Excuse Me????

Brian and Pete,

You obviously both don't have a clue about racing, nor have you ever been to a Formula One race.  I have been to both NASCAR & F1 and I love them both.  The similarities between NASCAR and F1 are that the fan base are die hard for their sport and the $$ is outrageous.  But F1 (aka road racing) spends a Lot more $$ and brings in a Lot more $$ and pay the teams and drivers a LOT  more $$ because it's worldwide vs. USA, plus the cars are a Lot faster.    If you had been to one you would notice people travel all around the world for F1 from Germany, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, England & the US amongst others... it's phenomenal.  Yes, the tracks are scattered across the world but still.   It brings tons of $$ not only to the sport but to the town and surrounding towns for many of miles, even moreso than NASCAR.  Mike Helton and the NASCAR officials are well aware of this and hence why they want to expand to make more $$.   But they also know that the international fans love their road racing and want to give those fans what they want and if they give them what they want then they will make the $$.  Hmmm doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out does it?  

 Now understand I am not bashing on NASCAR but it takes a different breed of cat to drive on a road course than on an oval.  If anyone disagrees with me, then why don't all the drivers in NASCAR run the road courses?  Because they can't, they have professional road course drivers drive for most of the teams, like Boris Said, Scott Pruett, etc...  It's a lot tougher to drive them than the ovals. And yes I know cuz I have run both.  The oval NASCAR drivers that do run the road courses mostly came from that heritage.   You see them cross over to NASCAR but rarely to not at all from NASCAR to road racing.  The standard joke in the road racing world is that real racers make right AND left hand turns.   And I for one love watching NASCAR at road courses and so do the Mexican people.    So Brian you got your Luigi's Pizza scenario all backasswards...  plus you have the wrong culture.  If you want to market your product in Mexico, you bring them better tacos with jalepenos, not hot dogs with relish!

Your comment asking why all the drivers don't run the road courses is flawed; the ones that don't run typically are bottom feeders whose teams are trying to get back into the top 35 by using ringers. I respect F1 as much as the next guy, but don't denigrate the talent level in NASCAR just because the don't normally make right turns. Simply, Europeans prefer road racing, Americans ovals.

For the record, I'd take Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon over Kimi and Fernando, especially if you take away the technology advantage F1 drivers enjoy.

Hey knucklehead,

F1 is the most BORING "racing" in the world. When was the last time two cars actually finished a race side by side?

There's so little skill required to drive one of those contraptions. It's all about engineering, not driving skill.

But you Euro-peons (and even if you're not) insist on watching boring racing. So be it. I'll watch NASCAR or IRL races where the vast majority of races are won by hundreths or thousands of a second, while you watch your boring races where if the winner beats the second place car by four seconds that's an exciting finish. YAWNNNNNN......

Anyone who thinks F1 is boring is in the minority around this globe.   2000 left turns and 1 gear used 97% of the time is what I consider boring, but hey, that's just my opinion.   I know many people LOVE watching 2000 left turns every weekend...... more power to them.. I'm happy your happy, etc. etc...

I sat at Turn 1 last year too.   I LOVED seeing Ralf go out on the opening turn...   In fact, everyone around me of all nationalities loved seeing Ralf go out.....

NASCAR to me gets freaking old.   At least the open wheel boys and girls need an education to drive.   Freaking NASCAR can't even get around the track 1 lap without hitting another car.   What kind of skill is that?   Skill to me is the ability to drive side by side WITHOUT touching the other car.