NASCAR Is Coming to the L.A. Coliseum (high school, smog)

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by apple92680

The huge disconnect that some people seem to have is that LA and So Cal are completely full of elitists who spend weekends in art galleries and coffee shops two blocks from the beach.

What seems to be missed by both sides, is that it's possible for the same demographic to enjoy classical music and drag racing... to frequent fine-art museums and to drive a classic Camaro with a big-block V8 with a high-lift mechanical roller cam. Spheres of taste need not be exclusive.

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by ohio_peasant

What seems to be missed by both sides, is that it's possible for the same demographic to enjoy classical music and drag racing... to frequent fine-art museums and to drive a classic Camaro with a big-block V8 with a high-lift mechanical roller cam. Spheres of taste need not be exclusive.

True. Although that crossover isn't common, it definitely exists.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

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[Exitus Acta Probat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exy1hH0kOuA

[FrankNSense]

Originally Posted by Des-Lab

So a "sport" that appeals mainly to Conservatives and Deep South types, that uses ungodly amounts of gas and oil for no other reason than to engage in road rage while driving in circles. Coming to LA. One of the most Liberal cities in the nation.

I give it one season at most.

Based on some of the responses it seems that stereotypes are great...until you are the one being stereotyped.

I actually do find a bit of humorous irony in this. Here you have a sport that is seen by many as some "Racist Southern Red Neck Confederate Flag loving event that isn't even a sport", coming to perhaps one of the most Liberal Cities in one of the most Liberal states in the US. Where its own Governor has banned the sale of this gas-guzzling, pollutant spewing ICE cars by 2030.

It will have it's its own LA spin though. I imagine a few climate-controlled VIP tents with the latest in Red Wine and vegan specialties raised above all of the other spectators so they can look down on them.

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by FrankNSense

I actually do find a bit of humorous irony in this. Here you have a sport that is seen by many as some "Racist Southern Red Neck Confederate Flag loving event that isn't even a sport", coming to perhaps one of the most Liberal Cities in one of the most Liberal states in the US. ...

What I also find to be scrumptiously ironic, is that Southern California was the birthplace of the American hot rod. This, and not Detroit or Chicago or Charlotte or Memphis, is where the V8 and the supercharger were fitted in people's home-garages to turn their pre-war Fords into streamers. This is where Shelby had his factory, where the storied greats of the past 70 years of car-magazines did their R&D and created a new culture - a culture of automotive performance. It wasn't in the Midwestern snows or the Southern humidity, but right here, along the Pacific coast.

And now, this very place, which made possible the performance-car hobby in the 20th century, is so effusively rejecting it in the 21st. Why?

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Coming this Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

FOX Sports will have complete coverage of the event, including practice and qualifying. The lone practice session on Feb. 5 will be broadcast on FS2 at 12:30 p.m. ET, while qualifying at 8:30 p.m. ET that evening moves over to FS1.

Sunday’s coverage kicks off at 3 p.m. ET on FOX with a slate of heat races before the main event at 6 p.m. ET. All weekend coverage will be broadcast live from LA.

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/20...rmat-and-more/

[Exitus Acta Probat]

They even included the SAFER barrier. Nice job.

NASCAR’s engineering teams spent a few months completing what seemed to be an impossible project — installing a temporary race track inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

After creating designs and iRacing simulations, construction crews began creating a race track on top of the field where the USC football team typically plays.

Los Angeles Times photographers captured every construction phase that spanned the month of January leading up to the Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum on Sunday.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story...a-nascar-track

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Looks like they ain't got no pitroad, so they's gonna use the infield like in them smaller series races like sprints or ARCA on them smaller tracks. This gonna be crazier than a betsy bug, ya'll.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Them all is lookin' good. A lot of contact in practice but nobody's gettin' turned around.


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