Originally posted by APT:
Arguing "more entertaining" is impossible to do since every person has different values. Jato is impressed with the amount of technology that F1 cars use, while Kremet likes the closeness of competition.



Agreed wholeheartedly. It's highly subjective declaring one type to be more entertaining than another. Everyone has different priorities.

I, for one, prefer the variety delivered by sports car racing over anything else. My spectating pleasures are derived from visiting dynamic, beautiful venues, and taking in the wide variety of luscious sheetmetal, unadulterated sounds, and rich smells of production-based and prototype racers--with markedly different drivetrain approaches and technology wow-factors--that must have all the bases covered to succeed. The four-races-in-one aspect simply adds to the thrill of not knowing what exactly will be topping the hill next. And the sounds are, to me, unbeatable. Where else can you sample--in one place and for so long--the ear-splitting honk of the 911 GT3 RS, the deceptive, ripping-silk growl of an Audi R8 or Bentley Speed 8, the mad-bumblebee scream of a Mazda rotary prototype, the visceral wail of a Ferrari 360, and the ground-pounding thunder of the Panoz LMP01 and Corvette C5-R?

So, obviously, the monotony of NASCAR's turgid, jelly-belly clunkers running around in circles poses little interest to me, though I find them marginally more tolerable when they're lurching their way around a road course. I can find F1 entertaining mainly because it involves stopping and turning, and a little less so for its challenging venues and technology factor.

If anything, I must--oddly enough--be thankful for Speed TV's tit-sucking submission to NASCAR for the past couple of years...it's forced me to make my way to the actual sports car events and enjoy them for myself.

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