one difference is the NASCAR boys are SO VERY accustomed to safety car situations... there being so many of them... so they line up behind the pace car without a whole lot of prompting... F1, while they see the safety car occasionally, it's not their normal thing .... other than the first corner of the first lap of any given race...
... so they tend to be a bit more disorganized ...
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June 29, 2010 4:12 p.m. wbjones Dork
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June 29, 2010 5:53 p.m. Rusnak_322 Reader
The F1 drivers get a lot o excuses, but they are supposed to be the best drivers in the world. They see the safety car enough that they should be experts at it. They can't test, so how about using the $2MM state of the art simulators to practice restarts.
The F1 broadcast had me steaming. Hobbs kept saying that the F1 drivers are not used to the speed difference between the back markers. They are on the 9th race! Add up the preseason testing time and they should have had enough time to understand that the slower cars are the ones that are not going as fast as them down the straights and they are not breaking and accelerating in the same places as them, so they need to make sure that they don't drive right in the back of them!
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June 29, 2010 7:22 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork
Rusnak_322 wrote:
The F1 drivers get a lot o excuses, but they are supposed to be the best drivers in the world. They see the safety car enough that they should be experts at it. They can't test, so how about using the $2MM state of the art simulators to practice restarts.
The F1 broadcast had me steaming. Hobbs kept saying that the F1 drivers are not used to the speed difference between the back markers. They are on the 9th race! Add up the preseason testing time and they should have had enough time to understand that the slower cars are the ones that are not going as fast as them down the straights and they are not breaking and accelerating in the same places as them, so they need to make sure that they don't drive right in the back of them!
Agreed! If drivers getting paid 1/100th of an F1 driver in Grand Am, or ALMS can negotiate traffic better than an F1 driver...maybe they should all be driving in F1!
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June 29, 2010 7:27 p.m. dean1484 Dork
Lets put a couple F1 drivers in ALMS and see how long they last.
