@Leonefan I was referring to competition between mfg's, as in real stock car racing. The way it is now, the cars are identical and the motors pretty close to identical. It's all personality driven. Back in '68, you could just about turn your '68 Roadrunner into a stock car in your own garage--well, almost. These days? You buy the same chassis/body as everyone else, and forget about the "development" of stock cars into racers. I don't know about you but I miss the old days.
@markpyruz I see your point but with the way majority of the affordable passenger cars are today, you would have to change too much in them to make them a decent race car and then they would not retain anything 'stock' anyway other than the body anyway. And aero-matching would make homologation a nightmare as most of today's tracks are so aero-dependent and manufacturers would have to ditch entire assembly lines each time a car they come out with for using in racing is no longer fast enough.
It's a real shame they've removed the technical aspect from NASCAR.
markpyruz 9 months ago
@markpyruz Well, there's not much left to discover now anyway.
Leonefan 9 months ago
@Leonefan I was referring to competition between mfg's, as in real stock car racing. The way it is now, the cars are identical and the motors pretty close to identical. It's all personality driven. Back in '68, you could just about turn your '68 Roadrunner into a stock car in your own garage--well, almost. These days? You buy the same chassis/body as everyone else, and forget about the "development" of stock cars into racers. I don't know about you but I miss the old days.
markpyruz 9 months ago
@markpyruz I see your point but with the way majority of the affordable passenger cars are today, you would have to change too much in them to make them a decent race car and then they would not retain anything 'stock' anyway other than the body anyway. And aero-matching would make homologation a nightmare as most of today's tracks are so aero-dependent and manufacturers would have to ditch entire assembly lines each time a car they come out with for using in racing is no longer fast enough.
Leonefan 9 months ago
Ahhh...real racing... man its been so long since we have seen this lol
crossfire043 2 years ago