I Have Stupid (NASCAR) Questions….
Posted by in GeneralRemember back when you were in school? And you use to have a question but didn’t want to ask it because you were afraid all the kids in the class would laugh at you because they all knew the answer and you were the only one who didn’t?? Or was that just me?
Anyway I have been a NASCAR fan for years (as in since childhood)…and I have a couple of questions that I can’t find an answer to…and I don’t really know anyone who would know the answer that I feel comfortable asking. I mean my dad is a NASCAR fan but not as much as me…because how many times do I have to explain to the man what the “lucky dog” is (probably the same number of times he has to explain to me what a saftey is in football)? Yeah anyway- I have stupid NASCAR questions that bug me. REALLY bug me. But who the heck am I gonna ask? You! I am asking YOU because its hard for you to laugh at me over the internet…or anyway it’s hard for me to hear you laugh.
- Ok…you know on the front and back of the cars- where they have the decals of headlights and taillights? Why do the right side lights have the car number in them and not the left sides? Why do they put a number in the fake lights anyway???
- How does a driver eat with a full face helmet on? I know they do it…Chad Knaus told Jimme to make sure he got a drink and ate his candy at Dover. And BFM told me she has heard Jimmie ask for a banana. So how the heck do you stick food in your mouth with a helmet like that on your head? I am assuming that because of the hans device they don’t actually unhook it to tip it up a bit for consumption reasons so how?
- Where is a good place to sit at INFINEON? I am considering going to the race there next year and I am curious.
Ok…so maybe that’s two stupid questions and one not so stupid question. Got answers? Leave me a comment or email me.
Got stupid questions of your own? Feel free to ask them…who knows…you might just get your answer. I am hoping I do.
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In Eben’s highly professional opinion:
1. There is no answer to this question. (Unless you want to ask the President of NASCAR, he adds.)
2. You flip up the visor. Stick the food in down the front side so it reaches down to your mouth and you eat it. A banana and a candy bar would work. The front part of the helment (by the chin) actually is quite a bit away from your mouth, so there is room.
3. If there are seats in the hairpin turn, sit there. If not, you go up the hill, turn right, go straight, go up another hill. There’s a small straightaway. Turn right. There’s a small section of stands there. Sit there.
1. As for the headlights (and this comes out of the NASCAR rule book) “Solid numbers, as large as possible, must be attached to or painted on the right side outer headlight and taillight covers.”
2. Just as explained.
3. When I cover the Infineon event, I walk from the press box over to the Earnhardt Terrace section (turn 2 or 3, I’m going blank right now). Anyway if you are high enough you can see about three quarters of the track (but you can’t see turn 11 hairpin and front stretch, but there is a video board in front of the stands so you still don’t miss the action. Go for those seats.
dustin
I can’t answer your questions, but I can tell you my favorite question – and the one my best friend lives in terror that I really will ask someone at a race.
Why do you make 4 left turns during a race? Who decided that the race should always go counter-clockwise and not clockwise? The cars are capable of turning right, so why can’t they have 4 right turns? (Or 3 if on Pocono.) LOL
I know, I’m a dork, and I don’t expect it.
As for Dustin’s answer to question one – ok, it’s in the rulebook, but WHY is it there? What is the purpose? Other than maybe so the cars in front of and behind you know which one you are?