I mean, F1 doesn't play "follow the leader", overtaking happens all the time, but some times the action is simply missed by the cameras (the problem with some national TV coverages), plus the car doesn't drive itself. How can you program into the car's ECU a whole race, plus the strategies, plus overtaking, plus changes in line, before the race? I mean, that's impossible. The only electronic driver aid that is in use in F1 is traction control. And that doesn't drive the car.
And how does an oval course test a driver's ability? You just turn left 800 times a race, plus the track is banked and there aren't strong lateral G-forces. In F1, lateral forces can go up to 5 G's and upon braking, over 6 G's. Stock cars' steel brakes hardly bring it to a stop, while a F1 car can stop from 200 mph in 200 meters.
Plus Nascar is afraid of racing in a little bit of rain. In F1, the races are postponed or cancelled because of weather only if there is a monsoon.
2006-09-28
02:19:26
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