yes
The standard amount of cars in NASCAR is 43.
Indy 500, open wheel cars, NASCAR holds the brickyard 400 at Indy every year.
Danica Patrick has raced both open wheel race cars in the Indy Racing League, and stock cars in the Nascar Cup and Nationwide Series.
Indy cars race in the rain on street and road courses, however they do not on ovals.
About 240mph, based on performance at the Indianapolis 500 and specifications for the cars.
no
Counterclock in F1, the USA all raceing is clockwise. Indy and NASCAR. This may have something to do with horeracing, cars would race on those tracks back in the day.
No, they do not. Manual transmissions are used in Nascar race cars.
It seems highly unlikely that Nascar will ever race strictly stock cars again.
Yes they can. Any race or gender can participate in Nascar racing.
The Nascar Cup Series fields 43 drivers at every race they go to on the schedule.
09 Indy has not been run and Dale Jr does not race Indy cars