What is the most skilled motorsport?

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From a driver perspective?

I would have said that being a Rally driver takes more skill than an F1 driver, it'd certainly be more scary. What are people's thoughts?

(doesn't just have to be one of those two)
 
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rally > F1 imo
having said that, i'd have thought that a rally driver would do much better in F1 than an F1 driver in rallying..

dunno where those would compare to 2 wheels though. schumi seems to be having problems with bikes :p
 
I'd say rally is possibly more down to bravery where as circuit racing is more about precision, no matter what they are all very skillful drivers.
 
i'd say its all as well skilled as each other.
the top people in each type being equally skilled, just in different aspects of driving.
 
Morba said:
i'd say its all as well skilled as each other.
the top people in each type being equally skilled, just in different aspects of driving.
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This. Rallying and F1 can't really be compared, they are almost polar opposites. To be successful in either you need to be exceptionally skilled.
 
id say motrbike road racing, nw 200 and iom tt type are the scariest or atleast where the most people die
 
Motorcycle road racing. 200mph+ racing on normal roads. It takes balls of steel and immense skill.

Northwest 200
Ulster GP (Dundrod)
Cookstown 100
etc...

Search any of them on Youtube.

This is what I'm talking about....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jODGfrHN4

If you make a mistake you're dead. No two ways about it.
 
its almost impossible to compare, different types have different styles, Id put Alonso's style as being good for rallying, and Hakkinens style turned out to be good for DTM, id say Button would be good with DTM, Rakkinen id rate in a 24hr race. Hamilton with his no fear approach to F1 would probably work well with MotoGP.

F1 is probably the best, but most F1 drivers wouldn't be able to rally or do motoGP.

Rallying and motogp takes more balls but again, most of the drivers/riders are probably average compared to the pro's.

Touring car is just expensive banger racing so id say that ranks bottom of the list... I think even most of us could do that. DTM is are large step up from BTCC/WTCC.
 
rypt said:
Keiichi Tsuchiya would disagree :D
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Hmm, for me 'drifting' is the synchronised swimming of motorsport. I find it amazing that some people think the Japanese invented "drifting" when rally drivers have been doing it since the inception of the sport. The difference being, they do it to get around a stage quickly, not to score points for style.
 
I'd probably say that anything offroad is more tricky due to the unforseen and random aspects of the surface alone.

That isn't to say that on-road is skill-less, far from it, but I think it takes a special person (on two or four wheels) to deal with the unexpected in the blink of an eye.
 
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