Speaking on race times f1 races are generally timed and end after 2 hours regardless of how many laps have been completed while nascar races go until the checkered flag flies on the final lap.

Formula 1 car vs nascar. As nascar modifies a stock car from popular automakers their vehicles are relatively cheap at 25 million each. It is refined slimmed down clear cut sprint like kind of race. While nascar is your engaging exciting engine revving fender bumping race formula 1 is quite the opposite.

They use the most powerful and the most technically advanced cars and to drive them you have to be the best there is. F1 cars usually have a chassis similar to the dallara. But if an f1 car is a lunar module a nascar is the rocket beneath.

1 formula one is a sprint. Yes f1 cars are made in whitewashed labs by mad professors. The abu dhabi race f1s last event had 24 cars covering 190 miles over 55 laps on a 35 mile road course with 21 turns right and left.

To obtain an f1 vehicle f1s 20 drivers broken up over ten teams can wind up spending more than 9 million. Safety and formula one there are specific rules for f1 on how the race is run with two categories which are sporting and. Formula 1 cars are single seat and open wheeled which means the wheels are on the outside of the car and not under the fenders as they are with nascar.

Nascars car of tomorrow uses a gasoline powered v 8 engine. It takes years to reach the top of formula 1 but the rewards are worth it once you get there. There is a difference in their average speeds but its not much.

Both indycar and formula 1 vehicles sport a v 6 engine equipped with turbo boosts which are technically more powerful than nascars v 8. Indy and f1 cars are designed with v 6 turbo engines. F1 cars have an enclosed cockpit but the nascar ones are enclosed in a sedan style vehicle.

Nascar is a marathon. And nascars are knocked up in medieval foundries by men with mallets. The longest of them the nascar race can take just under four hours to complete and cover over 330 laps while formula one and indycar races like the indianapolis 500 can average around 200 laps.

A nascar is more than twice the weight of a formula 1 car. That includes a 77 million engine 50000 steering wheel and 160000 cooling system. But each f1 team is required to work closely with the development team to build its own.

Formula 1 with all of its optimization and technology is a little bit pricier. Thats incredible since f1 cars arent twice as fast as nascar vehicles.