left in ovals so no skill required."

I'm actually going to my first ever race in a few weeks. Excited to go to a Nascar race and then some buddies and I are planning on going to COTA next year

Dirt oval racing has got to be the most underappreciated racing disciplines out there.

The glen is my fav track in the usa, would love to see f1 there again.

I would really love to see more NASCAR content here, this video was great.

Thanks for the credit! I'm glad someone could use the videos I took at Chicago!

I think it would be cool for you to do a video on the American dirt racing scene, such as outlaws, midgets, late models, all of that stuff. It's actually pretty cool.

This was surprisingly cool to see! I’d underestimated NASCAR, great to see some diversity in the racing.

It’s so pleasing to see NASCAR and WEC putting on the most entertaining motorsport right now.

It's awesome to see a big, primarily F1 RU-vid promote NASCAR so heavily. Cheers to you!

Great video! As a member of a Northeast dirt modified pit crew, I loved this. I did notice one thing regarding what you said about wedge, it isn't ride height, it is weight difference. So wedge is calculated by adding the Left Rear (LR) and Right Front (RF) together, the you subtract that total from the added weight of the Right Rear (RR) and Left Front (LF). Other than that great job! Also if you ever come to NY, try to make Super Dirt Week, it is amazing, just one week of pure dirt racing.

Never thought of Watkins Glen as the “American Spa”, but somehow that makes perfect sense, both of those are my favorite tracks.

I love NASCAR, it’s so much fun to watch live and these wacky races are great.

NASCAR has it's origins on dirt ovals. When NASCAR started, and racing in the US in general, a lot of horse tracks were used for car racing tracks. The last time NASCAR ran on dirt was the year 1970 (before bringing it back recently), the race was won by Richard Petty. A lot of people feel that NASCAR running on dirt takes the sport back in a bad way. In my opinion, they don't do it right. They need to remove the windshield and replace it with a rockscreen like every other dirt car in the world... Drivers can barely see as it is with a rockscreen, let alone a windshield that the dust and dirt just builds up on...

It makes me so happy seeing someone finally give some attention to the dirty small nascar I’ve dedicate my life too. Put the right rear in the cushion and keep it pushin😂

Thank you for talking about Nascar on your channel! I am really hoping nascar continues to evolve and expand into different markets. I'd love to see a Cup race at Silverstone someday.

I've said for 25 years that more road courses, a return to dirt, and closer to "stock," semi-homologated cars is what NASCAR needed. Two out of three ain't bad at all.

"And then there are super late models" *Proceeds to put footage of a modified*

YO a new nascar video is exactly what I've been looking for from you guys! Thanks!

I remember the first time I did a burnout on a hard packed dirt road. Teenage me back in the 90s had no clue I could do that with a regular road car. "How the hell did I leave rubber on dirt.. oh, right, the same way I leave rubber on pavement" Took me asking that to myself before I realized I was being somewhat braindead for a moment. Still, it will always seem a little weird. Since then I was even more amazed to see skid marks on ice/snow. Not from racing, but from airstrips and the tires of airplanes. Just like on regular paved runways, they will skid on runways like they build in Antarctica.

The next gen cars are not necessarily more aerodynamic, in reality they are more Aero-dependent. The car likely has more drag than previous cars due to the diffuser and front splitter cutout. They did make the car identical on both sides to lessen the affects of “Side force” meaning the cars are more stable when racing side by side (this is to improve the racing, the car is actually slower this way). They also generate less downforce than the previous cars from 2019-2021 due to their smaller spoilers. Also they do not create “less wake for the cars behind”. In practice, the diffuser only makes the width of the wake tighter, with the trade off being that dirty air is stronger when directly behind the car in front, but lessened when offset slightly. In other words, the Wake is not lessened, but simply more precise. Also, I’m assuming you got your information on the Bristol fastest lap record from Wikipedia, because the cup record at Bristol is not a 14.945 and it was not set by Kyle Larson in 2018… I don’t know the exact Bristol lap record, but in 2014 Kevin Harvick qualified on pole with a 14.607 for the Bristol night race. If anyone has any sources on the fastest Bristol cup lap, I would be grateful if you shared them with me

Much appreciated for giving NASCAR some love on here. I was at the Bristol dirt race this year, and it was awesome! Action all over the place. I like the direction the series is going overall. Definitely the most diverse pro racing series in my opinion.

Very well done video! A couple of minor errors on ultimately unimportant side notes, but the main points and technical bits were spot on! Felt kind of like you had a lot of other nascar topics you wanted to touch on that you went through at the start, would love to see you do more nascar content and get into those topics in more depth

I really hope this gets recognition, In Europe we have many short oval racing series just not well known to many, to name a few we have a full contact motorsport called Brisca F1 (700hp v8 Chevrolet engines) racing round many venues on tarmac and shale. We also have non contact series such as National Hotrods. And then there is also speedway which is motorbikes. We need to get more love to these sports as they are great and are home to the Uk! If there is any way I could try and contact you to get you more information for a possible video idea, this would be great as it will promote such a vital motorsport for Europe!

Imo NASCAR is the most entertaining and diverse racing there is. Always looking into improving and they listen to their fans quite a bit. Proud to have been raised as a NASCAR fan. For those not too familiar I def do recommend the dale jr download, si many great interviews about the history, current, and future plans for NASCAR by execs and competitors them selves

Great video! (side note: where you talked late models, you showed a modified not a late model). But thanks for talking dirt oval! I work for a dirt track and it's my favorite events each friday night!

Pretty cool Thursday races are the SRX series. Bunch of Nascar and indy legends racing. It'd be cool to see a video about the cars they are running

When they put dirt on Bristol they host about a month of national (and regional) dirt series (championship) races. Just about every class of dirt oval racing has a big race there in the lead up to the NASCAR race.

Blue groove tracks are built with a high content of clay and get watered and packed down to create a hard surface. This hard-packed surface lends itself to higher speeds; as bikes slide into the corners, the tires will deposit rubber on the track. This rubber appears blue and is where the term comes from.

Jonathan Davenport (a dirt late model driver) drove in a cup car at the Bristol dirt race

I started watching NASCAR when they were the first series to run after covid and have become a great fan. The calendar is also mad with one race every weekend and the championship format is great too

"The days of purely racing on ovals are gone." Those days have been gone for a looooong time. They've been racing on road courses (albeit only a few) for DECADES.

I grew up going to dirt races with my parents, they’re a lot of fun. You’re also gonna get filthy no matter what. After being at the Watkins Glen race last year in the rain I can’t imagine seeing NASCAR on dirt in person. Sprint cars are likely still more exciting though. They launch about 30 feet in the air when they wreck and flip about 60 times. It’s wild.

A Formula 1 fan saying NASCAR has good racing? That's a first

Thank you for doing a NASCAR video! I've become a huge fan over the past year

One small mistake in this video that I noticed, the "super late model" you showed is actually a dirt modified. Dirt late models have full bodies, including front fenders. Otherwise, very nicely done

going to dirt is just nascar going full circle, which is what they generally do as well.

I love that your posting more nascar videos

Sequential gears and center lug wheel nuts? The future is finally now for NASCAR 😮 I will miss the traditional H pattern and 5 lugs though.

I went to the 2023 Clash at the coliseum and it was really fun. I’ve been to football games in that stadium and to see NASCARs in there was so fun. I had been a NASCAR fan for a year up to that point and it was so fun and amazing even despite’s the wreckfest that it was.

The absolute diversity of race tracks NASCAR is bringing into its series is incredible. Now that's actual excitement!

Cleetus should hit you up to race in his Bristol race next year. It’s a crown Vic race it super fun to watch and everyone says it’s a riot.

My first "race" in a sim on oval taught me just how much skill there actually is in oval racing. It's a ton.. different but absolutely there is tons of racing moments to be had...

Never clicked on a video faster

As the once doc hudson said: "if you go hard enough left, you'll find yourself to the right" Lightning mcqueen: "turn right to go left. Huh" *crashed into a cactus ditch*

only 2 years late, theyve been running bristol dirt since 21'

I didn't know that they were bringing back dirt track and more road courses. This alone will make me watch more.

Clay racing surfaces develop blue grooves in the clay faster than Mercedes’ can develop a car to keep Lewis after this season. Even on a 1/10 scale rc course it happens, and that’s where the fun really begins for all classes competing

Nascar trying so hard to break out of their image of being just ovals. And they're doing it fantastically. I love all this new stuff they've been trying it makes for great entertainment

NASCAR just became Cars 2

I just had a talk with my neighbor about 30 minutes ago, and found out he used to race dirt track cars, and before watching this i didnt know much about dirt racing cars. pretty cool.

I was a kid while watching your Dad pass out while pushing his Lotus. I remember asking my father why he is so tired, and he explained the heat and exhaustion from driving but most importantly how paying acute attention can be extremely exhausting over time. I experienced this later riding dirt bikes.

You guys should cover real dirt racing as well. I work at Lernerville Speedway doing their timing and scoring. It's one of the best and most popular dirt tracks in the US! If you guys would like to cover it in a video, don't hesitate to reply here and I can give my email or something. The way NASCAR does it isn't quite like the real thing :p

As an American race fan, You are so good at describing this stuff. Love it. Please never stop making this content

Driver61 Nascar content? hell yes

They run asymmetric setups on all oval circuits irrespective of whether asphalt or dirt etc. Why wouldn't they?

Yeah that sounds genuinely entertaining, just wish it was easier to watch over here

we killed off our V8s, but 'Merica still got some racing tricks up her sleeves.

it has taken decades of dislike until today, but driver61 has finally convinced me to have a new respect for NASCAR from the uk and i'm actually tempted to watch in the future!

Outlaw Sprint cars are absolutely insane to watch if you ever get a chance to watch them.

NASCAR, NASCAR Truck Series, Aussie V8 Super car, Stadium Super Trucks are some of the best motorsports on offer for entertainment 👌.

3:25 this is a dirt modified, not a dirt super late model

Ya love how the drivers have to be pretty good at all types of racing. It shows the talented guys that can seek to do it all. Also shows the skills of ringers that come in. Also love watching how talented the guys are when they go race other stuff like Larson does or tony stewart.

It's amazing how NASCAR it seems the most complete series in the world in terms of race tracks and their diversity: intermediate ovals, mile ovals, road courses, superspeedways, street circuits, dirt tracks, short tracks, rovals, stadiums, ovals with concrete instead of asphalt, without even mentioning the specific form of the ovals... It really seems a series where it's extremely difficult to emerge and being competitive overall. Despite this, many NASCAR fans like me raised some criticism to the series. They would love to see back some old tracks like Rockingham Speedway (USA) and Nashville Fairgrounds, they would like to have more horsepower on the car, around 900+ hp like in the Gen4 era and a more fair eligibility of the champion, since the Play-off system and stage racing are highly criticized, basically to bring back the old Winston Cup Series points system used until 2003. Another thing that I would like to see is a field size expanded to 43 cars instead of an average of 36 starters, but with the current charter system to prevent the existance of "Start and park" teams I don't think that it would be possible.

Remember that time when the Top Gear gang drove through Alabama with "Nascar sucks" written on their car? 😂👍

NASCAR is making very interesting changes. I'm quickly becoming a fan. Also, loved that overtake of that GT Ferrari at Le Man. It felt almost ominous, of bright things to come (Inserts bald eagle bust).

As a dirt racing driver thank you for covering this type of motorsports.

I highly recommend you do a video on dirt racing itself, it’s such an amazing Motorsport. I should also mention when you showed a “late model, you actually showed a modified which is highly different. Also the outlaw sprint cars you showed go up to 925 hp, not 1000 hp

I really love NASCAR since 2006 when I discovered it as an European teen loving F1 and DTM. I've been since then explaining everyone who wanted to hear how great NASCAR was, and lately is being kinda crazy

I’m telling you man give some of the top dirt series a watch.(my favorites are the wingless 410 sprints) I always gravitated more towards formula cars and rally but started watching some highlights and the driving and racing is crazy. You also mentioned iracing, give them a try on there too

If this attention keeps up there will be cup cars at Silverstone before long. We are 90% going to be racing at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve next year.

Saw them at Fontana this year. Last race ever on the big oval. They were hitting 198-199mph past the pits. Sounded epic.

I would love to see racing cars like the gt cars or supercars going into dirt racing (drifting turns and else over dirt literally, like the infancy of nascar, but with even more speed than before on a challenging race track).

As a life long Race Fan who became a Race Car Fabricator I’ve watched Motorsports most of my life from sneaking into the F1pit lane at the Long Beach Grand Prix to the Nascar Races at Riverside Raceway to Ascot Park dirt oval to watch sprint cars! So to say that my knowledge of racing is diversified would be true. What Nascar has done over the past few years is good for the sport and creating this new car is one of the best things that it has done, much like F1 with there new “Swoopy” looking cars

I live in Bristol, not even 5 minutes from Bristol Motor Speedway. 31 years I've driven past the track, but have never been to the first race. You can hear the crashes from my living room lol only times I've been inside BMS is during the holidays when they set up a MASSIVE Christmas light show. That's when people get to drive on the oval track AND the dragstrip. We used to get out of school half a day early on Thursday of race weekend, with no school on Friday. And that was because of the immense traffic. I've had more than a few chances to go to a race free of charge, I've just never found any interest in watching cars go around in a circle for 3 hours. Not to mention the higher up the stands you are, the smaller the cars look. I could play scalectrix (slot cars) and see the exact same thing. But over the last say, 10 years or so, attendance for the bristol race dropped DRASTICALLY. Used to, race weekend was when people would take a small vacation and get outta town. Because there was no way in hell you could pop to the store real quick to grab a few things. Nowadays, there's so little attendance that there is no appreciable change in traffic. I'm nothing rare, most everyone around here avoids the race. Now, I have spent a LOT of time partying in the campgrounds. People stay so fucked up, and are more than willing to share a buzz. Walk to the campgrounds with no money, no weed, absolutely nothing..by the time you've made it to the end of just the first isle, you're already fucked up to death. God bless rednecks lol😊

Gen 7 stock cars are a bit of an oddity in the American stock car scene because they are nothing like the cars you drive climbing the ladder to get to this level. All American stock cars typically run solid axel or truck arm rear suspension, and will either have a 1-2 speed power glide (most dirt built and asphalt modified stock cars use this setup) or 3/4 speed H-pattern gearbox (used by the vast majority of asphalt divisions). And while the Gen 7 car is symmetrical in chassis and body design, everything below it on the ladder typically isn’t. Stock car bodies have a lot of asymmetry built into them and it’s not something they get rid of for the road courses. To put it bluntly; Gen 7 is an American spin on the Gen 2 Australian Supercars and it’s delivered mixed results. Road course races and races on intermediate ovals (tracks from 1 mile to 2.5 in length) has been stellar. But short tracks have been overwhelmingly dull and the same can be said about super speedway races (tracks where NASCAR mandates a reduction of power on the cars for “safety” [spoiler alert, it’s had the opposite effect]). Legacy fans of the sport hate many of the changes NASCAR has introduced, and some hatred is justified (looking at you, stage racing and overtime). Gen 7 has been chastised a lot by the legacy fanbase. But the car has achieved most of its design goals in producing better road course and intermediate oval races (which are the vast majority of tracks on the NASCAR schedule).

Hello. I've really come to appreciate your work helping me to understand what is inherently a complex sport. I genuinely hope that you your team read these comments. Sim Racing is the closest that most of us will get. Could you consider a series that would help us get into it at a more serious level than the playstation and Xbox? What subscription Racing is the one you guys recommend? I know there are lots of videos about the hardware, but where do we turn when Gran Turismo isn't doing it any more?😊

You’ve single-handedly given me an interest in nascar.

now they need to get rid of their playoff system and it has potential to be my favorite race series

I'd love to see you make a video covering the first Chicago street course/Shane Van Gisbergen's driving style for it vs the rest of the field

Dam NASCAR is getting better than F1 now

NASCAR used to raise on a mix of dirt and paved almost, as well as a mix of dirt and paved road courses. This is going way back to their Roots, let's hope that they start bringing back the need for production cars as a base, instead of using a static chassis platform.

The full time lapse of the transformation is a good watch

Its unfortunate that this will probably be the last year for dirt racing