Quick quiz for motorsport fans?

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well if NASCAR fans know the question better then its not a F1 question !!!

The front car would stay at the same speed. While the trailing car, not having to be at full throttle to maintain the same speed, since the front car was breaking the air for it, will have a little more speed before the air resistance takes over. Hence the term "slingshot".
Pete Aron described it very well in the movie "Grand Prix".

In nascar with the old model if you would slingshot someone from behind you would take the wind off the front car's spoiler and cause him to get loose. But this year since the new cars have a bigger wing so if you were to do the same thing the car would not get loose because the wing catches the air which gives the car more control and won't make it loose. So I'm thinking since F1 cars have similiar wings to the ones used in nascar I think nothing would happen.

Both cars will slow down because that is how that draft works.

The car in front will initially sloww down to avoid a collision and to negociate the bend/turn and then excellerate again out of the turn to gain and maintain advantage.-I think!
Thought provoking question-have a star.


EDIT: Would the car in front move to the left and then accellerate?

Perhaps the aceleration would be more about psychology? Report It

So, two F1 cars go down the straight nose to tail, at around 180mph the chasing car moves to the right coming out of the slipstream to overtake.
How will the car in front (the car not the driver) react?
NASCAR fans should know this better I suspect.

Nascar, can we respect eachothes drivers?

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Tony Stewart because he is the shiznit hahaha I think he is an overall genuine guy if he doesnt like you he will tell you lol

He's making a left turn! He's making a left turn! He's making a left turn! He's making a left turn! He's making a left turn! He's making a left turn! He's making a left turn!

No wonder why everyone loves this sport

Ok, now, name your favorite driver and why then you have to name something good about the favorite driver of the person above you.

driver of the #2 Blue Deuce Kurt Busch, I was a huge fan of Rusty and Kurt was a great replacement, has a good winning history & seems to be a great team mate as well. Kyle busch, what can I say about Rowdy, he's Kurts lil brother & like Kurt said one time in an interview, wait til you see my little brother, he's hot right now & looks like going to Gibbs was an excellent move for him, that outta show Hendricks

All hail Robert E. Lee?

Kyle petty, not a great racer but what he does of the track is awesome. Johnson,competitive and a good driver

My answer to Miller

Rusty was a great driver for Miller's, he is one of the nicest and most genuine driver you will ever meet, Kurt Busch is not doing in that car what Rusty could and did a lot of years...

If you ever meet Rusty Wallace, you would love him to death, my husband works for Millers, now for 24 yrs, and we have met all the drivers, but by far, Rusty was the funniest to talk to, laid back, cool guy.

I say lets respect everyone but Dale Jr who is a total fraud. Anyone who thinks I'm wrong didn't watch the race on Sunday.

Jimmie Johnson is my fav!! i like him from day one, he is an extremely awesome driver and have alot of respect for him. The person in front of me is also a Jimmie fan!! GO 48!!

Kurt Busch is my favorite. Winter Glory's favorite driver is my favorite drivers brother. Kyle can flat out drive the wheels off the car(truck) or whatever he is in and in my opinion after his career is over he will go down in the books as one of the best drivers ever to have raced in the great sport of Nascar!

That's not hard for me, I don't bash anyone's driver.

Kyle Petty...has a genuine passion for racing. Even when riding around in the back, he still has a fire inside to be out there on the track. And his off the track work speaks for itself.

MY driver: Dale Jr. The son of the legend. Seems like a great guy, down to earth, laidback, and likes to have a good time off the track, but can definitely focus on racing when its time. He respects his fans/sponsors also.

I went to an autograph signing here in WV last summer at Ona Speedway before they raced at Michigan the next day...and Jr's line was 4 times longer than anyone elses...I didn't make it to the table before time was up..and JR's people were trying to get him on the bus...but he STILL came over to the fence and signed for about 10 more minutes.

My prized possession? My autographed Bud #8 diecast that I got that day.

KYLE BUSCH

THE GUY DOESNT HAVE A DRIVER LISTED I WILL ANSWER THE FIRST ANSWER

TONY STEWERT NEVER AFRAID TO SHOW EMOTION

i am 100% a jimmie johnson fan. and a hendrick fan but i have respect for alot of drivers. of course i like dale i like casey mears,michael waltrip,kevin havick,matt kenseth,greg biffle,newman, denny hamlin, and reed sorenson. i find it easy to like more than i dislike.

Mark Martin, he's always a clean driver and respected by almost all.
Kyle Bush, he has alot of talent and is doing great so far this year.

Kyle Busch is my favorite, the post above me has Mark Martin, what could I possibly say bad about Mark?
He's a legend..

How is F1 considered racing?

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Ok, just looking at the results of this past weekend's Spanish GP the winning margin was over 3 seconds and Malyasia was even worse over 19 seconds how lame is that? Spainish GP Kimi basically drove around from pole to finish with no real lead changes, how does this even compare to Talladega, with 52(that's right 52) lead changes between 20 drivers. Seriously how can watching 22 cars run around a track in a line. No wonder overtaking's such a thrilling thing in F1 since it's such a rarity. Oh yeah, what's with less than half the cars finishing a race, you'd think that a $20 million machine would be a little tougher than than a $250,000 NASCAR car. Come on F1 fans, tell me why and be a little more creative than it turns right as well as left, and redneck jokes.
technology and right turns DO NOT make for better racing.

i watch all racing, and i will say that as far as passing goes nascar and f1 are on equal & opposite ends of the spectrum, yes f1 is in bad shape as far as on track competition goes so little passing that when coultard who has 34 years in F1 (yes I'm exaggerating) cant get passed with out wrecking, i will say i would much rather see more racing for position and over taking, but i think some of the rule changes in the near future will help this,

so whats the opposite end? talladega's 52 leas changes means the first 49 meant absolutely squat, I'm watching a 3 hour race, and the first 2 and a half hours are basically qualifying for the last half hour, so we are watching for the crashes really,

so is one better than the other its up to your personal tastes

it just happened that the catalunya circuit is notorious like monaco wherein overtaking was next to impossible, you had branded a very exciting motor sport lame?... I too watch NASCAR and it just happened that the live race coverage here was always at the very early hour of the day but I can see why the gaps in NASCAR was that too minute coz of a lot of times the drivers get dizzy running in circles that they often bump other cars resulting in a carnage just like bump cars and resulting for numerous safety car or yellow flag periods and how could you have that too much of a gap if your little oval track is less than a mile?...

and I don't lurk either into the NASCAR section just to mock the NASCAR fans out there...
nor ask stupid questions for the benefit of sowing detestation between both camps...
just stay in your NASCAR world coz we don't intend to be there...

I'm with you, the thing I really hate about it though are how the drivers and fans are so arrogant and feel their sport is the best when the cars drive themselves and they still win by 3 seconds.

52 lead changes... AND!?! doesn't mean its exciting... I watched the Talladega race and was thoroughly bored at the pack of cars trundling round bumper to bumper for an hour plus... overtaking does occur in F1... its just the Catalunya circuit is rubbish (which is the consensus of most F1 fans...)... it just takes a lot more skill in F1 because the quality of the drivers is so high!!

NASCAR cars only cost that much coz they're not as technologically advanced as F1 cars... and more than half the cars finished last time out... most of the retirements were due to collisions... something that happens every 5 minutes in NASCAR... its a very simple form of racing, which is why its so popular for Americans, not coz they're stupid... thats just the nature of how they like their entertainment... in Europe.. F1's traditional home, racing is viewed in a different way.. as a challenge of constructors as well as drivers, hence the massive technology in F1

Well, let's just start with the question first... how is it racing? Just to be sure, I went ahead and took out the dictionary to confirm: 1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing. I then reread and yes... I was right, there is nothing at all that requires lead changes ora certain margin of victory. You cite a pair of examples where the fastest driver won. So, you seem to clearly understand that it was a driving contest of speed, but yet you're still asking?

So just what is it that you're really asking... you seem to think a race requires overtaking? WRC is racing... yet there is almost never any overtaking unless someone suffers a mishap. Oh, and those cars are more expensive than a spec- Miata, I guess that WRC is thus dull and uninteresting and therefore someone should probably post a question as to how it could be considered racing?

Or what about NASCAR when compared to my just mentioned Spec Miata... I mean the cars cost 10-20 times more than a spec-Miata, the margins of victory are often greater, and the field sizes smaller... and they can't make it through a race most often without crashing! Yes, clearly, with all things considered, at the moment Spec Miata would appear to be the absolute top of motorsport! Well, at least unless we want to start comparing to soap box racers... I mean those are usually very close contests with lead changes going back and forth almost right to the finish. When you consider that, how could anyone ever want to watch anything else ever again!

Some people wonder how a serious baseball fan can enjoy watching a pitcher's duel, while the baseball fan, greatly enjoying the matchups within the game, finds it much MUCH better than a contest with homerun after homerun. Likewise, many race fans thrill for what it takes to make a pass work under the conditions in F1... if you don't fine, not everyone likes the same things. But really, do you really lack the comprehension to understand that other people see things differently and enjoy different aspects of racing?

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...........very reminicent of NASCAR

F1 is THE PINNACLE of motorsport....as you septics say "Get over it or spin on it!!"

Get back to your CIRCLE of friends or read Paul S a few more times.

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I don't get the point of NASCAR?

YOUR ANSWER WAS

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, sorry so bored with this question after the first 800 times it's been asked(not kidding either)"
And you have the audacity to say "Come on F1 fans, tell me why and be a little MORE CREATIVE than it turns right as well as left, and redneck jokes".....and expect usto take you seriously - how lame!!

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You know nothing about Formula one nor can it be explained to you.
If you don't understand what F1 is then you should leave it well alone.

AMEN Brother!! If I wanted to watch follow the leader I would go to my kids school and watch them play follow the leader at the play ground. I'm not sure how they consider it racing or a sport.

It's definitely racing - boring as can be - but still a race. I'm with you on this one. I can't stand F1 racing. Glad Bernie Ecclestone packed up his boys and took them back out of the United States. I will stick to my NASCAR and Air Races (when televised) for excitement. I don't even watch F1 when I'm really desperate.....

....Hey, Clan M, you could also be told to go back to "Singles & Dating", but that would be RUDE, so we won't go there....

F1 is a competitive form of motorsports, just like any other kind of racing. There's too many forms of motorsports to list. Don't get lost in the shuffle.

I love formula 1 and in my opinion there is not another form of motor racing that can beat it. I have watched NASCAR but we don't get much coverage in the UK. Its usually stuck on late at night when most F1 fans are in bed. I also watch DTM, which like F1, I don't like to miss. My best friends brother races Mini's so we go to watch that too.

I realise you have written this question in retaliation and I also know that the trolls on this section will try to get my answer deleted. At the end of the day we like what we like, end of. If I lived in America I probably would be a big NASCAR fan too, but I don't, I live in the UK so its F1 for me.

I'm not going to crack any red neck jokes, but I can't resist saying this - F1 drivers race in the rain!!!

Nice Wedge, all that from a freakin Star Wars nerd! Get back to your Jar Jar dolls

Me too!
But atleast we don't bash them like they do Nascar! huh?

hey nascar fan go back and stay in the nascar section

22 cars line up on the starting grid.
I take it you know what a grid is?
the lights go off and 22 cars accelerate off the starting grid.
they then race each other, turning both left and right corners.
first one past the chequered flag wins.
Ergo a race.

One could ask the same question about Nascar where drivers basically bump into each other and hope for the best.

If it's so meaningless to you why are you wasting so much energy on it. me thinks you doth protest too much!

EDIT: I think you just don't understand it and resent it.b

About a week ago I posted "How can F1 fans say their drivers are the best in the world?" Caught a lot of hate for that one. I was even told that the facts I stated about F1 cars having electronic driving assists and NASCAR not having them are not facts as they can be disputed. I chose a best answer and commented "Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Obviosly you got the point." and soon after Yahoo deleted the question saying "not a question, not an answer." It seems you cannot ask a question just to make a point. I stay away from personal attacks and have even stayed away from the NASCAR forum because of the crap spewed by these F1 knotheads, but I'm gonna let one fly. I'll bet my question was deleted because some candy a** F1 "racing" fan reported me. That's why they are called "whine and cheese eaters." Notice the spelling of whine. It's not a typo. Another F1 fan was ignorant enough to try to prove that F1 is racing and NASCAR isn't by pointing out that no NASCAR drivers go to F1. Hello? I believe that proves my point. How many F1 drivers have won a NASCAR race? None, because in NASCAR you have to know how to drive a car, not a computer. I could go on and on but I have already sunk to the level of these morons more than I'm comfortable with. Why don't I delete it if I'm not comfortable with this type of sophomoric garbage? Cuz every once in a while it just feels good to act like a jackass. If anybody would like to engage me in a debate citing only the FACTS, I'm wide open. But ,then again, if you consider just the facts there is no debate. Is there? They should rename the series F4B. Formula for boredom. Sorry for the rant but I sure do feel better now. C ya at a REAL track. With REAL drivers. Thanks to Jason F. Your answer reminded me to get my tickets for the air races here in San Diego this weekend. Them boys is craaaaaazy!!!!!!!!

Where can I find NASCAR Sprint Cup replays?

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speed channel usually wednesday or thursday afternoon

Besides the replays on Speed Channel there are clips on Fox Sports of NASCAR races.

speed channel Ithink on thursday.

Ususally Thursday @ 12 on SPEED.

Busch and McMurray.?

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It looked too spontaneous to me to be planned. I think the 18 got tapped from behind, he said so in the post-race interviews. I don't think McMurray was expecting that. It seems to have all happened very, very quickly.

Talladega is not the place for such poor sportsmanship. McMurray had a great shot at the Top 10, but his temper got the best of him. NASCAR may yet fine McMurray for reckless driving in that incident. It sure looked that way to me and I like McMurray as a driver more than Kyle Busch.

I hate to break it to you, it wasn't Kyle that saved that car, it was that big wing on the back of the car. We've seen it all year long. Maybe it wasn't the smartest thing Jamie could have done, but it sure wasn't the driver that straightened the car.

I think the 42 actually tapped or got the 26 aero loose when he came back down, thus making it look like the 26 was retaliating against the 18. Another reason I didn't think it was intentional, he almost took himself out doing it.

KBfan18

Maybe McMurray was telling Shrub that he's not going to take his (Shrub's) reckless driving. Kind of like saying "Here's a dose of your own medicine". It's darn time somebody put the boy (Busch) in the wall....Maybe then he would drive with a little more respect for the other 42 drivers out there....yeah, probably not.

I think that the frustration of bad race after bad race without any wins has gotten the best of Jamie Mac. I usually defend him but I saw things the same way that you did. And yes, Kyle Busch is awesome and I enjoy watching him race. He's always coming back from the end of the lead lap to lead laps and win - and I think that's pretty impressive.

Hopefully Jamie can chill out and return to the leader's pack again soon.

Yeah, I agree, that was a bone headed move by the 26. And i can tell ya the 18 agrees, as he exclaimed in a post race interview on Victory Lane on Speed. "I dont know what his (26) problem was or what he was thinking!". That being said, I dont think it was enough to warrant any discipline from NASCAR. Its just seems like the 26 is involved in far to many bone headed moves. Its to bad cuz Jamie is a likable guy off the track. Just not on it.

i was suprised that they didnt do anything too but it was probably because no one actually WRECKED

i hate the stupid COT

Every driver out there has made a bone head move at one time or another. Fact of racing. If NASCAR handed out fines every time it happened that's all they would do and the reason for fines wouldn't have the impact it is suppose to. There was no wreck involved so there really was no damage done. Bush still went on to win the race. There are tempers that flair at every race. Heck at some track like Bristol, they are warned before the race about letting their tempers go. Retaliation has and always will be a part of racing. Sometimes even when a fine isn't handed out, if they see the need to they will call the drivers in and have a talk with them.

I saw what you saw. McMurray just drove down into Busch. Can't believe they didn't wreck. I do kinda wonder why Busch shot up the track the way he did, but he didn't hit anyone doing it. Maybe Roush will see what we're all seeing and do the right thing by sending McMurray packing.

I just think that Mc Murray got loose in the corner. Yes Busch doesn't always drive a smart race. Sometime he pushes to hard and puts himself in the wall and ends his chance at the win. Busch has a lot of growing up to do as of yet but is getting better at keeping temper in check. But I guess thing that gets me is that Busch might cause a issue but will not take responsibility for the incident.

You know NASCAR officials have spotters, cameras,computers and everything to get every angle of the track and drivers they see and hear things we don't and they make their judgment on their high tech equipment and what each official then assesses the situation. They know what they are doing and when they make a call it is for a good reason not just because someone got loose and their car got away from them.

that's what I saw, I cringed when it happened..

I like to know Why Nascar did nothing on Busch and McMurray , it was a good move on Kyle when he shot up the track with 18 laps to go and he dent hit Jamie Mc or any thing it was when McMurray came after Kyle and hit him and the two all most Crashed but as a good driver like Kyle he did let that happen , I don't know if any of you other fans seen it that way but that is how I seen it , and I believe Dale had seen it that way when he said well I don't know what that was all about when McMurray hit Kyle , ok let me know what your thought on that is ok ,

Who Crashed On Le Mans......?

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some footage would be appreciated.

Peter Dumbreck 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PeORbH5x...

Will Junior win a Championship in his career?

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I think he will win 1 or 2, he is still young enough if he stays at Hms then yes he will win Championships.. I'd love to see him get hot and win 3 or 4, but with the competition as tough as it is today I think the days of 5+ championships are going to be hard to come by..

Go Dale Jr & Hms

It's possible. He's got at least 10-15 years to try unless he gets bored and quits.

Hell no.........JR NATION IS GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heheheh looks like gordon mad at jr cause jr wont let him on top

Just something to think about here, Dale Sr won 6 of his 7 championships after the age of 35. Jr's 33 so there might be a chance.

He will. But I don't see him winning as many as his daddy did. But who knows, maybe he will be a multiple Champion. Than again, maybe he will be like Mark Martin. One of the greats to never win a Championship.

Barring anything bad happening to the kid he will surely win a championship before the end of his career.

sure he will

Yes, IF he doesn't spread himself too thin with his other ventures. I know his sister Kelly handles the financial side of things for him but between Jr. Motorsports, Whiskey River, his production company, and the speedway in Alabama, etc. he a lot of non racing ventures working. I would just hate for that to take away from his focus on racing which I don't think it has yet.

Without a doubt. He is a top ten finisher every week and now that he doesn't have the ownership stress to deal with I believe you will begin to see him become an even more evolved driver.

I would think so, eventually. At 3rd in the standings now he should have a decent chance this year if he maintains the consistency he's already shown.
3 STR8 N 08!!!

My guess is 1 or 2.

He's almost always running near the front,
he just needs everything to come together, for a coupla years.

You need a strong car/team, a good driver, and a LOT of luck to win in NASCAR

Yes and surpass his father.

No. Just living off his ole dead Daddy's name.

yes he will!

I can see Jr winning a championship. Martin Truex Jr that is

88 IN 08

no one really knows but anything can happen and i sure hope he can..GO JR!

Sorry, i don't think so. I had big expectations for him after the start of the year, but it just looks like the same ol' junior. Just not great enough to win the whole kit n kaboodle.