We don’t have nearly enough NASCAR coverage here in The Garage. I suppose that is largely because I don’t personally follow roundy roundys all that much myself. There is no escaping the fact that the ovals have a rich history here in North America, so perhaps we should encourage a bit more NASCAR coverage in here.
To help kick this off, we’re going to have a few give-a-ways here in The Garage over the next week or so. Today we have 2 free passes for NASCAR’s TrackPass where you can get incredible real time coverage of NASCAR races. This is a perfect way for the rabid fan to keep tabs on his favorite driver at The Chase comes to a close or for a newcomer to become addicted.
After the break, learn more about the TrackPass and how you can win one.
TrackPass includes:
Watch LIVE racing from 3 virtual camera angles!
Listen to exclusive driver and team communication for all 43 drivers
Get instant crash and caution updates
View real time driver data positions with the leaderboard
See each driver’s time behind the leader
Track pit stats and times
Listen to the Officials Channel
Zoom in on and out of each camera angle
Watch virtual dashboards of drivers’ speed, RPM, brake, throttle, and race position
Get race info such as # of cautions, laps, # of leaders, flag status
Listen to the live radio broadcast of Cup races
Watch all the Chase drivers with Chase Mode
Get real-time driver points and standings
Follow the Chase drivers’ points and standings with the Chase Leaderboard
Listen to every Chase driver
Listen to ALL 43 drivers
Hear teams discuss race strategy and car performance
Listen to the NASCAR Officials discuss the race
Hear how the cars are handling
Scan the entire field of drivers
Listen to the Officials Channel
Know when drivers are going to pit
Now the fun part – answer a bit of NASCAR trivia and you might win the first of 2 TrackPasses
Where was NASCAR’s first road race held?
In what year was NASCAR founded?
Who won the 1955 race at Daytona?
Submit your answers through our comments section. The winner will be chosen at random from the correct responses.
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1. Daytona Beach Road Course
2. 1948
3. Tim FLOCK
1. Daytona
2. 1948 by Ed Otto and William France Sr
3. Tim Flock – after a car was brought without a driver
Q. Where was NASCAR’s first road race held?
A. Daytona Beach road course. (Now called Daytona)
Q. In what year was NASCAR founded?
A. In 1948
Q. Who won the 1955 race at Daytona?
A. It was won by Fireball Roberts but he was DQ’d so the official win went to Tim Flock.
This is awesome…even though we only have one left this season, it’s still a great time to try it out or enter this and secure it for a whole year.
1 Daytona
2 1940
3 Tim Flock
1 Daytona
2 1948
3 Tim Flock
Not too hard since they’ve already been answered..haha.
But, i’ll put my name in the hat.
1) Daytona
2) 1948
3) Tim Flock
1 I’ll discount Daytona Beach course and say Riverside California
2 1948
3 Tim Flock
Nascar has proven that ‘equality’ is the worst thing for racing. Give cookie cutter cars with no room for “selective” improvement and you get the best driver/crewchief combination winning the whole thing…time and time again.
Clearly the 48 just goes through the motions during the regular season then stores good cars for the chase. Once they are in, the pull out the good stuff and presto, yet another championship.
My solution: Smaller V8’s that are 600-650hp, no restrictors, and open up the chassis to development. 20 test days a year per team not per car (If Hendrick runs four cars at one test, that’s four days) not one.
Keep the aero package templates, let them work on shocks springs and bars….and open up the tranny ratios…way more fun when one blows up.
Will NASCAR listen….nope, not until this hurts their income….
Oh, and someone needs to start a “NO DANICA IN NASCAR” site…..
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Russ,
You must be kidding. Haven’t you ever heard of “spec” racing? That’s exactly what Nascar is except at an elite level. Cars are “cookie cutter cars” as you call them because that’s exactly what they are supposed to be in oder to prove it’s the teams and not the cars that are the true champions. Bigger, engines, Smaller engines, restictors, no restictors… it’s all errelvent as long as they are all the same and that’s exactly what Nascar has done is create a level playing field.
For years I raced in spec classe’s where the cars were equal and yet there were cars for various reasons that were better than others on different days and yet great drivers wfound a way to always be at the front good bad or otherwise.
Those of us old enough to remember can remember the days when it was NOT a level playing field and the fans (like you) used the excuse that teams had an unfair advantage. Back then as they do today, Nascar listened and gave the fans what they wanted. Don’t kid yourself, these cars dont drive themselves regardless how many good ones or bad ones they save for the end of the year. Fan’s in any sport need to learn… Great athletes in any sport make their perspoective spot look easy.
And the winner is
Don’t worry though, we have another one to give away! These passes are good for 1 full year!