What's more important, car or driver?

May be...

You know ... it's a tough call to make, and the experts have always said driver ... it's obviously both to some degree. BUT the best driver can't succeed in crappy equipment, while the WORST driver will fail even in good equipment.

That tells me that the equipment is at least as important as the driver. I guess I'd split it about 50/50.

Jeff Gordon couldn't drive the 78 to victory lane. Likewise, Chad McCumbee (I shouldn't pick on him) couldn't drive the 24 to victory lane (though the latter is more likely than the former, showing the importance of equipment).

Nathan

It's got to be a balance of the two. Some great drivers can take a bad car and win with it but not always.

Looking at how far Kyle Busch took that 18 car (good driver/bad car) and looking at how bad Kasey Kahne did last year (good driver/bad car), is it more car or driver.

Car or it would be called driver racing instead of auto racing.

Neither. It has to be a balance of both car AND driver.

Go Jr.>>>>

Combination of both, but if car is beyond horrible even the best driver in the world won't be able to do spit with it. However, a great driver can overcome a crappy car and bring home a decent finish.

It is the car. you put mark martin in a hendricks car. see how many races he would win.

right now looking at this car,I say both is very important. The car doesn't drive right then the driver needs to change something. They both now are very important

Driver

It's a combination of both.

i think you almost got it right, if you look at Kahne thats a good driver/bad car, and if you look at the 18 last year, bad driver(Yeley)/good car, What Kyle Busch is doing shows the 18 was a good car, so you can see that in the combination going both ways, you have the same results, now that Gibbs has a good driver in the good car (18) they are winning.

Well, in NASCAR, the driver, because all the cars are nearly the same.

But some manufactures seem better than others.

I'd say the car is a bit more important, but it always helps having a great driver, such as Carl Edwards...

its a combination of both. If you take the best driver and put him in the worst car there is no way that he will have the power to win. and if you put the worst driver in the best car he will probably wreck it in the first lap of the race.

Driver.

Both have to be on thier A game to win a race. But I do believe the handling of the car and it's performance is a bit more important, if a driver is having a bad day and an awesome car he still may have a great finish. But no matter how good the driver is if the car sucks it's over.

Both. Could the driver of the 48 move to the car #45 and win races? Probably not. Could the driver of the 45 move to the car #48 and win races? Hmmmmmmmm

Ideally, good car/good driver...

The drivers have to be "good" or they wouldn't be behind the wheel.

If the car is garbage, they can't possibly just hang on for dear life.

Not like in the 70's or 80's. Remember when (I think) Ned Jarret won by 11 laps, but had been down like 20.!!!

A Combination of Both--60%-40%!!!!!!!

its both. without one you cant race so both very important

Of course a driver must be talented. So does a crew chief. So does an owner. So does the pit crew. So do the engineers. So do the engine guys, etc... etc..... etc. 'Nuff said? NASCAR has become a team sport and I believe it is more complex than perhaps any other sport. Remember, this is a sport measured in thousandths of seconds. Once you get your head wrapped around that, you begin to realize that everybody involved in the sport is a phenominal talent. Sorry for rambling on. I'm not a fan. I'm a bonified fanatic. GO DALE JR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seeeeeeeee ya at the track.

Don't insult Jimmie Johnson like that lady. He's more of a driver than Kyle ever hoped to be. Obviously Jimmie is a great wheelman, but what puts him head and shoulders above a lot of other guys is his ability to relay succinct information about the car. Having The Chad doesn't hurt either.

Don't get me wrong, Kyle's a great guy.

I believe it is part driver but if the car is not set up right it doesn't matter if you have Jeff Gordon or Carl Edwards they won't be able to drive it. Yu saw that last week at Texas with Jeff Gordon.

In all honesty, I would say both. A good car and a good driver is an awesome combo. If you have a bad car and a good driver, the good driver can usally make the bad car better. Now if you have a good car and bad driver that could be bad news because that driver can't drive the car was well.

It's always about the driver. Kyle finally admitted it was a "drivers error" rather than blaming his crew or other drivers. I think he finally figured it out that Nascar fans were tired of the boo hoo mama he made me lose. Have you ever heard Clint Bowyer blame someone other than "the Biffe" for a loss of victory lane? Please! He ran out of gas and was still so full of himself, he still didn't have enough of what it takes to admit he didn't win. Now that is a sorry Nascar driver. Sorry Biffe, but I suppose your mama still loves you.