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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 25, 2013 - 02:45pm PT
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F1...Follow the leader. NASCAR...spin the leader.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 25, 2013 - 03:11pm PT
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Both nascar and F1 90%car 10% driver. moto GP 20% bike 80% rider..
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 25, 2013 - 03:39pm PT
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Best racing I've seen in a long time are the jalopy races at the Merced fairgrounds. The mini stocks are really cool. Eureka has the Redwood speedway. Paved short track and the best grandstands. I love good racing in any form, but NASCAR is getting a bit hard to take. Despite all the god and country crap and Darryl Waltrip, it can sometimes still be a breathtaking thing to watch. They need to get rid of the green/yellow/checker finishes though. Good luck with that.
Also, agreed on the Moto GP comment.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 25, 2013 - 03:53pm PT
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Take the top 10 drivers in NASCAR and F1 and put them in the winning car and they win the race. Do the same thing with Moto GP and the best rider still wins. Valentino Rossi proved this when he won the wold championship on Honda, switched to Yamaha and won the championship again. back to back titles with two different teams.
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Sweanee, TN
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May 25, 2013 - 04:01pm PT
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Nascar is hard to understand until you stand near the track and you get passed by cars going 200 miles an hour. It sets off the thrill seeker gene that we all share.
First you get pushed back by the bow wave of air, then you get pulled in by the vacume of ther passing.
If you have moonshiners or bootlegger in your families past you know the history and appreciate it.
Having a car part fly through the air at you or over you is cool too.
I work a gate at Dega with a Caving club I belong to. Vroom vroom get my heart rate up like climbing.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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May 25, 2013 - 04:06pm PT
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F1 > NASCAR
WRC > F1
NOTHING > WRC
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 25, 2013 - 04:11pm PT
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Bikes at over 200mph 300+Kph is way beyond insane....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 26, 2013 - 01:36am PT
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Here's a very nice tribute to one of, if not the, greatest, Ayrton Senna...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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May 26, 2013 - 05:26am PT
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Nascar or F1? Reminds me of the joke that ends with "Death by bungee!"
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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May 28, 2013 - 01:58am PT
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There's at least one female NASCAR driver.
Has there ever been a female F1 driver?
There's nothing that says there can't be. Just like the NBA.
F1's that tough.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 21, 2016 - 09:37am PT
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Daytona 500 ...... Today.
I always liked this one.....
real men duke it out....
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Some things are worth fighting over.
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Presto
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Feb 21, 2016 - 10:04am PT
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There's at least one female NASCAR driver.
Has there ever been a female F1 driver?
Five of them, dating back to the fifties.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 21, 2016 - 10:30am PT
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Wow Tad.... we have crossed paths before.....
I lived in Mockingbird Canyon from 1962 to 1966... It was a long bike ride to the track but I did it all the time... Sneak in by Turn 6 and sit by the fence and watch em come up the esses...
One year at Riverside 500.... a very young Mario Andretti (IIRC he had been rookie of the year the previous season at 19) crashed going into Turn 6. He climbed out of his car, all dirty and thirsty, climbed over the wall and asked ME for a drink of water.
Many many years later I was working a go-kart race, Mario was there helping his grandson, Marko and Mario was disputing a official call made during the race..... While we were waiting for clarification, I told Mario my story..... He got the biggest smile on his face and said... "Ah yes the real good old days, a real long time ago"
I love both F1 and NASCAR.... after I moved to Paris in 1966, I got to go the the FRENCH GP the GERMAN GP and The BRITISH GP during the 67 season... I am hooked for life.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Feb 21, 2016 - 12:34pm PT
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kind of a pussy move hitting him in the face with his helmet
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Feb 21, 2016 - 03:57pm PT
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There's at least one female NASCAR driver.
Leilani Munter is another. I met her last year when Racing Extinction had it's debut at the BIFF. I did some drone filming of her Tesla and the movies it projects out of the hug projector that flips up out of the back window (the forward trunk has a FLIR that flips up).
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