janstett
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I must confess to being an ignorant noob in this area as I don't watch either Formula 1 or Indy car. I'm more of an ALMS guy and in-the-flesh track day participant. So I'm coming to my friendly neightborhood people-who-follow-F1 for advice. Maybe I can get into it.
To my untrained eye, F1 cars and Indy cars seem to be essentially cousins, definitely the same branch of the motorsport family tree.
I'm also supposing Indy is more of an America-only thing whereas F1 is popular worldwide. One difference for all motorsports is that the aristocracy in Europe seems to embrace motorsports whereas here it is largely shunned by the elite. I'm hazarding a guess that Indy cars tend to run the NASCRAP oval tracks and not road courses, but I'll plead ignorance. But that's not my main reason for asking.
What's different about the cars technologically? I find I'm wishing in my head for Clarkson to do a head-to-head of the two to see which is fastest/better.
Thanks, Joe
To my untrained eye, F1 cars and Indy cars seem to be essentially cousins, definitely the same branch of the motorsport family tree.
I'm also supposing Indy is more of an America-only thing whereas F1 is popular worldwide. One difference for all motorsports is that the aristocracy in Europe seems to embrace motorsports whereas here it is largely shunned by the elite. I'm hazarding a guess that Indy cars tend to run the NASCRAP oval tracks and not road courses, but I'll plead ignorance. But that's not my main reason for asking.
What's different about the cars technologically? I find I'm wishing in my head for Clarkson to do a head-to-head of the two to see which is fastest/better.
Thanks, Joe
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