+dcdude345 Yup. And it's also a $20M+ car and not his. Pretty sure they also detuned it a bit cause it's wet and it's a demo. Still damn cool though. Hell, imagine just one race, just for demo/kicks, where Nascars went from 358s down to 186 ci (3L) V10 F1 engines based on 2003-2005 designs. Imagine the sound inferno, holy hell. Don't even care if they got slower because of way less torque and probably 100-150 less hp as well. That sound was divine at Hockenheim in 2004.

1. He's a nascar driver 2. The track turns in other directions than left. That direction is called right

Foreverwotlk they literally run this track on the NASCAR schedule

SirWalrusCauliflower, they run the short course. They don’t run the boot, but that could change in the near future.

Americans cannot drive compared to the Europeans and the Latin Americans. They get their asses kicked in Indy/Cart.

Check out one race of each kind, NASCAR has small medium and large tracks. Talladega is legendary, Daytona as well, check out a bristol or Martinsville short track race and we do road courses too.

Jeff Gordon Trades Paint with Juan Pablo Montoya 2003 is awesome. This event was rains shortened. I watched it live, but for some reason can't find the entire event on YT.

yes

+Ryan Wile agree 100%

Two words: Road. America.

i wouldn't mind seeing them race at Sonoma. that hairpin and the s turn

on iracing Watkins Glen full course is a blast to drive in and would provide very amazing racing however I doubt the Glen is up to the safety standard f1 wants, it would be the fastest track on the f1 schedule and there is not much runoff

shannon231291 I would simultaneously be shitting and jizzing my pants at the pure power of the car.

V8s sounded good, V10s sounded like a squadron of dive bombers about melt your ears.

Hello there after 10 years😅

@@Niclass_08hello there after 5 months

I'll do, even honestly, NASCAR time isn't ever friendly for me, except Night race because it's make me the Morning Glory

I know that comment is 11 years old, but that comment is complete bullshit. F1 has turned into follow the leader. F1 was great while Senna was racing and about 1/2 way into MS's career...then it went to shit. 7 out of 12 races (so far in 2024) have been won by MV...follow the money. There are more passes for the lead in one NASCAR race than there is in an entire F1 season.

he's going slow you tool

ragasdapper oh boy internet tough guy here!

Yes he is going slow. But he could go faster if he wanted to. He is not using all the road intentionally. He's making sure he won't crash. It's wise on a track like this.

@@RaceActionNL It's also slightly wet, he's using a portion of the track he hasn't raced on as much before, this is one of his first times in an F1 car, this is a publicity run... multiple reasons he isn't going flat out.

Agreed, all those basement-dwelling keyboard-warrior-sausage-wankers likely can't drive their mom's mini van. Lets see them try to drive a F1 car faster than Tony did.

Of course he wasn't driving as fast as he wanted to, the track was damp, an unfamiliar million dollar race car in front of friends and family no way he's taking a chance to look like a fool.

You mind if I screenshot this?

Oh this comment did not age well...

i think he's doing this in the wet and he is actually also an indycar champion

Tony has Open-Wheel racing experience, driving an F1 car isn't entirely alien to him.

Bruh, he has some sprint car experience, which is basically him, a fat man, boxed inside a small ass cockpit. He kinda has experience of being squeezed

Sean Neal On iracing offical f1 series they race this track and it is indeed better than most f1 races in real life today

Agree. It is an awesome and proper track for F1, but the only problem is that the circuit is in the middle of nowhere in upstate western NY hence it offers very limited entertainment outside the circuit and doesn't have very modern accommodation facilities to today's F1 fans.

They could always update the paddock and add more seating. Also it is only a couple of hours outside of Buffalo. Suzuka is over 4 hours away from Tokyo and 2 hours away from Osaka. Really wish F1 will return here someday

Driving 2 1/2 hours each way from the Glen to Buffalo and vice versa is not something most people want to do on a 3-day event like Formula 1. Buffalo is not even an interesting city to be honest (they have the Niagara falls at least). Japan has a high density population, especially the region around Suzuka, so fans come from everywhere not just Tokyo or Osaka. Plus, Japan has a very extensive, affordable, fast and highly efficient rail network, so most people arrive and leave by train and buses and there are plenty of entertainment in and around the circuit as well as great hotels close by. The Glens is in the same situation that made Magny-cours circuit a commercial failure to host F1.

F1 raced at this track for around 20 years up until the 80's. But I agree it would be cool to see it return. Unfortunately, this track is probably considered too unsafe.

Tony is also an Indycar and Dirt Racing guy so he’s used to open wheeled racing as well.

He's not going to go full speed in a publicity run in a car that is not his. He knows how to drive lol.

Tony is an Indy champion lol

Liam McQuaid there’s a difference between open wheel’s suh as indy500 and formula1 though😂

@Matheus Theisen During a publicity run, of course.

Guns, Muscle Cars and More Agreed!!

Be careful with the sarcasm. There's a LONG list of F1 drivers, race winners, and champions who not only failed in NASCAR (including the road courses), but have also lost to NASCAR drivers in other disciplines.

The F1 guys need to go out on an oval and get in a pack of other cars to really get nascar.

@@jasonwiggins6137 where's the sarcasm? And when has a Nascar driver ever even made it to the lower ladder of the Formula 1 series (Formula 3)? I know of a number of former F1 drivers who could no longer hack it in F1, who then went to Nascar and won, but I know of no Nascar driver who's been able to make it in Formula 1. Even 7x Nascar champ, Jimmie Johnson, is languishing in the back of IndyCar races. When Jeff Gordon tested JPM's Williams a number of years ago, Frank Williams told him he would need to start out at F3 and move to Formula 2 before he could get acclimated to the extreme speeds of Formula 1.

@@mattadorno6452 they're completely uninterested in Nascar. If they were, they'd do the DTM (German Touring Car) series, which is closed roof cars that are similar in nature to Nascar, but only drive proper road course racing circuits. If F1 drivers view IndyCar as a lower racing series, which it clearly is, than they view Nascar as much lower than IndyCar.

@@bkeen7013 You'll have to do better than that. No NASCAR driver has ever showed interest in F1. Very few Americans ever have. There's F1, and then there's American motorsports. American drivers make just as much money, most of the time more, than F1 drivers. Why uproot your life, move overseas and take the risk? Only Hamilton made more money than Jr., Gordon, and Johnson in recent years. In the 90's, only Schumacher made more than Earnhardt Sr. There's no incentive. You're also wrong about Gordon. Jeff was to run two years in CART for Team Green then make the leap straight to F1. CART was a feeder series to F1 bypassing the European series'. Ever heard of Montoya and Jaques Villeneuve? Even American open wheel drivers choose to stay in the U.S. rather than travel overseas. A.J. Foyt said he wasn't the type to wear a three piece suit for breakfast and then change into a drivers uniform to race shortly thereafter. Al Unser Jr. never put any serious thought into it, even though there was interested F1 parties. Jimmy Vasser was another. Jackie Stewart saw Gordon's ability at a young age, but he couldn't compete with the money offered from Ford. Speaking of Stewart, go watch the early years of the IROC series where Pearson and Allison are racing door to door, and often beating F1 drivers on road courses in Porsche race cars. Check out Carl Edwards embarrass Schumacher and TV hosts when he beat him on an indoor road course. Let's travel back in time when current F1 drivers would make failed attempts to qualify, and race in NASCAR in the 60's and 70's. How about NASCAR drivers winning the 12hrs of Sebring and the 24hrs of Daytona with F1 drivers in the field on multiple occasions and in multiple series'. Here's the funniest issue, F1 fans disagree with F1 drivers on NASCAR drivers skills. It's hilarious. Juan and Kimi have put it brilliantly! I'm a fan of both. There's two types of drivers. One who excels in one discipline, and one who excels in all disciplines. Anyone who claims that a NASCAR driver couldn't succeed in F1, doesn't have the data or F1 drivers opinions on their side.

I doubt that but he would definitely be winning races after getting some experience.

doubt

Haha Its not a indy racing car

What is a fake European car?

No shit Sherlock

+Keith Garcia its godfather not Sherlock

+Godfather The rules dictate what the equipment equates to if that's what you mean. Now if you are talking driving talent...I would not be so quick to start that whole "F1 drivers are the greatest in the world" crap. It seems that on more than one occasion a driver competing in a USA motorsport series has drove an F1 car and been fast right out of the gate. Made it look easy....Jeff Gordon...Paul Tracy. Makes you wonder how fast they would be with countless hours of Euro style practice. Same goes for the whole horse racing thing as well.

+Todd Johnson f1 drivers are known all over the world, the only nascar drivers I knew were Kimi and Montoya only because they were f1 drivers as well hahaha honestly in my opinion nascar is crap I just can't watch it and tbh any North American dominated sports baseball, basketball, ice hockey and that game they call football but it's more like hand-egg. It just doesn't do it for me.

+Todd Johnson nascar's are great machines though I give you that but driving in a circle just doesn't do it for me.