thunderchicken
Grandmaster
Pretty much took the words out of my mouth.1...there is on no level any comparison between the 2 series. 1 is bull riding and the other go kart racine albeit some very high tech go karts.
2.....the dash boards in NASCAR have actually come into the new age. All digital. Wow, go figure. There is no high tech traction controls or fuel management to deal with on a NASCAR. In the day these cars were built and raced out of peoples garages.
3.....there is nothing common place about the engines in that series. You or I will never see one just here or there. They make some very serious power with the push rod designs that us good-ole boy troglodytes like. North of 800 HP. It takes that to push them to near 190/200 MPH.
4...you try and hang one of those cans during a pit stop I dare you.
5....The 5 lug wheels are about as close as they get to being "Stock"
NASCAR "Was" a mans sport. Key word here is "Was".....It has been sissified, made political correct and is ran by a group of non-racer college kids that have no clue.
F-1 in all its high tech wonder is a snotty elitist series. Most of those drivers would not last 3 laps in a dirt sprinter. Jeff Gordan actually wheeled Juan P's F-1 car around the track with some modicum of cool.
F-1 in its hay day when those beautiful machines were hand built was a glorious series full of advancements and mechanical spender. Now, it too has been over sanctioned.
I will add that while F1 is impressive in its own right, its like comparing wine with whiskey. F1 engines still sound like a buncha pissed of bumble bees, while the NASCAR V8s still have that pure raw American muscle tone. Chatlie Daniels said it best in his song Stroker Ace... It's a down right joy to a country boy when he hears them engines moan, you gotta hang tough when it gets real rough and your out there all alone, they'll push you around they'll knock you down and they'll shove you up against the wall.....F1 not so much