NASCAR and Formula 1 can not be any more different of racing series when you look at the two side by side with one another. With the recent news about Formula 1 applying for the trademark of “Chicago Grand Prix” less then a year after NASCAR had a huge success with their street race in the city it has rightfully raise some eyebrows. Add to all of this that these are the two most popular motorsports series in America and F1’s push to gain more popularity over here and you have an interesting predicament forming in the space. So today we will look at the Chicago news and what the outlook for each in America compared to the other moving forward. How "Chicago Grand Prix" shows the growing NASCAR Vs F1 divide.
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What do you think the future of American motorsports is between NASCAR and F1?
I feel like f1 is trying to take all the fame from nascar or INDYCAR as its super popular all around the world but nascar and INDYCAR and the most popular in America and I think f1 wants to be more popular then nascar and INDYCAR
Real racing fans watch both series and aren’t snobby assholes about other series, just saying.
Hopefully working together but honestly it’s probably just gonna be a huge rivalry
@@themotorsportgeneral honestly yeah
like at least Indycar tries to work with NASCAR sometimes
NASCAR will continue to be king in America in regards to racing, because they’re genuine. F1 will always view America as beneath them and so anything they do to attract American fans is hollow as hell.
Netflix will definitely help NASCAR
Nope, It’s just the V8s that made the difference. F1 might be falling behind in popularity coz they’re running V6s
@@RazorSharp75426 No offense, but do you think any casual or even interested fan who watches on TV cares about that?
It could do what it did to f1 and bring in the wrong audience
Netflix is terrible for F1 on the sporting side. Drivers, teams and fans who don’t buy the artificial crap that Drive to Survive offer hate it.
It is a short term gain.
Ya know I have tried to get into F1 but the entitled attitude of the sanctioning body and race teams (won’t let American race teams join, Las Vegas disaster with blocking out any window) just makes it really hard. I would rather watch Indycar who cares about the American fans (and quite frankly I think has better racing) than wake up at 5am to watch f1 who are just here for the American dollar
The entitled attitude applies to its fans aswell
IndyCar shows they care the most out of all the major motorsport sanctioning bodies. All the activities surrounding the Indy 500 are affordable (which is why I go every year) and I’m from Detroit so the fact that they opened up so much of the course for free viewing and didn’t destroy everything in Detroit the way F1 did to Vegas was appreciated by all the fans
I agree, not to mention the racing action is dog water.
Meanwhile, NASCAR:
Expanded westward at the expense of 2 tracks (1 has since come back)
Pulls insane stunts from time to time
Can race anywhere from a stadium to Le Mans (and beat half the field in the latter)
Even the worst short track race is miles better than the best F1
The Chase Elliott fanbase is less toxic than all of F1 combined
Starting to expand its demographic a bit
Not to mention a decent amount of fans
That Chicago street course was great
F1’s starting to get jealous at this point
Imagine if NASCAR raced on The Streets of Liberty City, Vice City & Los Santos
Technically you can. Vice City has the Hotring, GTA 5 has a track builder and stock cars to buy. Not to mention, their real world counterparts have a speedway nearby
@@S.K.R.E.Inc. Hotring Needs to be heavily influenced in GTA VI Especially Single Player Mode
F1 has had a crazy obsession with street circuits in recent years, with the addition of Miami, Las Vegas and now Chicago. Most F1 fans are outraged as the F1 calendar is moving away from some road courses like in favor street circuits in the hopes of racing in bigger cities which generates more revenue than traditional road courses.
Yep and F1 announced another Street Race in Madrid for 2025.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworldand right after the track in Spain finally got rid of the much hated chicane at the finale corner, and replacing a track people already didn’t like to start with.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld and possibly Osaka could replace Suzuka if it became reality. I’d rather bring back Nordschleife to the F1 calendar and I DON’T FRICKIN CARE if anyone on the grid had worse wreck than either Niki Lauda or Jann Mardenborough.
Something else that I think will drive the F1 base away is the price to go to these races. The price for a Vegas weekend package or even a qualifying ticket made a lot of people mad. Same with grandstand tickets for Miami. If the average Joe sees the prices and knows they’ll never be able to afford it they’re gonna get turned off by the idea that F1 is only for rich people and they don’t care at all about their fans
@@whoasked9500 best video I’ve ever seen it’s called “F1 in 3 seconds” it’s the start and the call of “Verstappen wins” and that’s it. That’s literally almost every race
Watch him drive a NASCAR stock car at Daytona. The jet dryers would be totaled
NASCAR and F1 are two entirely different styles of racing. So different, in fact, that it doesn’t feel fair to compare the two. The only thing they share is that they are sports where you race cars. Other than that, they may as well be football and soccer.
So we bring Pontiac back and we’ll have the Chicago Grand Prix 200 “presented by Pontiac”
F1 did the same thing a few years back with a New York GP trademark and nothing came from that. It adds another option for the reasons for why they did what they did. Question: was there ever any talk of IndyCars going to Chicago?
As an F1 fan for over 20 years, I think the boom in popularity in the US for F1 has ended, though I think F1 will not go back to the days following the whole tire controversy at the 2005 US GP at Indy (that resulted in only 6 cars taking the grid & basically running parade laps the whole race). That whole controversy almost resulted in F1 being dropped by SPEED & IMS threatening to terminate the contract they had with F1 early because they had created so much ill will between them & the American F1 fan. NASCAR needs to take advantage of the stagnation in popularity with F1 by marketing their product more to younger fans & how it is more competitive (thanks to the playoff format) than F1. I was going to add Indycar as well but they have some serious issues down the line (like the very real threat of Honda leaving after 2026) that threaten the whole future of American open wheel racing.
I’m really not a fan of the playoff format. The best driver over the course of the season is the champion. If there’s an issue with late races not being enjoyable, then sponsors should put up prize money for achievements- winning at each type of track, for instance, would make Phoenix matter at the end if someone’s won at a short track and road course.
If you can buy tickets to a formula 1 race, you can afford to go to 10 NASCAR races.
Not even 10, more like 15-20 if the tracks have deals or charge flat fees all around
Dude its far cheaper in nascar
I couldn’t even manage to get a ticket for the Chicago NASCAR race despite being a resident, ain’t no way I’ll be able to get one for the FIA’s dog and pony show at this rate.
Fun fact: you can go meet drivers in the infield for 10-20.
the whole point of street circuits is to bring the racing to the fans which is fine, but physically blocking the local people from watching the event and charging an arm and a leg to watch it in person (las vegas) is despicable. the nascar race at chicago was a huge success and from i saw it got new fans. nascar did a great job despite it raining in biblical proportions.
NASCAR was drawing people in, not pushing them out. Heck, in a rare occassion, they made the Clash Saturday free instead of doubling down like usual
As a F1 mainly fan, i had ENOUGH, of Street races
I mean they suck, even the legendary Monte Carlo Grand Prix is a snooze fest, no temporary street circuit can compete with a real track like Suzuka, Spa, or Monza. The old school tracks are even fun to drive in video games, street circuits and most Tilkedromes suck.
@@polycube868 unless if F1 is holding races a la Targa Florio or that MF Ghost anime, on winding roads on the countryside/mountains, like in old Charade circuit in France or the Targa Florio course
You know why F1’s popularity is probably gonna plummet in America again??
Because they did the SAME THING in the 80s
Let’s hope NASCAR’s popularity rockets like the 90s
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.The reason NASCAR boomed was because of the Indy Split. No way that happens again
@@polycube868 unless they brought back V10s .
@@RazorSharp75426 that would actually bring back fans to F1, most of why I don’t like F1 is because of the engine formula that leads to a single team being far away from the rest of the field, I like old F1, just not the current day F1
If they’re gonna trademark the “Chicago Grand Prix” then they better run a race there.
As an F1 fan I CAN’T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. 3 RACES IN US IS ENOUGH. PLEASE
They should stop going to the united States
@@Bobjeremy45No, not completely, just once a year
There was at least 5 races in American last year bigger than Chicago. Daytona 500,Indy 500, f1 Las Vegas, f1 Miami and the Coke 600 in Charlotte.
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