[eBelasco]

Real racing: Bonneville. F1. Road America. The quartermile at Pomona.
I strongly disagree on F1. NASCAR pits man against man, in the form of driver vs driver, and pit crew vs pit crew. Any driver can win on any given Sunday. F1 is primarily engineer vs engineer, euroweenie vs euroweenie. It's tracks prevent effective racing, and the driver is secondary to the car. While this may be interesting to some, it pales beside the drama that is 43 men battling on a half-mile oval.

[MineralMan]

"While this may be interesting to some, it pales beside the drama that is 43 men battling on a half-mile oval."

To each his own, I guess. My favorite is SCCA club racing, or what's left of it. I ran a '59 AH Sprite in H Production back in the 60s at club races in CA. I think I paid $450 for the car, and ran its wheels off. I never won a single race, but it was hellacious fun, that H Production class.

A guy could go racing then, just because he wanted to. Now, it's virtually impossible, except in the vintage racing circuit, and those cars are getting really expensive.

[samuel_adams_us]

Not even close to right, the drivers in F1 have more technical driving ability than NASCAR drivers, they don't just turn left, they turn both ways as well as they are doing it at much higher G's and at much higher speed. A F1 car will leave a NASCAR car in the dust on any track at any time.

[Rebelbase]

"drama that is 43 men battling on a half-mile oval."

Yawn. I've had some really nice, NASCAR inspired naps on Sunday afternoons.