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Human Grand Prix posted:I don't think this is a very good idea, I'm afraid. I am also afraid. Afraid that you are wrong.
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If anyone else is watching this weekend's 24 Hours of Daytona, the following 14 IndyCar drivers are competing this weekend: Drivers who competed full time in the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series (* Indianapolis 500 only) entered in the sports car race with class in parentheses:
Additionally, 2014 Indy Lights champion Gabby Chaves returns to co-drive the No. 0 DeltaWing with former Verizon IndyCar Series driver Katherine Legge, Memo Rojas and Andy Meyrick. Shelby Blackstock, who moves from Pro Mazda to Indy Lights with Andretti Autosport this season, will share seat time with Plowman. Pro Mazda Championship and Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship teams will test Jan. 25 at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Fla., before moving to Homestead-Miami Speedway for testing on the road course Jan. 28. Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires teams will test on the HMS road course Jan. 26-27 and on the 1.5-mile oval Jan. 29.... Andretti Autosport owner Michael Andretti said that his son, Marco, will likely compete in the Miami and  Long Beach rounds of the FIA Formula E Championship this spring. He made his series debut in Argentina earlier this month.
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I like that instead of just running the Formula E race on the Thursday before or Monday after the LBGP, with all of the fans and facilities in place, Formula E decided to run the weekend before with a gimped track and no vendors. ~formula e~
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Jan 20, 2015 21:54
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That's our FIA!
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Monaco is also going to use a different track layout to the GP.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:15
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FIA more liek FYAD amirite? 
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drgitlin posted:Monaco is also going to use a different track layout to the GP. The Monaco track is great because it uses a total of zero parts that make Monaco a cool unique track.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVn-ylT1SAQ To answer the question we've all been kind of thinking up? Apparently TMS hosts "legends racing" the same day as they host the IndyCars.
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the problem that indycar seems to have in relation to support races on the ovals is that there aren't that many series outside NASCAR sanctioned ones that can run on the bigger tracks. Somewhere like Milwaukee or Iowa you probably could get someone like USAC to run something but get much bigger and you really have to start hoping that you can get a truck event at the same time as your IndyCar race - although I think they run different days so that might not be true. You really need as much of the Road to Indy at the bigger oval races as you could get just to fill out the schedule a bit - although I can't imagine that F2000 cars would have great racing at somewhere like Texas... You could condense the schedule a bit at some of the night races like Texas - although I wouldn't want to do that this year as I can forsee IndyCar needing to make some... adjustments to the cars there to try to keep the downforce down with the aerokits. The Legends Cars look quite interesting although the track isn't very good - but it would help to make sure that something was actually happening on the track! This is an ignorant opinion by someone who's only experience watching racing was going to see the BTCC at Knockhill like ten years ago so don't take it that seriously... Although the BTCC does run with a load of random poo poo - you get Formula Ford type things and the Porsche Cup and just a bunch of things that no one really closely follows but watches because its racing and its fun! drgitlin posted:Monaco is also going to use a different track layout to the GP. i just look this track map up and haha it manages to be the worst thing ever the long beach one looks kinda a bit similar to the one they ran before 99, only with a chicane on the front stretch and missing out a few corners that aren't on the new track
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Just keep bashing your heads against the fact that Indy has to be top bill on a race weekend at the ovals, one of these days it'll come up roses, I'm sure.
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VikingSkull posted:Just keep bashing your heads against the fact that Indy has to be top bill on a race weekend at the ovals, one of these days it'll come up roses, I'm sure. are you saying indycar needs to be a support race for NASCAR?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya9AefieRxE Run these at every track for supports. It'd give me and viking something to watch anyway.
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I know responding to Viking in this thread is stupid, but its not indycar holding up theoretical Cup/IndyCar dates. Walker said as much a few years back. poo poo, Bernard even suggested running with F1 at Cota on Saturday.
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be nice wicka posted:are you saying indycar needs to be a support race for NASCAR? Oil and Water. Doesn't matter if tix were free, and they were offered free booze. NASCAR fans have no interest in attending an IndyCar race. Zero. Zilch. You are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to get that fanbase to give two shits about you. Hell, I'd argue that even when the IRL attempted to be NASCAR? The fans even THEN didn't give a poo poo. Cygni posted:I know responding to Viking in this thread is stupid, but its not indycar holding up theoretical Cup/IndyCar dates. Walker said as much a few years back. This. You could very well have an Indy/Nationwide Week at Chicagoland and Kentucky, but there's been no budging in that regard.
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Peanut President posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya9AefieRxE Run these at every track for supports. It'd give me and viking something to watch anyway. Um, this is extremely good poo poo.
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Get SST to also support IndyCars at ovals, have them build custom tracks on the tri-oval ala Global Rallycross, but with the added bonus of being able to go through the infield/over the pit wall. Also, for a guaranteed draw, cover part of the stands with dirt and run them up and down, just like they do in supercross sometimes. Not like those seats would ever fill up. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt44eGML3gc plus this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMq3cUxgcJc equals IndyCar oval salvation. You're welcome, America.
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WindyMan posted:Get SST to also support IndyCars at ovals, have them build custom tracks on the tri-oval ala Global Rallycross, but with the added bonus of being able to go through the infield/over the pit wall. Also, for a guaranteed draw, cover part of the stands with dirt and run them up and down, just like they do in supercross sometimes. Not like those seats would ever fill up. IMS should have given Robby a better spot to run. loving bullshit they had him run during the Carb Day Concert. Also (oddly enough) they're scheduled to run at a venue that simply says "TEXAS" on June 7th, though I don't know if that's just for the X-Games or not.
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be nice wicka posted:are you saying indycar needs to be a support race for NASCAR? 
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During practice and qualifying at Fontana last year there were a number of folks in the infield drinking Budweiser out of official Budweiser glasses, and they definitely had the look of you average NASCAR or short track fan. So I'd say the demographics overlap a little bit.
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AxeBreaker posted:During practice and qualifying at Fontana last year there were a number of folks in the infield drinking Budweiser out of official Budweiser glasses, and they definitely had the look of you average NASCAR or short track fan. So I'd say the demographics overlap a little bit. I've witnessed the same thing happen when I attended a race at Kentucky. I also saw people rocking WOO/USAC t-shirts at Indy and Mid Ohio before. I don't think Miller's line about Short Track fans not following Indy is completely true, there seems to be a small contigent content with things, and that seem to attend events in each series quite regularly. In terms of NASCAR fans suddenly being interested in IndyCar? I don't think that's very likely to happen...ever. That form of the sport is very much centered around the driver culture out there, and kind of less so about the racing involved. There's a lot of people who will follow their favorite drivers in cup for example, and then not give a poo poo about other forms of the sport. This includes the aforementioned short track racing. It's nothing to do with ovals, foreigners, or running rear engine cars. It seems to have everything to do with IndyCar not having the type of driver based culture that a lot of people seem to flock too..
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FuzzySkinner posted:In terms of NASCAR fans suddenly being interested in IndyCar? I don't think that's very likely to happen...ever. That form of the sport is very much centered around the driver culture out there, and kind of less so about the racing involved. There's a lot of people who will follow their favorite drivers in cup for example, and then not give a poo poo about other forms of the sport. This includes the aforementioned short track racing. Come on. Come on.
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there's not much separating this thread and Crapwagon in the long run
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We're way more homoerotic than crapwagon.
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Rumor is that one or both of the roadcourse aerokits will be unvieled at the Chicago Auto Show Feb 14-22nd. Probably won't see the completed oval course kits until later in the year, even though they are frozen too, because the manufacutrers are busy making the roadcourse kits first. They may show one of the prototypes though.
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hi all, where is the best location at indy to sit for the grand prix? they have modified and reversed the track since i was there for the USGP so i have no idea
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be nice wicka posted:hi all, where is the best location at indy to sit for the grand prix? they have modified and reversed the track since i was there for the USGP so i have no idea Stand E is where I sit. You view the "Turn One" chicane complex, pit road entrance, it's covered, and there's a TV screen across the track from you. If you don't mind the sun, I would sit GA in the infield.
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dont worry NASCAR's fanbase is evaporating and eventually they'll have to figure out how to run events no one really gives a poo poo about any longer
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http://www.racer.com/nascar/item/112720-nascar-legend-gordon-to-retire I wonder if anyone might be able to tempt him to run the 500 in 2016.
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Sounds like a great idea for a guy who's back is shot to hell
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Bentai posted:http://www.racer.com/nascar/item/112720-nascar-legend-gordon-to-retire Naw. Well, maybe. It is the 100th running and all. Would be quite fitting to have the first brickyard winner in that race.
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Jan 22, 2015 20:47
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I was always a closet Jeff Gordon fan. Dude's had a good run. 
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Gordon wanted to end up in Indycars originally, it would be nice send off. I'm dreaming here though.
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quote:Munoz has seen the new kits and says that the car looks unbelievable as they’re “crazy nice”.  cmon cmon
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Cygni posted:
From what I've been hearing, even within AA they're keeping the aero kit on lockdown about on par with the Taj Mahal for the Beast. Must be loosening it up a bit if he's seen it.
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Greetings, IndyCarhttp://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117435 posted:
Enjoy Max.
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Phwoar I'm hyped as hell
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Jan 22, 2015 23:20
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if Chilton wins a race I will laugh fairly hard
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Jan 22, 2015 23:23
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That sounds awesome, except the part about Max Chilton
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Mo' cars, mo' better.
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VikingSkull posted:if Chilton wins a race I will laugh fairly hard Chilton has a better racing resume than half the field in IndyCars.
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