Emerson Fittipaldi compares Indy racing to F1

Two time Indy 500 champion talks about IndyCars and Formula 1. Why ovals are so interesting from drivers view of point and more demanding than F1 in some ways. An interview taken in 2005 just before inaugural GP Master event.

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[AtoZ0to9123456]

how can you think an oval track is more exciting than F1 with tracks like monaco, montreal, monza

and hes talking about precision and smoothness. so its allright to be jerky and slapdash going around a hairpin corner at close to 90 mph?

F1 is the height of motorsport whey else would it be called F1 <--------

[AJ1964]

@AtoZ0to9123456 This might help you to open the eyes. F1 is not so rosy as they make it to seem.

[AtoZ0to9123456]

@AJ1964 it isnt rosy i know

its godawfully hard

which is why its so much harder than indy car

[AJ1964]

@AtoZ0to9123456 F1 is hard? Not these days, period.

[CpuModern]

@SennaHamilton4ever Still no argument in favor to call F1 the height of motorsport. I m not saying it isnt, but the name is barely an argument for it. You can call all sorts of things all sorts of names, that doesn't change what these things are. Not hard to get, is it?

[SennaHamilton4ever]

@CpuModern It is, why do u think its called Gp2 to the 2nd categorie of formulas? or gp3 to third one? F1 is the best motorsport, and the most watched sport in the world, and the most expensive. All to say that at the begining it may not have that meaning, but nowadays it has

[CpuModern]

@AtoZ0to9123456 Did you know the first world championship races of what is now called F1 were driven with F2 cars? The number refers just to one of many formulas for building a grand prix race car. It was a technical term. Only later it was manifested that a F1 car == Grand Prix car. It's not called F1 because it is the 'first' series of some sort or so.

[445lok]

@AtoZ0to9123456 Well two things it isn´t anyone that can enter in F1, see the Schumacher times, only him wons that races, so what the hell the people will see it knowing who will won

[WestMclaren1]

you don't understand. Im speaking to the person who thinks formula 1 is toughest. Firstly I have trained drivers of both series, they are all athletes. However, now f1 has power steering, take a driver and put him in an Indy Car today it is sooo much more physical. You have to train to drive these cars.

Hope this helps the average fan understand

[RafaelSatchmo]

@AtoZ0to9123456 ...because of the speed. I've been to Monaco: great city, wonderful course. Very historic. But I'm sure you've never been to Indy. At those speeds, extremely high concentration is required for the duration of the race. As the last race revealed, a couple of inches out of the groove will put you into the wall. Both F1/road racing and IndyCar oval racing are difficult and require skills specific to the courses. Both are great forms of racing. They're just different.

[RafaelSatchmo]

@AtoZ0to9123456 Hot shot, F1 is called F1 because the Europeans called it that after WWII. European road racing and American oval track racing evolved because of the different circumstances on each continent. What you donn't understand are the vehicle dynamics of an IndyCar approaching turn one at Indianapolis at over 241 mph (NOT kph), as Al Unser Jr. experienced in his last win there for Penske. If you mess up that turn, it takes another lap to get it right. It is threading a needle...

[MrStig691]

@AJ1964 Period? Dirty man.

Of course it's hard idiot. 5 g braking and turning for 2 hours. Instead of round and round with no corners and barely any braking.

[IRLIndyCar]

F1 vs CART, blah...blah... both were great. I just wish we could go back to the 80's and 90's and re-live each F1 and Indy/CART race. They were all (as Emmo would say) "fantastic"!

[nevernotjeck]

@AJ1964 i think you just lost, no one supported you with thumbs up... hahaha F1 the best..