NASCAR tracks are mostly simple banked ovals; F1 tracks are generally longer, level and have much more variety, with straights where you can reach 160-220mph, corners, banked turns and chicanes.
This is why F1 cars have front and rear wings, to maintain speed and traction (4.5G horizontally) through a corner. Also, the centre-of-gravity is much lower, and the cars are made of lightweight composites. NASCAR cars are based on 4-door sedan stock cars. F1 are open-wheel.
Cars may not touch in F1 - you get penalised for touching. Thus you don't need to design for damage, so you can have big protruding wings.
A good previous answer to the same question:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060725110329AA9Xm5O
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2006-12-03 18:04:57
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answered by smci 7
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NASCAR uses simple cars, which cost less money, maybe $200,000. The best teams spend maybe $10,000,000 a year. The idea is that the race should depend more on how good the driver and team are and less on how much money they have. The racing is slower than Formula 1, but much closer. Many drivers have a chance to win.
Formula 1 uses very complicated high technology cars which are very very expensive, maybe $5,000,000. The top teams spend close to $500,000,000 a year. Half a billion dollars. The race depends mostly on who has the best car. The cars are very fast, but only a few people have any chance of winning. The race usually resembles a parade, with little close racing.
2006-12-03 18:22:01
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answered by Bob 7
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NASCAR is a form of racing called stock car racing, while Formula One is style of racing called open wheel racing. The Formula One cars are much faster and much more expensive. Also the tracks in these racing series are quite different. NASCAR, tracks are oval shape, while Formula One tracks are more complex, because they have various turns and twists, making this form of racing more challenging.
2006-12-04 01:34:20
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answered by asher j 2
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There use to be more differences, with NASCAR that use to be a stock car race and Formula One being strictly racing cars that would never be driven on the regular road. NASCAR has become "there is nothing stock in NASCAR" with vehicals costing over $100,000 each which are representing vehicals you can get for $20,000-$30,000 at your dealership (NASCAR vehicals are still street legal). Also Formula One vehicals go faster (because NASCAR put limiters on their vehicals) and their tracks have far more turns (NASCAR cars drive oval tracks).
As far as style goes it goes like this, Formula One is faster and has more turns although it greatly lacks in vehicals passing each other. There might be less than a half dozen passes in Formula One, which doesn't make it much of a race for NASCAR fans that see dozens of passes per race. A guy can go from 27th place to being a winner in a NASCAR race and you don't see that in Formula One. Formula One racing also pays better than NASCAR but racers for both styles can quickly become millionares. Neither type of race car driver is better. Those going from Formula One to NASCAR or vice versa don't become instant champions in their new style.
2006-12-03 18:33:20
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answered by gregory_dittman 7
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F1 has no "develop rigidity", plus the tires are thicker and could be grooved as a lot as 2008 (even as they go back to slicks), the aerodynamics of the vehicle are a lot extra confusing and complicated, compared to ChampCars that purely use purely the front and rear wings. In F1 they ought to apply fairly some gadgets because the kind of the front and rear wing are managed, for this reason the quantity of downforce they provide is constrained. also, in F1 communities use strictly-managed gas, very such as the gas utilized in common vehicles. as an get mutually, the gas contained in the Elf community is such as the single utilized by the Renault F1 crew, Shell resources Ferrari with similar gas to that of their networks, and so on. Plus the FIA purely controls formulation a million. contained in the right, i imagine it will be an intensive call on a showdown between both vehicles, yet, inspite of its decrease horsepower, because of the restriction in engine length, I nevertheless imagine that on a real highway direction, a formulation a million motor vehicle would beat the ChampCar.
2016-11-30 02:59:03
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answered by Anonymous
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I think you mean NASCAR.
To answer your question however...I don't know and really don't care.
2006-12-03 18:05:57
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answered by iraq51 7
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nascar is cheap & f1 is expensive
nascar is boring & f1 is interesting
2006-12-03 20:47:56
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answered by Anonymous
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