We snagged a ride in the Camaro pace car to see what it's like racing inside the historic L.A. Coliseum football stadium, the venue for NASCAR's Busch Light Clash.
It's one of those ideas that's simultaneously brilliant and bonkers. What if you staged an automobile race inside a football stadium? Great views from every seat, tight, aggressive racing, tons of race traffic mixing it up. It would be quite a spectacle.
upfitted with racing brake pads. NASCAR Cup Series driver Corey LaJoie nails the throttle out of the track entrance , but he's only on the gas for three to four seconds before we're already at the shutdown markers and he's braking to turn us into the first corner.
On a typical oval, you'd also divide the corners up into four, not two, especially somewhere like Indianapolis Motor Speedway where there's straighter short-chute sections between the corners at either end of the oval. Here, the corners are too tight and too short to bother. And again, you're never not turning, so it's all semantics, anyway.
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