Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33869270-20180305070613/@comment-28169398-20180307194313

Darrell Holcomb wrote: Amrosa wrote: JEM Racing wrote: I will say, that to those who say paint scheme and paint job, i wouldn't call that accurate. I am a NASCAR fan, among other notable series, and one thing i noticed they say a lot is "paint scheme", but 97% of the time, these cars are not even painted, they are wrapped. Not sure about the other series, they dont go too much into it.

The carbon fiber parts for F1 are painted and only the Sponsor badging are vinyls (or whatever space age compound they use that reduced the weight of the decal by 74.297%). The reason is that they can likely use much less paint with regards to weight than they could to a wrap... NASCAR don't care all that much about saving milligrams. JEM, you are correct, but even NASCAR themselves call it paint scheme. But correct, it is wrap.
 * this is not an invite to begin debating nascar for anything other than its terminology on the word paint job/scheme

Amrosa, I would disagree with you. NASCAR absolutely cares about the smallest of things.

They do things right down to the 32th of an inch and have incredible small tolerances.

Nothing can compare to the engineering that goes into a NASCAR. Absolutely at the top of their game, bar none! That is scrutineering regarding cheating and modifying to the "Stock" standard template.

I am talking about weight tolerances. I don't think anyone would mistake late-career Tony Stewart as a light weight... he would lose his ride in F1 if he came into preseason testing in that shape.