We’re at Road America this weekend for the USCA Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car Face Off at Road America, and this event is held during NASCAR Nation Wide Series Race weekend, which includes Trans Am and all kinds of other cool car. Seeing the Camaros, Challengers, Mustangs, and Camrys running around the road course is pretty cool, but a lot of people really think the Trans Am cars are much cooler. What do you think? Should “stock cars” be running around the road course? Between Road America, Watkins Glen, and Sears Point, the Cup and Nationwide cars have a pretty interesting history of turning corners in both directions.
We have some pretty specific opinions on the fact that a Camry has ZERO place running on a race track with Camaros, Challengers, and Mustangs. But if you take that out of the equation, we think it looks like fun throwing these big beasts around on the road course. At the same time, we love watching Trans Am as well. So are both cool or just one? You tell us.
Is it cool watching NASCAR Stock Cars Run Around A Road Course?
Both cool.
Nascar has been on road courses for over 50 years so I’m surprised its even still debated as to whether they “belong” there. Yeah they mostly run oval’s, but road courses show you who the DRIVERS are, as opposed to some ham and egg’er steering wheel holder that can get good fuel mileage.
Absolutely love watching them on the road courses. The Nationwide race yesterday at Road America with some wetness mixed in was awesome to see. Time for the Cup series guys to be provided with wet tires too.
Nascar Sucks!!!!!! its not a race anymore……it just a Commercial
Was at Sonoma for qualifying yesterday (6-21), forgot that live on a road course it is watch the cars go by, wait a minute for them to go by again, way better on TV–the opposite of drag racing, way better live then on TV. Have my tickets for the NHRA race in July at Sonoma, can not wait to see the nitro cars Friday night, my favorite spectator race of the year. Totally like racing on the road courses from a driver and set-up skill point of view of things.
It is literally the only time I will watch NASCAR
They both belong… Nascar it gives the teams a chance to try a different set up than the normal turn left chassis.. the post above that said it shows whom the real drivers are.. is a crock.. no matter what we’d all like to think.. nascar like any motorsport is the effort of the whole team.. and why a driver might suck with one team, move to another and kill the field.. even with the same equipment… difference is trans am racing is more high tech.. and nascar is more low tech.. both have their place… but road courses are boring to watch in person.. as you can’t see most of the track from most view points..
The only time I watch NASCAR (or Nation Wide) racing, is when they are on a road course. Then, to see them switch to the rain tires was awesome!
I haven’t watched a Bristol race in years. It reminds me of those tether cars… lap after boring lap… after boring lap…
Nascar on a road course is the only Nascar worth watching. Basically its Australian V8 supercar racing, but the American version.
Its exciting, and fast and cool. Besides ovals are boring.
Best type of NASCAR event period… I have been going to race events of all types, my entire life. Now I am lucky enough to work in the industry, so I get paid to go to these events. With that being said there is nothing even close to as exciting as road-course and dirt track events.
I LOVE the idea that they had with the truck series. I feel like the NASCAR season would be so much more fun to watch if it were say… 10 super speedway events, 10 one and a half mile oval events, 10 dirt track events, 5 road-course events.
i would LOVE to watch every single event… A team that could set up their cars to run all of these types of events would be amazing to watch… that would be entertaining.
OH and go to a Saturday night racing format…25 or 30 lap heat races to qualify for say a 150 lap main….. That would probably get the stands packed again.