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Why NASCAR is better viewing than F1

Haha, looks like Berto's getting owned left and right. Thanks for the explanations guys, saved me a lot of typing.
 
Just as an aisde...CART recently ran in Montreal on the same track the F1 boys use.

Fastest CART qualifier was six seconds a lap slower than than the F1 pole time this season. Wouldn't have made the F1 field with the 107% rule.
 
Carbonfiber:

Great explanation. Thanks!

But, still, even with the CART drivers being fed into F1 possibly, most of them are not Americans either...
 
Holeshot said:
Carbonfiber:

Great explanation. Thanks!

But, still, even with the CART drivers being fed into F1 possibly, most of them are not Americans either...
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God, pay attention!!! Since NASCAR and oval racing are so dominant in US, most of the junior series shift focus towards that. We need lower Formula series in the US and more emphasis on Karting. Racing dirt track and ovals will not prepare you for a Formula car. In Europe, South America and rest of the world, there are multiple ranks of Karting that a driver can progress through. Then the driver can race in their National F3 series. From there move onto F3000 and then onto Formula 1. Ofcourse there are other methods and routes depending on driver skill but this is the ideal path.

Bernie Eccelestone, the GodFather of F1, understands the importance of having an American driver in the series and Red Bull is sponsoring a 10 Driver Test and Trail around the Country as we speak in hopes to find local young talent and send him on the right path. Only recently has Road Racing been receiving the proper attention in the states and now there seem to be more and more Karting venues and leagues popping up in places. Hopefully in the next 10 years or so, we'll have another American F1 champion but right now, the talent is not there. Also, CART SHOULD act the US feeder series to F1 and it would do a whole lot better. They try to compete with F1, this is not possible.
 
Cart and the IRL have their own problems with one another, not to add F1 to their list of competition.

By your logic, only the talent meant for ovals is used by those ovals...the rest is left untapped (as in: "Oval drivers cannot drive roadrace cars").

The REAL problem is the financial acuity of CART and the IRL to NOT attract top drivers, or even entice parnets to start their children driving young...where's the money in that?

Can we all agree, that in the US, the money is in selfish Baseball, Football,Golf, and Basketball players? With even a percentage of those resources thrown at racing, we'd have a great pool of drivers to choose from. However, as it is, junior is more apt to grow up and become a football star than a CART star.

It's in our culture, and you are correct in saying that NASCAR is closer to football at times than it is to CART....
 
Holeshot said:
Carbonfiber:

Great explanation. Thanks!

But, still, even with the CART drivers being fed into F1 possibly, most of them are not Americans either...
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To make it in Formula one you need to be gifted AND heavily trained. As Robert mentioned it, drivers in the states have a different focus which would require a great deal of adaptation. If you train a guy to do the oval thingy :laughing , you can expect him to thrive in a formula that does the oval thingy! The F3000 champ is usually given ONE chance into Formula one (one season in a second-class team or few replacements) AND his sponsors HAVE TO PAY for his seat.

For a US driver to make it, he has to convince people that he is good beyond the US-type racing AND he is worth spending some money on. Why would the usual sponsors take that risk when they can get proven talents from euro/brazil/pretty_much_anywhere_except_in_the_US?

In short, this is not the olympic games there is no specific representation per country. If you want to see more US drivers there, implement F3000 and other sub-formulas in the US or send the drivers to Europe for them to prove themselves in lower formulas.

Try to see it that way:

Why is there so few European guys drag racing in the States? Same reasons... with a greater emphasis coz we don't do no stinkin' drag racing in Europe.

Hugo
 
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