Formula 1 car vs Nascar on Nascar track which car will win and why?

Answer 1

There is no oval kit available for a Formula One car, so it wouldn't handle well at all on an oval track, although it does handle one corner and a good part of the front straight at Indianapolis. Even with the handicap of big front and rear wings (compared to an IRL car), an F1 car would easily outdistance anything from NASCAR on an oval.
If you want a real comparison between an open-wheel car and a NASCAR vehicle, you only have to look at the times for the Indianapolis 500 (IRL) vs the Brickyard 400 (NASCAR). In qualifying, an IRL car is approximately 40 mph faster. I believe the IRL cars are also significantly faster at Michigan International Speedway.

Answer 2

Well, a Nascar car costs in the range of hundred of thousands of dollars. A F1 car costs in the range of many millions. Therefore, there is something there that tells you that there is more sophistication in a F1 car. And that sophistication means also more speed.

Clearly, a F1 car is not built to run on ovals or to withstand many hundred laps. But certainly they can be modified to perform better in ovals. The set up can be changed in many different degrees. And no matter what track or driver, the F1 car is simply faster (more horsepower, nore grip, lighter weight).

In a 500 mile race the F1 cars wouldn't do so well because they are not built to run 500 miles at once, so mechanical failures would be expected. However, by the time a failure would take place in a F1 car, it would have lapped a stock car so many times that it would probably leave time to the F1 teams to replace the engine, let the driver take a shower, and watch some TV while the stock car is trying to catch up.

On the other hand, a Nascar car in a F1 track would be just an incovenient piece of metal disturbing the flow of faster F1 cars. No match there.

Answer 3

I hate to say this, because I find F1 to be the second most boring form of racing behind drifting, but an F1 car will beat a NEXTEL Cup car. Now, with the NASCAR track stipulation you made, this race can only happen at Watkins Glen or Infineon Raceway (so the person who said that the cars can be run with a brick on the accelerator and the steering wheel tied down just showed how much he really knows, which would be very little).

Now, NASCAR cars originated from stock cars, and still retain characteristics of them. They are harder to handle, are larger, have a higher center of gravity, and have an American V-8 engine. They aren't technological wonders that look like they should fly away like F1 cars, and are slower.

So, coming from a NASCAR fan, you can believe that if we can admit an F1 car can win, it would.

(And not all NASCAR fans are from the south, fly the Confederate flag, etc... I am from Buffalo, New York and hold a job as a junior engineer. And there are a lot of fans like me.)

Answer 4

An F1 car would beat a NASCAR car on ANY track, especially if there's rain. F1 cars have more unrestricted horsepower, lighter weight, better aerodynamics, better tires, and more downforce.

In addition, they have better brakes, better handling, and the driver can adjust brake bias, differential settings, and a handful of others to tweak the handling characteristics to the conditions and driving style.

NASCAR cars could be driven by tying the steering wheel down and putting a brick on the gas pedal. Don't give me that "short track" jive, either. F1 cars accelerate and brake much faster than any other racecar that turns. NASCARs are too heavy with all their sponsors' logos to handle any better than a Winnebago.

Don't think an F1 car could handle the contact? Hey, when a far superior F1 car smokes around the driving billboards called NASCAR and off into the distance, the only chance for contact would be every time the F1 car LAPS the NASCAR car.

Formula 1 wins, every time, any day, any track, any condition, for a hundred reasons.

Answer 5

F1 Vs Nascar

Answer 6

This is a trick question!

F1 cars have practically no durability and are made to last just one race. Not to mention that F1 cars wouldn't last a minute out there with the tanklike NASCAR cars and all the bumping and grinding and everything else. It would be crunch time. And no matter what, after 200 miles the F1 cars would start dropping out like flies, where the NASCAR cars would motor on to win and finish not only the one race, but a few more races.

Just a sprinkle puts a halt to a NASCAR race. Water means no race. Too bad for the F1 cars, because they could have raced in a downpour, well if they could go the distance.

But if SOMEHOW the cars couldn't hurt each other, and they lasted the same amount of time, and NASCAR raced rain or shine, the F1 cars would win because beside durability, they are way better in every other way.

Answer 7

Yes, remember last year it was lightened, then they added more horsepower to drive that high boxy car through the wind. This year removed another 150 pounds. They also allow different rear end gear ratios this year. I thought the nascar talkers explanations at Dayton were hilarious. The fastest Daytona race, wow these gen 6 cars are wonderful ! Well, let's see, more allowed horsepower, some through better electronic tuning, some from removing weight, and a rear end gear allowance change. I wonder how long it took nascar's engineer to figure out what gear ratio they need to achieve the results they wanted. The man musta been a genius. Nascar is such B.S.

Answer 8

Formula 1 is the best!!!! woohooo.... Nascar is just running in ovals what is the fun in that.... and a f1 car is much faster than the nascar.... f1 goes through different tracks so that it can have more challenges... f1 car will blow away a nascar car because it is much faster.... :)

Answer 9

F1 cars may be better cars and out perform stock cars but there is no way that they can handle the "rubbing" aspect of a nascar race. for 500 miles the F! cars would not stand a chance as any Nascar driver would Put them into the wall! and that would be the end of it.

Answer 10

F1 races at Indy, so we know that they are capable of handling a high speed "oval" type of turn, aero kit or not. The F1 car would really blow the NASCAR car off of the track, the only question being how many laps would it take to lap it. Not many. F1 cars are superior in every way. More power, better acceleration, way more downforce, way better brakes (never forget the importance of brakes!). No contest