Quote Originally Posted by F4Phantom
Hey I am watching the indy right now, I have not seen it before but it looks to me like they are going flat chat around the dome and thats it. It is a novelty to me becuase I have never seen race cars go flat chat for such a long period of time, in a normal race track the corner pops up just as the car is really going. What I want to know is, are these cars comparable to F1 cars?? I know nothing about them. Also are they actualy racing at their top speed, the corners are banked so in theory they could be. If this is the whole race I can see the boring side of it too. If they dont do anything but this track I would say an F1 car would be a better track package as they have to stop and accelerate a lot more. But I think these cars come to QLD sometime although I really dont know if it's the same championship.
The cars that race at Indy are IRL (Indy Racing League), the cars that run at QLD are Champ cars, they're different cars.

I'm not sure how fast the IRL cars are, but the Champ Cars and the F1 cars both race at Montreal in Canada, and the F1 cars are about 6 secs per lap quicker. In top speed though, the Champ cars are often quicker, as they run a lot less wing than the F1 cars.

Regards

John