What are the difference between a NASCAR Sprint Cup vs Formula One and how popular is the racing industry. These are two different races with two different cars and different style of racing.The NASCAR Sprint Cup brings in around $629 million and is broadcast in the United States. The formula one tops NASCAR with making $1.5 billion annually. The formula one is an international race that included both left and right turns. The most significant difference that stands out is the shape and design of the race cars. The formula one is design to reach top speed at 205 mph, they have reached this accomplishment by making the formula car more aerodynamic. They have took many years to master the idea of aerodynamic. They have tested by making a toy …show more content…
In the NASCAR Sprint Cup the track is in a circular shape and the formula one track can be in multiple shapes that consists of left and right turns while the sprint cup only has left turns and a long stretch for all cars to stop at the pit stop. Then average time for the sprint cup pit stop time is around eleven seconds and the formula one is quick with a remarkable time of three seconds. There are multiple sponsors for both races for the NASCARS the sponsors tend to be Chevy, Toyota, and Ford. While the F1 is sponsored by the more expensive brands like the Mclaren, Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari. The F1 cost to make is approximately 2.6 million dollars and Nascar is one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to make. If these two cars get in an accident while on the track they have the risk of losing a multimillion dollar car or a thousand dollar car. These companies make a good annual revenue to afford and prepare these cars and races by broadcasting internationally and getting money from the people. The more people watch the more annual revenue they make and that why the F1 company had made more revenue because it is broadcast internationally and on the other hand the sprint cup makes a lot but not as much as they should have if they broadcast
Nascar…. When you think of moonshine you think of the hillbillies in overalls fireing up grand daddys still in the b ack forty. It may come to a shock to you when you learn that nascars the billion dollor enterprise with 100,000 cars that are engineered to be as fast as they can be. Its hard to belive it all started from shine runners. During the great depression millions of gallons of shine were in need of distribution. This is where the ridge runners came into play. The shiners needed a way to get there shine from the stills to the stash houses…. The cops at the time had stock cars and if you could out run them then you wre free. You can only get in trouble if you are caught in the act….. the backwoods shiners started to build cars that would out run the cops. This was the beginning of nascar…..
The green flag drops on the first race in The National Dirt Racing Association(NDRA). It doesn’t matter where people go, on some little road in a small town, people will find a small dirt track. The speedways are mostly always located in city areas where a large amount of people live. After a weekend of racing the teams head to the shop to fix the car up again. Despite the fact, that racing had been around since before 1978; whenever Mr. Robert Smawley introduced NDRA, and later Mr. Bill France introduced NASCAR, more people paid attention to the sport of racing.
While 29% of nascar fans make less than 30,000 dollars a year. The geographics of nascar is that 40% of their race tracks are in the south and just 15% are in the northeast so their biggest market is people in the south. The SWOT of nascar is that one of its strengths is that it has less risk than it’s competitors do to the fact of the amount of research that goes into the car to keep the drivers safe. For nascar their biggest treat is formula racing because they race all over the world rather than just in the U.S. However, their biggest threat inside america is indycar racing the reason that they are such a big threat is because people that watch indycar are most likely excited that indycars go fast and that rather than just racing on oval tracks they also race on street tracks. One major weakness of nascar is that they are only in the U.S. and they have little fan base in foreign countries. Some of nascars biggest opportunities is that if they were able to go and race in other countries that would provide them with other sponsors and fans outside
About 75 million people have watched NASCAR. About 12.66% watch NASCAR and follow it one way or another. The other 10.49% (34 million) will know a racer or two. In a period of 10 years (1996-2006) sales have shot up over $2,199,999,400. The sales have gone from 600/year-2.2billion/year. These both show that it is a very popular sport and growing in popularity.
...t used to running long distances. It’ll take even longer for a person to get used to racing long distances. Running/jogging long distances and actually racing long distances are two totally different things. Cross country also requires more energy than track. In track you get recovery time in between your races, but in cross country you run the 3.1 miles altogether with no breaks.
When Jack Roush decides to have one less race team on the track, he does so not because he doesn’t like the team that is racing, but because fielding a race team is expensive. Mr. Roush has a lot of money, but he is limited to the number of teams he can put on the track. Race fans make choices too. We choose which drivers we will support, which manufacturers we will back, what races to attend in person, and how many races to watch on television. All of these choices are made because we don’t have the time, money or opportunity to watch every race, travel to every track, or back every driver. Therefore, we have to choose.
Racing has always been about going faster than the next driver. It was about trying to beat course records and lap speeds. But if Tony George has his way, all course speeds will be reduced due to switching from turbo Indy V6 engines to normally aspirated V8's. The result is less horsepower, thus slower speeds. Records would never be broken, and the sport would lose some of its appeal. Racing has always been a strive to go faster; there is no real reason to change it now. One of Tony George's justification is that the sport would become safer. That is not true. The difference would not be much . The fatality rate for a 230 mph crash, and a 210 mph crash, is not that much different.
NASCAR wasn’t always one of America’s favorite things to watch or a multimillion-dollar sport. It was actually inspired by criminal activity during the twentieth century. How racecars became part of American life goes back to the early days of prohibition and how gangsters avoided the law. During this time temperance organizations wanted to restrict or abolish the consumption of alcoholic beverages. By the early 20th century, women’s groups throughout the country viewed the sale and consumption of liquor was disrupting family life, and destroying marriages. The “Anti-Saloon League”, established in 1893, led a wave of protests in 1906 against “saloon” culture. The league had support from factory owners and managers who thought that the consumption of liquor lead to problems of work performance and job safety. This encouraged president Woodrow Wilson to issue a temporary prohibition order in 1917, after World War I. Later that year, Congress submitted a bill banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol. This bill became the 18th Amendment and was ratified on January 29, 1919. It went into effect in during the start of the year 1920. Congress also passed the National Prohibition Act in 1919. This was known as the Volstead Act, named after the famous Mississippi representative Andrew Volstead. This bill provided federal enforcement guidelines of Prohibition. Because of the eighteenth amendment there was a increase of the illegal transportation of alcohol. Many early race drivers were involved in bootlegging and other illegal activities. The runners of the alcohol would modify their cars in order to create a faster, more maneuverable vehicle to evade capture from the ...
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NASCAR was formed by William France, Sr., who was an auto mechanic from Washington D.C. The current CEO is Brian France who is the grandson of Bill France. NASCAR headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida and it has several offices throughout the United States and some in Mexico and Canada. Before Bill France started NASCAR, racing was a very dishonest business where the promoters often stole money from the drivers. France believed that if racing became an organization with rules it would become an honest type of business. In December 1947, France asked many drivers and promoters to meet in Daytona Beach, Florida to create racing rules. NASCAR was created on February 21, 1948 and starting out racing on a track that was half sand and half asphalt. The track was called Daytona Beach and was located in Florida. (Jordan) I feel that NASCAR is a great sport for the fans and anyone else who likes racing in general. NASCAR has an interesting history and is still fun to learn about today.
I think that the target audience for these cars is the same. these cars are family cars. Both of the cars are designed to be comfortable and safe, they are not advertised to be fast sports cars. or stylish city cars; they are advertised as normal cars. In both of the adverts there is no real reference towards the performance of the car apart from in the Chrysler where there is a reference to the fuel.
Tires are the most important part of race or any car for that mater. (Physics of Racing) After all they are the only thing that is contact with the ground! Tires work by having a high coefficient of friction. Some slicks have a friction coefficient grater then 1! (Physics of Racing) Typical normal street tires have coefficient of about .5 to .6 . In physics we learned that friction was equal to mew times the normal force. Since race cars are typical much lighter then normal cars, they use tricks to increase the downward force on the tires. Some drag tires run really low pressure, other drag cars tune the car to lift the front wheels to put all the weight on the rear tires. Indy cars use a wing to generate down force, and ventures to suck the car to the ground. (How to Make Your Car Handle)
In order to have a fast and efficient car all these things I have discussed need to be taken into consideration. A fast car should be designed with aerodynamic surfaces for a balance of maximum production of downforce and minimum drag creating surfaces. It should have as small an engine as possible to reduce mass and reduce the necessary size of the frontal area, but a large enough engine to be able to produce enough horsepower to be able to create more force than the resistance the car faces to accelerate and enough to balance with those forces at high speeds. The tires should be wide enough for fast acceleration and good cornering but not so wide it creates large amounts of rolling resistance. Your overall best example of such a car would be formula one races or Indy cars because they have to have good handling, fast acceleration and reach and maintain high speeds.
"Money makes the world go 'round." Sports could not exist without the presence of money. You have high paid athletes asking for multi-million dollar contacts, while at the same time you have doctors not even making close to that amount. There are corporations buying out sports teams, buying stadiums, and buying everything that has to do with sports. Someone may ask why they do this. Sports are one of the most profitable industries in the world. Everyone wants to get their hand on a piece of the action. Those individuals and industries that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sports teams are hoping to make a profit, but it may be an indirect profit. It could be a profit for the sports club, or it could be a promotion for another organization (i.e. Rupert Murdoch, FOX). The economics involved with sports has drastically changed over the last ten years. In the United States, we spend about 13% of all money on sports and entertainment. Sports has obviously done its job; entertained and drained money out of our pockets.
or she would notice that the racetrack was packed with thousands upon thousands of people. A large part of the lack of popularity of F1 in America is that only one race is run in the United States. All of the other races take place in countries such as Spain, France, Italy, and Canada. With Nascar every single race is run in the United States, which is obviously a large contributing factor towards its immense popularity. Despite the fact that Nascar is the racing preference of most Americans, Formula