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A few weeks ago, I submitted a story about NASCAR scheduling virtual races in iRacing to provide entertainment for fans during the pandemic. NASCAR's virtual racing series ends this weekend at North Wilkesboro Speedway, a track that hasn't hosted a Cup Series race since 1996 and any racing since 2011. North Wilkesboro was one of NASCAR's oldest and most unique tracks, a 0.625 mile short track built on an incline, with an uphill backstretch and downhill frontstretch. The historic track has sat largely abandoned in rural North Carolina since NASCAR left, falling into disrepair and decay. In December, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and many other volunteers cleaned the surface of the race track to allow it to be scanned into iRacing. This 15 minute video shows North Wilkesboro Speedway was cleaned up and describes the laser scanning process used to capture the track surface for iRacing, which is why the story may be of interest for SoylentNews readers. The first race at the virtual North Wilkesboro Speedway is at 3 PM EDT and will be televised on Fox and FS1. For those who cannot watch the race on TV, NASCAR generally streams races on YouTube within a few days of the race.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by drussell on Saturday May 09 2020, @07:18PM (1 child)
I think they might have even still had some teams running Hoosier tires at that time, not sure, they might have discontinued them right about that time or maybe just before/after, I honestly don't remember the years, but it was probably right about then..
Rusty was certainly running the Goodyears, for sure, though, in the fall of '94 when I was there....
It was really only really ever Jeff Bodine who could ever lap the field on the on the Hoosiers in that era, IIRC.....
Good times! :)
... Personally, my full size Dodge van with the souped-up 360 cid (365 now, it's .030 over) still makes something around 400 HP, but it is difficult to find places to actually play with it, unless I'm driving up through the mountains to our cottage in BC at wide-open-throttle, for no apparent reason... :) That's my favorite... :)
Probably could use a lubrication festival on the distributor, though, since I'm still running full mechanical dist and carb, no FI. :)
I need to install the power steering seal kit, though, it's currently leaking PS fluid all over the place in the parking spot... gotta install that kit ASAP now that the weather is OK :)
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2020, @10:40PM
It was really only really ever Jeff Bodine who could ever lap the field on the on the Hoosiers in that era, IIRC.....
It sounds like you got lapped when you typed that.