Originally Posted by Olas
Is it true that most Nascar drive circle or oval tracks? The kinda track where every corner is a left (or right)?
Why dont you run nascar on more interesting tracks like Laguna Seca, Willow Springs, Lime Rock Park, Sonoma etc etc? There would be more viewers and so more revenue form ticket sales & pay per view because it would be so much more interesting to watch.
That's kind of a mind-blowing question to ask an American! But oval-track racing is legacy from America's history. At the dawn of the auto age in the USA, the country was connected across long distances by railroads, but did not have a developed, navigable highway system for automobiles. So after the second car was built, and it became necessary to race the first car, the only tracks available across the country were horse tracks at fairgrounds, which were ovals, driven counterclockwise. So most Americans were introduced to auto racing on oval tracks, and it evolved from there.