Truck RACE thread --- Iowa

Spotter22 said:
You can talk about body styles all you want but to say a car is to safe is the stupidest thing I've heard. Congrats you win the dumbest post of the year award.
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Hell I'd rather wreck in any vehicle made before 1990 than anything today. They are too safe to the point where the saftsa features put you in danger. Plus the cars are made of nothing.
 
Spotter22 said:
When somebody you love gets hit head on and survives that hit, you will be on your knees bud thanking those engineers. Nothing funny about it.
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I'm not laughing just being honest. Had family and friends crash before and no crash is going to be good. I'm not going to think an unknown engineer for **** though.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Foolish Fan is doing an A+ job trolling because I'm getting a little pissed off reading about how friends I have surviving crashes is a bad thing.
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Dear God how do you people get this stuff from a post that never said anything like that.

No it's not a bad thing someone survives a crash but it is foolish to assume that they are safe because a car has 8 air bags. People also die because of those things. People also survived crashes before.
 
Simple Fan said:
Dear God how do you people get this stuff from a post that never said anything like that.

No it's not a bad thing someone survives a crash but it is foolish to assume that they are safe because a car has 8 air bags. People also die because of those things. People also survived crashes before.
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lol. You cant make this **** up
 
Say by saying something is too safe you guys assume I'm talking like I want to see a death everywhere? There is too much safety in the world today and it's making us soft.

To me NASCAR and racing in general should be dangerous. Average people shouldn't want or even be able to do it. I do think that is part of the reason most fans have tuned out as well. Look at the NFL, it's getting hit with all this concussion stuff but people still tune in til they disrespect the USA and then still come back to it. It's still dangerous enough to garner people's interest even though they keep trying to make it safer. I just feel there is a level of safeness that racing needs to have and NASCAR has kind of crossed it, especially with this new package.
 
Simple Fan said:
Hell safety has pretty much killed the auto industry itself.
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Simple Fan said:
Dear God how do you people get this stuff from a post that never said anything like that.

No it's not a bad thing someone survives a crash but it is foolish to assume that they are safe because a car has 8 air bags. People also die because of those things. People also survived crashes before.
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I like the fact that drivers aren't dying in these crashes like they used to. I'm glad Kyle Busch wasn't killed at Daytona a few years ago. I'm glad Austin Dillon wasn't killed at Daytona.

I wish this sport had been "too safe" when Dale, Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Neil Bonnett, Blaise Alexander and numerous others died. I wish the sport had been too safe when Jerry Nadeau's career was cut short in the accident that led to the mandate for SAFER barriers.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I like the fact that drivers aren't dying in these crashes like they used to. I'm glad Kyle Busch wasn't killed at Daytona a few years ago. I'm glad Austin Dillon wasn't killed at Daytona.

I wish this sport had been "too safe" when Dale, Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Neil Bonnett, Blaise Alexander and numerous others died. I wish the sport had been too safe when Jerry Nadeau's career was cut short in the accident that led to the mandate for SAFER barriers.
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I'm not even sure NASCAR is around if it was. Yes those deaths where bad for the sport but at the same time it brought fans closer together and made NASCAR feel like a family. Tradgedy always brings out the best in anything but it also brought forth the safety we have today as well. I'm not saying it's a bad thing but it really does seem to be for viewership and attendance.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I like the fact that drivers aren't dying in these crashes like they used to. I'm glad Kyle Busch wasn't killed at Daytona a few years ago. I'm glad Austin Dillon wasn't killed at Daytona.

I wish this sport had been "too safe" when Dale, Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Neil Bonnett, Blaise Alexander and numerous others died. I wish the sport had been too safe when Jerry Nadeau's career was cut short in the accident that led to the mandate for SAFER barriers.
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Standing ovation
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
If "average people" didn't want to race, there would be no NASCAR racing.

This might be the stupidest thing I've read all day, and I've read a lot of stupid things today (mostly from you).
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No average people watch racing and don't hop in a 200mph race car every weekend.
 
Simple Fan said:
I'm not even sure NASCAR is around if it was. Yes those deaths where bad for the sport but at the same time it brought fans closer together and made NASCAR feel like a family. Tradgedy always brings out the best in anything but it also brought forth the safety we have today as well. I'm not saying it's a bad thing but it really does seem to be for viewership and attendance.
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Well I hope you're actualy trolling now, if not you are one stupid man/boy whatever
 
Simple Fan said:
Say by saying something is too safe you guys assume I'm talking like I want to see a death everywhere? There is too much safety in the world today and it's making us soft.

To me NASCAR and racing in general should be dangerous. Average people shouldn't want or even be able to do it. I do think that is part of the reason most fans have tuned out as well. Look at the NFL, it's getting hit with all this concussion stuff but people still tune in til they disrespect the USA and then still come back to it. It's still dangerous enough to garner people's interest even though they keep trying to make it safer. I just feel there is a level of safeness that racing needs to have and NASCAR has kind of crossed it, especially with this new package.
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Spotter22 said:
Well I hope you're actualy trolling now, if not you are one stupid man/boy whatever
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So you think that drivers that gave their life doing what they love didn't help the sport become what it is today. Without those deaths NASCAR's fandom never grows to the masses it did.
 
Simple Fan said:
So you think that drivers that gave their life doing what they love didn't help the sport become what it is today. Without those deaths NASCAR's fandom never grows to the masses it did.
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So how do you think this "conversation" is going for you? :)
 
Ventisca said:
So how do you think this "conversation" is going for you? :)
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Going pretty well for me, I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me because it's not the "safe" way to go but I'm just being honrst and most people hate the truth.
 
ToyYoda said:
Good, bad, or indifferent, the results from a 3rd-tier series NASCAR event aren’t going to affect my sleep patterns any.
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I think the living with yourselves was in reference to the use of emojis on here and not the race.
 
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Spotter22 said:
Insane.
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How is that insane? That's like saying a soldier dying over seas bringing the country together is insane. It's real and tragic but as Americans we band together and get through it. NASCAR embodies America and you can't deny that.
 
Simple Fan said:
Hell I'd rather wreck in any vehicle made before 1990 than anything today. They are too safe to the point where the saftsa features put you in danger. Plus the cars are made of nothing.
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Today’s cars are purposely built to collapse on impact so that the car absorbs most of the energy of a collision and not the driver. As for how the cars are built, they were just as flimsy in 1990 as they are today. I used to have a ‘90 Chevy Beretta and I was hit from behind at about 20 mph by a Ford pickup, the car looked like an AMC Gremlin after the accident.

It’s kind of like when people look back nostalgically on 50’s cars and say “cars were built so much better back then, those things were tanks!” Sure, you’d get impaled by the steering column during a frontal collision, but damn those things were built!
 
So average people hop in race cars every weekend.

Deaths in racing haven't shown an uptick in fandom for the sport.

2nd place is now considered the winner

Emojis and memes are acceptable arguments

Modern day cars are not ****

And I'm the insane one in all this?
 
Simple Fan said:
How is that insane? That's like saying a soldier dying over seas bringing the country together is insane. It's real and tragic but as Americans we band together and get through it. NASCAR embodies America and you can't deny that.
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You've been overserved
 
ToyYoda said:
Today’s cars are purposely built to collapse on impact so that the car absorbs most of the energy of a collision and not the driver. As for how the cars are built, they were just as flimsy in 1990 as they are today. I used to have a ‘90 Chevy Beretta and I was hit from behind at about 20 mph by a Ford pickup, the car looked like an AMC Gremlin after the accident.

It’s kind of like when people look back nostalgically on 50’s cars and say “cars were built so much better back then, those things were tanks!” Sure, you’d get impaled by the steering column during a frontal collision, but damn those things were built!
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I agree with the sentiment that cars were built better back in the day. I'd rather have a tank than a crushed watermelon. I said pre 90's though, been rear-ended by a few modern cars and yeah they fall apart and are essentially totaled.

Spotter22 said:
You got the last one right
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That's the only one that wasn't factual.
 
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