Who do you think is the Better Driver????

Irish_Ranger_IR

Who do you think are Better Drivers????

I think, rally drivers are the best type of drivers in the world, they would be able to drive a F1 car and learn the car faster than, but a F1 driver driving a rally car, for the F1 driver, I am not sure the rally track is sometimes 10th of the size of a F1 track, some parts of a F1 track you can land a plane..So the point is that a Rally Driver can handle the car better than a F1 driver in a rally car..


What you think?

Stephen

Yeah, but you must consider the higher speeds and lower tolerances that an F1 driver has to contend with. He can't go powersliding around a bend or anything

strat

F1 drivers have to be ad fit as top athleths for their body to withstand the force of flinging them card around at 180mph

theres bit of a bump on one track in south amercia where some drivers have admitted to blacking out for a second when they hit it

amp

But although the Atari Jaguar is older it still can outpace some platforms even today. Very good at corners too.

MrPudding

I think a rally driver would have trouble getting a F1 car to finish a lap at anything approaching high speed. F1 drivers are freaks of nature.

Irish_Ranger_IR

F1 Driver for example, are very fit, they drive at high speeds, but slow down on corners, some at 110 or 60mph, if they take it any fast they are off the track, or spin out, they have open tracks to spin out on, Rally drivers have a smaller road and if they spin out they are in bushes and trees, they drive in the snow at the similar speeds, they dont change tires if it starts to rain, they have to be fit, sometimes they dont know whats around the next corner, they are told, 100 yards left turn brake, they could drive it blind, thats almost what they do, F1 drivers have been driving the track for years or 60 laps during the race and 3 days of testing before the race..Rally drivers dont always have 3 days of trials and grid positions, there positions are from previous races...

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Bard

Jeez... and I thought this was going to be a "Who are better drivers? Men or Women" thread... (in which case I'd have said Men, of course).

Gerry

Thanks for that interesting comment bard.

I saw a very interesting article in a car magazine a few years ago, where martin brundle and some famous rally driver (can't for the life of me remember who..) swapped cars. The rally driver did much better than martin brundle, he got within a few seconds of martins best lap in the f1 car, whereas brundle was quite useless by comparison in the rally car.

I think rally drivers have to be just as fit, they get flung around in the car much more. Its true that they don't have to put up with as much g-forces, so perhaps many rally drivers would have problems with high g corners in F1.

buddy

Has to be the getaway drive - lol - they must have good timing, precision in losing certain vehicles on the move and avoiding multiple obstacles (traffic, women with prams) - at the end of the day their job is tougher!

shinobi

It would have to be the rally driver, all the different conditions that are thrown at them tarmac, ice, gravel, needing greater skill than the F1 driver, driving down little boreens you wouldn't send a horse and cart down. If the car breaks down in the middle of the stage they have to do their own make shift repairs. Definately much more interesting to watch than F1 - as far as action is concerned.

po0k

I reckon the Rally driver is better, but I'm possibly a little biased to begin with.
/me likes the idea of the spectators coming down and helping the driver and navvie to push the car out of the ditch...you'd never see it in F1 (for obvious reasons)
The cars are cooler too

chernobyl

You cant compare the two simply because they both involve cars.

Rally driving is far more tolerant to minor mistakes where F1 is always inch perfect and if its not you go slow.

F1 is physically a tougher sport, you cant question that, even on "slow" circuits, drivers internal organs are given a huge hammering, when you consider what an F1 car can do.

0-100Kph in 1.8/9 these days with a good TC system and 0-340kph in under ten, but the real power is in braking.

An F1 car can go from 340 to 0 in less than 100 meters, its a never ending squish fest inside your body and imagine trying to move with that G constanly applied to you in positive and negative forces.

Both sets of drivers are extremely talented but the driving styles are vastly different.