Nascar cars run about 80-200k, brakes, body, suspension shitty---still run 60s tech suspensions...
Engines, well, are the max you can do with a carberated engine...
F1 drivers are comic to Nascar for a check. Most have lost their rides or are no longer competitive in F1...they won't admit it, but if Ferrari came calling all would jump---especially Montoya, who was pissed he didn't get a Ferrari contract.
NASCAR participants do little to translate the tech to showroom like they use to---back when they really were stock cars, and you get a Ford cammer engine...F1 at least the tech does trickle down---For instance tech from Ferrari's F1 cars on it's road cars. Carbon Fiber is another technology that went from F1 to the road cars. KERS as well.
Nada for NASCAR, you want real stock car racing, look to the Germans and their DTM cars, also, Mercedes has produced DTM cars for the street---the Mercedes C63 AMG DTM and the C63 AMG Black Series...in the same vein as Dodge/ Plymouth with their Daytona/Superbird...
NASCAR is pure entertainment---that is what the France family wants to emphasis. F1 is about racing foremost, that is what Bernie is about..which why they have scrapped the 4 cylinder turbo engines in favor of the V8...
Not saying Nascar is not good, because I have personally seen NASCAR engines in police officer's cars, but you will not see a F1 engine, unless it's detuned (Ferrari F50's), in a road car...
Exactly my point.
NASCAR today has NOTHING to do with factory automobiles, the engines that run in those cars are as advanced technically AS THE RULES WILL ALLOW as an F1 engine, many of the cup teams get forgings for their parts from the same european companies that the F1 teams do.
Like I said, Im involved in and around the industry, and Im telling you Parker... NASCAR is world class racing now.
F1 snobs always try marginalize it and sideline it... but the fact is, Championship winning F1 drivers come to NASCAR and are barely competitive, just exactly the same as a NASCAR driving trying to get into F1. (not saying thats you).
Yeah, the engines cost around 75-100k to build, but those guys have the same R&D budget as F1 - Unlimited. And trust me, those guys dynos are going NON STOP.
JGR, Hendrick, etc, all have Dyno rooms that cost multi-millions, with climate controlled rooms feeding air into the dyno, set to exactly the same humidity and air density as the track their going to, and the motors will get throughout the RPM range matched EXACTLY to the track, simulating the corners, and how the engine will rev up and down throughout the endurance test exactly how its going to go around the track. Almost exactly the same as the Dynos used by the Euro F1 teams.
Its a matter of taste, but dont think that because its NASCAR, they dont have the same budgets and spend the same amount of cash that the F1 teams do. They just dont have the outrageous costs for engines and parts because of the wide open rules and experimental tech.
The NASCAR hate from people now largely stems from ignorance and stigma. Fact is, NASCAR racing today is some of the most competitive racing in the world, followed closely by Pro Stock Drag Racing, unlike Formula 1, where 1 guy (usually the pole sitter) generally gets out from and barring engine failure or fuckup, runs off with the race (see Sebastian Vettel*right now), and there is usually very little passing, everyone just gets in their nice little line and just tries not to fuck up. <--- See, each kind of racing has its negatives
