What would happen if the best indy cars and drivers were to compete against the best of F1?

Question

They could race in indy in one race and F1 in the next.Who would win..why?
What is the difference anyhow? Can anyone enlighten me please?

Adolf..If I knew the answer I would n't ask the question..that's what this site is for.At least I admit to not knowing the answer..bet you don't either.

What on earth are NASCARS???

Answer 1

they would die

Answer 2

I would suggest that the F1 drivers would pip it, but it would be close. The reasoning behind this is the opinions of the drivers themselves. Typically the younger, less experienced F1 test drivers will take an Indy seat to get race experience in the hope of getting a formula 1 drive. For example, Jacques Villeneuve won the Indy 500 at the age of 24, then 2 years later went on to be F1 world champion.
Montoya also lost out on a F1 seat in 1999, went on to win the Indy 500 and then got a race seat with the Williams F1 team in 2001.
I can't think of any recent examples of this happening the other way round.

Answer 3

F1 drivers vs Indy drivers - F1 drivers are the best of the world where as indy drivers are the best of america, drivers like barrichello, massa and ex montoya are the best of america but they are good enough to compete with the best of the world. indy drivers are the drivers who didnt make it to F1 OR they are the drivers trying to get into F1. All drivers want to get to F1 because first of all, all the top drivers are there, there is more history in F1, the cars are the most technically advanced machines on the planet and because its a world wide sport and way more popular.

F1 car vs Indy car - F1 car's brakes are the biggest difference, F1 cars can brake so much later than any other car because of there carbon brakes. F1 cars corner quicker because they have so much down force. F1 cars speed up faster because they have more power and are far lighter. Over a standard road course an indy would be about 10 seconds slower than a current F1 car.

Answer 4

Formula One and Indy Cars are totally different breeds and tell you the truth it would come down to what car they were to drive. If you pitted an actual F1 car against a Indy car I believe the F1 car and driver would out do the Indy car and drive. Schumacher would eat any Indy drivers lunch. Those F1 cars are so high tech and they race in the rain and all kinds of conditions as for Indy they would stop it.

If it was an Indy car race only and on a US track, then it would be interesting and would have to give an Indy drive a slight edge in familiarity.

Answer 5

back in the 70's and 80's they used to have an all star race between these 2 racing leagues. the F1 cars always killed the indy cars.
if the race was to be held today, the F1 cars would blow the indy cars off the track. the F1 cars are lighter, quicker, and the drivers are just better.
Look at Michael Andretti, not to go bad on him, but he is a great indy car driver, and he could not hang with the F1 drivers back when he was over there racing!!!!!

Answer 6

every open wheel racer dreams of being in formula 1, f1 cars are the best. and f1 drivers are the best, half of carts driver line up is made of failed f1 drivers, whial the few indy car drivers that went to f1 came back as failures i.e. michael andretti and christiano demata, there are the exceptions like juan pablo, and hopefully marco andretti, but they are few and far between,

and if your thinking an indy car might have a chance on an oval, a race leagle honda f1 car did 244mph this past summer at the salt flats

Answer 7

Well u see , Indy cars r manageable but to drive an F1 car u need some skill.

Indy cars r just normal , they r like a ordinary car but F1 cars have the gearbox n every thin else on the steering wheel so i'd say F1 will have the edge over Indy.

Answer 8

Technicall they are very different. Foremost is the fact that they use different technologies. F1 cars are very very different from Indy cars. In Indy a same spec engine is used. In F1 the engine is by different manufacturers and the broad parameters are laid down by the FIA but teams develop engines from there onwards.
But to answer your question F 1 cars are more faster, lighter and they can set up for straight line speed, downforce, cornering and so on. In terms of driver talent also the F1 scores hands down more because it has a wider pool to chose from.
F 1 will win on any type of track.

Answer 9

On Speedway tracks - Indy,They are made specially by only having the componants for turning Left and Throttle , so are 10 times lighter than F1

Elsewhere it would be the 2006 F1 Superteams(Ferrari,Renault,McLaren) as they use the V10 engines rather than the Indy v8's

Answer 10

ask Nigel Mansel. He was a past F-1 champ for Ferrari, then came over to race Indy cars. He wasn't near as competitive in Indy as F-1. Michael Andretti went to F-1 from Indy, wasn't as competitive. Apples and oranges. The designs of the cars are crucial to the success of what style of racing the car is designed for. Different styles of tracks, i.e. road courses or ovals. A lot of the tracks in Europe are made with marble, not just tar, dirt and rocks. So tires are made of different compounds. Then there are driving styles. How do they draft? Meaning pulling or pushing each other. Agressiveness. A lot of variables in the two types of racing.

Answer 11

there is a different in the design of the cars and the handling of the car.
you could do both and there has been a few people who have won a f1 an Indy but only one person has won both series in the same year