Hi. I've been a lifelong fan of NASCAR and over the last few years, have branched out to other forms of motorsport as a result. Here's what I can explain after seeing this video pop up in my reccomend: 1. NASCAR in the South: NASCAR's roots trace back to the early 20th century, when the US (temporarily) prohibited alcohol. Obviously that changed a while afterwards, but in the southeastern part of the country people were regularly trying to flee the police through the winding mountains of North Carolina, predominantly. They did this by souping up their coupes to outrun the fast law-enforcement vehicles after them. Shortly after prohibition was abolished by the US government the very people who were outrunning the police with their cars suddenly had nothing to do.. But not until someone had the clever idea that they should race against each other. And they did. Numerous stock-car organizations were formed afterwards, but they were predominantly made up of hucksters looking to scam drivers and teams of money by not paying them their winnings after the races. As a result, a person by the name of Bill France, Sr. met up with dozens of early stock-car racing pioneers at the Streamline Hotel at Daytona Beach, Florida, to create a neat & unified sanctioning body. Thus, in 1948, NASCAR was born. Their first official race was a modified race at Daytona Beach, and speaking of Daytona, let's explain NASCAR's biggest event. 2. DAYTONA: NASCAR's modified and strictly stock (now known as Cup) divisions raced on the sandy beach of Daytona Beach until Bill France set out to build a wildly massive racing facility: The Daytona International Speedway, not far off where they raced near the shores. The first major event there was what is now the NASCAR Cup Series, inaugural running of the Daytona 500, in 1959. After the epic finish the race quickly gained popularity and by the '70s it was the biggest event of the season. The 1979 running of the race made NASCAR go fully national, as the once southern-only sport got attention from those in New York, and here in my home state of California. A few short years afterwards the weekend at Daytona was moved to the first points race of the Cup Series calendar, and it has stayed that way since. The Daytona 500 is now a wildly popular event that caps off a week's full of action at the racetrack. As for the racetrack itself, it's a completely different beast compared to most of its other counterparts on the Cup Series schedule. Most of the finishes you see came at that racetrack and its sister, Talladega, down in Alabama. The wide, long surface makes for the most unique racing in all of motorsports, and sometimes you'll see winners at the Daytona 500 and the summer race, that you won't see otherwise during the season because of its wildcard reputation amongst those in the sport. 3: BRAD KESELOWSKI: Ironically once a Daytona & Talladega dominator, Brad Keselowski is one of the most talented and outspoken drivers on the NASCAR Cup Series grid. The Michigan native was working his way up the NASCAR latter when he got approached by former team owner James Finch to run at least 5 races in 2009. His first win came at Talladega in the Spring in the #09 Miccosukee Chevrolet that year surprisingly, and that was in the video you were reacting to. At the end of 2009 he was let go by Chevrolet's driver development program essentially as a result of the ongoing economy crisis. In 2010 he teamed up with Roger Penske and hasn't looked back. He got the 2 car in 2011, and the very next season he won his first Cup Series title. Since then he's won a boatload of races, but his 2020 campaign has made those in the NASCAR community wondering: "Will he leave Team Penske for a ride at another team?" 2021 plans are still being worked out with Penske, but Brad has openly expressed interest in moving to another team for the upcoming season. 4: HOW & WHERE TO WATCH NASCAR: Currently NASCAR's Cup Series is at the start of a two-week hiatus after a wild restart to the 2020 season. The next race is New Hampshire, on August 2nd. Here in the US it will be broadcasted by NBC Sports. Unfortunately, I don't know the television provider for Europe, as I obviously don't pay attention to that stuff. Sky Sports did have NASCAR as a part of its sports coverage in the late 2000s/early 2010s, but that got dropped shortly after the last decade began. You can probably find the broadcast provider for NASCAR in your country on NASCAR.com or somewhere else on the internet. The highlights to the most recent Cup Series races are up on NASCAR's UA-cam channel if you want to get caught up. 5: NASCAR VIDEOS/UA-camRS TO REACT/WATCH TO: Longtime NASCAR fan S1apSh0es has a video for people like you on his UA-cam channel titled, "8 Things You (probably) Didn't Know About NASCAR". Although it was made a few months ago as of July, it highlights everything you as a new fan should look for before watching your first full Cup Series race. Eric Estepp is a NASCAR UA-camr who puts out daily videos based on the world of NASCAR. He gives out all the latest news, chatter, and so much more from the NASCAR world. I highly recommend subbing/reacting to any of his channel, if possible, same goes for S1apSh0es. Sorry for being absurdly long but that's all there is to it. I hope you got something out of this. I'm pretty sure at the time of this comment it's early in the morning in Europe so I hope you get to this soon. Have a good day, take care, from California 🤙🏁
Bro I really really appriciate you taking the term to write out such an informative comment, thanks for all the info man espicially the Brad Keselowski part. I'll make sure to check out the vids you recommended but again i really appriciate the comment !!
1. Brad Keselowski is the 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion and has one at least one race per season since 2011. His aggressive driving style got him involved in a lot of incidents with other drivers early on in his career, but he's now one of the veterans of the sport. 2. In its early history, NASCAR mostly raced on tracks in the American South with many of its competitors and teams coming from that region. As its popularity increased with the advent of television broadcasts of races, NASCAR leadership did its best to build race tracks and host races at different circuits all over the country. As such, the people involved in the sport (including drivers) now come from throughout the country and beyond. NASCAR and most teams are headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. 3. Daytona Motor Speedway is a 2.5-mile, high-banked oval built in Daytona Beach, Florida in the 1950s to host stock car racing as a replacement for races that up until then had been literally held on the sandy beaches of Daytona. Since 1959, it has hosted the Daytona 500 which quickly became NASCAR's biggest and most prestigious race. Traditionally, it opens the NASCAR season in February. 4. Excepting the high-banked, 2.5-to-3-mile, high-banked ovals of Daytona and Talladega where drivers are full throttle around the track and drafting in massive packs of cars is necessary to stay in contention, most races don't end with the leaders crashing out or with massive pile-ups. So, some drivers do hang back to avoid crashes at Daytona and Talladega, at all other tracks it is most advantageous to be leading. 5. First, I'll recommend a quick ten second video that shows the speed and sound of these cars at Daytona: ua-cam.com/video/mtX81Kxhhgc/v-deo.html 6. Next, I'll recommend "Strangest Crashes in NASCAR History": ua-cam.com/video/8oHZCgWKd5U/v-deo.html
The south loves big motors and fast cars. The sport itself originated in the south when they were modifying cars to outrun the police during prohibition.
It started in the south during Prohibition (US outlawed alcohol a few yrs in the 1930's). Moonshineers in the south would hotrod their cars so they could out run the Law while making illegal alcohol deliveries. Its big in rural areas all over the US especially in Northern States like NY, Ohio, Michigan where all types of racing from snowmobiles, drag racing, motocross is popular
Since you mentioned determining a winner in the old days, the first Daytona 500 (NASCAR's biggest race each year) ended in a photo finish in 1959. Johnny Beauchamp was declared the winner of the race, but Lee Petty also claimed he won. NASCAR was eventually able to find a photo that showed Lee Petty was the true winner and corrected the finish 2 days later. While that photo came from a random photographer who was at the track, NASCAR now has dedicated high speed cameras at each start/finish line to handle any photo finishes.
“I bet it’s loud as sh*t if you go there” Yeah. Can confirm, loud as sh*t lmao. Had to bring shooting range earmuffs and (at least to my 5 year old autistic self) it was still pretty loud😂
11:17 Darrell Waltrip trying to slingshot Richard Petty... remember when you said how animated the commentators are? Most of them have done it. Have you ever? "No I've Never".... that was Darrell Waltrip. Drivers, crew chiefs, etc...
The whole popular in the south thing is probably attributed to it being where it started and how it started but if i was being 100% honest as someone from a "northern" state and loves nascar i think the popularity is more devided in a west coast east coast way
You need to check out some IndyCar stuff too. Really cool motorsport. Its basically NASCAR (but more classy as racers can't take each other out without damaging their car and they have rules against blocking/dirty driving but are MUCH, MUCH more laid back on the rules compared to F1) but open wheel same spec (performance) cars. Its like Formula 1 & NASCAR had a baby. Crazy fast, very light, high downforce cars (not as much downforce as F1 though) on ovals, street courses & road courses. The speeds on the largest and fastest oval that IndyCar race on (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) typically reach 220 to 230mph every lap and the race is 500 miles long. It's one of the biggest and most popular races in the world (even bigger than NASCAR's Daytona 500 race).
NASCAR is awesome. If you're an F1 fan you'll catch on quick. Daytona is August 29 I would bet on Ford or Chevy to win, some guys bet on an odd or even number. Good to see you again.
Scoring was an absolute mess before loop and video data, nascar had every official taking notes and if everyone's notes were the same then everything went OK but the notes were almost always different for everyone
Stock car racing started in the South when drivers who 'ran' illegal liquor would get togeyher to see who had the fastest car and was the best at handling it. If you've got 3 hours you might want to watch the entire 1979 Daytona 500: possibly the best race ever and the one that 'put NASCAR on the map'.
I kno this isn't nascar related and i'm a nascar fan but have u ever watched a youtuber named mikey bolts does family guy voices people say they think he's related to seth McFarlane creator of family guy I thought u looked like him aka mikey bolts
Drivers are paid a percentage of the winnings per race. Typically its 50 percent NASCAR was founded in the south. Indycar was really big in the Midwest, and sports cars were huge in the west. Overtime NASCAR gradually became the big one
The series originated from the south, but it has grown to be popular everywhere in the country. The correlation to the south and it being a southern or hick sport is a stereotype made by people who don’t understand the sport
Why NASCAR is big in the south. This is why. Google this and link them together. “NASCAR prohibition.” “NASCAR white lightning.” NASCAR Jimmy Johnson.” Ah Young Grasshopper, it is there you will find your answers.
Nascar isn't really a hick sport anymore thats more of a stereotype there are drivers from all over the country most are from the south but there are 2 drivers from Michigan and thats in the north and the commentators now dont have a southern accent there are a few of them that do but most dont now Edit: there are alot of tracks across the US, most are on the eastern side but alot are in the south too some states have multiple tracks
Hi.
I've been a lifelong fan of NASCAR and over the last few years, have branched out to other forms of motorsport as a result. Here's what I can explain after seeing this video pop up in my reccomend:
1. NASCAR in the South: NASCAR's roots trace back to the early 20th century, when the US (temporarily) prohibited alcohol. Obviously that changed a while afterwards, but in the southeastern part of the country people were regularly trying to flee the police through the winding mountains of North Carolina, predominantly. They did this by souping up their coupes to outrun the fast law-enforcement vehicles after them. Shortly after prohibition was abolished by the US government the very people who were outrunning the police with their cars suddenly had nothing to do.. But not until someone had the clever idea that they should race against each other. And they did. Numerous stock-car organizations were formed afterwards, but they were predominantly made up of hucksters looking to scam drivers and teams of money by not paying them their winnings after the races. As a result, a person by the name of Bill France, Sr. met up with dozens of early stock-car racing pioneers at the Streamline Hotel at Daytona Beach, Florida, to create a neat & unified sanctioning body. Thus, in 1948, NASCAR was born. Their first official race was a modified race at Daytona Beach, and speaking of Daytona, let's explain NASCAR's biggest event.
2. DAYTONA: NASCAR's modified and strictly stock (now known as Cup) divisions raced on the sandy beach of Daytona Beach until Bill France set out to build a wildly massive racing facility: The Daytona International Speedway, not far off where they raced near the shores. The first major event there was what is now the NASCAR Cup Series, inaugural running of the Daytona 500, in 1959. After the epic finish the race quickly gained popularity and by the '70s it was the biggest event of the season. The 1979 running of the race made NASCAR go fully national, as the once southern-only sport got attention from those in New York, and here in my home state of California. A few short years afterwards the weekend at Daytona was moved to the first points race of the Cup Series calendar, and it has stayed that way since. The Daytona 500 is now a wildly popular event that caps off a week's full of action at the racetrack. As for the racetrack itself, it's a completely different beast compared to most of its other counterparts on the Cup Series schedule. Most of the finishes you see came at that racetrack and its sister, Talladega, down in Alabama. The wide, long surface makes for the most unique racing in all of motorsports, and sometimes you'll see winners at the Daytona 500 and the summer race, that you won't see otherwise during the season because of its wildcard reputation amongst those in the sport.
3: BRAD KESELOWSKI: Ironically once a Daytona & Talladega dominator, Brad Keselowski is one of the most talented and outspoken drivers on the NASCAR Cup Series grid. The Michigan native was working his way up the NASCAR latter when he got approached by former team owner James Finch to run at least 5 races in 2009. His first win came at Talladega in the Spring in the #09 Miccosukee Chevrolet that year surprisingly, and that was in the video you were reacting to. At the end of 2009 he was let go by Chevrolet's driver development program essentially as a result of the ongoing economy crisis. In 2010 he teamed up with Roger Penske and hasn't looked back. He got the 2 car in 2011, and the very next season he won his first Cup Series title. Since then he's won a boatload of races, but his 2020 campaign has made those in the NASCAR community wondering: "Will he leave Team Penske for a ride at another team?" 2021 plans are still being worked out with Penske, but Brad has openly expressed interest in moving to another team for the upcoming season.
4: HOW & WHERE TO WATCH NASCAR: Currently NASCAR's Cup Series is at the start of a two-week hiatus after a wild restart to the 2020 season. The next race is New Hampshire, on August 2nd. Here in the US it will be broadcasted by NBC Sports. Unfortunately, I don't know the television provider for Europe, as I obviously don't pay attention to that stuff. Sky Sports did have NASCAR as a part of its sports coverage in the late 2000s/early 2010s, but that got dropped shortly after the last decade began. You can probably find the broadcast provider for NASCAR in your country on NASCAR.com or somewhere else on the internet. The highlights to the most recent Cup Series races are up on NASCAR's UA-cam channel if you want to get caught up.
5: NASCAR VIDEOS/UA-camRS TO REACT/WATCH TO: Longtime NASCAR fan S1apSh0es has a video for people like you on his UA-cam channel titled, "8 Things You (probably) Didn't Know About NASCAR". Although it was made a few months ago as of July, it highlights everything you as a new fan should look for before watching your first full Cup Series race.
Eric Estepp is a NASCAR UA-camr who puts out daily videos based on the world of NASCAR. He gives out all the latest news, chatter, and so much more from the NASCAR world. I highly recommend subbing/reacting to any of his channel, if possible, same goes for S1apSh0es.
Sorry for being absurdly long but that's all there is to it. I hope you got something out of this. I'm pretty sure at the time of this comment it's early in the morning in Europe so I hope you get to this soon. Have a good day, take care, from California 🤙🏁
Bro I really really appriciate you taking the term to write out such an informative comment, thanks for all the info man espicially the Brad Keselowski part. I'll make sure to check out the vids you recommended but again i really appriciate the comment !!
@@JamesCornwall95 You're welcome! Love helping out people interested in the sport!
@@JamesCornwall95 you had me till "Brad Keselowski"
1. Brad Keselowski is the 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion and has one at least one race per season since 2011. His aggressive driving style got him involved in a lot of incidents with other drivers early on in his career, but he's now one of the veterans of the sport.
2. In its early history, NASCAR mostly raced on tracks in the American South with many of its competitors and teams coming from that region. As its popularity increased with the advent of television broadcasts of races, NASCAR leadership did its best to build race tracks and host races at different circuits all over the country. As such, the people involved in the sport (including drivers) now come from throughout the country and beyond. NASCAR and most teams are headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
3. Daytona Motor Speedway is a 2.5-mile, high-banked oval built in Daytona Beach, Florida in the 1950s to host stock car racing as a replacement for races that up until then had been literally held on the sandy beaches of Daytona. Since 1959, it has hosted the Daytona 500 which quickly became NASCAR's biggest and most prestigious race. Traditionally, it opens the NASCAR season in February.
4. Excepting the high-banked, 2.5-to-3-mile, high-banked ovals of Daytona and Talladega where drivers are full throttle around the track and drafting in massive packs of cars is necessary to stay in contention, most races don't end with the leaders crashing out or with massive pile-ups. So, some drivers do hang back to avoid crashes at Daytona and Talladega, at all other tracks it is most advantageous to be leading.
5. First, I'll recommend a quick ten second video that shows the speed and sound of these cars at Daytona: ua-cam.com/video/mtX81Kxhhgc/v-deo.html
6. Next, I'll recommend "Strangest Crashes in NASCAR History": ua-cam.com/video/8oHZCgWKd5U/v-deo.html
The south loves big motors and fast cars. The sport itself originated in the south when they were modifying cars to outrun the police during prohibition.
It started in the south during Prohibition (US outlawed alcohol a few yrs in the 1930's). Moonshineers in the south would hotrod their cars so they could out run the Law while making illegal alcohol deliveries.
Its big in rural areas all over the US especially in Northern States like NY, Ohio, Michigan where all types of racing from snowmobiles, drag racing, motocross is popular
Ah thankyou man appreciate the comment !!!
Since you mentioned determining a winner in the old days, the first Daytona 500 (NASCAR's biggest race each year) ended in a photo finish in 1959. Johnny Beauchamp was declared the winner of the race, but Lee Petty also claimed he won. NASCAR was eventually able to find a photo that showed Lee Petty was the true winner and corrected the finish 2 days later. While that photo came from a random photographer who was at the track, NASCAR now has dedicated high speed cameras at each start/finish line to handle any photo finishes.
“I bet it’s loud as sh*t if you go there”
Yeah. Can confirm, loud as sh*t lmao. Had to bring shooting range earmuffs and (at least to my 5 year old autistic self) it was still pretty loud😂
Keep reacting to Nascar man, this is awesome!
Many thanks bro !
@@JamesCornwall95 No.. Thank you for the entertainment
@@JamesCornwall95 Love watching people that aren't familiar to Nascar reacting to it
@@frankt9288 such an easy enjoyable sport really starting to love it man !
@@JamesCornwall95 If you love it now, you would've loved it more in the 70's and 80's
If you want to know more about the history of NASCAR I would recommend 9 types of nascar drivers by S1apshoes
Best video
You need to react to NASCAR worst wrecks too . Pretty insane
Or NASCAR fights ! Pitt crews and drivers sometimes get into brawls !!!
11:17 Darrell Waltrip trying to slingshot Richard Petty... remember when you said how animated the commentators are? Most of them have done it. Have you ever? "No I've Never".... that was Darrell Waltrip. Drivers, crew chiefs, etc...
Oddly enough, this video of a southern sport kicks off at Watkins Glen... in New York :)
The whole popular in the south thing is probably attributed to it being where it started and how it started but if i was being 100% honest as someone from a "northern" state and loves nascar i think the popularity is more devided in a west coast east coast way
You need to check out some IndyCar stuff too. Really cool motorsport. Its basically NASCAR (but more classy as racers can't take each other out without damaging their car and they have rules against blocking/dirty driving but are MUCH, MUCH more laid back on the rules compared to F1) but open wheel same spec (performance) cars. Its like Formula 1 & NASCAR had a baby. Crazy fast, very light, high downforce cars (not as much downforce as F1 though) on ovals, street courses & road courses. The speeds on the largest and fastest oval that IndyCar race on (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) typically reach 220 to 230mph every lap and the race is 500 miles long. It's one of the biggest and most popular races in the world (even bigger than NASCAR's Daytona 500 race).
NASCAR is awesome. If you're an F1 fan you'll catch on quick.
Daytona is August 29
I would bet on Ford or Chevy to win, some guys bet on an odd or even number.
Good to see you again.
August 29th you got it man thankyou !!!
Scoring was an absolute mess before loop and video data, nascar had every official taking notes and if everyone's notes were the same then everything went OK but the notes were almost always different for everyone
Stock car racing started in the South when drivers who 'ran' illegal liquor would get togeyher to see who had the fastest car and was the best at handling it.
If you've got 3 hours you might want to watch the entire 1979 Daytona 500: possibly the best race ever and the one that 'put NASCAR on the map'.
I kno this isn't nascar related and i'm a nascar fan but have u ever watched a youtuber named mikey bolts does family guy voices people say they think he's related to seth McFarlane creator of family guy I thought u looked like him aka mikey bolts
Keselowski is like the forest gump of nascar now adays. He kinda just shows up in big moments
Drivers are paid a percentage of the winnings per race. Typically its 50 percent
NASCAR was founded in the south. Indycar was really big in the Midwest, and sports cars were huge in the west. Overtime NASCAR gradually became the big one
Please make a reaction video for Nascar's Greatest Crashes.
The series originated from the south, but it has grown to be popular everywhere in the country. The correlation to the south and it being a southern or hick sport is a stereotype made by people who don’t understand the sport
Why NASCAR is big in the south. This is why. Google this and link them together. “NASCAR prohibition.” “NASCAR white lightning.” NASCAR Jimmy Johnson.” Ah Young Grasshopper, it is there you will find your answers.
I'm the same trying to get into F1. I only know the best driver was going bald, now has GREAT HAIR! All I know about it.
man, you seem like a crash guy....lol.....check out "Nascar's Greatest Crashes". Thanks for posting.
react to the greatest nascar saves
For something different React to "bull riding wreck" another insane American sport.
It's more of a midwest sport now
Nascar isn't really a hick sport anymore thats more of a stereotype there are drivers from all over the country most are from the south but there are 2 drivers from Michigan and thats in the north and the commentators now dont have a southern accent there are a few of them that do but most dont now
Edit: there are alot of tracks across the US, most are on the eastern side but alot are in the south too some states have multiple tracks