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Theris posted:Wait, what? There's concessions/souvenir stands/restrooms under the stands and all around the track. The fairgrounds-style food stands on Georgetown are there for people walking to the track and Coke Lot campers/partiers the night before. There are very limited concessions actually built into the facility with probably the worst and most expensive chicken fingers, fries, burgers, and hot dogs you'll ever see, but the vast majority of food and drink (and much greater quality\variety) are definitely in the food trucks and carnival carts all around the outside of the seating areas (but within the fencing) and inside the track. IMS suffers from the same issue many race tracks do, in that comfort and concessions are an afterthought. BYOB in a small cooler, pack all your food in, IMO. IOwnCalculus posted:Having done it every which way other than GA-only... I won't do uncovered seats again. A huge chunk of the seats on the front straight are either fully covered, or at least shaded once the sun moves a bit. My favorite seats on race day that I've actually had were down at the very end of Stand A at the entrance of turn 1. We started sitting in the paddock penthouse for the Indy GP last year and the difference between there and the stands is night and day. Covered, stadium style seats, plenty of legroom, restrooms on your level, and a loving ELEVATOR from the ground floor. Never going back to the vista decks after that!
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Spaced God posted:More shark mouths on cars imo This. The chocks are a nice touch too.
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Cygni posted:e and connor with the steel panel/rivet look: Sweet ride
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Cygni posted:https://twitter.com/Team_Penske/status/1120786275198558213 Oh man I loved that car
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Synthetic Hermit posted:My experience at the 100th running was kind of similar to what you're planning: Thanks for the insight. The leave the hotel at 7 and get stuck in traffic until 11 is exactly what I hope to avoid on the way in hopefully by leaving the hotel at 6am and parking in some dudes lawn at 7-8am. On the way home, it is what it is. Good tip on the cushion, I wouldn't have thought to bring one.
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Bentai posted:It'd be a shirtless Sage Karam. I'd actually be completely cool with this
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Will Power's new livery owns.bigbillystyle posted:Thanks for the insight. The leave the hotel at 7 and get stuck in traffic until 11 is exactly what I hope to avoid on the way in hopefully by leaving the hotel at 6am and parking in some dudes lawn at 7-8am. On the way home, it is what it is. Good tip on the cushion, I wouldn't have thought to bring one. Nothing to do about the way out and honestly traffic management, given how loving much of it there is, is something they do very well. Sitting in an air conditioned car going nowhere feels plenty good after the race anyway. Ultimately, don't be too afraid to walk a bit. You're going to cover some mileage at the track anyway. We've had good luck over the years parking at the high school, Dotlich Crane, and random front yards. Did the shuttle from the airport a couple of times but the line to get back on the bus after loving sucks.
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bigbillystyle posted:Thanks for the insight. The leave the hotel at 7 and get stuck in traffic until 11 is exactly what I hope to avoid on the way in hopefully by leaving the hotel at 6am and parking in some dudes lawn at 7-8am. On the way home, it is what it is. Good tip on the cushion, I wouldn't have thought to bring one. Yeah, this happened to me last year - left the hotel at 7:45 and didn’t get to the track til almost 11:30. We also tried to use Uber which seemed like a decent enough idea on the way in but was loving miserable getting out, since all the roads near the track are converted to one-way only until about 5:30 or 6 PM. Basically wound up sitting at a ghetto gas station for a couple hours watching drunk Snake Pit attendees attempt to shoplift and/or get in fights, until an Uber could finally make it near the track. Also, bring sunglasses, hats, sunscreen, and plenty of water. The whole thing sounds like a giant pain in the rear end, and taken in a vacuum it is, but getting to see and hear the cars fly around the track at 230 mph for a couple hours in person is something you have to do at least once. Just bummed that I wound up attending the one race between Alonso’s two appearances. The Illusive Man fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Frond posted:I’m gonna go out on limb here and say ‘96 was probably even worse than ‘97, honestly. The field was a joke and the teams were a gongshow. oh well, at least those problems were fixed for '97
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Reynold posted:There are very limited concessions actually built into the facility with probably the worst and most expensive chicken fingers, fries, burgers, and hot dogs you'll ever see, but the vast majority of food and drink (and much greater quality\variety) are definitely in the food trucks and carnival carts all around the outside of the seating areas (but within the fencing) and inside the track. IMS suffers from the same issue many race tracks do, in that comfort and concessions are an afterthought. BYOB in a small cooler, pack all your food in, IMO. Yep. IOwnCalculus posted:Sitting in an air conditioned car going nowhere feels plenty good after the race anyway. I'll agree with that. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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http://www.dalejr.com/radio/tdjd/default.aspx Will Power went on Dale Jr's podcast. It's a pretty funny listen so far, but at 43min he drops a big piece of info... windscreens are apparently coming next year.
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Space Racist posted:The whole thing sounds like a giant pain in the rear end, and taken in a vacuum it is, but getting to see and hear the cars fly around the track at 230 mph for a couple hours in person is something you have to do at least once. The attitude one has to take? Is to treat as if a -Rock Concert -Mardi Gras/Spring Break -  4th of July like parade/fireworks display-Auto race All combined into one single entity. So it's rather difficult to treat it like "just a car race". This is not me trying to channel my inner paul page and going  about Indy, it's just the fact of the matter. Honestly? It's why my father never likes going and prefers attending practice (or the ever so underrated GP). The crowds are...insane. But the payoff is often good. You wind up making a lot of memories with friends, family during the course of it.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:the only redeeming thing about 1996 is Arie's laps since we'll never see the like of them again Even that was lame, imo. Arie was outqualified on Pole Day by Scott Brayton who'd set the track record. But because Arie's car was underweight, his qualifying attempt was disallowed. However, instead of disqualifying the car after failing tech, USAC allowed him to go again the following day in faster conditions. Effectively cheated to take the track record from a guy who'd turn out to have 5 days to live.
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The 2.65L era was pretty nuts in retrospect. Mo Gugelmin ran a lap at 242mph in Fontana circa 1997. Which means he was likely hitting 260 on the straights.
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If you watch Gil de Ferran's record lap at Fontana, he's leaving black tracks all the way down the back straight
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dsriggs posted:Even that was lame, imo. Arie was outqualified on Pole Day by Scott Brayton who'd set the track record. But because Arie's car was underweight, his qualifying attempt was disallowed. However, instead of disqualifying the car after failing tech, USAC allowed him to go again the following day in faster conditions. Effectively cheated to take the track record from a guy who'd turn out to have 5 days to live. yes cheating is a wonderful part of racing I agree
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I checked the weather last night, saw "oh, only 20% chance of rain". Looked right now, only 30% chance. gently caress you mother nature 
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Super annoyed, I even had my laptop in the car in case something popped up since I’m “working from home.” Oh well, I got to see and hear racecars do a couple of laps, that’s always something to celebrate. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:If you watch Gil de Ferran's record lap at Fontana, he's leaving black tracks all the way down the back straight Fontana 2000 was wild.
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Cygni posted:love this scheme so much The wheels should be black too but yeah it's fantastic
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Bentai posted:Robin Miller says that Mark Miles commented that IMS has less than 200k seats now. Other than tearing down that one segment of stands near turn 3, where else have they removed seats? They removed a bunch down low in the entrance to 1 ages ago. To be fair, you probably couldn't see poo poo from there. I think some of the reconstructed stands aren't as dense as before.
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By the way, we are green again with streaming video https://racecontrol.indycar.com/ Sato already up to 224
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Sorry, the rain is apparently my fault. It started right as I was getting back down to the track with my twin boys, this was gonna be their first time.
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devmd01 posted:Sorry, the rain is apparently my fault. It started right as I was getting back down to the track with my twin boys, this was gonna be their first time. You owe us cat pics as penance.
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