For the better part of 76 years now NASCAR has not raced in the rain, and even when they have it was done sparingly. Yet in the 2020s NASCAR has tried to curb Mother Nature's push against their events, and at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in 2021 NASCAR's limits were tested as they basically had a live race test session of their wet weather package. This also was the inaugural COTA race, and NASCAR's first Cup rain race.
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What’s the craziest race you have attended?
My first, 2022 Talladega Spring. My favorite driver won, and there was no McDowell Supremacy!
I was at the Bristol race this past weekend and the hail melon race probably between those two
This past weekends Bristol Race. Was absolutely wild to be there to see it!
2018 Chicago, 2019 July Daytona
2017 Brickyard 400
I know I’m getting old when I get nostalgic for this race and how chaotic it was.
I dont think im that old yet but i still get crazy nostalgic over 2021
Next they should do a thunderstorm race or a race during a tornado warning
2021 was such a great season I get so nostalgic for
@@MA-df6pjIt already happened. Look up the 2012 Pennsylvania 400.
I was at this race in 2021 and turn 12 was the best seats that weekend!
Besides the terrible chaos and crashes, in terms of the racing product, it was good!
I hated that race had to end early. But I understood their reason if the rain wasn’t going to let up before nightfall.
It was a chaotic race to say the least
Cup raced in the rain at roval 2020 that’s how MBM nearly won a stage
It would have been fitting if COTA, Martinsville, and TexARSE swapped dates and raced on Monday to coincide with the Texan eclipse of April. All the malfunctions would drive everyone crazy
Yeah but we are too close to the day of the race now.
That race looked like the old game show double dare it was super messy.
It’s one thing to race in the wet. It’s another entirely to race in a heavy downpour, and NASCAR learned that way that was a bad idea. You’d think that F1 racing during a typhoon in Japan and having Jules Bianchi lose his life would have taught the major racing series a lesson.
NASCAR doesn’t like to learn lessons from other racing series.
@@FallingPicturesProductionsNASCAR doesn’t like to learn lessons from its own racing divisions
@@alexotero7105 @FallingPicturesProductions Touché.
Craziest race I’ve ever attended might be the 2021 Daytona RC. Everything was business as usual until NASCAR threw the infamous rainbow caution. Then things got super chaotic
I was at that race and didn’t realize I bought standing room only tickets. We sat in the grass in turn 1 and you can see us in the broadcast every once in a while. I still remember my mom sitting in the grass with her poncho on in the rain watching them fly off into the craziest turn 1 in nascar at the moment
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NASCAR’s first Cup race held in the rain was at Road America in 1956, won by Tim Flock in his 39th and final win.
Ik this is long but bare with me.
I think something to note on this too, this was around the time when motorsports as a whole was starting to realize what the limit was when racing in the rain. Like for NASCAR this was the race where they realized that there’s only so much standing water on the racing surface that’ll say when enough is enough. And even before with Xfinity Series there were even crazy rain races before even Cup’s first wet weather race at the Charlotte Roval in 2020. The absolute monsoon with the 2020 Xfinity race at Charlotte Roval, even watching the IMSA GT race that was rescheduled from I believe Lime Rock Park due to papa Rona was interesting to watch them race a flooded track. Or before with the 2016 Mid-Ohio Xfinity race where it was an absolute monsoon with rain, and before that with NASCAR first ever rain race at Montreal in 2008. The race ended early cause the conditions worsened and cars were spinning or wrecking everywhere. And again not to mention every other motorsport going through the same deal. 2021 Belgian GP couldn’t even get going cause of the blinding conditions where even under pace laps drivers from 2nd on back couldn’t see a thing. Which was more so to do with the fact that it was the start of the race where cars r bunched up, had it been under green it would’ve been fine. Same deal with 2022 Watkins Glen Cup, but the thing with F1, they also never want a repeat of the 2014 Japanese GP. IMSA kinda had the same deal in the 2021 race at Road America. The last like hour or so of the race, it started raining heavy, but only in certain sections of the track. Ya know that classic deal. And once most of the track was engulfed in heavy rain, there were still cars riding out on slicks trying to see how far they could go. And then one of the Porsche 911 GTEs lost in going into T1 and went hard into the tire barrier where IMSA threw the red flag. And with NASCAR now racing on short ovals in the wet, it’ll be interesting to see how for wet racing can go. Especially since NASCAR can definitely race on a little bit more wet track than they think. And while people wonder why motorsports can’t race in very wet, monsoon conditions, I think iRacing has given a more insight look as to why motorsports can’t race in massively raining conditions since they now have the best and accurate rain racing physics in any racing game/sim. It’s absolutely difficult, and ya can’t see anything which every irl driver on iRacing has said how accurate it is to real life. There’s conditions where it’s just not doable. This isn’t 1960s/70s where ya got Jackie Stewart racing around the Nordschliefe in blinding conditions and just playing the guessing game.
This has got me hyped for this weekend, going to COTA with dad for our first in person NASCAR race
I remember this race wild doesn’t even begin to describe it
I was there. Top of 15. Towards the end the water was foot deep off the grandstands. Never been so wet in my life…. But AWESOME to be a part of!
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