South Africa gets into Nascar

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South Africa gets into Nascar

Car number 91 at this past weekend's leg of the Nascar Cup and Xfinity Series proudly wore logos of several South African businesses.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833129482045022703

 

[porchrat]

We can't afford to fund athletes to go to the Olympics but our tax money can pay for this nonsense.

I'm also disappointed to see a Camaro. Couldn't they get something more authentic... like a Hi-Ace with a shifting spanner for a steering wheel?

 

[marhsava]

We can't afford to fund athletes to go to the Olympics but our tax money can pay for this nonsense.

This was sponsored and not by our government?

 

[porchrat]

This was sponsored and not by our government?

Not talking about the company logos. I'm talking about the giant logo that just says "South Africa" across the bonnet there.

It's Brand South Africa, the government funded marketing firm. This is your tax money at work. Enjoy.

That’s right, Brand South Africa has partnered with DMG Racing to promote South Africa as an investment and tourist destination in the Nascar Cup and Xfinity Series, which counts itself as a top-five sport in the United States in terms of the number of eyes watching every round.

Unless you're going to argue Veldskoen coughed up to have the entire bonnet covered in something that wasn't their logo?

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1832343345202438400

 

[6spdmanual]

People who watch and enjoy nascar are the people who we should not be interested in.

 

[ubercal]

People who watch and enjoy nascar are the people who we should not be interested in.

you dont like it because you dont understand it.Just like F1 , if you just watch the cars going around the track and dont understand the technical details behind it , it would be boring.

 

[6spdmanual]

you dont like it because you dont understand it.Just like F1 , if you just watch the cars going around the track and dont understand the technical details behind it , it would be boring.

Don’t get me wrong. I do understand it and on some Sundays when there is nothing going on I do tune in. I’m just questioning the ROI that’s all.

 

[rh1]

Don’t get me wrong. I do understand it and on some Sundays when there is nothing going on I do tune in. I’m just questioning the ROI that’s all.

Lol, lots of decent Americans watch Nascar, in fact I would say the majority of viewers are just that hardworking Americans.

 

[Neuk_]

It doesn't look realistic, I don't see any pictures of the car on bricks with wheels stolen, windows broken, door forced open and interior strewn about the pits...

 

[Pegging]

Disappointing. Clickbait.

I thought we were getting a NASCAR track and cars.

 

[FiestaST]

This TopBot thread only get any traction after I popped the CAR Mag Twitter/X/xHamster posting

 

[6spdmanual]

Lol, lots of decent Americans watch Nascar, in fact I would say the majority of viewers are just that hardworking Americans.

Yes, yes I hear you. Decent people, hard working, drink lots of beer, live in the South, drive pick ups, inbred. Pure , good Americans.

 

[rh1]

Yes, yes I hear you. Decent people, hard working, drink lots of beer, live in the South, drive pick ups, inbred. Pure , good Americans.

Lol. If thats your take on Americans, its like saying all Brakpan equals all South Africans.

 

[6spdmanual]

Lol. If thats your take on Americans, its like saying all Brakpan equals all South Africans.

Well, not all Americans. Just my take (jokingly, obviously) of the typical Nascar supporter.

 

[Polymathic]

Lol. If thats your take on Americans, its like saying all Brakpan equals all South Africans.

Joburg people think Joburg= the whole of South Africa. Last time it snowed there so many people were like" OMG it snowed for the first in 12 years in South Africa"

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

didnt south africa have its own version of Nascar once upon a time,

think it was called sascar, or did that vanish like A1 GP.

 

[porchrat]

didnt south africa have its own version of Nascar once upon a time,

think it was called sascar, or did that vanish like A1 GP.

We still have it. It's called the "N1". Track is nearly 2000km long.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

We still have it. It's called the "N1". Track is nearly 2000km long.

there was a Nascar version we had, that didnt quite acheive the following of Nascar,

Real thunder and lightning SASCAR racing. - CAR Magazine

Kosie Swanepoel, in his newly branded Wynns V8 SASCAR, took his first race win when he won both 75-lap heats at the series first night race at the fourth round of the 2003/4 SASCAR Summer Series on 15 November.

www.carmag.co.za