Bill Nye slams NASCAR in an epic take-down calling it the 'anti-NASA'

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Jessica Orwig | Jessica Orwig

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

there's nothing stock about NASCAR anyway

If I were dictator, NASCAR teams would have to run the same basic configuration on the track that they sell to the customers.

Want to race a V-8, RWD, manual trans, two "door" Fusion or Camry? Then you gotta have one on the showroom floor for me to buy.

All you wanna sell me is a V-6 hybrid with FWD and auto tranny? Then go race that at 'Dega.

[Calpublican]

You have a point. They have deep math and science skills.

Usually I think of biologist, chemist, physicist, etc. as scientists.

[jpsb]

The same thing happened to the America Cup and I stopped watching that. Back when you had teams innovating trying to come up with fastest yacht under the 12 meter rules. I watched every race I could. When in 1992 the America Cup when with what is basically a one design class where all the boats are pretty much the same. Boring.

12 meter yacth

[MRadtke]

Exactly right.