I used to watch NASCAR races fairly regularly – and TMEW even more often and with more intensity (She was an avid Jimmy Johnson fan). Nowadays, since the head honchos decided to go Woke, I stopped watching, just like with professional football and basketball.
They used to be escapist treats from the rest of my week – sermonizing is not what I wanted to hear about why I was a rotten person for not hewing to their Leftist agenda. I stopped for a few years but have restarted – but only “dipping in” to watch crashes. Thanks to the “New NASCAR” car construction, hardly anyone gets injured – so “BANG! and walk away” is just fine by me.
The below, however, isn’t NASCAR – and isn’t Indy car racing as well. I consider Formula One racing the European version of Indy Cars but they took a different fork in the road by developing VERY technically oriented racing telemetry and other tech well before NASCAR decided that just BiG V8s were sufficient. While NASCAR pit crews, VERY skilled AND athletic members, are fast, this is absolutely next level where tech has architected both the cars’ wheels AND the tire tools just leave NASCAR crews behind (and yes, it doesn’t hurt that instead of having to “jump the wall,” Formula One crews are the bread waiting for the car to drive up to complete the sandwich.
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This world record 1.82 second pit stop in Formula One.
by u/sedafarout in nextfuckinglevel
Yes, a world record of 1.82 seconds from stop to go. Heck, I can’t even bend down that fast anymore!