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As a point of reference, Laguna Seca has a dBA limit of 92, and Indycars are something like 110-120.
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Oh and for any F1 fans looking to try going to an indycar race for the first time, get a pit/paddock pass. It's always worth it, especially at venues that host multiple racing series on the same weekend.
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I got a paddock pass for RA, and garage access!
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Road Atlanta is supposedly not suitable for open wheel, although I'm not sure why they decide that something like that doesn't have enough runoff or whatever, but something like Long Beach or Belle Isle is okay. I suppose the cars would be going much faster at Road Atlanta.iospace posted:I got a paddock pass for RA, and garage access! Have you been there before? All the access is pretty awesome and since everywhere is open I still haven't really decided where my favorite spot for actually watching the racing is.
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Lord Crapulus posted:Have you been there before? All the access is pretty awesome and since everywhere is open I still haven't really decided where my favorite spot for actually watching the racing is. First time going, actually. Doing Saturday and Sunday. And yeah, I'm looking the Xfinity series being there, 75 bucks for the weekend. And 75 bucks for Saturday only garage passes while the track is cold 
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92 points in both Fantasy races this weekend. At least I'm consistent? 
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About as consistent as Dixon, who is now in 1st place by 8 points over Helio in the standings without winning a race. Sato is in 3rd, 3 back from Helio. Honda has a nice, solid lead too, 664-608. Oddly enough, Honda: 5 wins, 3 poles. Chevy: 3 wins, 5 poles.
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iospace posted:Honda has a nice, solid lead too, 664-608. I wouldn't put much into Honda's lead right now. Manufacturers get 10 points if an engine hits its mileage life, but loses 20 points for every engine that doesn't. If enough Hondas start grenading later in the season they may not have enough of a lead to make up 30-point swings per engine.
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Lord Crapulus posted:Road Atlanta is supposedly not suitable for open wheel, although I'm not sure why they decide that something like that doesn't have enough runoff or whatever, but something like Long Beach or Belle Isle is okay. I suppose the cars would be going much faster at Road Atlanta. The last straight into the hard left/hard right has claimed many a car in racing games. I imagine that's the main worry.
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Peanut President posted:The last straight into the hard left/hard right has claimed many a car in racing games. I imagine that's the main worry. There's lots of runoff there, though. If I had to guess I'd say the biggest concern would turn 5 at the bottom of the esses. Indycars could probably take the esses flat and even in a slow car if you overcook turn 5 you're going into the wall.
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Looking at a satellite view, they have a couple chicanes in the esses, if the one closer to turn five was used, it could keep the cars from carrying too much speed into it. You could also use the alternate turn 12, which is nearly a 90 degree turn, to keep speeds down across the front straight. It would not be the traditional Road Atlanta, but it may work.
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Speaking of Road Atlanta, one of the corner judges at turn 7 was killed by a bike today 
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If we're racing Georgia? My vote is for them to bring Hutchinson Island up to code TBH. Seems like you could sucker someone into investing money into it and making it a year round club circuit. iospace posted:About as consistent as Dixon, who is now in 1st place by 8 points over Helio in the standings without winning a race. So is this another year where Dixon gets the title? Kinda at a loss as the Penske's don't seem into it right now. (save for helio who's track record for titles is choking them away)
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FuzzySkinner posted:So is this another year where Dixon gets the title? I Dixon wins another title I will start hating him under the premise that he must have surely made a deal with the devil.
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Dixon winning the title without winning a race would be the Scott Dixonest thing ever.
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Bentai posted:Looking at a satellite view, they have a couple chicanes in the esses, if the one closer to turn five was used, it could keep the cars from carrying too much speed into it. You could also use the alternate turn 12, which is nearly a 90 degree turn, to keep speeds down across the front straight. The road Atlanta club circuit chicanes are blasphemy.
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The Road Atlanta chicanes are god drat trash garbage.
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iospace posted:I got a paddock pass for RA, and garage access! 99.9% sure those are the same thing. Road Atlanta would be a cool race, although it's only about 3 hours from Barber and might cannibalize their tickets
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If they have to neuter the track to race there, it's not worth it. I really would like to see them get more road courses (as opposed to having so many street courses) on the schedule, but it seems like there's always too many stumbling blocks. Hopefully the Portland rumors pan out, I guess. Shibby, you're at RA again this year too? Anyone else going? I'm going to drive up just for Sunday.
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Lord Crapulus posted:Shibby, you're at RA again this year too? Anyone else going? I'm going to drive up just for Sunday. Yeah my dad and I will be there Fri-Sun
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KingShibby posted:99.9% sure those are the same thing. I know, I'm just excited about it. Lord Crapulus posted:If they have to neuter the track to race there, it's not worth it. I really would like to see them get more road courses (as opposed to having so many street courses) on the schedule, but it seems like there's always too many stumbling blocks. Hopefully the Portland rumors pan out, I guess. I think you, Shibby, myself, Tupaculypse, maybe a couple others.
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Theris posted:Dixon winning the title without winning a race would be the Scott Dixonest thing ever. There's like a 95% chance he'll at least win at Mid Ohio though.
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Lord Crapulus posted:Hopefully the Portland rumors pan out, I guess. There's Portland rumors? With the Glen back, if they get Portland the only traditional tracks missing that aren't a total pipe dream are Fontana, MIS, Milwaukee* and Cleveland. *They haven't torn it down yet, right? Edit: Forgot Loudon Theris fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Theris posted:There's Portland rumors? With the Glen back, if they get Portland the only tracks missing that aren't a total pipe dream are Fontana, MIS, Milwaukee* and Cleveland. It's still there, but probably needs repairs at this point. I'm surprised Cat hasn't been approached to try to sponsor a race there or something.
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It pops up a lot in Robin Miller's mailbag, he seems to think it's possible for next year.iospace posted:I think you, Shibby, myself, Tupaculypse, maybe a couple others. Well, if any of you feel like meeting up at some point on Sunday, PM me and we can figure something out.
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I liked the races at both Laguna and Portland. Before the chorus of "you can't pass there!" well you can't pass at Mid-Ohio or Sonoma either really.
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Two questions: 1. How feasible is the Loudon road course for Indy cars anyway? 2. How long does it take to change configurations for it?
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iospace posted:Two questions: Going off of iRacing's version anyway, it is really really not. It's already fairly claustrophobic in much slower cars, and I think where you come back on to the oval wouldn't work unless they redid the large curb there. I'd guess an Indycar could do a 40 second lap.
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The Loudon road course is tiny and would be slow as hell for Indycars.
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So there goes the idea of a double header doing both the road and oval courses. Oh well.
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iospace posted:Two questions: The road course there would most likely only work for USF2000 & Pro Mazda. I actually mentioned this exact thing to the PR director for MRTI, she said that if IndyCar were to ever go back there that having the whole ladder there split between the 4 series over the 2 configurations would potentially work.
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Do the oval and shift to the roval mid-race
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KingShibby posted:The road course there would most likely only work for USF2000 & Pro Mazda. I actually mentioned this exact thing to the PR director for MRTI, she said that if IndyCar were to ever go back there that having the whole ladder there split between the 4 series over the 2 configurations would potentially work. This is a cool idea. I'd like to see that at other rovals where it would make sense.
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Basticle posted:Have they ever raced on the roval at homestead? I don't believe they've ever raced on that roval, but teams do testing there and MRTI has an annual pre-season test there.
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WindyMan posted:This is a cool idea. I'd like to see that at other rovals where it would make sense. Texas, maybe? IMO the other tracks it might work at (Phoenix, Loudon if it happens) are short enough that the whole ladder should be running the oval. I guess they could do both, since they normally do multiple races a weekend anyway. I just think the lower rungs need more ovals. USF2000 only runs Iowa, and Pro Mazda only...*Googles*... Gateway? And not Iowa? Wtf? At least bring back the Night Before the 500.  Edit: Pocono and Gateway both have rovals, too. Theris fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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KingShibby posted:I don't believe they've ever raced on that roval, but teams do testing there and MRTI has an annual pre-season test there. Yeah I think CART used to do a spring training week of testing at Homestead and tested on both the oval and the road course. That makes me think Homestead could relatively change their configuration from oval to road course.
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Looking at Homestead's roval, it's actually... a road course and not something like "lolkansasroval".
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iospace posted:Looking at Homestead's roval, it's actually... a road course and not something like "lolkansasroval". I've never actually seen a race at homesteads roval but the Sunset Peninsula track from Forza is a slight rearranging of it so in my head head canon it's a great track.
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