What cars drive faster nascar or formula1 ? What type of racing is harder fomula 1 or nascar?

Answer 1

Top speed on a NASCAR car is just a touch higher, 205 versus 190. But, because of light weight and aerodynamic downforce pressing down the car to the track, the F1 car can corner, accelerate, and stop much, much faster. Cornering iis more than twice as fast. If a NASCAR car can do a corner at 75, the F1 car can do it at more than 150. Braking is also extraordinary. An F1 driver once said that letting off the gas is like hitting the brakes in a normal car, and that hitting the brakes is like having an accident.

They're so different that it's difficult to say which is harder. F1 cars race mostly against the track, NASCAR cars race mostly against other drivers. It's very difficult for a top driver in one to go over to the other and be a top driver there, also.

Answer 2

Faster?: Formula 1, the cars are designed from the ground up to be fast, there is no model year shell you have to use or at least come close to faking. Harder?: Thats a relative question! Nascar tries to equal out the field by strictly enforcing size regulations on cars and restricter plates and the like. All in the attempt of trying to make all the cars somewhat equal. Hopefully with the intent of making it a drivers race and not the equipment. But F1, the kid with the nicest toy wins, and usually the most expensive. Don't believe me, ask Michael Schumacher and Ferrari.

Answer 3

Formula 1 cars, by a long way, win both these. A F1 car doesn't have 190mph (305kph) as a top speed: at Monza, 2 years ago, a F1 car peaked at 220mph (350kph), and a specially modifed but still race-legal F1 car peaked at 400kph at Bonneville.

Plus driving in F1 is a lot tougher because of extreme temperatures (over 60 degrees Celsius in the cockpit, that's almost 150 degrees Fahrenheit), extreme G-forces (up to 6 G's upon hard braking); the drivers are actually 10 pounds(5 kilograms) lighter after a 2-hour race.

Answer 4

To bikernoj: yes F1 is faster and more physically demanding but it still comes down to the equipment. A ferarri or renault doesn't have to race cars such as hondas or takuma sato(lol) as hard. but in NASCAR, everyone's equipment is almost the same, excluding poor teams, and there's alot of competition so you can't expect to win every race. You have to race everyone and not just 3 or 4 top guys. Also everyone's very close together so it takes a lot of skills to race inches apart. So in some aspects, F1 is harder but in others NASCAR is harder. It's very hard to say one is harder than the other.

Answer 5

I don't see how they could. It would seem like it would cut out sponsor money. I think instead of cutting teams they should divide the race into 2 heats on the smaller tracks. That way for instance at places like Bristol (small tracks) or any track where drivers go down a lap early and never recover then they can have 60 teams enter a race and have 30 drivers per heat with an elimination for the final 3rd round. That would help get rid of lap traffic, give teams a break between heats to discuss car setups and changes and increases competition. On the larger tracks like Daytona and Talladega they could increase the number of cars on the track and it wouldn't hurt anything. That would also help get rid of the top 35 rule.

Answer 6

f1 because the cars and engines and tires in the f1 makes a big different in a race compared to nascar. Nascar is focuses on racing very close and makes the race more competitive

Answer 7

Uh, Formula 1 and Formula 1, respectively.

NASCAR: work their way up to 200mph going in a constant circle, like one of those tethered model airplanes.

Formula 1: hit 200mph on the back straight, lap after lap. Can turn right, and take a hard corner at over 150mph.

NASCAR: can be oparated by tying a rope to the steering wheel and putting a brick on the gas pedal. Worthless in rain. Equivalent driver skill to operating aforementioned tethered model airplane. "So easy, a caveman could do it!" And most are.

Formula 1: drivers contend with differing downforce configurations, turning RIGHT, have the skills to go 200mph in an OPEN WHEELED vehicle, have to constantly adjust their brake bias, downforce, differential settings, air/fuel ratio, traction control and deal with RAIN. Driver skill equivalent to controlled schizophrenia.

Answer 8

I've done a bit of both. (Racing schools)
I don't have the skills to do it for real but they are much different.

F1 cars are faster flat out. But they rarely do.
Nascars run Flat out most of the time and the trick is to keep them from blowing up.
Nascar is a bumping put your foot through the pedal war.
F1 is more subtle and the smoothest driver wins.

I was much better at Road Racing. But the fender banging was fun..

Answer 9

Depends what you mean by "faster". Under all normal circumstances an F1 car will hugely outperform a NASCAR.

Answer 10

i would think formula 1 on both instances.