{"id":27,"date":"2015-09-15T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T07:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carro.sg\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:24:01","slug":"f1-cars-vs-road-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/f1-cars-vs-road-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Key Differences Between a Road Car and Race Car"},"content":{"rendered":"The Singapore Grand Prix is right around the corner! Are you excited? Because we sure are.\u00a0Famous for their high speeds and powerful engines, how do you think a road car will compare to a racing car? Not often will you see such an epic race happening for experiments, but when it does, the f1 cars usually win. And by a HUGE margin. Despite both cars being four-wheeled drives, their differences are extensive.\r\n\r\nOne interesting comparison would be an F1 Mercedes Benz AMG W06 Hybrid racing against a Ford Focus Hatchback 1.6 Studio 5d. Wait, what? A family car and a racing machine?\r\n\r\nThis, we must see. This interesting infographic shows how both vehicles are likely to compare on the road, no prizes to guess which machines comes out on top.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visual.ly\/f1-vs-roadcar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2936 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/carro.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/f1-vs-roadcar_55881560dff36_w1500-copy.png\" width=\"1500\" height=\"10630\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aside from the hatchback, F1 cars have also been placed in comparison against\u00a0other premium road cars, including the BMW M5. The BMW M5 is a high-performance version of the 5 series executive car, one of the fastest cars that the luxury car manufacturer have in its collections.<\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Williams F1 vs BMW M5 #TBT - Fifth Gear\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JbcnAfAFi48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nOr how about between a NASCAR?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/9gag.com\/gag\/6441493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img-9gag-fun.9cache.com\/photo\/6441493_700b.jpg\" width=\"628\" height=\"2326\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\r\n\r\nOne of the more popular speed races happens between the F1 and the V8 Supercar. V8 Supercars themselves are racing cars based in Australia, named explicitly after its \u00a0V8-engine capable of producing between 620 - 650 bhp.\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Melbourne F1 2013 speed comparison extended version\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qBM6b3Olcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nRace cars are all about the speed and thrill they give both drivers and spectators. People want to know how fast they can go and what it'll be like against other types of cars. Witnessing the vast differences in both form and race is sure a sight nobody wants to miss out on.\r\n\r\nImage Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanbullet.com\/auto-moto\/subaru-road-race-team-eager-for-round-2-of-grand-am-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Car<\/a>\r\n<pre>People also liked:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carro.sg\/blog\/6-vehicle-warning-smells-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6 VEHICLE WARNING SMELLS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carro.sg\/blog\/when-to-send-car-for-servicing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHEN TO SEND YOUR CAR FOR SERVICING?<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carro.sg\/blog\/ways-extend-brakes-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAYS TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF YOUR BRAKES<\/a><\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singapore Grand Prix is right around the corner! Are you excited? Because we sure are.\u00a0Famous for their high speeds and powerful engines, how do you think a road car will compare to a racing car? Not often will you see such an epic race happening for experiments, but when it does, the f1 cars &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[59,74,75,76,77,78,79,62,80,81],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-car-tips","tag-car","tag-engine","tag-f1","tag-hatchback","tag-nascar","tag-race","tag-road-car","tag-singapore","tag-supercar","tag-v8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16477,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/16477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}