[GoHuge]

To say F1 drivers are superior is laughable. To say you have to be a better driver to drive and make go fast a computer-contolled/enhanced vehicle is stupid. look at the "open wheel invasion" of a couple years ago. The only guys left....AJ Allmendinger and Juan Pablo. Neither of them has won on an oval and the other guys are back in open wheel because they weren't competetive, and it wasn't solely because of their equipment. Most of them couldn't even qualify or keep sponsors due to lack of performance or missing the show.

An F1 car or IRL car has somewhere between 3-4 times more downforce. Physics isn't debateable. There tires are twice as wide and the car weighs half as much. Those cars are glued to the racetrack. Their pit stops almost do themselves. They can use a computer to lean out the motor "on the fly" to increase fuel economy which almost completely takes the human factor of trying to figure gas mileage. Everything in NASCAR is a mechanical adjustment rather than computer adjustment. You have to physically work on everything in NASCAR. In open wheel it's a matter of looking at the onboard computer and making computer adjustments to fix the car. A Cup car weighs twice as much, with tires half as wide, with 3 times less downforce, and no computers that make on the fly adjustments and auto-corrections. The notion that the skill set to drive an open wheel car is greater than that to drive a Cup car is one of the more utterly reeruned arguements I've seen out of people on this board.

As I stated open wheel racing has taken alot if not most of the human element out of correcting the car. What makes NASCAR more challenging to the teams is it is almost purely the human brain that decides what to do to the car. Also the team concept is much more important. In open wheel there is one lug nut per wheel and no jack man compared to NASCAR having a jack man and five lugs per wheel while at the same time making mechanical adjustments to the car during pit stops. You can argue all you want about which form of motorsports is more exciting, but it shows your complete lack of understanding of motorsport to argue which is a more challenging. Or you can just look at the attrition rate of open wheel guys not being able to hack it in NASCAR. When they say it is much more difficult to drive a Cup car I would tend to believe the guys that have actually done it rather than the opinion of the motorsports experts on CP. I enjoy open wheel and NASCAR equally but don't sit here and make stupid ass statements because you like on version of racing more than another.