Board Thread:Challenge Threads/@comment-27897271-20160917111359/@comment-28169398-20180317184942

DecadeHansen wrote: Sirebel wrote: You are missing the massive clue in the background :-D But the stadium at Le Mans doesn't have those doors. And the track designer for Daytona LOVES banked corners (Duh, Daytona's corners are meant to be banked so the audience can see the cars). No Decade. They are banked so that the cars can get around the turns at speed. You change the velocity vector with the banking so that you overcome the force trying to pull the car perpendicular to the arc of the road. The better view is just an incidental effect of dealing with the physics.

And about the only people who can see the full track at Daytona, Indianapolis, Tallandega, Pocono Raceway are the spotters who are up on the roofs of the grandstand as the diameters are a few thousand feet. It is kind of funny as the pricing is the exact opposite of most other major American sports. The cheap seats are the ones closest to the track and pricing increases the higher up you go.