Question for the Board

[Griff]

Seeing as this is smartest group of folks I know, a question:

If NASCAR were to run in Australia, would there only be right hand turns?

[Hawkeye2]

They wouldn't have to have an excuse for the time they spent on their roof.

[samb]

Absolutely!

[J Miller]

If Nascar ran in Australia we'd need to turn our TVs upside down ...

I've always wondered why circle racers run counter clockwise ... 'er anti clockwise to the Aussies and Brits. Why not clockwise?

Can somebody answer that?

Joe

[jdad]

I thought Mad Max WAS based on their version of NASCAR?

[M. M. Wright]

They have something similar in the modified V-8s, (can't remember exactly what they call it). Winged sprints are enormously popular there and many of our stars go there for the winter just to race more.

[Griff]

If Nascar ran in Australia we'd need to turn our TVs upside down ...

I've always wondered why circle racers run counter clockwise ... 'er anti clockwise to the Aussies and Brits. Why not clockwise?

Can somebody answer that?

Joe

Because it's a derivative of horse racing. And don't ask the why of THAT!!! As that sport goes back to when the 2nd guy domesticated a horse.

[J Miller]

If Nascar ran in Australia we'd need to turn our TVs upside down ...

I've always wondered why circle racers run counter clockwise ... 'er anti clockwise to the Aussies and Brits. Why not clockwise?

Can somebody answer that?

Joe

Because it's a derivative of horse racing. And don't ask the why of THAT!!! As that sport goes back to when the 2nd guy domesticated a horse.

Griff,

Well, that makes as much sense as anything else I can think of.

Joe

[Griff]

If Nascar ran in Australia we'd need to turn our TVs upside down ...

I've always wondered why circle racers run counter clockwise ... 'er anti clockwise to the Aussies and Brits. Why not clockwise?

Can somebody answer that?

Joe

Because it's a derivative of horse racing. And don't ask the why of THAT!!! As that sport goes back to when the 2nd guy domesticated a horse.

Griff,

Well, that makes as much sense as anything else I can think of.

Joe

Actually, the old boy that I learned my horseshoein' from, was a student of horses and horse racing. He theorized that like humans, most horses are right-handed... stronger on their right side and tend to remain on a right lead, which makes them "faster" in left turns... and that's why horse racing is mainly a left turn sport... He often expounded on the physiological reasons some breeds of horses are better at some tasks vs other breeds. And while he was an ardent lover of Arabs, he could talk at length about the superiority of other breeds in tasks that benefitted from their conformation and temperament. It was an educational year & half I spent with him. And while I've used little enough of it, I wouldn't trade the experience.

[M. M. Wright]

When turning left, the horse must be in a left lead which seems to be the most comfortable and natural lead for horses. This is why barrel racers usually go to the right barrel first, get the right lead out of the way and stay in a left lead for the other two barrels and the run home or back to the finish line.
Left lead dictates anti-clockwise.

[Bronco]

It all depends on which way the water swirls going down the tub drain

[JohndeFresno]

I've always wondered why circle racers run counter clockwise

1) 'Cause the steering wheel is on the left side (of the American stockers), and they need to see that inside rail, I b'lieve.
- or -
2) 'Cause the other guys are running that way.

Eh?