What is faster, an F1 car or an Indy car?

Question

What is faster, an F1 car or an Indy car?

Answer 1

an f1 car car go from 0-100kph and back to zero in 5 seconds, hope this helps

Answer 2

f1 is the fastest

Answer 3

i beleive an indy car although i think an F1 car is faster in accelerating and more  advanced in technology

Answer 4

F1, a much better power to weight ratio. Better acceleration, braking, cornering, and going up to speed. But I can't really say about their top speeds. It is all only reported so it is hard to give a real assesment. But if I had to place a bet on it, I would say F1

Answer 5

German Grand Prix this weekend, has some of the fastest straight of the season, lets see what they do

Answer 6

"The performance superiority of the Formula One machines was first demonstrated in 1989 when Champ Car began to race on a street circuit in downtown Detroit, Michigan that had served as the United States Grand Prix just one year prior. There was no big discrepancy in lap times on this occasion, but this was partly due to a tight second gear chicane that was removed from the circuit for the Champ Car series.

Since 1978 Formula One has made an annual visit to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Champ Car added this circuit to their tour in 2002, making another direct comparison possible. That year, Juan Pablo Montoya won the pole position in the Formula One race with a lap time of 1'12.836. Several weeks later, when the inaugural Champ Car race was held, Cristiano Da Matta won the pole position in the Champ Car race with a lap time of 1'18.959.

In the Autocourse / CART "Official Champ Car Yearbook" for 2002, the following article appears on page 132, entitled "CART VS. F1":

"With the FedEx Championship Series making its first visit to the track that had hosted the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix since 1978, there were inevitable comparisons between the world's two major open-wheel categories. Admittedly, it was rather like comparing apples and oranges, but it did represent the first opportunity in over two decades to get some idea of the relative performance of Champ Cars and their F1 cousins.

"On the face of it, there was no contest. Cristiano da Matta's pole time of 1 m 18.959 s was 6.123 seconds shy of 1999 CART champion Juan Pablo Montoya's stunning pole-winning effort aboard the BMW/Williams at the 2002 GP—which was exactly the sort of discrepancy da Matta had predicted in the run-up to the event.

"In CART, meanwhile, Bridgestone's position as sole tire supplier ensured production of a more conservative (i.e., harder) compound, prioritizing durability over ultimate pace. Granted, the F1 tire war was fought on grooved rubber rather than the slicks sported by Champ Cars. But bear in mind that a Champ Car weighed the best part of 400 pounds more that its F1 counterpart, and the general conclusion was that CART's machinery stacked up pretty respectably.

"And then there's the 'other' factor. As da Matta observed, 'It's a pretty unfair comparison, since one side spends £100 million more than the other! I think that our designers and engineers are pretty smart if they can get this close with ten percent of the budget.'"

In 2006, the last time both series raced on the same track, Formula One was 5 to 7 seconds faster than Champ Car. The pole position in Formula 1 was taken by Fernando Alonso in a time of 1 min 14.942 s, while Sébastien Bourdais took the pole in 1 min 20.005 s in Champ Car. The fastest lap in the Formula 1 race was 1'15.841 by Kimi Räikkönen, while Sébastien Bourdais' fastest lap was 1 min 22.325 s in the Champ Car race. Bourdais' qualifying effort was almost 1 second off the pace of even the slowest F1 qualifier, Super Aguri's Franck Montagny, who turned in a time of 1 min 19.152 s."

This refers to the now defunct champ car series.

From it's unification wiht IRL we now have Indycar.

Answer 7

fast or quick? on a road course with right and left corners the f1 car will reign supreme, proved when the Toyota f1 car did a demo around laguna seca and set the new track record, not in a race not qualifying but just a demo,

however Indy cars are rev limited to 12500 rpm and speed restricted to keep the cars in the 220-225 mph range on super speedways (2.5 mile ovals) before this they were breaking 240 mph in race trim,

the other thing to remember is f1 has more freedom to change the car, they could take off all the wing-lets and barge boards they can reduce the front wing to minimum restrictions and DESIGN a new rear wing for minimum drag,

and design a new low drag nose cone and still be race legal

Indy cars are not allowed to do any of this, the cars are a spec car with tight restrictions on modifications and no mod's allowed on wings aside from plane angles

so though Indy cars might be faster on over all top speed, the f1 car has the ability to modify their car to beat it

Answer 8

i am dam sure that a formula1 car is more fast. It could go till 320 kmh.

Answer 9

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In a straight line...Indy - approx 220mph to 210mph

In all other areas...F1

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