2006-10-02 19:58:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Auto Racing
what skills do you need to drive around in circles? anyone with balls of steel can do it. if you ask me put a donkey in the car and it will win the race. you just need guts and no brains!
2006-10-02 20:14:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
I don't know about that, Ron Fellows is a good enough driver to be a winning co-driver at Le Mans and 24 hours of Daytona but has yet to win a NASCAR race. Boris Said has wins at Daytona and Sebring, but has yet to win a NASCAR race. Again, Paul Tracy's NASCAR starts have been unimpressive to say the least. Fellows, Said, Tracy et al drove for also-ran teams, Montoya has no such excuse. The thing is, a sports-car or F1 driver can expect back-markers to be blue-flagged out of the way, an oval racer has to have the strategic depth to use back-markers to his advantage.
2006-10-04 00:25:59 · answer #2 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
true, but each organization has it specialties. I used to really be into the NASCAR scene but when they built the track here in Fort Worth,Texas, I went to 2 or3 races and it lost it's glamor.
I am really into the WRC and dirt track now, just something about real cars on ,almost real roads. All of the drivers in each of the groups you listed are all skilled and experienced, just all at different levels of different racing. many probably can and some will cross over to other kinds of racing. Nascar has most of the money right now. but who knows what tomorrow brings!
2006-10-04 00:14:50 · answer #3 · answered by ArcLight 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the Nascar drivers are really skilled. Look at drivers such as Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, Tony Stewart, Kasey Kahne,etc. These drivers can drive anything you put them in, especially Tony Stewart! He can drive anything with wheels and a engine.
Nascar is not just about going in circles and turning left. I think that a lot of the people who are quick to say that all Nascar drivers do is turn left and go in a circle should go to the Richard Petty Driving Experience and see just how hard it is to drive a stock-car!!
Go drive a 3500 pound car and see how easy it is to keep it in line. That's why you see some drivers lose control of their car during the race. That car is not easy to drive, they can lose control quickly and go spinning and crashing in a second. It's not as easy as it looks ya know!
If NASCAR is so crude and its cars just so many low tech leviathans, why have drivers such as John Andretti, Christian Fittipaldi, Scott Pruett, Paul Tracy, Max Papis and Jimmy Vasser failed to master their operation? Why have there been so few open-wheel drivers who have made a successful career transition to that “one big bloody left hand turn?” Perhaps NASCAR requires more racing skill needed than the effete snobs hiding behind their European arrogance want to admit. If so, they should consider the International Race of Champions (IROC).
2006-10-03 12:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by DaleJr#1Girl 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There skill is in drafting and enderance cause to keep fighting the wheel for like 2-3 hours takes some enderance but as an all around skill level i would have to say there are not up there with F1 and WRC drivers.
2006-10-03 05:12:18 · answer #5 · answered by matthew c 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
NASCAR drivers have more skill than the drivers of any other race series.
The reason is stock cars are so hard to drive. They are heavy, over powered, corner like trucks, use simple suspensions, no computer controlled electronics, no turbos, no superchargers, no fuel injection, no giant wings holding the cars down, relatively small tires to body size ratio, blind spots everywhere, hard to see out of.
2006-10-03 13:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by biggie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Road course racing is very different from oval track racing. F1 drivers are only on the edge of control for comparitively short periods of time. Anyone driving a 3400 lb stock car on fairly skinny tires is on the knife edge of control for long periods of time. Especially at places like Kansas, Texas, and Michigan, where you are in the corners for a large portion of one lap. And there's also 42 other drivers trying to get you out of their way. If it was easy, everyone could do it.
2006-10-03 19:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Nc Jay 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever driven a 3400 pound stock car at say Talladega?
I have.Sure it was with a driveing school and I had an instructor in the car with me but he was an in car spotter.There were 5 other cars or the track at the same time and to draft 4 to 6 inches from the car in front of you at 165 plus to pass properly,to brake correctly.
The answer is yes the are every bit as skilled.
2006-10-03 08:25:15 · answer #8 · answered by blakree 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
of course they are skilled. those guys work out like crazy. besides, can u drive 500 miles without a bathroom break? can u drive 500 miles in a car with no A/C and the temp inside the car is 100 degrees?
2006-10-04 00:57:06 · answer #9 · answered by bbl2002etsu 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you ask this question to Juan Montoya? I think he knows the answer. I don't know if you seen Jeff Gordon and Montoya switch cars a while back, but that is proof right in the pudding that Gordon was just as good as Montoya.
2006-10-03 16:14:04 · answer #10 · answered by Kutlessfan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's so skillful about being an F-1 driver? There's rarely any passing going on. Whoever starts on the pole wins. Big deal.
2006-10-03 08:02:01 · answer #11 · answered by ...mr2fister... 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋