I'm gonna be a bit more abstract.
In general I dont like, and I dont watch Oval track racing. Forward and left is boring. I only watch nascar when they run the street tracks (so much fun, those guys are clueless how to turn right) and I refuse to watch IRL races. (I do want to go to indy next year though)
Road courses provide a whole different experience than ovals. While I dont dismiss the skill required to drive on an oval FAST, I know what it takes to do tight twisting turns like in autocross and be good at it.
In other words, most 1 year old drivers could probabally swing a nascar around the track a couple times without crashing, (not fast, mind you) whereas very few of them could run a road lap in an F1 car.
I equate ovals to drag racing, it gets old QUICK.
my $0.02