What is the difference between Champ Cars and Formula One Cars?

Question

And what is the difference in the racing championships...
I don't watch the car races but i need the information since i'm doing a SEMINAR on Champ Cars.
Do give all the General information you know, about it. - Since i have literally no Idea about it.
Thank You.

Answer 1

Dude, check out this link:

http://www.champcarworldseries.com/Tech/Car_Comparisons.asp

Answer 2

There are a lot of details to answering this question that cannot be answered here. I would suggest looking around on the web at various websites, especially ones that allow for blogging like speedtv.com. You can learn by asking the experts their or people with a more expended experience on the topic. To generalize however, below are some basic differences that you will find in the 2 types of cars themselves.

Champ cars will all use the same Panoz chassis this year (the outer shell or body of the car), while every team in Formula 1 designs their own. As a matter of fact, Formula 1 teams design their own everything with very little exceptions.

Champ Cars use a 2.65-liter overhead-cam turbocharged V-8 engine producing approximately 750 horsepower, a formula 1 car uses a 2.4 liter V-8 engine that can rev to over 19,000 RPM.

The tires are quite different too, where Champ Car allows slick tires and Formula 1 allows only grooved slick tires to help reduce speed and increase safety, but most Formula 1 fans hate this.

Many other differences lie in braking, pit stops, team and championship points, and the list goes on forever. To be honest, the only way these 2 leagues are similar is in the fact that they are both open wheel race cars, but that's where it ends.

Answer 3

F1 racing is all about the money. Usually only 3-4 teams are really competitive because they have the resources to do alot of testing. Development of the cars in F1, really in all racing, but F1 in particular is really key. Ferrari, Benneton, McClaren, spend ridiculous amounts of money in the sport. I believe anywhere $300-$400 million a year. Crazy money! They recently changed the engine size to V8's. Before you could use V10-V12's. There are still a couple of teams that use V10's, but with restrictions to run like a V8. Don't know how they do that. They also have the grooved tyres, but the engineers have found a way to make them as fast when they were using slicks.

Champ Car is way different. It costs about $3 million a year to run a team. Back in the day, and i'm talkin about 10-15 years ago, you chose your own combination of chassis, engines, and tyres.

Chassis - Lola, Reynard, Swift, or Eagle
Engine - Ford, Honda, Mercedes, or Toyota
Tyres - Firestone or Goodyear

Today the sport has changed alot because of the IRL. There is really only one good chassis that almost all the teams use and that's the Lola. The sole tyre supplier is Bridgestone, and the lone engine supplier is Ford. The engine is a turbo charged V8. The turbo is what gives it that whinny sound when it goes by. A really cool sound. I think they sound better than NASCAR engines.

Hope this helps you out.

Answer 4

Champ cars are built to strict rules. They cost a lot less and are a little bit slower. The racing tends to be close with a decent amount of passing, because the cars are fairly equal. Several drivers can win, either races or the Championship.

Formula One cars have more freedom in the rules. They are a little bit faster and way more expensive. Developing the fastest car requires so much money that only a very few teams (usually just two or three in any season) can win. The races resemble parades with little passing because some cars are just better.

Answer 5

F1 has no "boost pressure", plus the tires are thicker and will be grooved up to 2008 (when they return to slicks), the aerodynamics of the car are much more intricate and complicated, unlike ChampCars that simply use just the front and rear wings. In F1 they have to use a lot of gadgets because the shape of the front and rear wing are controlled, therefore the amount of downforce they give is limited. Also, in F1 teams use strictly-controlled fuel, very similar to the fuel used in normal cars. For example, the fuel in the Elf network is similar to the one used by the Renault F1 Team, Shell supplies Ferrari with similar fuel to that in their networks, and so on. Plus the FIA only controls Formula 1. In the end, I think it could be a close call on a showdown between the two cars, but, in spite of its lower horsepower, due to the restriction in engine size, I still think that on a real road course, a Formula 1 car would beat the ChampCar.

Answer 6

Formula One races capture approximately 300 million television viewers worldwide per race, second only to soccer. Most of them, however, are not from the U.S. market. Why is that? We're a nation of TV lovers but for some reason F1 has not captured the hearts of the American viewing public. At least not lately.

One of the main reasons I suppose would be that unless you attend a race, you can only see them on a pay cable station, the Speed Channel. The Speed Channel does an excellent job of showing practice sessions, qualifying rounds and the races. It even shows vintage races if you want to catch up on your F1 history. But with most of the races taking place in Europe, if you want to watch the live coverage, you need to get up at 4 a.m. The channel repeats the races at a reasonable hour, but where is the fun in that?

CBS has chosen to air four of the races this season. But die-hards be warned: It shows the race on tape-delay, and cuts away as soon as it is over — no fun after-race features. But CBS does have former racecar driver Derek Daly giving commentary. He is very good at explaining the rules and facets of F1 while reporting on the race. So if you want to learn about F1, CBS is a good place to start. Perhaps, the wide audience that the network is capable of pulling in will help F1 gain an audience in the States. The next race it will be airing is the German Grand Prix on July 24.

Answer 7

as for the cars everything is diffrent, and i mean everything

a champ car costs around $500,000 a team can run a season for 3-4 million

a f1 car costs $14 million or so and the high budget teams like tayota and ferrari are spending close to $ 300 million a year to run the team

you probably wont get enough answers here to do a seminar id sugest looking up web pages

this is an old and out dated web page but it will give you and idea
http://www.indymotorspeedway.com/500vs.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Cars

Answer 8

Champ cars basically only make left turns very few rights.That what ruined american open wheel racing and why Formula one is much better.

Answer 9

The shape and type of engines the cars use plus their schdules are the main diffrences.