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    On Sunday, there were three automobile races. Two of the races were the pinnacle of their sport and the third significant but not the pinnacle.

    Daniel Ricardo won the Formula One race in Monaco.

    Will Power won the Indianapolis 500 race.

    Incidentally both are Australians.
    Stand proud my friends as your countrymen have represented you very well. I salute you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    Will Power won the Indianapolis 500 race.
    After 10 years of trying... I guess will power can make anything happen

    I'll see myself out

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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post

    I'll see myself out
    elanjacobs has left the building.....
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

    Cheers
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    What comes around, goes around. In this case 200 times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    ... and the third significant but not the pinnacle.

    ...
    and?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker View Post
    and?
    The third was the NASCAR 600 mile race in Charlotte. I can't bring myself to type the winner's name.

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    Coca-Cola 600, run at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina. 2018 winner Kyle Busch.
    Perhaps the pinnacle of the Nascar season is the Daytona 500.

    While the Monaco race and the Indianapolis race are well known with or without sponsors names, the Charlotte race is the Coca-Cola 600. (Some form of Coca-Cola name used since 1965.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Handyjack View Post
    Perhaps the pinnacle of the Nascar season is the Daytona 500.
    I attend 3 to 5 NASCAR races every year. Somehow, over the last decade, I can't think of any NASCAR race that is worthy of the description "pinnacle".

    Facilities or race tracks that host NASCAR races are removing seats to make the grandstands look full. BTW - It isn't working.
    The rules seem to change almost weekly. The impression here is that NASCAR has changed from 'Run what you brung' to 'Let us show you how well we can administer a race'.

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    I can't work out the NASCAR acronym... what the heck is still "stock" about the cars?

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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post
    I can't work out the NASCAR acronym... what the heck is still "stock" about the cars?
    Actually the NASCAR cars are much less stock than your touring car series.

    The cars are stock appearing cars built on a tubular frame. And only slightly more stock than a F-1 car.

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    The days of driving a car off the assembly line to race in the V8supercars or Nascar are long gone. Not sure about win on Sunday sell on Monday. Then again some makes such as Ford support a factory team some years but not others.
    Then again, Mercedes, Honda, Ferrari or Renalt were never going to sell F1 cars to the public.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Handyjack View Post
    Then again, Mercedes, Honda, Ferrari or Renalt were never going to sell F1 cars to the public.
    One of them almost is: https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mer...-for-the-road/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Handyjack View Post
    Then again, Mercedes, Honda, Ferrari or Renalt were never going to sell F1 cars to the public.
    At least one of them already did - Peter Whitehead, who won the 1938 Australian GP at Bathurst, persuaded Enzo Ferrari to sell him a GP car in 1949. This made him the first privateer Ferrari GP driver, and the first member of the public to own a Ferrari F1 car. Ferrari also sold the 125 GP car to Tony Vandervell, whose Vanwall team raced them in modified form in formula libre events. And in more recent years the Minardi F1 team owned by Australian businessman Paul Stoddart used Ferrari customer engines.

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