In a typical F1 race i am told the drivers change gears over 6000 times. How does NASCAR compare to this?

I am new to NASCAR and know very little about it. Please dont think my questions foolishIn a typical F1 race i am told the drivers change gears over 6000 times. How does NASCAR compare to this?
WATKINS GLEN, INFINEON, and POCONO are the only NASCAR tracks that I can think of where gear changes are an issue. Of course, I'm not counting coming out of and going into pit road. POCONO is the weirdo of this group. The other two are actual road courses; Pocono bills itself as a tri-oval. Tri-angle is more like it. If you look at the layout of the track using the link I provided, you'll see that the turns are pretty sharp by ';tri-oval'; standards. Turn 1 is almost a hairpin, turn 2 doesn't give you much relief, and turn 3 is brutally sharp after coming off 2 at a good speed.In a typical F1 race i am told the drivers change gears over 6000 times. How does NASCAR compare to this?
The only time that Nascar Drivers change gears is when entering or leaving the pits on an oval track. They also shift during restarts. On road courses, they shift at every corner. Just so you know, in a F1 car, they have push button shifting.
I believe the number of gear shifts during F1 racing is more in the vicinity of 2000 - 3000.



I'm not quite up to speed with the number of shifts in NASCAR, but at some oval tracks, usually the short ones they have to shift at corners as well as leaving and entering the pit. At tracks such as Daytona, the drivers run wide open on the track and do not need to downshift except for pit stops
Your 6000 gear changes during a Formula One race is wildly inaccurate. I believe there are around 25 gear changes per lap at the Monaco Grand Prix and, seeing that the race is run over 78 laps, the total comes to ... well, you can do the math.

For several years, gear changing in Formula One has been done with paddle shifters on the back of the steering wheel, so we no longer see a massively blistered right hands on drivers at the end of races.

Other than the road courses, NASCAR drivers shift gears a lot less (on oval tracks)