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Originally Posted by justinsain
I was trolling a bit with that statement but honestly, I don't know why so many open wheel racers have come over to try NASCAR while no original NASCAR driver has expressed any interest in open wheel. My guess is it has more to do with how the series operate than the ability it takes to race.
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i think one of the problems is that F1 driver are very close to the evolution process of their cars - which are very complex compared to nascar. they must be able to analyze how the car behaves on straights and corners and tell their engineers what to change. as a nascar driver you get no chance to learn that on the same level - how can someone with no experience for example on a track like Monte Carlo give valuable information to his team?
i am not saying they cant learn that and be successful, but it would take a while. and probably longer than most team owners would give them.
another example: DTM is very popular in Germany
http://www.dtm.com/index.php?lang=en&
there's a couple of ex F1 drivers who were later driving there - including Alain Prost, Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard. None of them ever won shit there. Because it's a completely different way of racing.
last years DTM champion Paul di Resta is now driving F1 - we'll see how good he's doing the other way round.