Watch Formula One Drivers Race Stock Cars On A Dirt Track  

One of the ongoing arguments in motorsports has been whether Formula One is superior to NASCAR. This has played out in so many ways, including hilariously in Talladega Nights, but people continue fighting about it.

Remember the time someone randomly stole a NASCAR pace car.

One thing we’ve heard from so many F1 fans, particularly those living in Europe, is that oval racing is supposedly easy because it involves only turning left. If that is in fact true, F1 racers should be able to jump into a stock car and just blast around an oval track with little struggle.

To put that theory to the test, Red Bull Motorsports took two of its F1 rising stars, Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson, putting them behind the wheel of stock cars on a dirt oval track. If you’re already laughing, you know how difficult driving one of those and that kind of surface is.

Trust us, the European mind can’t comprehend what takes place in this video.

Fortunately for these two F1 drivers, Red Bull saw fit to give them two NASCAR mentors, Shane van Gisbergen and Connor Zilisch. They coached the two open-wheel race experts through some drills, like following the high line and low line on the track and throttle steering through those sweeping turns.

They quickly found driving NASCAR isn’t quite so simple as just turning left and mashing the accelerator.

Of course, after their crash course instruction, these two do a head-to-head race on the dirt track. It’s only 5 laps, not 500, and they’re not in a field of dozens of cars, so it’s not nearly as grueling as a real NASCAR race. But it gives them enough of a taste of what it’s like to participate in the motorsport to appreciate it’s not so easy.

We hope a new installment comes where NASCAR drivers do F1 racing – that would be just as entertaining.

Image via Red Bull Motorsports/YouTube