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Originally Posted by McLovin
That's a bit dramatic. A NASCAR is like a stock ZR1 corvette with a couple hundred extra hp (850 v. 650). Weight is about the same. NASCAR race slicks are going to be a lot stickier then any street tire. A pig like that is a walk in the park for an F1 driver.
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At 120 mph you're spot on. At 180 in a turn it's slipping and sliding.
I've only driven on a banked oval twice. Once at Irwindale, once at California speedway.
Both cars had good power to weight ratios and had high performance steet tires.
The feeling of driving a banked oval at speed is something you have to experience.
Even though I wasn't pushing it all that hard the cars were doing a 4 wheel drift up towards the wall.
That wall gets awful big near the exit point of the corner.
It doesn't look like them nascars are sliding in the corners on TV, but they are. And they're sliding at 180 mph or more and are about 2 feet from each other.
One instructor told me: "if you get into the marbles and feel the car let go, don't lift. Let the passenger door take the hit, not the front or back of the car".