August 23, 2005
NASCAR at Bristol
(Filed under: Tracks)
You've gotta love Bristol Motorspeedway. My wife says I love every track (Charlotte, Michigan, any road course), which is how I justify watching for an entire afternoon, but I mean it when I talk about Bristol.
The only thing better than a race at Bristol is a night race at Bristol. For the uninitiated, Bristol is like a cereal bowl: steep banking and a half-mile track. Putting 40 cars on the track is like swirling water in a bowl. The action doesn't get any better.
Check it out for yourself this Saturday night on TNT at 7:00 p.m. ET. (why on earth is one of the best races of the season on cable and not NBC?)
More on Bristol
-Tom Higgins offers a guest entry on the That's Racin blog Checkered Past reminiscing about a 1963 Bristol race. Times have changed.
-Bristol is also one of my favorite tracks because it's one of the rare places where I can actually do well when playing NASCAR video games. Usually I've found NASCAR racing games are a little too realistic and it's hard to find the right lines and drive well. But I somehow figured Bristol out and managed to post lap times comparable to what the real drivers would run. Of course I didn't have to run 500 laps so I was probably abusing the heck out of my car, but it sure felt cool.
The game I did so well on was an old PC version with the voice of Ned Jarrett as your spotter. I don't think it's around anymore, though I do have Dirt to Daytona for the GameCube, which is pretty good. I can't get the lap times I once did, but I can run pretty fast.
Posted by kevin at August 23, 2005 5:29 PM
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