The Track TOUGHER Than Darlington
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2023
- The NASCAR Cup Series has raced at Darlington Raceway for nearly 75 years, with legends like Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon and Bill Elliott all winning there. One track however, was known to be tougher then Darlington, a track that developed Indianapolis 500 winners. And challenged drivers to their limits.
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When I first penned up my own idea for an oval racetrack, which if built would be the largest oval in Canada, I originally had progressive banking between 33 and 42 degrees... I'm glad I reduced it in later revisions. 33 is now the upper limit.
What track
What track
Man you wanted to do a more dangerous version of the monza oval.
5:34 if Shane Van Gisbergen doesn't return to NASCAR after his win an hour ago, we have another driver on that list.
62 degrees,wow thats impressive,mainly because the drivers had to RACE on that.
There's only one oval track in the world that I know is steeper and that's the Autodromo de Terramar in Sitges, Spain.
That track was banked to a terrifying *66°* _and_ was concrete-paved for good measure. It held only one car race in 1923 and a small number of bike races before being closed down.
@@legoferrari14 DEAR LORD
@@JimmietruckGP Laps made a video about it.
@@legoferrari14was that the track that Clarkson, Hammond and May went to in the Grand Tour?
That looks like it was an oiled dirt track, not a paved track. Pretty common back in those days.
I grew up in San Leandro in the 60s and 70s and went to Bayfair Mall many times. Never knew a track was there until many years later. Now there's talk of tearing down the mall as its down to its last few tenants.
They still 2 this day on dirt in duquoin Illinois and Springfield Illinois!
the fact that indycar used to race on dirt is insane
Sprint Cars & the Outlaws take over that kind of racing now
Not really when you consider the cars we designed to handle it at the time. Indycars today are they way they are because they abandoned dirt, and were no longer required to adhere to that environment. Indycars and sprint cars were basically the same thing. Now they've forked off and evolved into their own thing.
In the beginning, there was dirt......
What’s crazier is that Indycar and WoO have the exact same origins and races for like 10-15 years lol
@@michaelatkins9780 In the beginning, there were board tracks.
The Fact that this Track had 62° on One side and the other Side had 45° is total Bonkers
Outstanding video. I recently went to an estate sale and purchased pictures of guys racing at Oakland Stadium. I had no idea it was such a radical track. Thanks for posting!
Only driver to win the first and last race and win 100% of his races
By some strange coincidence Shane Van Gisbergen just accomplished that just after this video was released
@@banjoplayingbison2275 dang! Hope he never races again or he will ruin his record!
San Leandro, CA. My grandfather has photos of this place from his childhood. Amazing!
What an insane track.
Perdect timing! I just learned about Oakland Stadium a few weeks ago while researching high banked short tracks, like Salem and Winchester
Great video. Never even knew this place existed
Thanks. Never knew about Oakland Stadium. Coming off that banking today would be a handful in a modern racing car.
trackmania IRL
Petition for Nascar to build this track
Holy shit! Mind blown when you said the location. I worked at the Staples in the Bayfair Mall for parts of almost 3 years when in college ('06-'09). Was constantly all around that area and until now how zero clue about this track. Thanks for the video and info!
My Dad raced the 1/4 mile in a stock car 37 ford! He said they would try to get upon the banked end , the other end was flat!
They replaced something totally unique with a bunch of chain retailers that can be found in strip malls all over the country and that’s both sad and boring. At the very least there should have been a few streets in the area named after prominent racers like in Moreno Valley, the site of Riverside Raceway, which has Penske st. and Andretti st. Otherwise there’s zero indication that this cool thing used to happen in what is now a boring, homogenized suburb.
I live here oakland that city were that track is at now called san leandro and that mall that took its place is now being demolished for housing.
I was waiting on this video. Not many people know about this Speedway.
Good video. It must have been exciting to watch races there.
I'm now wondering if any board tracks, or, murderdromes as they were known, went past 62 degrees of banking. It does make sense that the banking would work for a runoff to a point but I was expecting dirt or something, or at least ruts and such if the goal was not to run up there as the track.
Also, what, more banked than Avus, that takes some doing, though the science of post WW2 was even for the time, somewhat out there
5:34 this aged badly.
Very informative thanks for posting this video
Great video, i live right down the street from where this track once was, that mall has been shit for years now & is supposed to be completely gone besides Tagret in a few years!
"banked outside line runoff" more like "Stunt ramp from GTA V"
Wow great history lesson in racing!
Iracing really should make this track to race on. That really would be a spectacle
Great video
Id never heard of this place til now! Crazy track! Todays drivers couldn't handle a place like that!!
Do you have anything about the old Craig rd Speedway in Las Vegas
Build this again and run cup cars. It won’t be safe but people will flock lmao
Ok someone has to make that on Nr2003
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not one mention of board track racing?
I always thought the most banked track in history was AVUS.
What’s that?
@@elliot20 A racetrack in Germany that was basically two long straights, one end had a hairpin turn like Martinsville and the other had a 43 degree banked monstrosity of a turn. It hasn't been a track in decades.
@@BrettMKW The "two long straights" actually consisted of a public highway.
And that 43 degree bank was accomplished by using bricks. The real crazy part was that it apparently got nicknamed the "Wall of Death", as it strangely had no outside barrier - if you missed the corner then you were going to go flying!