Remember Speed Channel? It was a gear head's dream channel. All manner of motorsports called Speed home. It was one stop shopping for motorsports enthusiasts. It is how i got hooked on Rally, Sporscar racing, Touring Cars etc. Then Fox decided it needed to be more like ESPN and Speed was axed. One of the specials that always stuck with me was Jeff Gordon and Juan Pablo Montoya swapping rides and blasting around the Indy Road Course. Juan was a Williams F1 driver at the time.

Fast forward to 2011 and Tony Stewart and Lewis Hamilton did the same thing only this time it was at Watkins Glen. It is so cool to see drivers drive something so completely different to what they were used to. It is one of the reasons Fernando Alonso racing everything is so awesome. Today's racing world is so specialized. Gone are the days of AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti racing everything. NASCAR, Indy, F1 and Le Mans, old school drivers used to do it all.

That just isn't the way things are done anymore. We rarely get to see a NASCAR driver in the rolling technological marvel that is a F1 car. Some F1 drivers have taken the plunge and try their hand at the delightfully simple world of Stock Car racing.

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# Motorsport # NASCAR # F1 # WatkinsGlen # TonyStewart # LewisHamilton # Speed

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