Moto GP vs F1 - who is faster?

I swear i saw an R7 race an F1 car round the track and win, might not have been F1 though.... it was a while ago

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

Wouldn't be surprised if each F1 team spent more than the entire MotoGP budget every year.

Toyota's reputed budget is £250mill.

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

Didn't Rutter give some F1 driver a pasting (and a top end speedboat that had already been given a head start) because the poor guy in the car didn't have his computer running all his traction and launch control for him. Awww.

Beat Rutter (just) when the computers were doing it all for him though.

Rutter won the first run because the launch control on the F1 wasn't set up properly. The second and third runs the F1 car gave Rutter a total pasting, he didn't even see where they went!

Do you mean...

"Montoya repeated the often-stated theory that the driver is more important in CART than in Formula 1"

Originally Posted by thor

Moto GP vs F1 - who is faster?

Bothered

F1 is crap & MotoGP is ace... 'Nuff said

Agreed, just wondered if I had bragging rights.

Originally Posted by Cloggsy

Bothered

F1 is crap & MotoGP is ace... 'Nuff said

You're right of course "C", but it essential for any male that if you raced two things, which one would win. We need to know that stuff.

Ultimately the car would win, I think we all know that.

But that's with all the extra money, development, etc. chucked into it. And the fact that they don't have to go anywhere near as far as bikes do when they race.

What's the distance a car does in a race before tyre change and fuel refill? If race bikes were allowed to do that and had been developed that way (plus more fancy electronics, 2 wheel drive, etc.) then perhaps there would be a closer match.

Be a right pain though... it's bad enough now - how much fun would if be if you had to keep stopping for fuel for your 5 litre tank and change your tyres every 50 miles on your sports 1000 bike??

F1 bears little relation to cars on the road, whilst bikes are a lot closer to their racing forebears. We're faster in the real world and that's what matters

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

Ultimately the car would win, I think we all know that.

But that's with all the extra money, development, etc. chucked into it. And the fact that they don't have to go anywhere near as far as bikes do when they race.

What's the distance a car does in a race before tyre change and fuel refill? If race bikes were allowed to do that and had been developed that way (plus more fancy electronics, 2 wheel drive, etc.) then perhaps there would be a closer match.

Be a right pain though... it's bad enough now - how much fun would if be if you had to keep stopping for fuel for your 5 litre tank and change your tyres every 50 miles on your sports 1000 bike??

F1 bears little relation to cars on the road, whilst bikes are a lot closer to their racing forebears. We're faster in the real world and that's what matters

You might be interested, well, I use the term lightly, to know that F1 cars haven't has wheel changes mid race for several years!

Doesn't make the racing any better though!

Originally Posted by Mike1234

You might be interested, well, I use the term lightly, to know that F1 cars haven't has wheel changes mid race for several years!

Nope! Just this season.

Originally Posted by Mike1234

Doesn't make the racing any better though!

Correct!