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Possibly Chicken posted:Woah I just noticed they have more legit road courses on the schedule this year then "Bumfuck random parking lot in a city races. That's cool at least. Aleshin.
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Alain Post posted:It reminded me of the old Vancouver which was always my favorite CART street track. Old Vancouver was awesome.
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Alain Post posted:Arie Jr was intensely bad There was an Arie Jr.?
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Wow this guy spent like 8 years in Indy Lights lol.
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Jan 2, 2015 23:03
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Alain Post posted:Tony George was retarded and the Indy Racing League sucked.
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Jan 5, 2015 04:11
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The IRL's problem was that it did not have enough ovals.
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Cygni posted:Andretti targeting 5 cars, with 4 cars sounding pretty certain. Lots of interesting names on his list, including Wilson, Jean Eric Vergne, Abt, Simona, and even Kevin Magnussen. If he can add someone like Wilson, that would go a long way to helping Honda this year. I think JEV is staying with Ferrari F1.
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Cygni posted:The series has pretty good sized fields, good drivers, a title sponsor, good crowds at lots of races, incredible racing, engine competition, visually different cars (for race 2 at least), good leadership, and is breaking even. It's doing pretty drat good, certainly better than its been in well over a decade. There is really no doom left. People also forget exactly how poo poo some of the field fillers were back in the heyday. Sometimes it was equipment (Arnd Meier using a Lola in 1998 for some reason) but certain drivers make Saavedra look good by comparison.
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IceAgeComing posted:counterpoint; Shigeaki Hattori, who had his licence revoked after seven races for being poo poo. The Shig was so bad and embarrassing that both Honda and Toyota refused to supply him engines. Traditionally, they would help Japanese drivers.
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IceAgeComing posted:because I'm a sad nerd I decided to look up his stats; and discovered that another Hattori ran in CART in 1999. He was second last in the championship while Shigsy was last: so I'm going to guess that he wasn't much better Naoki Hattori wasn't too bad. He was a Japanese F3 Champ but past his prime at that point. He actually made it to F1 too, driving the worst car on the grid.
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IceAgeComing posted:Marco Greco: IRL polesitter and 3rd in the 1996/97 championship Shig also finished in the top 10 in IRL a couple times.
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IceAgeComing posted:Would Mercedes in 1994 count? Although Penske seemed to cover most of the costs of that project: it still was lots of money on an engine designed solely to win only Indy, as it was useless anywhere else as it couldn't run any extra boost in CART races. The 500 is prestigious enough, and it was more or less exploiting a ridiculous loophole. I don't think the investment was that massive.
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You can have "parity" if you want, the end result is usually the same; the best prepared and well-funded teams end up winning everything.
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Since 2012, Indycar has been less equal (the Chevrolets have had a distinct edge) but the racing much better. Compare with 2011.
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Alain Post posted:F1 is a good example, the laptimes from first-to-last are probably closer than they've ever been and the last two seasons have been some of the most comprehensively dominant in history. If we use F1, the banning of electronic aids and the end of the 3.5L era actually widened the gulf between the big and small teams, so much so that by the end of 1996 all of the privateer teams had vanished and left former midfielders struggling to survive, even though it was intended to do the opposite.
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IOwnCalculus posted:It was cold as balls and neither Goodyear or Firestone would admit that their tires were borderline useless in near-freezing temperatures. These days Firestone probably might not have let them onto the track. I thought it was Goodyear only until 1995 or so.
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Horny Hornish.
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Possibly Chicken posted:Considering the dozens of almost fatal crashes he's had, along with killer bee attacks, bulldozer wrecks, and spending a month in the hospital at age 79, I think he might be too badass to die. He also employs Takuma Sato.
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Cubey posted:remember how marco had intentions of becoming an f1 driver Really? The last thing I read from him regarding F1 was that "they" intentionally sabotaged the MP4/8 his dad drove so he wouldn't do well.
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WindyMan posted:http://www.ibj.com/articles/51355-top-feeder-series-for-indycar-is-back-from-the-brink I don't think this is a very good idea, I'm afraid.
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Gordon wanted to end up in Indycars originally, it would be nice send off. I'm dreaming here though.
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gret posted:Chilton has a better racing resume than half the field in IndyCars. He's a real talent.
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Jan 23, 2015 05:14
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I wasn't enthusiastic when Honda used Wirth's company to design their aerokits.
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Uh was that the team run by F1 reject and Inaugural F3000 Champion Christian Danner? Because if so lol. Also;  
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BMB5150 posted:Best outing by Andrea Moda though it's Euromotorsport but that's not saying much for a poo poo team in CART in the early 90s anyway. Yeah sorry I was thinking of Project Indy :X
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Alain Post posted:it's not that, it's more the whole "people don't give a poo poo about cars anymore" thing. NASCAR's audience is getting older and older and they clearly have no freaking clue how to lure young fans other than maybe having Tony run more people over Jumps. Speed Arrows.
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We may get some wacky Formula Libre out of the Motorsport collapse.
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Race Cars>Road Cars. I'd take one of those lovely March-Alfas over any Tin Top any day.
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Jan 27, 2015 00:55
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Are we talking about cars in general or the technical aspects of the race cars? Because I'm more interested in the latter.
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A lot of engineering goes into stock cars as well, and I like the fact that they still use Manual gearboxes. I read an issue of racer where Pagenaud described his ideal series; basically allowing for aero and active suspension, but with fully manual gearboxes. I like him.
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Possibly Chicken posted:Rip Indycar, remember Toronto and how much damage he did in one race? I was there.
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Jan 30, 2015 01:29
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Alain Post posted:The DW12 isn't great looking but those 2003-2011 IRL cars are the worst single-seaters ever made. I can't really get used to the semi-enclosed rear but eh, good racing.
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KingShibby posted:Allowing teams to just show up in May and race in the 500 is a joke and cheapens the 500. There should be a requirement that any one-off entry for the 500 is also required to race in the other Triple Crown races (Pocono/Fontana). I disagree with this. One offs should be allowed.
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I have PTSD from cancelled races.
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Alain Post posted:Champ Car 2007 was high comedy. It was so good that I stopped watching US racing for 2 years.
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Zandvoort was neat too.
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