Its been long believed by some that NASCAR is doing slightly better than F1 financially.
For whom? F1 is countless times as expensive to simply participate in, so of course there's going to be enormous differences in profit margins for the teams and owners involved. There's a world of difference between spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for your car and spending hundreds of millions.
NASCAR isn't "better financially" for the drivers, though. I was hunting around for a list of the world's highest-paid athletes, and the highest driver on the list (from 2004, I believe) is Michael Schumacher at number two, at $80 million. The next driver doesn't come in until 18th, and that's a NASCAR driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr, at just $20.1 million (a quarter of Schumacher). Jeff Gordon comes in at 23rd at $19.3 million. The fourth driver on the list is Ralf Schumacher, down in 40th, at $16 million.
At a glance that may actually look, in general, better for the pay of NASCAR drivers, but the top two were only a quarter of the top F1 driver and the next F1 driver wasn't far behind. Still, it's important to note that these are just a handful of drivers, with all the rest bringing in less income than these. If we had a list of what every NASCAR driver takes in and what all the F1 drivers take in, I'd bet that F1 drivers average higher.
Yea, he could of stayed in F1....
"Could've". It's a contraction of "could have". "Could of" makes no grammatical sense.
Just to be clear, you do realize that all circuit based racing is essentially going in circles right?
I don't think that's quite what he meant. Typically when people frown on oval racing, it's frowning on the simplicity of exclusively turning in a single direction, of never really accelerating, never really braking, and really applying a minimum of driver feedback in general aside from just keeping the car steady. It's not normally so much about the fact that when you complete a lap you've returned to where you started and go around again.
The Sprint Cup Series is as hard as Formula One.
In terms of what? F1 and other road racing series have challenges in the form of driving skillfully. An F1 driver will put more work into simply getting their car around the track in a single lap than a Sprint Cup driver will in an entire 200-lap race. The challenge of something like the Sprint Cup series isn't skill-related. Sprint Cup challenge is more in the form of overcoming luck; being in the right place at the right time.
If you, me, and Jimmie Johnson were running laps around Daytona in Cup cars, with me right behind you but Jimmie off by himself but 300 feet ahead of us, you're the second-fastest car on the track, I'm the fastest, and Jimmie is slowest, not because of skill or lack thereof but simply because of location. Being behind you makes you slightly faster than Jimmie and makes me faster than both of you, and Jimmie doesn't have enough skill to compensate for the laws of physics.
