Talk:Stock car racing

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"... equality of the machinery makes the racing closer and results much more of a test of driver and pit crew ability than more technically-oriented motor racing series..."

Must chime in here, its my opinion this is inaccurate, stock car drivers may be talented and rigoursly tested, but only really at one or two things, getting into position without crashing when the race starts and tailing the leader's envelope before jumping into a higher rank. For one, they do not have to deal with the much more difficult tracks like those found in F1 (ex. Monaco GP). I'm not going to even get into WRC.

Its not so much that you're exaggerating driver talent in stock car racing, but this entry badly trivializes the role ability plays in "more technically-oriented motor racing".

First you seem to forget that a couple races are run on road courses in NASCAR. (The vast majority of races have simpler tracks, of course.) Second I think this comparison is mostly aimed at F1, not necessarily some of the other series. Do technical differences play a large role in, say, IndyCar or CART? Rmhermen 20:10, May 5, 2004 (UTC)

If it's aimed at F1 it should say that. The fact is technical differences are virutally a non-issue in Indy Car and Champ Car racing, and in fact IRL races tend to be as competitive as NASCAR races if not more so.--Mjj237 16:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I feel this is an extremely inaccurate and misleading article. For one, the opening paragraph seems to describe NASCAR cup racing exclusively, although “stock car” racing usually refers to all NASCAR national and regional touring series, several other sanctioning bodies stock car racing series, as well as various local late-model, sportsman, dirt etc. classes. Secondly, the criticisms describes tactics that are almost exclusive to “restrictor plate” racing. It is a common misconception that all races play out like this, but this is far from the truth. NASCAR cup only runs four restrictor plate races a year, and many other series run less or none of these races.--RA64 03:20, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stock Car Racing in Britain

Is this section refering to the same thing as SCSA/DoT/ASCAR? Kurohone 00:46, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] if you could be so kind

Could someone with much more wikipedia knowledge than me edit the brazilian Stock car link, so it does not appear only as (1)?

Thanks in advance

Hednesford Race-way is mint! Look it up.

[edit] TC2000

Is this category, TC 2000, a stock car series? Though I don't understand the difference well, doubt it is a touring car series. --Morio 22:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)