Hey everbody i was wondering if anybody else followed grand prix racing?

Peace
- graham

I would like to but there is very little of it on TV here to watch. I am a big Nascar fan and get to attend lots of races since I live in Virginia!!

thats sweet man what do you think of scott speed, juan pablo and other open wheel drivers converting to nextel cup?

i'd like to throw a brick at Juan Pablo!!!


the guy doesn't know how to race in Nascar,so why the heck did he switch over???

Yeah he is having a hard time converting from the most technologily advanced race cars on earth and the worlds greatest drivers to tube frame stock cars and well nascar drivers

it is his talledega nights fantasy....

well does anybody watch irl or cart?

Pier...don't start bashing the Nascar drivers. A big part of them including Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart came from open wheel racing. Nascar is much more advanced now and the rules have been tightening down on the teams. The drivers actually have to be BETTER than the Indy drivers because the cars are harder to handle. It ia harder to go from Indy to Nascar than Nascar to Indy. Nobody is going that direction because the money is in Nascar. Fans would rather see cars that can rub paint and bump without exploding into a thousand pieces like Indy cars do.

jeff gordan is a great driver and could drive in any form of motorsport and win. Nascar has alot of talent in it and I admit that but i still think that it is dumbing down motorsports formula one and other european forms of motorsport put us to shame and thats just the way it is.

You are just comparing apples and oranges. Nascar has roots as moonshine runners just trying to prove who was the fastest out there. The sport has PROGRESSED to a multi-BILLION dollar sport that no other can touch. The F-1 people have more advanced cars but are poor at marketing the races and making it desireable to the mainstream public. Yes the F-1 are fast...but they don't have roots close to home and most of the drivers are from another country besides the USA. Nascar is built from the roots from the good-ole-boys of the USA and they love rubbing paint and not being so prissy like F-1 portays. The regular guy can relate to it much better.

yeah f1 sucks at marketing its product and will never make it in the states because tony george and bernie eckelstone are the 2 biggest idiots in motorsports. But I have 2 correct you f1 drivers are not prissy in fact they have way more balls than any nextel cup driver ever could dream of. They dont (trade paint) because number one the cars are made of carbon fiber and other composit materials not sheet metal and tubes and nuber two its not a good idea to bump in open wheel race cars (I learned that first hand ) stock car racing is a great form of motorsport but its not the top. jimmie johnson is not the world champion race car driver Kimi raikkonen is.

I'm going to go along with Pier and say F-1 is alot harder to drive. Just based on the facts that the F-1 cars are faster, handle better, brake faster, and produce way more G forces than basicaly any vechile know to man.

Nothing compares to open wheel racing

YES!!! thanx guys

I grew up in Indiana and went to the Indianapolis 500 almost every year. Now I'm stuck in NASCAR country. I don't get the thrill of watching a line of cars zoom (sort of) by lap after lap. Even the drivers admit they don't start "racin" until the waning laps. And to them racing is nothing but slingshot passes and bump drafting. In open wheel racing, there is somebody racing on every lap. And the driver's skill has a lot to do with where they finish.

thats sweet robert have you ever been 2 the us grand prix