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Message: <blockquote data-quote="95PGTTech" data-source="post: 703980" data-attributes="member: 9525">bumping someone is easy. bumping someone in a controlled manner, while both 3500lb missiles are doing at minimum 120mph and sometimes 200mph, while turning, while maintaining control of your vehicle and bumping them in a manner that not only doesn't damage the very sensitive and important front fascia and splitter of the car, that allows you to keep your momentum up and doesn't slow you down or drag you into the infield with him, while 40 other guys are sitting on your ass waiting for you to screw up and make a pass, after being in said car for five hours with the effort of a mack truck to turn and 200 degree temperatures, with millions of dollars, corporate/sponsor/fan pressure, your career, and possibly your life on the line...that is difficult, and something you or I could not do.everyone makes generalizations that NASCAR is just a left turn. I'm no super-fan, but somewhere deep down I had that mind set to. I got out onto a 1/4 mile paved oval at Mustang Week one year. they drew the cones in to keep speeds down for our street cars, I think I hit maybe 100mph max.It was some of the most difficult driving I ever have done in my life. No pressure, no wheel to wheel racing, no passing, slow car, slow speeds, dummed down course, no race on the line or money. Just a few laps and I was tired, shaking. Not THE HARDEST, but up there. This from someone who has done a couple years of autocrossing my cars, drag raced for over a decade my own and countless dozens of customer cars everything from 16 seconds to high 9s, done a few HPDEs, skip barber driving school and raced a season of spec miata, have a CDL and done hazmat transport in a 18wheeler.</blockquote>