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Watching Road America '94 and some of these teams were run on a shoestring. Ross Bentley had to forfeit despite qualifying because of a cracked bellhousing.
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Good race btw
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The Croc posted:Palmer takes time to adjust to cars he will be lower end of the field but maybe over time build up to be nearer the front. Yeah, it's his biggest weakness. If we still had 35 entrants in F1 he could have hung out with a Zakspeed or Onyx for 4 years and got good, like Mansell did. But in modern F1 you don't get that sort of leeway.
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Taking a while to adjust to cars is a huge con for a grand prix driver given its essentially a new car from season to season or even when major new midseason parts come out. A spec series like IndyCar or Super Formula might very well be more up his alley.
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https://twitter.com/DanSanfy13/status/915360325368778752 (Kudos WindyMan)
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Surprising nobody, Helio is Indy only next year. http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/10/10-04-Helio-Announcement
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0 championships. Lol.
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https://twitter.com/stef_wilson/status/915578907952214021 Good to see it confirmed.
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ESPN will air F1 in 2018 and will run a Monaco/Indy 500 doubleheader, with Monaco airing live on ESPN and re-airing on ABC immediately following the 500: http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/20912083/espn-secures-us-formula-one-rights-2018 Maybe ESPN/ABC are going to keep Indy after all?
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Oct 4, 2017 17:27
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The IndyCar ABC contract expires after the 2018 season.
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CBJSprague24 posted:ESPN will air F1 in 2018 and will run a Monaco/Indy 500 doubleheader, with Monaco airing live on ESPN and re-airing on ABC immediately following the 500: This is literally the most unexpected news I can remember 
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I have to assume Liberty Media came at NBC wanting a hell of a lot more than $3m for the broadcast rights renewal, and they balked. I wonder how this may affect Indycar promotion.
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Bentai posted:I wonder how this may affect Indycar promotion. What IndyCar promotion 
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[quote="“Bentai”" post="“477052151”"] I have to assume Liberty Media came at NBC wanting a hell of a lot more than $3m for the broadcast rights renewal, and they balked. I wonder how this may affect Indycar promotion. [/quote] Liberty wants to start an F1 streaming service. NBC said in their statement that they walked away because they don't want to compete with the rights holder.
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Yeah but didn’t one of the articles say that ESPN isn’t paying a rights fee? Was NBC the only network willing to pay for F1?
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NBC also probably wanted exclusive streaming access in the US.
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gret posted:Yeah but didn’t one of the articles say that ESPN isn’t paying a rights fee? Was NBC the only network willing to pay for F1? ESPN is reportedly going bare-bones with F1 coverage and using the F1 feed's commentators and pit reporters. I would assume that any self-produced F1 broadcast would need to pay extra fees to F1, and it would make sense if NBC didn't want to go that route on top of having to compete with F1's impending digital offering.
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Liberty probably also sees the value of paying to put it in the ESPN family vs get paid small change (for them) to be on NBCSN. And I'm guessing the streaming was a hard stop too.
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Hopefully that means Diffey will be the full voice of the series on NBC now. And considering how much fun he has watching Indycars, I'd be totally OK with a few Matchett appearances.
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I just noticed this in the Racer article - Penske's also confirmed that JPM will not have an Indy-only ride, he's going to be sports cars only from now on.
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Fauxhawk Express posted:Hopefully that means Diffey will be the full voice of the series on NBC now. And considering how much fun he has watching Indycars, I'd be totally OK with a few Matchett appearances. Diffey said on Twitter he's staying at NBC and will be primarily IndyCar, Rugby, and Olympics, with occasional NASCAR. e- https://twitter.com/leighdiffey/status/915661613935599616 There you go. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:I just noticed this in the Racer article - Penske's also confirmed that JPM will not have an Indy-only ride, he's going to be sports cars only from now on. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:Diffey said on Twitter he's staying at NBC and will be primarily IndyCar, Rugby, and Olympics, with occasional NASCAR. 
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Ban Roger Penske, IMO.
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No more JPM? 
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iospace posted:No more JPM? The article I saw on Motorsport.com said he was free to find another ride if he wanted, and I can't imagine it being hard for him to find a ride if he wanted.
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The flip side is whether there's a ride available that he would want. Maybe if Chip or Michael happen to have a car handy, but it's not like JPM is going to have spare time to chase down his own sponsor money to fund the ride. He's also not likely to take a bottom-tier car. I'd expect him to not race instead of racing for 25th place.
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AND FROM NOWHERE: https://www.speedcafe.com/2017/10/05/andretti-united-autosports-complete-walkinshaw-buy/
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Oct 5, 2017 12:25
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One day Zak Brown will own all of racing.
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IOwnCalculus posted:The flip side is whether there's a ride available that he would want. Maybe if Chip or Michael happen to have a car handy, but it's not like JPM is going to have spare time to chase down his own sponsor money to fund the ride. He's also not likely to take a bottom-tier car. I'd expect him to not race instead of racing for 25th place. Chip is the most likely 500 ride for JPM given not only the history, but with Ganassi shrinking down to 2 cars they would have the capacity for a temporary expansion in May.
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[quote="“wicka”" post="“477074518”"] One day Zak Brown will own all of racing. [/quote] How loving rich is this guy holy poo poo. I'm just glad he seems like a... pretty decent guy who is very personable and seemingly affable
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Wirth1000 posted:How loving rich is this guy holy poo poo. I'm just glad he seems like a... pretty decent guy who is very personable and seemingly affable I don't think he's particularly loaded, he just has that same weird touch as Michael that allows them to effortlessly convince random companies to pour millions into motor racing.
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Dumb Username posted:AND FROM NOWHERE: That's good news for HSV, they've been godawful this year.
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TK to the 14. https://twitter.com/TonyKanaan/status/915957253223731206 I feel like this is like when Ricky Rudd went to the Wood Brothers or Bobby Labonte went to Petty: the driver will either make the team better or not be able to overcome its shortcomings.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I feel like this is like when Ricky Rudd went to the Wood Brothers or Bobby Labonte went to Petty: the driver will either make the team better or not be able to overcome its shortcomings. I'll cautiously bet on the former, since Conor was getting some respectable showings out of that car by year's end.
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quote:If you paid attention to the timing of the announcement this morning at the Foyt Wine Vault, you would have seen that it was slated to start at 11:10 am ET. The driver announcement has key ties to the numbers in that time sequence. Holy 
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iospace posted:Wait, what am I missing here?  TK's two best rides in ICS - the 11 car and the 10 car. I also forgot that he had the 11 for a good chunk of his time with KV racing, mentally I had him in just the 82 there.
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