NASCAR: What's So Hard About Turning Left?

Earlier in April, we went to Texas Motor Speedway for a full weekend of racing: the @NASCAR Truck Series, Xfinity Series, and Cup Series. It was the 15-year anniversary of the day I showed up at Texas with no clue about NASCAR (and actually dreading the experience because I thought it would be “just a bunch of left turns”). When I went the first time, I didn’t watch practice or qualifying. I just showed up for the race, and I immediately knew it was what I wanted to do with my life. The size of the track, the Earth-shaking sounds, the smells, and the action sold me. From that point forward, I watched every broadcast of NASCAR’s top-three national series — from the Daytona 500 to the championship race. Fifteen years later, I’m all-in on NASCAR, and I figured it would be fun to show you why it’s so much more than just left turns. This video features people from all over NASCAR teams: - Aedan McHugh: lead engineer for Sam Mayer’s No. 1 Xfinity car at JR Motorsports - @Parker_Kligerman: fellow YouTuber and full-time driver of the No. 48 Xfinity car for Big Machine Racing - Tommy Joe Martins: team owner at Alpha Prime Racing and former Xfinity regular driver - Nick Payne: spotter for 23XI Racing and Cup driver Tyler Reddick - JR Houston: race and strategy engineer for 23XI Racing and Cup driver Bubba Wallace - Adam Riley: tire changer for Front Row Motorsports and Cup driver Michael McDowell - Nate McBride: jack handler for Front Row Motorsports and Cup driver Michael McDowell - Kellen Mills: jack handler for @LEGACYMOTORCLUB and Cup driver Erik Jones On Saturday, we watched almost the full race from the stands (and high in the sky on the spotter’s stand). And who won? Aedan’s team! In a historically close photo finish with Ryan Sieg! If you think the replay of in this video was wild, you should’ve seen it live. Sunday came, and with our video all filmed, we got to sit back and spectate the sport we love so much. NASCAR is such a joy, whether you know the tiny details or just prefer the highlights. Hopefully, this video gets you a little closer to the former. Thanks for watching my YouTube channel. Enjoy the race! #nascar #nascarcupseries #nascarxfinityseries #nascartruckseries #jrmotorsports #jrm #bigmachineracing #23xiracing #alphaprime #aplphaprimeracing #frontrowmotorsports #legacymotorclub #motorsport #motorsports #cars #racing #automotive #alanisking READ MY @espn STORY ABOUT WHY NASCAR IS SO COMPLEX: https://www.espn.com/racing/story/_/id/40010590/more-just-turning-left FOLLOW ME: Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanisnking Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alanisnking/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@alanisnking Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alanisnking.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alanisnking Website: alanisnking.com FOLLOW MY UPCOMING MOTORSPORTS PODCAST, 36 QUESTIONS WITH ALANIS KING: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeIuI8Ey1kVYzmXe6JCLeTwUSE CODE ALANIS24 FOR 15% OFF YOUR HOMEFIELD APPAREL ORDER: https://www.homefieldapparel.com/ CODE ALANIS FOR 15% OFF YOUR APEX COFFEE ROASTERS ORDER: https://www.apexcoffeeroasters.com/ WORK WITH ME: workwithalanis@gmail.com CHECK OUT MY SHORTS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@AlanisKingShorts/shorts