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How about this, You have to use different skills in each type of driving. Some are the same, others you use in one or the other type of driving. F1 drivers have specialized in open-wheel high speed road racing while a rally driver is specialized in lower speed multi surface driving. It's actually kind of hard to compare the two. Well...except Michael Schumacher makes more money in one year than Colin McRae.

 
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You sure about that? maybe in base pay but what about Endorsments? Is there a Schumacher F1 game I'm not aware of???? Im sure McRae made a mint with the Rally games.


Not that the $$$ matters, Id rally for free........

 
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if they gave me a car to run with, people to fix it, and lots of cool parts I would give them the first year for free too!!!! after that, if i win, then pay me biotch!

 
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Yup, me too....but according to Forbes (now this was in 2002) Schumacher is the highest paid athlete in the world.

Linky

 
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i just saw somewhere with his endorsments he's the second highest paid athlete in the world, makes something like 62 mil a year.....one of the MANY reasons i dispise Schumacher, along with his dirty driving, favoritism of him by the FIA (JPM was robbed god damnit!).

It comes as a big surpise to me that there are other F1 freaks here, not many in the US...

 
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Why wouldn't you be an F1 fan? High speed racing, only a couple oval tracks during the year, the rest are road course, and you don't have to deal with the "hick" mentality of the NASCAR fans.

 
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oval tracks in F1??

i think your thinking of Champ Car (CART)

 
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Hawk I agree in that you need guts verging on suicide to be able to drive 80 mph on dirt roads with 0 visibility and 10 foot jumps ...but I stilll say they're hard to compare.

F1's more dirty (ironic I say that huh?), especially with team hierachies a la, other teammates letting Schumacher win.

Plus I think Rally cars are so much cooler. The fact that somebody can replace a transmission in 20 minutes for a WRX is awesome. Rally cars take a severe beating and keep on moving, with mud flying into the radiator, brake rotors, chasis and suspension getting thrashed by paths you can barely call roads. People chucking stuff at cars. Cars that are fast and hardy deserve a lot of respect. Plus we reap benefits from Rally with the WRX and Evo ...though ppl may argue the same for F1 paddle shifts and computer technology brought over from Grand-Prix cars.

F1 cars are high tech and delicate, requiring them to be rebuilt every hundred miles or so. Heck, they can't even be started without a laptop computer handy. Although it doesn't have the "hick" mentality of NASCAR, like the American venue, the only thing that's exciting for me are the massive crashes.

-Aki

 
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cool... well, that should spark more people (here on this side of the world) into rallying, win or lose. That's still cool though. hmm... I like rallying esp. stuff like Dakkar.

 
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whats awsome about F1 if you look at the technical side of the thing, it takes a 4 cylinder engine, roughly the size of ours to start a F1 motor, think about a d17 for a starter. And they idle at the rpm our cars top out at 7000rpm

i think its truely amazing how far the tech has come in F1, traction control, semi-auto trans', stability control. My only complaint is its seems to have gotten to far. The drivers have to do less and less to keep the thing on the road. I miss the days of opisite lock driving, and no chicanes (i dispise chicanes)

I want the 80's turbo days back, nuthing like a 1500hp qualifying engine Now thats a car it takes ***** to drive.

 
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Ya know if you guys really want to race in the dirt the SCCA does put on Rallys, both on the pro level and Club level.... and if you dont have a car that can run a "Real" rally there is a suca a thing as Rallycross..... its like autocross but in the dirt..


Just some photos of people rallycrossing



and some photos of a Rally Sprint...




and this is just the Las Vegas region.... just about all SCCA regions do some sort of "off road" racing...

 
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Yup, my mistake...Champ cars run 2 ovals...Milwaukee and California Speedway.