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Why NASCAR Is So Different From Open Wheel Racing | Espresso With Max Papis · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Good morning to espresso with Max and subject of the day is
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  going a little bit more in depth with what Kevin Harvick was
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  mentioning about Catherine Legge Helio Castroneves messing up in
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  in stock car and my comment on the fact that stock car on an
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  Oval is a very unnatural feeling.
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  I'm going to start with, you know, giving you guys an example
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  of a list of how my brain operate.
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  You go to Phoenix, you you as an open wheel guy, sports car guy,
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  whatever, however you want to call and you look at turn 1 and
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  2 and your brain would say it could be wide open, maybe a
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  little lift. Then you show up with a stock
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  car and you need to let off at 2300 feet mark 2 mark 3 before
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  the corner using the brake off the throttle for such a long
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  time, maybe 2 second, something like this 3 second.
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  And that just tells you that although the there are cars,
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  there are similar cars. There are two race cars.
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  The way you approach that kind of racing is completely
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  different and that is why is so difficult for someone who has
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  who does not have a stock car experience to adapt to a stock
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  car. And actually it's, I would say
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  that if you have a lot of experience and your background
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  is open wheel or the car with downforce, it will be, I don't
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  want to say impossible, but very difficult to change your habits,
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  change the way your brain operates because an open wheel
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  car is very connected to your body.
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  The response and what the car does, it's really connected to
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  your body. You know the limitation you know
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  many times is you not being able to do what the car can do.
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  Stock car are heavy, powerful and extremely difficult to drive
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  because you need to drive them with precision.
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  One of my take that I always say it would be that if someone in
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  stock car A-Team owner would like to give a shot to a known
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  NASCAR driver, I would call Robampera, Sebastian Loeb, one
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  of the rally driver, and I think these guys would be able to do a
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  better job than any open wheel guy.
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  Here we go. Giovanni jumped on the back.
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  What's the reason why? They're used to improvise with
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  precision. An open wheel guy is used to
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  feel the load in the car, feel the load in your body.
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  When you enter the corner, you already kind of know where
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  you're exiting and the expectation that you have from
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  the car are completely different than what the stock car
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  requires. I'm going to give a little bit
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  more in depth example. Again, talking about Phoenix,
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  you guys have must have seen a lot of times driver install car,
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  manipulating that car, you know, being below the, you know, being
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  on the apron, being on the top and you ask yourself why, right?
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  Chad Giovanni, thank you for joining us.
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  Good morning, Sir. When you look at the white line
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  that separates the apron to the track in an open wheel, if you
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  just look at it or you get too close to it, you're going to be
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  straight into the wall. Why?
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  The cars are extremely rigid. You go on the white line with
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  your left tire. It it changes the weight of the
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  car, the the weight distribution of the car and you will make the
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  car so loose that the car would be uncontrollable.
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  You will be into the wall stock car.
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  You need to use the white line. You need to use the apron to
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  manipulate what the car does. If you don't do that, you're not
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  going to be competitive. If you're not used to that kind
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  of mentality, if you're not used to know what the car needs or
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  how much you need to use the track to manipulate the handling
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  of the car, it's really difficult to put it in your
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  brain. Make it yours, then make a good
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  job. I'm not saying that is
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  impossible. You know, I believe that is
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  doable if you give yourself enough time.
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  If you spend a couple of years in the Truck Series, one or two
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  year in in in Xfinity. But nobody will give an Indy 500
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  driver this time, Indy 500 winner this time, because the
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  expectation is to you go in there and you're going to be
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  competitive. This is the major issue that I
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  found, you know, in the situation where the expectation
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  of a guy that has been winning in other class is that you show
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  up in stock car and you should be somehow competitive.
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  That's not it. That's it doesn't work with
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  that. I will be happy to go a little
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  bit more in depth in the future. I know that we have a lot of
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  things to talk about it, but I don't want to.
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  I'm learning how to make this short and clear.
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  So guys, for the moment, for today, that's it.
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  I will be touching base again and for you to go to the office
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  finishing off my coffee, my espresso and you guys have a
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  great day.