Glossary / General

passing

8 Episode Mentions

Too Afraid to Ask

“Passing” just means cars getting around each other. If passing is better, it usually means the race is more exciting because it’s easier to overtake.

Technical Definition

In NASCAR, “passing” is a key indicator of how competitive the racing is—how easily cars can overtake each other. When the host says passing was better, they’re implying the cars were closer in performance and/or the track conditions allowed more overtakes.

Hear It Discussed

"I mean it was fathes popping wheelies and was there a ton of passing? No Our hard chargers was five and four"
Episode 394 - Fremont Opens Their Season, The Kokomo Grand Prix and Knoxville Dirt Nerds Podcast 15:47

"If anything, there's a slight shame with the safety car that it didn't give us more of a race to see what would have happened with Kimi passing George, with Kimi potentially passing Oscar..."
Would Max Verstappen leave Formula 1? | Is Kimi a title threat? | All the latest F1 chat The Fast and the Curious 05:37