nascar vs. formula one?

Question

ok i'm not actually asking which one is better cause i think both are unique but i just want to know the difference between the both. the best answer without belittling nascar with your answer will get the 10 points, now thats a challenge. any takers??

remeber what i said before, the best answer without belittling nascar, that means not knocking nascar at all will get the 10 points. i didn't come in here knocking formula one racing now please respect me and answer the question.

i don't want to hear who is the better, i want to know the difference between the both race circuts.

Answer 1

I watch F1 WAY more than NASCAR. Everyone knows, of course, the cars are different....F1 having open wheel rockets. NASCAR has, simply put, stock cars.
In F1, it's all about money. These teams hire the engineers, managers, drivers, etc. They have to make deals with oil companies for fuel, car manufactures for engines and in some cases, chassis as well, like McLaren or Williams. Last year, the teams had a choice of tires, Bridgestone or Michelin. This year, all teams are using Bridgestone. When it comes to pit stops, in F1 they can have as many people over the wall as needed. And last, only road courses in F1.
Now...NASCAR. These guys take a normal everyday car and stock it out to NASCAR specifications. From body to engine to suspension. All stock. They can only pick from certain manufacturers. Ford, Chevy, Dodge, and, until recently a Japanese car called Toyota. Goodyear is the sole tire supplier. When it comes to pit stops, I think only 7 or 8 are allowed over the wall...I think. Less than F1 for sure.
When it comes to performance between the two cars is a whole new ballgame. You can open a can of worms with this one. We won't go there though. Oh yeah, NASCAR races on all ovals except for 2 road courses. 17 races in F1 as opposed to 36 in NASCAR. Let's not forget that F1 is WORLD wide as NASCAR is all in the US. So travel time is a huge factor. Hope I answered your question alright. 10 pts for me???

Answer 2

This is a very difficult question to answer being a fan of both sports. Ultimately if i had to choose i would pick Nascar by a smidgen. Primarily because of the competitiveness that the series provides. Looking back on the formula one series schedule last year 2 names appear a vast majority of the time Alonso and Schumacher. While in Nascar every track seems to be a tossup although between teams.

Ultimately F1 has superior race cars but that alone doesn't make the series, we get to watch the BEST cars in the world at their best and pushing the envelope. To the average Nascar fan the races get spread out and sometimes seem non competitive, just because the difficulty of passing and it seems whoever wins the pole is generally the best car in the field and usually single line racing. However you see a variety of road courses with incredible difficulty.

While in Nascar the F1 fan just see's just oval racing. I will admit some tracks can be excruciatingly boring until a caution comes out to bring the field together. A majority of the time the field is very competititive because of the length of the race and because track conditions have the potential to change tremendously. And with that style of racing it is harder to get away.

When people say stuff like F1 tehcnology and drivers are supperior to Nascar and Vice Versa. It is impossilbe to compare. The reason why is that Nascar drivers come from wide range of backgrounds participated in almost every style of racing that occurs in the United States all while start at a very young age. F1 drivers are generally the same way. All from both series have proven that they are all capable of driving the best cars in the world. This is why JPM is struggling in Nascar, and im sure if Jeff Gordon went to F1 he would struggle for a little bit but either way both would probably be successful.

As far as technology F1 allows the most advanced technology in the world in the race car. Nascar attempts to limit this to keep the field competitive and keep the driver a integral part of racing at lower speeds. Because of the speed and the stress the racing puts on the car and driver.
Many of the people in Nascar are just as capable as F1 but it is impressive what they are able to accomplish with such a large amount of restrictions.

Well there ya go hope that was unbiased. You can say that this is apple to oranges both series provide so much entertainment and excitement. Its hard to say which one is better but it all depends on taste i guess

Answer 3

NASCAR is different compared to the rough terrain and sharp turns of Rally as well as the complicated twists and turns seen in the Formula One course that put up to 3 or 4 g's of stress on the driver's body. NASCAR includes road course races in each of its top two series but this is usually a small percentage of the schedule, and although most regular drivers participate, a few teams bring in road racing specialists just for these races. NASCAR supporters counter that NASCAR is not the only racing league to run a large number of races on "simple" oval tracks; the Indy Racing League also runs many oval track races, though they usually average over 30-40 miles an hour faster than NASCAR.

Answer 4

Ultimately, there is probably alot more in common between these two than there are differences. Of course, when this subject comes up it is usually with the intent of hurling insults at "the other side," so the focus is more often on the differences. But this time, let's start with what they have in common.

Obviously they are both forms of auto racing! Success in either form is dependent on a putting together a knowledgable and skilled team and having a solid strategy for a race. Success also requires alot of support in terms of sponsorship. And the drivers in each series generally represent the best of a group that have moved through lower levels to reach the level where they are running now. Both series have alot of politics running behind the scenes, that occasionally spill over into public view. And, most obviously, they both have fanatical fans! Many of whom think it somehow validates their choice by putting down the other!

As for differences... Formula 1 tends to be more expensive than NASCAR, which stems from the differing technical aims of each series. While NASCAR is supposedly a "stock car," the series itself is growing ever closer to being a spec series (and some commonalities to the old shilouette cars of the mid-70s in Sports Car racing). Formula 1 has probably grown even further from it's original roots, but still follows some of the same concepts of being the top in performance and technology (though much of this has been increasingly regulated for safety concerns in the last 10 years). And the specific requirements for drivers is different as the nature of the cars and the courses add up to a very different race.

As for the difference between a road course and an oval? A banked oval involves less driver input as there are generally no braking zones and turns all go the same direction. While the driving line simplifies because of this, it means you likely to always be in a pack of cars and always in a situation where you are both setting up to pass, and trying to keep from being passed. And while ovals are not identical, there is far less variation between two ovals than between two different road courses.

Road courses demand more precision in terms of keeping on the correct line, and then being able to vary it depending on the need of the situation. Passing and protecting here are very different, and even under the best of cases require more time to setup and complete. Cars are more likely to seperate on a road course, making large packs and side by side racing common only in the opening laps or during a restart. For a spectactor, there are very few road courses where the entire course can be seen (where most ovals will be fuilly visible).

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Answer 6

I have read the answers and while a few are knowledgeable and informative, let us understand the differences. I am assuming that you are looking for an objective assesment.
NASCAR is stock car racing. What it means is that you take the best performing road cars and race them. Primarily they are cars that incorporate the best mass manufactured technologies. To make it a level playing field the cars have similar specs in terms of engines and so on.
F1 is not about mass manufactured cars. It is all about squeezing extreme performance from existing technologies and developing newer and more significant breakthroughs in car technologies.
For instance carbon brakes are a result of intensive F1 applications getting commercialised.
As a sport, it is one thing but as a technology demonstrator it is another thing altogether. For instance
a steering system costs over $ 60000 in a F1 car.
Hope this will give you the perspective

Answer 7

the diffrence between the two is everything, from top to bottom, aside from a drag racer that only goes strait, f1 is the quickest accelating vechile on the planet, if you have heard in a nascar race the announcer will say how a nascar takes 2-3 laps to get to full speed an f1 car will be there by the end of the first straitaway, the other diffrence is breaking, when jeff gordon and juan pablo swapped cars at indy jeff told juan when comming off the strait into turn 1 start breaking at 500 yards, juan told jeff to start breaking a 50, jeff then went on to describe the experience saying at 190 (or so) he mashed the break peddle and the car stopped quicker than the blood in his head. it all rushed to the front of his face and he basickly blacked out untill he slowed enough that the blood settled back in his brain then he could see and take the rest of the turn, saying he couldnt imagin doing that for 70 laps,

as far a car construction, nascar has strict rules, and though each team makes their own cars, all aside from the body work are the same, where as in formula 1 you are given a few min/max dimensions and each team is alowed to desgine and build their own car, because of this a nascar will cost on average $500,000 and an f1 car will cost around $14,000,000 (rough numbers but close enough)

and as for raceing, nascar has rules desgined to make the tightest racing, and closest finishes, examples are the luckey dog who gets to get a lap back for each yellow, and full corse cautions for any incident including debris on the track, they might say this is for safety but in truth its a good excuse to bunch up the field wich results in exciting racing, where formula 1 discourages full corse cautions, when there is a crash they only yellow flag that section of the track and that usually only means no passing in that area,

and then you have the points system, even last place in nascar gets some points, and its like a bracketed system where 2nd 3rd and 4th get the same points 5th 6th and 7th the same points again an example, in f1 points are as fallows
10 points for 1st 8 points for 2nd 6 for 3rd 4 for 4th, 3 for 5th 2 for 6th and 1 for 7th, the rest get nothing, the diffrence is in nascar its alot easier to recover from a few horriable races, with a few top 5 races, formula 1 only celibrates achievment, for this reason along with the chase nascar has a tighter championship race than f1 will

to boil it all down if you like excitement and action your more likely to love nascar, but if you rather performance and technology you will more likely go towards f1

sorry i usually hate long answers

Answer 8

Two very different things. First of all. Formula 1 is the top level in all of motorsports.(regardless of what most nascar fans think)They have the biggest budget, most technologically advanced cars, the most talented drivers in the world, and the most challenging circuits.F1 is VERY popular outside of the united states. People say that driving an F1 car is easy with all of the assistance built in. Well, yes there is assistance built into th cars, but they need it. These cars have so much horsepower compared to weight, that they would spin the wheels uncontrolably without some sort of traction control. Second, they have paddle shifting. They need paddle shifting becuase when you are pulling 4-6 g's going into a corner at 170-190 mph, do you really want to take your hands off the wheel? The main reason why F1 is better is simple. The level of competition is unmatched. These are the best drivers worldwide. Most of the drivers in F1 started racing karts around the age of 5, maybe sooner than that. Their whole lives revolve around racing, and their dreams were to make it to F1. EVERY professional driver knows that F1 is the top motorsport in the world. The drivers in F1 are among the highest paid athletes in the world, and for good reason. Michael Schumacher's base salary at ferrari was 33 milllion a year. But, he won 7 championships, and is the winningest driver in F1 history. He is also considered the best racecar driver in the world. And, there is not much argument about that. Exept by nascar fans. Nascar is totally different from F1 in every way. The cars are slower, have far less technology, are much heavier, and race almost all of their races on ovals. Now dont get me wrong, it takes a certain amount of talent to drive in a pack of 40 cars going 185 mph, but not nearly the amount it takes to race a road course. I have noticed that nascar fans like to say "well if F1 is say great, why did montoya come to nascar?" Its simple. He just could not cut it in F1 anymore. He was at one of the best teams (mclaren mercedes) and was not even scoring in the points. They pretty much told him he was out at the end of the year, but instead he left. Now, he comes over to nascar, with VERY little seat time, and scores a victory in a busch series race in mexico city. Most of the Nextel cup drivers were there also. His teammate, Scott Pruett, also has an open wheel background, and they were the class of the field. That should tell you something right there. If guys from an open wheel series can come in on road courses, and just beat every one of the regular nascar drivers, does that suggest that nascar has the most talented drivers in the world? I would bet anything, that if they ever decided to race F1 cars at an oval, and the nascar guys showed up, the F1 guys would still beat them. Then, people say, "Well wait until Montoya has to race against tony stewart at the road courses!" Trust me, it wont matter who he races against. Montoya was at best an upper mid-pack driver in F1, and can beat every single nascar driver (in their cars mind you) at any road course. Say what you want, but road courses REALLY determine who the best drivers are. And when it all boils down, F1 is the best. It always has been. and always will be.

Answer 9

NASCAR is a sport of slower, stock cars that you could buy at a dealership, except that they are maxed out to have high horsepower. F1 is specially designed cars based more on airplanes. F1 cars go a lot faster than cars in NASCAR and have higher horsepower. NASCAR is a closed-wheel racing league while F1 is open-wheel racing. NASCAR's top speed is about 200mph(and even that is really fast) and F1 cars top out at about 250-300mph

Answer 10

The one main difference....the cars. Formula One uses open wheel race cars while NASCAR uses Stock Cars with fenders.