I've been a fan of football and baseball all my life and never really saw a full NASCAR race but, only bits and pieces of it. So I have a few questions to ask from a non critical perspective. I know the object is to get to the finish line first but how do they determain the place they start out in with 30 different cars? How many professional race teams are there? How many courses? Do they have some sort of championship yearly? Is NASCAR bad for the air? And my last question is based on my point of view of never actually seeing a race: Does it get boring going around in oval the whole time? And the reason I ask these questions is: I want to here it from the fans.

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For instance, I read often that NASCAR drivers are not talented because they race in ovals and not road courses. But old rednecks like Lake Speed who won only one NASCAR race demolished in a go cart series a great driver named Ayrton Senna. JP Montoya is a proven winner although not Schumacher and yet has struggled in stock cars. Please help me understand how F1 drivers are so vastly superior to stock car drivers in a pure talent argument. I feel that the cars in F1 are so advanced with the alloy engines, sophisticated braking systems and overall lightness, that they would be easier to drive because you can brake so much later in entering a turn etc. Center of gravity is so low that handling is not an issue whereas a stock car is like driving a sled. IMO it takes more skill to drive such an antiquated racing vehicle.

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