This weekend, while watching the Formula 1 race at Magny-Cours in France, it became very clear how F1 and NASCAR are different.
No, it had nothing to do with the cars or the track, but rather something the announcer said.
While the camera focused on Fernando Alonso going through a chicane, he yelled, “Look at that car dance on the knife-edge of adhesion!”
In NASCAR, the announcer would have translateed as” “Wooohoooo, look at that boy go!”
This reminds me of trying to explain to a bunch of Brits what “caddy-wompus” meant. I knew then that I should just come on back to Georgia.
Compairing F-1 Racing to of bunch of in-breds just won’t do. There is on comparison.
The two really are very different, the only real similarity is that they have four wheels and they run on asphalt. It’s almost like comparing American footbal to Football/Soccer. Sure they both have balls and the object is to get the ball to the other end but the differences are huge.
Formula 1 is far more technical and there is a lot more engineering involved in the cars themselves and thus becomes much more of a team sport because the cars themselves are substantially different from each team. NASCAR, as far as I understand, the cars are all very similiar therefore there is much more emphasise on the drivers performance.
Aero dynamics play a much bigger role in F1 than in NASCAR. Also, cost is a huge difference, to fund an average F1 team one would need anywhere from 120 - 280 million, where an average NASCAR team costs less than 30 million to fund.
nascar owns f1 gay
“there is ON comparison” LOL
Seriously, as an engineer I very much wish F1 would step up. As a red-blooded fan of actual racing, it’s clear that they haven’t. Sigh.
I agree with Chris 100%… the two are very different. I love both, although I did grow up in Brazil and used to be up early in the morning to watch Nelson Piquet and later Ayrton Senna… I think we should just take both for what they are and appreciate their differences.