NASCAR vs. Formula One
In NASCAR and Formula One racing, there can be a lot of action that can happen in the time of the race. For the drivers that drive NASCAR’s, their track designs are pretty simple seeing they only have to take left turns. The course is usually an oval shaped road that has two enormous lanes. When the drivers have to take pit stop to get gas, oil, or have their tires changed, in NASCAR it takes approximately eleven seconds for the pit crew to have all of this stuff done and done right, which is pretty fast if you ask me.
On the other hand, Formula One races can vary in many different ways. Unlike NASCAR, a Formula One track has many twist and turns, including both right and left hand turns. For a Formula One crew to have put gas, oil, and have the tires changed, it takes them approximately 3 seconds, 8 seconds less than as a NASCAR pit crew. NASCAR drives tend to have worse crashes then those of Formula One. Although it is kind of cool to witness a crash when they go airborne, it is not all fun and games after they land and actually get hurt.
NASCAR and Formula One cars can be vastly different and there can be a few similarities between the cars. NASCAR’s are mainly American vehicles that are transformed into a two door sedan and fixed up to racing potential. They can include Ford, Chevrolet, and sometimes Toyota’s. After they buy the vehicle and change all of its features to racing potential, it cost them about $1.5 million to modify the car. If any damage is done to vehicle during the race, they use duct tape to patch it until they can fix it after the race. A NASCAR can weigh up to almost a whopping 3.5 tons. Like a regular ol’ vehicle, NASCAR’s have the same exact kind of steering wheeling ex...
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...he largest in history. A NASCAR race starts with 50 drivers at the start and not all racers finish because of car problems that do not allow them to finish. The whole season long, there are 36 races that are raced over many different tracks in the United States because the United States is the only country that has NASCAR racing.
Formula One racing is known all around the world but just not known that much in the United States. As an internationally ranked sport, Formula One racing is ranked the world’s second most watch sport coming after soccer, which is number one. The most popular area for the Formula One race was at the Australian Grand Prix in Australia, which had almost 300,000 people in attendance for the race. The season for a Formula One driver last 36 races, which are raced all over the world from the United States, Monaco, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai.
The character of Speedway as a place is temporal and spatial; the street of Friday midnight is radically different from the street of Tuesday morning. Daytime drivers quickly change lanes in an attempt to find the one which will deliver them to their destinations the fastest. Speed and efficacy define the daytime Speedway. As the type of driver changes, so does the driver's reason for being there. The weekday commute is replaced by the weeknight cruise. The drivers also become, as a group, less diverse in terms of age and gender. The majority of cruisers appeared to be teenagers. Also, though I saw many young women, the majority of cruisers were male.
Nascar…. When you think of moonshine you think of the hillbillies in overalls fireing up grand daddys still in the b ack forty. It may come to a shock to you when you learn that nascars the billion dollor enterprise with 100,000 cars that are engineered to be as fast as they can be. Its hard to belive it all started from shine runners. During the great depression millions of gallons of shine were in need of distribution. This is where the ridge runners came into play. The shiners needed a way to get there shine from the stills to the stash houses…. The cops at the time had stock cars and if you could out run them then you wre free. You can only get in trouble if you are caught in the act….. the backwoods shiners started to build cars that would out run the cops. This was the beginning of nascar…..
The green flag drops on the first race in The National Dirt Racing Association(NDRA). It doesn’t matter where people go, on some little road in a small town, people will find a small dirt track. The speedways are mostly always located in city areas where a large amount of people live. After a weekend of racing the teams head to the shop to fix the car up again. Despite the fact, that racing had been around since before 1978; whenever Mr. Robert Smawley introduced NDRA, and later Mr. Bill France introduced NASCAR, more people paid attention to the sport of racing.
...est levels of sports car performance. As the first decade of the 21st century progressed, Chevrolet joined every other automaker in squeezing race track horsepower out of street-legal engines. The ZR1 Corvettes made during this generation were capable of speeds over 200 MPH, and cost over $100,000, so they were a bit of a change from the “cheap” car Corvettes were previously known for being. C7: The Return of the Stingray. Modern Corvettes are now achieving Ferrari racing status and power.Corvettes Are the Longest Running production Car Brand Ever. They are about $65,000 and usually look pretty nice. A really nice touch is that for an extra $800 you can drive your Corvette out of the Corvette museum with the staff clapping while you drive out.
NASCAR is extremely competitive. For one, you have to qualify for each race. Qualifying is where you have to get the fastest time to start in a position (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). Whoever has the fastest time will get to start in first. Whoever gets the slowest time starts in 43rd. This makes it competitive because you have to compete and push the car so that you can get the fastest time and start in first. Or there is the “Chase.” The Chase is made up of the NASCAR leaders. It helps determine who goes to the championship. The top 3 right now are Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, and Jimmie Johnson. The
People who have participated in racing for the past century, have never been universally accepted as athletes. The drivers, especially those in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) prove this misconception as incorrect with their intense training and stellar performances. Drivers on social media, assert that they are athletes, contradicting other sports stars who insist that they are not. The drivers in NASCAR and all forms of racing deserve to be given the respect of their fellow athletes in other sports. NASCAR drivers are seasoned athletes because of their training and tough race conditions that they encounter every week on the track.
This track is a half mile clay high banked dirt track that averages 120 mph throughout all classes. This track holds many famous event like world 100, Dream, King's royal, UMP nationals, and Truck kings (Nascar trucks come to dirt to run 1 race on dirt). Throughout the offseason the track is torn apart and redone to bring new groves and better races for each year. This track also is ran by Tony Stewart which is is a big name in dirt racing as he just retired from nascar to tend to his family and go back to his
Some say that automotive racing began when the second car was built. For over a hundred years, competition has driven innovation in the car industry, thus the industry maxim “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” NASCAR and drag racing contributed greatly to muscle cars’ success. Muscle cars were born from these competitions as factory made race cars. Because of this, the muscle car quickly moved from a low quantity specialty item to the image of the American automotive scene. Each brand had to have one and each one needed better performance and personality than the next. The Golden Age began in the 1960s with the introduction of more performance models such as the Chevy SS Impala and the Ford Galaxy Starliner (Auto Editors).
Take a look at your car, it probably can only hit eighty on a good day. Then watch the top fuel and funny car dragsters of the National Hot Rod Association who get three hundred miles per hour on a bad day. You would be blown away at the diffrence in power. The pure power and the amount of noise that these cars produce will blow you away. I'm going to inform you on a lot of the amazing facts about the nitro powered dragsters of the NHRA. First, i'm going to inform you on how drag racing started and on how drag racing works, then how the dragsters work. Following that i'm going to explain how the equipment keeps the drivers and workers safe, finally I will explain how the sport is evolving,
At its core, economics is all about how people make choices. Choices are necessary because we live in a world of scarcity. Even the richest among us have to decide how to allocate our resources. When it comes to racing there are several ways that the economy can have an effect on it. The economic downturn that began in the late 2000s and persisted through the early 2010s has revealed how much NASCAR relies on a healthy, growing economy.
The first Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Speedway in 1911 and was called the International sweepstakes. The race would last for 200 consecutive laps before finishing. 40 cars raced in the first Sweepstakes in 1911. The price for first place was $14,250, no small amount, and was won by Ray Harroun. He had an average speed of 74 mph during the race. Every driver in the race had a ride-along mechanic to help with possible repairs, and to spot cars behind. Everyone except the eventual winner, Ray Harroun. The lack of extra weight made his car faster, contributing to his win. 80,200 people were at the first Sweepstake, the ticket price was $1. In 1912, the sweepstakes were raised to $50,000, attracting more drivers. It was won by Joe Dawson with an average speed of 78 mph. In 1915, not many European drivers participated in the race as WW1 was underway. Only 21 drivers participated in the race in 1915. The race was shortened to just 300 miles in 1916, the race featured the smallest amount of spectators in the race's history. There was no race in 1917 as the U.S just entered WW1.
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Several other racers quickly follow, and now it seems as if they’re are actually two races underway.
In order to have a fast and efficient car all these things I have discussed need to be taken into consideration. A fast car should be designed with aerodynamic surfaces for a balance of maximum production of downforce and minimum drag creating surfaces. It should have as small an engine as possible to reduce mass and reduce the necessary size of the frontal area, but a large enough engine to be able to produce enough horsepower to be able to create more force than the resistance the car faces to accelerate and enough to balance with those forces at high speeds. The tires should be wide enough for fast acceleration and good cornering but not so wide it creates large amounts of rolling resistance. Your overall best example of such a car would be formula one races or Indy cars because they have to have good handling, fast acceleration and reach and maintain high speeds.
Formula One Racing Formula One racing, or F1, is known to be the most prestigious type of auto racing in the world. Unfortunately, in the United States F1 racing is not nearly as popular as other motorsports such as Nascar. On a typical Sunday afternoon if one were to flip channels on the television, Nascar would most likely be airing on a major station. Furthermore, if one were to watch the race he