Originally Posted by hornet
What series of similar vehicles is faster on the "home turf" of ovals than the Cup cars? Speed has a great deal to do with it. Take it outside NASCAR and AOWR and look at NHRA (or the FIA series for those of us in Europe). The hardcore fans have their favourite classes (imports, pro mods, bikes or whatever), but it's the fuel cars that put bums on seats and get the bulk of the attention. Anyone running a rival series (IHRA, ADRL, FIA, NDRS...) isn't going to encourage direct comparison, as they will always look like the inferior product. I love Indycars and have done for ages, regardless of the politics, but they are being entirely sensible by avoiding situations where they can be directly compared to F1. If there wasn't a marketing risk, they'd have raced on the same tracks by now. I can't believe it's entirely track politics that has limited the overlap for all these years. Not just IRL, as I can't recall CART / CCWS sharing a track with contemporary F1 other than maybe Montreal?
