In F1, drivers qualify on Sat. and race on Sun. What do they do the rest of the week?
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TRAVEL, SPONSOR COMMITMENTS, FAMILY REST SLEEP.
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Here is a schedule for the year...\n\nhttp://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/cup/schedule
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yes but they dont have to change tyres or refuel during the races
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In Nascar cars just go around,around,around,around\naround,around,around,around,around\n,around,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\n\nfind some real sport like F1
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Grand Prix = Formula One Racing\n\nPoints are awarded to drivers and teams exclusively on where they finish in a race, with the winner receiving 10 points, the second place finisher 8 points, third 6, fourth 5, fifth 4 and sixth 3, seventh 2 and eighth 1. If a race has to be abandoned before 75% of the planned distance has been completed all points are halved. The winner of the annual championship is the driver (or team, for the Constructors' Championship) with the most points.\n\nHistorically, the races were scored on the basis of a six-place tally: IE: via an 8-6-4-3-2-1 scoring system, with the holder of the fastest race lap also receiving a bonus point. In the late 1950s, the scoring was revised to give the winner nine points instead of eight, and the single point awarded for fastest lap was abandoned.\n\nIn the late 1980s, the points system was again revised to give the victor 10 points, with all other scorers recording the same 6-4-3-2-1 result. This was thought to have been something of a knee-jerk reaction to the spate of drivers who had won the championship despite scoring fewer victories than their nearest challenger.\n\nIn the mid 2000s, the FIA again revised the scoring system to apportion points to the first eight classified finishers (a classified finisher must complete 90% of race distance) on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. The winner of the world championship is the driver who accumulates the most points throughout the course of the season.\n\nAt certain periods in F1's history, the world champion has been determined by virtue of the "best 7 scores" in each "half" of the world championship, meaning that drivers have been able to "discard" lower scores in either half of the season. This was done in order to equalise the footings of teams which may not have had the wherewithall to compete in all events. With the advent of the Concorde Agreements, this practice has been discontinued, though it did feature prominently in several world championships through the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe change in the awarding of world championship points has rendered the comparison of historical teams and drivers to current ones largely ineffectual. For instance, Michael Schumacher is widely credited with being the most successful GP driver of all time. While his statistics are very impressive and easily outstrip those of his nearest competitor, it is worth noting that his points tally vs points available, and winning percentage of grands prix entered, do not significantly exceed those of Juan Manuel Fangio, whom he dethroned as "winningest" driver recently. As with most other sports, it is very difficult to compare stars of different eras owing to the changes in the sport and regulations.
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Hmmm.   I am not at all convinced by this!\n\nAfter all, we hear about cars being 3 or even 5 seconds faster, but it never seems to come to fruition!\n\nAt the practice at Canada, their practice times were:\n21. Takuma Sato Japan Super Aguri-Honda 01:19.088\n22. Franck Montagny France Super Aguri-Honda 01:19.152\nThese times are about 2 seconds slower than the 20th car - and if you take 3 seconds from that, you get 1 minute 16 seconds.   That would have put them in 15th!   I just hope that you can achieve it!\n\nSorry, Super Aguri - you are having a very bruising start to your F1 career.   However, I hope you can do the improvements to the car as it will make things much closer during the race!   \n\nGood luck!
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This is a hypothetical guess based on what happens at most major races.\n\nPits are assigned based on qualifying number. Fastest car gets the first pick of which pit they want, the last car the last.
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The race will be shown tape delayed at Noon EST on CBS.  SPEED Channel will show their broadcast later in the week.\n\nThe race will begin live at 8:00 AM and you can follow it with live timing and scoring at www.formula1.com
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http://www.formula1.com/insight/driver/7/3.html
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http://www.nascar.com for the schedule.  I think it's like 3:30 Eastern.
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Start in kart racing. NOW. Get really, really good. then hope you're noticed. Red Bull has a driver search program. The link is below\n\nKimi Räikkönen only had 23 professional races when he was signed by Peter Sauber.You don't need a lot of experience, you just need to be really, really good.
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Well, if you start in karts at around six or seven and move up through the different formulae such as the Star Mazda Series, Formula Ford, Formula 2000, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three, maybe A1GP and GP2, you might make it to Formula One and the chances are you would be anywhere from 19 to 22 at this stage.\nTeams are usually looking for a driver with a lot of talent and, unless you are really fortunate enough to attract a sponsor, you will have spent a lot of your own or your family's money in those lower formulae. Some teens in competitive karting have budgets in the $25,000 range. \nSponsors are usually looking for someone who can get them exposure for their product.\nThere are Japanese drivers in F1 (not a huge amount of them) because there is a lot of racing in Japan at the lower levels and almost all of the better ones move to England at some stage or other to race in ultra competitive series' such as Formula 2000 and Formula Three, so you are incorrect is suggesting they `have very little racing experience.' Not surprisingly Japanese sponsors often want Japanese drivers with teams they either own or sponsor heavily.\nThere are few black drivers in any form of racing, including karting. Californian Willy T. Ribbs is probably the most successful black open-wheel racer. He moved to England for awhile when he was young and actually raced against Ayrton Senna in a Formula Ford series. He was successful in Formula Atlantic cars, but had only limited success in the CART series. Sadly, he is known for being involved in a fatal accident at the first Vancouver Molson Indy, one that killed a track marshal. I really don't think Willy ever aspired to be an F1 driver.\nThere is a real chance that we will see the first black driver in F1 next year, if Ron Dennis decides to put his protégé, Lewis Hamilton, in one of his McLaren cars.
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I think it goes to The Kind Richard Petty who back in the day I guess won 10 consecutive races in a row but thats probably because not all the drivers could make it to every race like Petty did and compete and have the tools and the cars to do that week after week and they probably had more then one race a week.
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The cars are set up for qualifying to put out the most power for a short period of time for qualifying, since the car can be qualified essentially in one lap.  But, for the race, we "de-tune" the car so that the engine and transmission will last the entire race. You cannot win if you do not finish.  If we tried to run the entire race on a qualifying tune-up, the engine will "blow".
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during the NASCAR season, there is a NASCAR pick 'em. You choose drivers from 3 groups and you earn points on how well they do. From getting the pole, to winning the race, a total of 4 drivers give you points race after race.\n\nNote:Only the races that count to the Nextel Cup standings are included in the fantasy league.
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If you asked guys like Kimi and JPM what kind of driver you should be, they'll probably say something like "Move aside when you see the blue flag and get the hell out of my way" \n\nSelf-centredness (not neccessarily a good thing, but many F1 drivers tend to adopt this approach).\n\nSingle mindedness (as above). \n\nPathological desire to win and beat the crap out of opposition (just ask Michael).\n\nTechnical knowledge and ability to communicate with engineers and give good feedback.\n\nGood anticipation.\n\nExperience.\n\nLuck.
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F1 drivers have to be really fit to do what they do. NASCAR is a joke though.