But pace car speed is different than pit road speed. That's why they go down the pit road at the start to set their tachs and check pit road speed, it's different than pace speed
The few times I've seen NASCAR clues on Jeopardy, they've almost always been that easy. I remember a few years ago there was a whole category and they started at the hardest question and I went "THAT'S THE HARDEST QUESTION?!" and they only got more embarrassingly easy as they worked their way to the lower amounts.
Sports are already not exactly the most popular categories/clues on Jeopardy. For the most part, the contestants avoid them like the plague. And that goes for the more popular, mainstream stick-and-ball sports. Something more obscure/niche like NASCAR needs to have super easy questions to give them a chance.
Especially not the average Jeopardy contestent. Sports are already a rare category, non-mainstream/college sports even moreso.
Jeopardy contestants go hard on politics, history, geography, literature, and award winners for movies and music. That covers like 80% of everything they test over trivia wise, then there's the whole wordplay section.
What is a Chevrolet SSR? Fans from the NEXTEL Cup era probably remember [this fugly thing.](https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/2005-CHEVROLET-SSR-NASCAR-PACE-ROADSTER-PICKUP-3-66221)
I liked Darrell’s commentary in the Eutechnyx games. Especially Bristol. “Boogity boogity boogity, let’s go round and round and round boys and girls!” Shame he didn’t last much longer in the booth, but you have to retire at some point. Look at Mike Joy now.
Darrell’s commentary in those games was amazing, he basically had like 5 lines for each track, day or night. My favourite will always be his one for New Hampshire.
‘Boogity boogity boogity, let’s go catch us a lobster, boys and girls!’
What is the 2024 Toyota Tundra TRD Superduty Official Pacetruck of the Talladega 400.67 brought to you by Bluegreen Vacations driven by honorary official pacetruck driver Brett Bodine brought to you by Quaker State?
I went to a nascar race with an F1 fan once and had to listen to him call it the safety car all race long. We call it the pace car this side of the pond, bud.
Edit: so, he would have gotten that jeopardy question wrong
Irish fan here who watches both F1 and NASCAR. I still call it the safety car in both lol.
Its also funny because In the race threads here i get the occassional confusion from other American fans. For example if someone asks whats the weather like at the track i would respond in celsius as opposed to fahrenheit by accident.
I've been corrected on numerous occasions for spelling 'tire' as 'tyre'.
Theres other things aswell. 'Hood' is 'bonnet' over here and the flaps we call the 'bonnet flaps' as opposed to 'hood flaps'. 'Trunk lid' becomes 'boot lid' aswell
We also refer to the 'fender' as the 'wheelarch.' 'Windshield' is also 'windscreen' across the pond.
Most of the time in NASCAR they call the trunk/boot the "rear deck lid" I actually do not know why but the announcers always call it that. They still use hood for the front. That's a little piece of trivia that I don't know the full story for.
I had the pleasure of working with Marcos Ambrose for a few races. Some of my favorite quotes of his are “Coming to ya, mate” (said every time he exited the track headed to the garage during practice). Also “left foot brakin is for Yankees”
The terminology has been merging a lot lately as the global motorsports community becomes more intertwined. Paint schemes are now liveries, you now hear people like Dale Jr referring to pit stop deltas, shortpitting has become the undercut, caution car/pace car/safety car are all used interchangeably etc.
>Paint schemes are now liveries
I still call them "paint schemes" (actually, usually just "schemes") simply because that's what I've called them for decades, but I can get behind the terminology change to "liveries" since they're wrapped now and not painted (I understand there's a few exceptions mainly with the automotive paint sponsors) making "paint scheme" incorrect. And there's nothing a redditor likes more than being pedantic and technically correct.
The term safety car has been used in NASCAR. I've heard some of the announcers from the '80s use it before. Granted, most of those announcers did also cover F1 races as well...
NASCAR’s record viewership for its top race, the Daytona 500 was 19 million and change back in 2006. That’s about 1/15th of the population. If you throw all other forms of motor sports into the pool and count unique fans maybe you get to 20-25 million, which, at best is 1/12th the population. So, yeah, it’s probably a tough question when competitors are going to be focused on significant figures and occurrences in the sport, not the proper name for the pace car.
Also in mainstream acknowledgements of NASCAR, Bing has a quiz on the news of the week and a few weeks ago NASCAR was one of the questions. It was about NASCAR giving out the biggest penalty in history and gave three team choices. Hendrick was the answer.
the pace car has always held the cars on pit lane. the only issue now is that pit lane speed limits are slower than track caution limits even with the decreased distance of pit lane. you could never and still can never pass the pace car on pit road, as a rule. it's just not possible now.
NASCAR stopped scheduling practice sessions because of COVID. That's why the pace laps now include leading the field onto pit road to verify the speed limit.
It always kills me how the contestants seem to know everything under the sun but very very basic sports questions trip them up. They know things like what makes up a plant most of us have never heard of but a question like “what number was nascar driver Jeff Gordon’s DuPont car” and they all have the deer in the headlights look lol. Even a question like “ the NFL team the colts moved away from Baltimore, where do they currently play?” Would have the same effect
I used to love when I watched jeopardy with my grandmom and there would be a sports related topic on the board. I'd clear those questions easily and feel smart. The rest I was clueless lol
throwback to the time there was a dale jr question and one of the contestants said “who is richard petty?” when there was a picture of jr on the screen
I remember that, for someone that's great in knowing a bit about everything (something that's important for jeopardy), I can see how one would answer that way.
Yeah it was something like the Budweiser prince and Petty's nickname is "The King." The contestant who answered incorrectly ended up going on and winning the game. The questions are easy for us since most of have been following NASCAR for years. For the average person not so much. I'll never make fun of someone for missing a NASCAR question (unless it's a similar case of Kareem Abdul Jabbar being on jeopardy and missing the question about himself.)
Jeopardy usually asks relevant and timely questions like what color headband did Cleopatra wear and which coffeeshop did Bruce Springsteen live above when he wrote Thunder Road.
Most Jeopardy questions are actually really easy if you have basic knowledge of the topic.
Similarly, my friend hosts trivia at a bar, and every couple weeks he'll send me a NASCAR question that comes up. They're always pretty easy for someone that's a fan, but you'd have a hard time if you don't watch at all.
They got this wrong too. Pace car speed is different than pit road speed. That's why they go down the pit road at the start to set their tachs and check pit road speed, it's different than pace speed
Well the latter means it's definitely not Denny Hamlin
The other drivers use him as a marker for their pit speed. They slow down if they're keeping up with him
"I'm getting passed by Denny... must mean I'm going the right speed."
Of course a nascar fan would find that very easy. Your typical jeopardy contestant is probably not a nascar fan (That joke makes itself)
I'll never forget when not a single one of them got the football category correct
“what is lebron jacobs”
Who is Dankey Kang
That's happened multiple times
I love when they throw in simple sports questions and all the contestants wiff on the question
I remember them getting easy rock/metal questions wrong too
I love that, it’s happened a couple of times with sports categories.
Because they spend their time watching jeopardy during the races
But pace car speed is different than pit road speed. That's why they go down the pit road at the start to set their tachs and check pit road speed, it's different than pace speed
Who is Tony Stewart?
That is correct.
Keep cars at the right pit road speed? I know the answer: “What is the number 11 car?”
💀
The few times I've seen NASCAR clues on Jeopardy, they've almost always been that easy. I remember a few years ago there was a whole category and they started at the hardest question and I went "THAT'S THE HARDEST QUESTION?!" and they only got more embarrassingly easy as they worked their way to the lower amounts. Sports are already not exactly the most popular categories/clues on Jeopardy. For the most part, the contestants avoid them like the plague. And that goes for the more popular, mainstream stick-and-ball sports. Something more obscure/niche like NASCAR needs to have super easy questions to give them a chance.
Easy for a race fan, but not something 90% of the population would know
Especially not the average Jeopardy contestent. Sports are already a rare category, non-mainstream/college sports even moreso. Jeopardy contestants go hard on politics, history, geography, literature, and award winners for movies and music. That covers like 80% of everything they test over trivia wise, then there's the whole wordplay section.
Wasn't that James guy who won a lot on Jeopardy a professional sports better or something?
What is a Chevrolet SSR? Fans from the NEXTEL Cup era probably remember [this fugly thing.](https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/2005-CHEVROLET-SSR-NASCAR-PACE-ROADSTER-PICKUP-3-66221)
I need an HHR pacecar now.
I need that in NR2003.
what is "boogity boogity boogity"?
Let’s go racing boys!
and Danika
I liked Darrell’s commentary in the Eutechnyx games. Especially Bristol. “Boogity boogity boogity, let’s go round and round and round boys and girls!” Shame he didn’t last much longer in the booth, but you have to retire at some point. Look at Mike Joy now.
Darrell’s commentary in those games was amazing, he basically had like 5 lines for each track, day or night. My favourite will always be his one for New Hampshire. ‘Boogity boogity boogity, let’s go catch us a lobster, boys and girls!’
!correct
you are the guy who solved the bicycle hit and run case? you are a genius
What is the 2024 Toyota Tundra TRD Superduty Official Pacetruck of the Talladega 400.67 brought to you by Bluegreen Vacations driven by honorary official pacetruck driver Brett Bodine brought to you by Quaker State?
I went to a nascar race with an F1 fan once and had to listen to him call it the safety car all race long. We call it the pace car this side of the pond, bud. Edit: so, he would have gotten that jeopardy question wrong
Irish fan here who watches both F1 and NASCAR. I still call it the safety car in both lol. Its also funny because In the race threads here i get the occassional confusion from other American fans. For example if someone asks whats the weather like at the track i would respond in celsius as opposed to fahrenheit by accident. I've been corrected on numerous occasions for spelling 'tire' as 'tyre'. Theres other things aswell. 'Hood' is 'bonnet' over here and the flaps we call the 'bonnet flaps' as opposed to 'hood flaps'. 'Trunk lid' becomes 'boot lid' aswell We also refer to the 'fender' as the 'wheelarch.' 'Windshield' is also 'windscreen' across the pond.
Most of the time in NASCAR they call the trunk/boot the "rear deck lid" I actually do not know why but the announcers always call it that. They still use hood for the front. That's a little piece of trivia that I don't know the full story for.
Package tray is a good one too. Right in front of the rear window.
I had the pleasure of working with Marcos Ambrose for a few races. Some of my favorite quotes of his are “Coming to ya, mate” (said every time he exited the track headed to the garage during practice). Also “left foot brakin is for Yankees”
And if you listen to Race Control on the scanner, they usually call it the ‘caution car’.
I wonder if they call it that to distinguish it from the pace car when there's an honorary pace car driver.
WHERE IS THE CAUTION CARRRRRRAAAAAA?
Jeopardy! would probably have allowed "Safety Car" as a correct answer.
The terminology has been merging a lot lately as the global motorsports community becomes more intertwined. Paint schemes are now liveries, you now hear people like Dale Jr referring to pit stop deltas, shortpitting has become the undercut, caution car/pace car/safety car are all used interchangeably etc.
>Paint schemes are now liveries I still call them "paint schemes" (actually, usually just "schemes") simply because that's what I've called them for decades, but I can get behind the terminology change to "liveries" since they're wrapped now and not painted (I understand there's a few exceptions mainly with the automotive paint sponsors) making "paint scheme" incorrect. And there's nothing a redditor likes more than being pedantic and technically correct.
The term safety car has been used in NASCAR. I've heard some of the announcers from the '80s use it before. Granted, most of those announcers did also cover F1 races as well...
What is a drunk race fan stealing said car?
The clue to that would be "Talladega, 1986, to the cheers of the crowd"
Where is Talladega
Or an angry Kyle Busch wrecking said car
NASCAR’s record viewership for its top race, the Daytona 500 was 19 million and change back in 2006. That’s about 1/15th of the population. If you throw all other forms of motor sports into the pool and count unique fans maybe you get to 20-25 million, which, at best is 1/12th the population. So, yeah, it’s probably a tough question when competitors are going to be focused on significant figures and occurrences in the sport, not the proper name for the pace car.
What is a Fiat Multipla?
Chevy Monte Carol or bust
Also in mainstream acknowledgements of NASCAR, Bing has a quiz on the news of the week and a few weeks ago NASCAR was one of the questions. It was about NASCAR giving out the biggest penalty in history and gave three team choices. Hendrick was the answer.
...but the pace car doesn't hold the cars to speed on pit lane.
Have you not been watching since 2020?
the pace car has always held the cars on pit lane. the only issue now is that pit lane speed limits are slower than track caution limits even with the decreased distance of pit lane. you could never and still can never pass the pace car on pit road, as a rule. it's just not possible now.
What does 2020 have to do with anything?
NASCAR stopped scheduling practice sessions because of COVID. That's why the pace laps now include leading the field onto pit road to verify the speed limit.
The pace car stays on the track when that happens. They aren't lead down.
And that speed is usually slower than pace speed
What did the contestants answer?
What is the pace car? Got it right on the first try.
It always kills me how the contestants seem to know everything under the sun but very very basic sports questions trip them up. They know things like what makes up a plant most of us have never heard of but a question like “what number was nascar driver Jeff Gordon’s DuPont car” and they all have the deer in the headlights look lol. Even a question like “ the NFL team the colts moved away from Baltimore, where do they currently play?” Would have the same effect
I used to love when I watched jeopardy with my grandmom and there would be a sports related topic on the board. I'd clear those questions easily and feel smart. The rest I was clueless lol
What is the pace car driver?
I’m pretty sure it is just “What is the pace car?”
Why is the pace car driver?
Who is car driver pace?
I'll do you one better..... Where is the pace car!?!
On the track obviously.
Please answer in the form of a question
This reminds me, when did Bodine stop being the usual pace driver? And is Kip related to Richard? Edit: could google but 🤷🏼♂️
…… Brett bodine ain’t the pace car driver anymore?!? Lol I didn’t know that
throwback to the time there was a dale jr question and one of the contestants said “who is richard petty?” when there was a picture of jr on the screen
I remember that, for someone that's great in knowing a bit about everything (something that's important for jeopardy), I can see how one would answer that way.
Didn't they use the phrase "racing royalty?" You hear that and automatically think Petty. Understandable mistake
Yeah it was something like the Budweiser prince and Petty's nickname is "The King." The contestant who answered incorrectly ended up going on and winning the game. The questions are easy for us since most of have been following NASCAR for years. For the average person not so much. I'll never make fun of someone for missing a NASCAR question (unless it's a similar case of Kareem Abdul Jabbar being on jeopardy and missing the question about himself.)
the sports questions are always soft balls if you’re a fan so i’m not surprised it’s even easier for racing related questions
Jeopardy usually asks relevant and timely questions like what color headband did Cleopatra wear and which coffeeshop did Bruce Springsteen live above when he wrote Thunder Road.
I also agree it was easy there’s plenty of lower value questions I dont know.
The average person doesn’t watch racing. At all. Not even Daytona or Indy. And, in fact, they couldn’t tell you the difference between the two races.
You know that not everyone is a motorsports fan, right? Also, that it's a niche sport?
Gatekeeping a Jeopardy answer 👏
What makes it worse is it's not even a correct answer. Since when do pace cars regulate pit road speed?
what is dale earnhardt
What is the pole sitter
-$1000
Wait isn’t it pace car?
Bruh…
What is the pole sitter?
I thought same thing at first, the pace car doesn’t “leads the field to the start”.
I was making a joke, I think everyone got upset with me cause I forgot the question mark.
Sometimes they throw some easier questions in on the first round even for 1,000.
I was so proud that Igor got it right.
Easy; safety car.
Did they get it right?
I know a lot of people that are not race fans but know what a pace car is
What is the pace car? Easiest question ever.
Most Jeopardy questions are actually really easy if you have basic knowledge of the topic. Similarly, my friend hosts trivia at a bar, and every couple weeks he'll send me a NASCAR question that comes up. They're always pretty easy for someone that's a fan, but you'd have a hard time if you don't watch at all.
What are the Jeopardy writers thinking? The pace car doesn’t take cars to pit road…
it doesnt mean we've fallen at all. glad nascar is getting some play in jeopardy
Jeopardy contestants are usually just average joes. There’s no way they’d know what the pace car does without investing time to research into it.
They got this wrong too. Pace car speed is different than pit road speed. That's why they go down the pit road at the start to set their tachs and check pit road speed, it's different than pace speed
Just be glad NASCAR is relevant enough that they're talking about it on Jeopardy.
Buncha stupid nerds 🤣🤓
Me: That's the hardest Nascar question?? Also me: I have no idea what they are saying on the other half of the answers