Fantasy NASCAR Racing

DOUBLE  DIPPERS

I'm going to show some of the drivers that have drove in both NASCAR and in the Indy 500.  This is a 'sampling' of the more notable drivers.  I have found many more I have not shown that raced at Indy and only had one or two NASCAR starts.  A total of 90 drivers I have found that raced both (and I probably missed a few)

I am listing them in chronological order so you can look at how the cars changed over the decades.
FIRST though I'll toss out a couple things here first.  Chip Ganassi; Shige Hattori and the Wood Brothers.

Around 1950 we started to see a roll bar introduced to help protect the driver in roll over crashes

1965 saw the introduction of the rear engine racers

In 1971 we saw a lot of cars start running front and rear wings.
Notice the rear wings are as wide a the outside of the rear tires and created a LOT of downforce.
Also air induction moved from the nose to the side pods 

By 1976 rear wing size had been greatly reduced, and fit INSIDE the rear tires,
check out the rear wings above in 1972 and 1973

By the early '90's the nose had changed even more and had evolved into a bullet looking design.
We still see the small front and rear spoilers - and rear spoilers added side flaps

Cars get lower and sleeker.  Sidepods now extend out as far as the outside of the rear tires. 
Rear wings are even smaller and even have a sort of rear "fender" added behind the rear wheels to help make cars more aerodynamic and air off of the rear tires where it created a lot of drag.