Has F1 ever had one of these?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHs4V0KI4JM&mode=related&sear%20ch=

Answer 1

No, becasue as fast as F1 cars are, they are too wimpy and afraid to run them flat out, for that reason.


If F1, or IRL, or Champ, or any other open wheel cirucit were to run at Dega, many many people would get hurt. It would look like an World War II tirage unit lol.

NASCAR for life!!!!!

Edit: To the jabroni below who called me ingorant for saying F1 cars don't run flat out. Slap Nuts, they don't run all out, full throttle, lap after lap after lap, like Cup cars do at 'Dega or Daytona or Atlanta. They break in the turns, etc etc etc. I'm not saying that F1 isn't run by skillful drivers. It is, no question. But I don't think I'd want to be in a 2100 pound car going 260 miles an hour, 1/2 inch seperation from the other cars, for 500 miles. Not my idea of a picnic. That, sir, is what I meant by not running flat out.

Edit2: I never said Cup cars go 260. Perhaps you miunderstood what I meant to say. I meant that F1 would not run 'Dega or Daytona, or any of the high banked Supers. They simply would not be safe at a track such as those. Simple as that.

And I stand by what I said. F1 cars, as fast as they are, DO NOT RUN FLAT OUT FOR THE ENTIRE RACE. Period. Cup cars do, at several races a year. Yes, they have the intermidiate tracks, and the shorts, and the road courses, but for two Daytona races, two 'Dega races, and two Atlanta races, they are pretty much 100% throttle, 100% of the time.

Answer 2

F1 has certainly had quite a few shunts over it's history, and some of them have involved quite a few cars. However, what you see in the clip has a lot of elements that you would not see replicated in the modern F1 era. First, even if there was enough teams willing to pay the money to run F1, the rules still cap the number of entries, which would leave much fewer cars to crash. Second, F1 has not run on an oval for a long time, so the case of a car moving higher on the banking to make a pass is not something that could happen, meaning that the trigger of this example would never take place. Lastly, while NASCAR is "stock cars," the current regulations make it very close to being a spec series, which guarantees closer racing and cars in packs. F1's regulations tend to mean that there will be much greater seperation between the front runners and back markers, making situations with shunts involving more than a few cars quite rare.

I wouldn't be suprised if there were some pretty crazy crashes in the 1950s when the huge oval at Monza was sometimes incorporated into the course, though I've never seen footage of such an occurance (and footage of any racing here is somewhat rare to begin with).

And as for anyone that thinks F1 cars (or any racing car) are not run flat out? You are simply showing your ignorance about racing and what it takes to drive a car fast. Shunts are a sad fact of motorracing, though they can certainly make for a wonderful spectacle! But to think that somehow crashing is a sign you are driving "all out?"

Answer 3

the percentages i might have theory are extra perfect in Nascar than F1 to do something like this. it particularly is a sparkling group even nevertheless it particularly is in simple terms the previous Honda group. The regulations are thoroughly diverse than final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and the group have been given a head initiate b/c they gave up on the 08 vehicle while they found out it sucked. and that they have between the sharpest minds in F1 in Ross Brawn. And Nascar "rigged"?! each and every group performs by an analogous regulations. i'm not a Hendrick fan yet they have carried out it extra perfect than the different communities and deserve the comprehend featuring that. They shouldn't would desire to sense in charge for their success. "know all of it" hasn't watched a lot F1 in accordance along with his answer.

Answer 4

Well, there have been quite a number of huge shunts in F1 over the years, the most recent big one I can recall was at the Belgian GP at Spa Francorchamps in 1998. It happened just after the start, in the rain in the high speed run up to Eau Rouge, a corner FAR more daunting than any you will find at any oval in NASCAR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca6nBUEAGNc

Just for sake of clarification, I don't really have any problem with NASCAR, I like all forms of motorsport, but F1 is by far my favorite. Having said that, if you've ever watched a NASCAR race, and you know anything about cars, you would know that they do in fact lift in the corners on most tracks, and on the shorter tracks, they brake and sometimes downshift for the corners. That's not what I would call "flat out". F1 cars run 2.4l V8 engines that turn in the neighborhood of 20,000 RPM and make about 750 hp. On some tracks like Monza, they run in the neighborhood of 65% of the time at full throttle.The stresses that the engines, tires, transmissions, and suspension components (not to mention the driver) are subjected to are far in excess of what you find in any other motorsport. If NASCAR ran more road courses, maybe the audience would understand that there's more to racing than driving flat out in circles and looking pretty for your sponsors.

What is it with NASCAR fans and crashes anyhow? I've never understood that..

Answer 5

F1 has probably not had something on that scale although they have had a few wrecks.

Another open wheel race that has seen some wrecks include the Indy 500 where only 11 cars finished the race on the lead lap and I think it was only 13 cars to finish due to wrecks. It was Lynn St. James rookie year, she was the only rookie to finish the race.

Answer 6

No because there are only 22 cars that enter an F1 race and this particular wreck involved 25 cars. The math doesn't work!

Answer 7

Crashes are less common because of the lower amount of cars, true. However the cars go about 50% faster than stock cars. More dagerous, too, because they are open wheel. Anyway, 1998 Belgum GP.

-For ffxi_mini, when do stock cars ever go 260 mph? at most they get to about 210. F1 is 260.

Answer 8

Many times. Accidents are much more uncommon than in NASCAR, mainly because we have much more run-off area at the corners - not a concrete wall to pitch the wrecked car back into traffic.

Answer 9

Wreck a 43 car field in NASCAR will cost aprox 2.1M.

Wreck a F1 grid with 43cars will cost about 80M.

That is one expensive wreck.

Answer 10

F1 wouldn't have a crash like that because there are not many drivers racing at once (maybe like 25 probaly fewer)