Why NASCAR is HARDER than F1 (and also a brief look into a NASCAR Vocabulary)

When you take F1 champions and put them into a bigger and heavier stock car you would expect them to do better job than most drivers in that sport… right? Well, Looking from Juan Pablo Montoya’s (who won 1 F1 world drivers title) short NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career, I’d say you’d best have better plans in order to do well in the sport. Here’s a few reasons why I think the top-tier NASCAR series is harder than just turning left (and right, because of Sonoma and Watkins Glen (also been raced by F1 in the past))

1. it’s all about “driver comfort”

In F1 if a driver has an issue with the way his car is handling, he could just change a setting on his steering wheel to make it more comfortable, or just choose to ride it out. In NASCAR, This is on the driver to communicate he is either loose (oversteer) or tight (understeer) to his Crew chief, which will then choose to make an adjustment during the driver’s next pit stop. In this case it could be poor communication with the Crew Chief or an unknown problem creating an issue. in the case of Juan Pablo, the greatest incident of him being “loose” is him crashing into a Jet dryer in the 2012 Daytona 500. The reason he became loose in the end was because the part that holds the rear axle into place snapped, causing an accident (even so, he was still a lap down at that point in the race anyway). A reason why this happens so often in NASCAR is because the Car is heavier and the tires (tyres for you non-Canadian/American folk) aren’t preheated to ensure maximum grip.

1. More competition between drivers/manufacturers

Just for conviences sake, this section is going to be photos from this most recent F1 and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season

Sorted by wins, pulled Nov 30th of NASCAR website

1. To win in Nascar, you really have to beat “the man”

just gonna embed a past post, take a read

Anyway… that all I’m going to say for today on this blog. Please, don’t feel disrespected by this, as I’m sure to do one the other way next, and then follow it up by doing Indycar being the best of both worlds afterwards. However, if you want to help me with the F1 harder than Nascar blog, put a reason below. I’m probably sure to meet you down in the comments too. Stay Fresh Guys.