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Isn't Atlantics largely defunct now?
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Yeah it's basically a poorly attended historic series for their own cars at this point I think.
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Aug 8, 2017 10:25
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iospace posted:anyone want a gang tag? Could I get this in place of my current AV/text please? You're the best, io.
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Human Grand Prix posted:Isn't Atlantics largely defunct now? The most recent champion is an Indy Lights driver currently. Honestly I'd like to see it revived/saved. It was a great ladder series for IMSA, F1, and CART.
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Aug 8, 2017 13:33
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I don't know what it'd offer that the MRTI doesn't at this point. I'd rather there be 5 more cars in Indy Lights.
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Aug 8, 2017 19:20
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The only thing Atlantics has that anybody is interested in is a nostalgic name. Which to be fair, I wish they had to replace the Mazda Pro Series name.
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Aug 8, 2017 20:09
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Mazda Atlantics. I could go with that.
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Aug 8, 2017 20:15
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WindyMan posted:Mazda Atlantics. I could go with that. They were powered by Mazda the last couple of years they were a legit series. (2006- 2009). The alums even during it's dying days were pretty incredible.
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Aug 8, 2017 20:25
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http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/143012-carpenter-weighing-2018-options ECR wants to build a good long term team that can challenge for championships, not just be a "driver development farm."
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Aug 9, 2017 01:50
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Long Beach City Council just voted unanimously to enter into a new 5 year deal with the IndyCar promoter after the current deal expires in 2019, with an additional five-year option for the city. So the LBGP will be on the schedule until 2023 at least. 
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Aug 9, 2017 04:33
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Gods I hate the open wheel doldrums.
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Aug 9, 2017 17:17
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iospace posted:anyone want a gang tag? Late to the show but can I get in on this tag? And I still need to figure out a new av too since this is old as poo poo.
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Aug 9, 2017 20:11
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BMB5150 posted:Late to the show but can I get in on this tag? And I still need to figure out a new av too since this is old as poo poo. I'd totally give you back the Will Power one but it's been lost to the ages. RIP.
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Aug 9, 2017 20:15
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iospace posted:I'd totally give you back the Will Power one but it's been lost to the ages. RIP. I'm thinking something with JDC-Miller's banana boat Oreca. Oh I see Soap got destroyed back in March. Farewell Will Power double bird, we knew you so well.
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Aug 9, 2017 20:21
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Unless it was animated or something, shouldn't be too hard to recreate from source. 
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Aug 9, 2017 20:27
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iospace posted:Gods I hate the open wheel doldrums. During the split years? You'd have about 30 American Championship Car races per year (34 in 2001, 36 in 2002, 34 in 2003), which would actually rival Cup's schedule. It just sucks. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy the series very much right now, but it'd be cool if we had a race filling up a lot of empty weekends. e: I'd even settle for them making Pikes Peak and various Silver Crown races as points paying races/showing them on tv  FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Aug 9, 2017 20:38
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If they're going to have a 3 week break, I think they should have it when F1 does NOT have theirs. But traditional dates and whatnot (not that those are a bad thing).
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iospace posted:If they're going to have a 3 week break, I think they should have it when F1 does NOT have theirs. I kinda sperg out about this sort of thing, but there's about 16 dates or so that you could have set your watch to in terms of when they'd be on the schedule Homestead being early March, Phoenix being late March, Milwaukee being the weekend after Indy (RIP, Go gently caress yourself whomever was running Andretti promotions), Portland during the Rose Festival, Cleveland near the 4th of July, Michigan being late July, Surfers being mid-October, and Fontana being close to Halloween. As of right now about the only ones that have stayed put on the schedule in their traditional places would be Long Beach, Indianapolis (obviously), Toronto, and Mid Ohio (for some reason it's ALWAYS around the time of the NEC Golf Tourney/HOF game locally). I'd put down Barber and St. Pete, but those dates are still relatively green (but getting there, thankfully). FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Aug 9, 2017 20:48
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As mentioned before, having Portland on Father's Day weekend is going to be a real hard sell given that's also Le Mans weekend.
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Playing Devil's advocate but the teams & series employees really need a break this time of year. I know the offseason is like 6 months long but they've been run ragged since mid-March
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Bentai posted:Unless it was animated or something, shouldn't be too hard to recreate from source. True but time for a little change.
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Aug 9, 2017 21:06
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BMB5150 posted:True but time for a little change. If you were going to do that, you could have added the tag yourself  Oh well, the tag request is in.
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Aug 9, 2017 21:24
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iospace posted:If you were going to do that, you could have added the tag yourself Thank you! Save the old av just in case I want to bring it back.
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Aug 9, 2017 21:46
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this is sponsor violence https://twitter.com/shellracingus/status/895400456020783104
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Aug 9, 2017 23:09
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drat that Shell scheme is sexy. Rahal had the best looking team back then with that and the Miller Lite car.
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gret posted:drat that Shell scheme is sexy. Rahal had the best looking team back then with that and the Miller Lite car. The Papis/Brack team was mine and my brother's favorite growing up as kids during the FedEx series days. Can we put it on an IndyCar?
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Cygni posted:this is sponsor violence https://twitter.com/shellracingus/status/895400456020783104 Remember last year, where Logano's throwback for the Southern 500 was based on the damned Porsche 962? Huh. Helio should be rotating between this scheme and the Pennzoil nuclear banana as long as Penske has the sponsorship.
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harperdc posted:Remember last year, where Logano's throwback for the Southern 500 was based on the damned Porsche 962? Huh. Maybe Shell doesn't really like NASCAR but keeps sponsoring due to their relationship with Penske's automotive empire, so they try to troll NASCAR at every opportunity.
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gret posted:Maybe Shell doesn't really like NASCAR but keeps sponsoring due to their relationship with Penske's automotive empire, so they try to troll NASCAR at every opportunity. I bet Shell doesn't show up in NASCAR because of Sunoco. NASCAR loves to keep their major sponsors exclusive if they can help it.
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WindyMan posted:I bet Shell doesn't show up in NASCAR because of Sunoco. NASCAR loves to keep their major sponsors exclusive if they can help it. ...Shell is a secondary sponsor alongside Pennzoil on Logano's car full time, it's just really funny to me that all of their "throwback" paint schemes are from other disciplines of racing.
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WindyMan posted:I bet Shell doesn't show up in NASCAR because of Sunoco. NASCAR loves to keep their major sponsors exclusive if they can help it. Funny enough that scenario happened when Harvick won the 500 and had a giant shell logo on his driver suit and NASCAR had a fit over it. They had to put Pennzoil under it and make the Shell logo smaller. They should do the Johnny Benson Pennzoil car next year.
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Aug 10, 2017 02:14
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The Steve Park Pennzoil car was the best/most memorable one imo.
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iospace posted:As mentioned before, having Portland on Father's Day weekend is going to be a real hard sell given that's also Le Mans weekend. Also Mikhail Aleshin, Scott Dixon and Kannan ran Le Mans this year and Bourdais was supposed to.
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harperdc posted:Remember last year, where Logano's throwback for the Southern 500 was based on the damned Porsche 962? Huh. gently caress this.
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BMB5150 posted:They should do the Johnny Benson Pennzoil car next year. The answer is actually this.
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Aug 10, 2017 11:45
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https://twitter.com/qill13/status/895666087370600448 (thanks BMB)
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Aug 10, 2017 19:41
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D-DOUBLE POST: https://twitter.com/iowaspeedway/status/895709599562518528 Man they took out as much topside downforce as they could it seems.
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Aug 10, 2017 20:12
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Looks like they took the top element off of both the front and rear road course wings, but left the floor-plugs in.
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Darlington crossover chat got me wondering what Rusty Wallace's MGD scheme would look like on an indycar and then Bobby Rahal made my afternoon
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http://autoweek.com/article/indycar/indycar-ceo-mark-miles-mclaren-interested-2019-season 2018 might not happen, but rumblings say 2019.
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