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wicka posted:PPG has huge facilities in Cleveland, too. Pittsburgh is within driving distancee. Flikken posted:There is a Chevy plant in Lordstown, less than an hour from Cleveland. Yeah I'm trying to recall whom was throwing money at those past races. Goodyear was down the road in Akron, Firestone is still down the road in Akron. I seem to recall giant rear end inflatable "SHELL" logos over there.. US Bank, FedEX, Miller Lite.. (I'm trying to recall if Shell was in a relationship with BP...who if memory serves bought out SOHIO, and still has a presence in NEOhio). I want to say Keybank tossed some money at 'em, but that could be my childhood memories of the Tribe blending in there. Also IMG managed the event back in the day up until it no longer was a thing.. WindyMan posted:Bourdais 1st and 2nd to start the season. I wanna see him get a "500" win. Was so drat convinced it was gonna happen last year until Rossi pulled off the upset. Hinch had a helluva race though. Winning Long Beach is a big rear end deal.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I can't hate that top three but what the flying gently caress at the Andretti Honda problems. I can't wait for the investigation of what happened, half of my fantasy lineup were Andretti cars  I wonder what the mileages were on those engines, I'm willing to bet they were all pretty close to each other when the failures occurred.
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Reading through Racer, it seems like RHR's was actually an electric failure. Said he was able to fire it up again after some time.
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Between Kimball and Stroll in F1 turning in on people on lap 1 this week, they should really put blind spot detection or something in these things. Not that it'd change anything, but it would at least eliminate the didn't-know-he-was-there excuse.
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gently caress, I only got 99 points from this week's race. drat you Honday!
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Lord Crapulus posted:Between Kimball and Stroll in F1 turning in on people on lap 1 this week, they should really put blind spot detection or something in these things. Not that it'd change anything, but it would at least eliminate the didn't-know-he-was-there excuse. Watching that crash in more detail - first,  at the photographer jumping back since Beetus pretty much hit right in front of him. Second, while it was really loving dumb of Power to stick his nose in there (see: RHR/Josef), Charlie took a super shallow line into the corner, and Power was way further alongside than Charlie seems to want to give him 'credit' for.
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I still would give more of the blame to Power than to Kimball, though. Turn 4 is absolutely *NOT* a passing zone. It was the first lap of the race, it was clear through turns 2/3 that Kimball was not going to lift, and that Kimball was clearly ahead. Power could have backed off to be safe.
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Oh yeah, I agree, Power shouldn't have tried that move after Kimball got ahead coming out of the fountain. But Charlie is not blameless here.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Oh yeah, I agree, Power shouldn't have tried that move after Kimball got ahead coming out of the fountain. But Charlie is not blameless here. Of course he's not. They were both idiots, but he's definitely the bigger victim IMO.
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Remind me to never post on trackforum .
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FuzzySkinner posted:Remind me to never post on trackforum . Don't post on trackforum.
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iospace posted:Don't post on trackforum. good loving god. I swear to god, every race could have the excitement level of the last 11 laps of the '92 Indianapolis 500 and you'd have people make the following points 1. "The racing product isn't very good. Too PIT STOP ORIENTED" 2. The rating sucked. NASCAR's ratings are better. 3. NO ONE CARES ABOUT INDYCARS OUTSIDE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500. THE SERIES IS DOOMED! They never look at historical precedent or put things in context.
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Was at the race. It was fun and good. But they do need to do more to increase awareness of general stuff, including pit stop strategy. I spent half the race explaining to people in the stands what was happening.
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It doesn't help (in that regard) that Long Beach seems to be one of the only tracks where pit strategy really is that varied. Most of the time the number of stops you need is pretty much a given, with the strategy only being when. It is possible at Long Beach to save just enough fuel to make two stops work, without running crazy slow... but if you three-stop it you can run hard enough to possibly make the ~35 second penalty for the third stop go away. Especially if the yellows go in your favor. Also, I love that I get to type this: Sebastien Bourdais, in a Coyne car, is leading the championship by 19 points. Simultaneously, Will Power is only nine points ahead of last place. IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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These 30 minute race recaps Indycar is doing on youtube is really cool.
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I will laugh long and hard if Chevy dominates the super speedways this year and Honda dominates everything else.
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Cygni posted:Was at the race. It was fun and good. But they do need to do more to increase awareness of general stuff, including pit stop strategy. I spent half the race explaining to people in the stands what was happening. I know someone working ABC to directly cover this. It was done for the St. Pete broadcast in fact. dentist toy box posted:These 30 minute race recaps Indycar is doing on youtube is really cool. A major thing American auto racing does right is this. Even Cup does a great job at letting people post old races and posting recaps, etc.
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NASCAR gives zero fucks about stuff like old races and streams. Only Fox clamps down on that poo poo.
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Bentai posted:gently caress, I only got 99 points from this week's race. drat you Honday! I don't know how I pulled it off but I picked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th.
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I picked Marco and Rossi and also Helio over Seabass so gently caress me I guess. Still picked Hinch though so it wasn't a complete wash.
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Fun Fact: Out of the 8 different timing sectors at Long Beach, this past race had 8 different drivers leading those sectors http://nasportscar.com/behind-the-numbers-indycar-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/ Read my first article with my new affiliation jerkbags
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KingShibby posted:Fun Fact: Out of the 8 different timing sectors at Long Beach, this past race had 8 different drivers leading those sectors Nasport Scar? Who dat?
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WindyMan posted:Nasport Scar? Who dat? Established sports car outlet that's expanding into open wheel and stock car. I'm writing IndyCar stuff for them. This is a much better idea than trying to start my own thing.
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KingShibby posted:Established sports car outlet that's expanding into open wheel and stock car. I'm writing IndyCar stuff for them. This is a much better idea than trying to start my own thing. I think I know one of the guys from IMSA Fans FB group. Maybe even the founder but cool to see you moving up.
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KingShibby posted:Read my first article with my new affiliation jerkbags I dunno about you, but parking for the aquarium over by turn 9 seems like a long way to walk compared to the parking garage right next to 3/4/5  Wish I could've gone this year. Couldn't swing it on a trip on my own, and my dad hit me up absolutely last second to see if I wanted to go with him.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I dunno about you, but parking for the aquarium over by turn 9 seems like a long way to walk compared to the parking garage right next to 3/4/5 Parking is for plebs. Blue Line Master Race
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The white zone is for loading and unloading only
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gently caress parking anywhere near that track but I really wanna go back next year. Still need to do Sonoma first
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If you aren't going to will call, my play is to come over on the Vincent Thomas. It will dump you directly on Ocean Blvd, and those first parking structures are normally $10(!), and the walk is the same as the $20-25 garages up on broadway or 3rd. You can just go in the West entrance by turn 5/The Pike.
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iospace posted:The white zone is for loading and unloading only Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone poo poo again.
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Autosport says it's happening: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128926/alonso-to-race-in-2017-indy-500 That's definitely a headline I did not expect to see today. edit: Alonso's statement was added to the report after I posted this DMorbid fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Wait they're letting him skip Monaco this year to do it. I..uh...that's...interesting.
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https://twitter.com/alo_oficial/status/852109293159682049 Holy poo poo 
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Good on him. And that's a huge amount of attention Indycar needs.
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First time since 1979 that the McLaren factory has had any stake in the 500.
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Spanish GP - May 14 First day of '500' practice - May 15 Man this is gonna be awesome.
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McLaren open to a full season IndyCar entry in the future: https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/mclaren-open-to-full-works-indycar-programme-in-future-892893/
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