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Confirmed Drivers/Teams for 2015 The Big-3 Teams      Will Power, Helio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya, & Simon Pagenaud Coming off their first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish, Jr.) with driver Will Power, Team Penske added star driver Simon Pagenaud to their already top-notch driver roster for 2015.      Scott Dixon, Charlie Kimball, Tony Kanaan, & Sage Karam 2 major changes highlight Chip Ganassi Racing: 1. Ryan Briscoe is out and the team has contracted to 3.5 drivers; 2. Target's sponsorship of 2 cars has been cut to 1 car and Tony Kanaan will be driving the NTT Data car that Briscoe previously drove. Sage Karam's season will all depend on finding sponsors, and has only been confirmed for St. Pete to start the season.     Ryan Hunter-Reay, Carlos Munoz, & Marco Andretti No changes for Andretti in 2015 except for Hinch going to Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. The team is trying to field 4 full-time cars and possibly a fifth car with rotating drivers. The Little Guys     Josef Newgarden, "Special" Ed Carpenter, & Luca Filippi Ed Carpenter Racing and Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing merged to become, Carpenter-Fisher-Hartman Racing or just CFH Racing. Josef Newgarden is the only full-time driver at CFH Racing. Ed Carpenter only drives the ovals because he's Special Ed. Luca Filippi will drive the #20 on Road/Street Courses.    James Hinchcliffe & James Jakes After losing Simon Pagenaud to Team Penske, SPM quickly snatched up Hinch. Mikhail Aleshin will not be returning to the #7 because THANKS OBAMA  and the team has signed James Jakes to the #7. Jakes did not race in 2014 and previously was with Rahal in 2013 and Dale Coyne in 2011-12.   Takuma Sato & Jack Hawksworth Previously a one-car team, AJ Foyt is expanding to 2 teams for 2015 and added 2nd year driver Jack Hawksworth from Bryan Herta.   Gabby Chaves Historically one of the lowest funded teams in the paddock, Bryan Herta Autosport continues to field a single full-time entry. What makes BHA unique from other teams is that they often hire Indy Lights drivers to the full-time ride. In 2014 it was Jack Hawksworth, this year is reigning Indy Lights Champion Gabby Chaves.   Graham Rahal Graham sucks and the team is only running one full-time car (except maybe the Indy 500) so draw your own conclusions   Sebastien Bourdais KVSH Racing continues to field Sebastien Bourdais as one of their two drivers. The second driver has yet to be named. More teams coming later! KingShibby fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:Ryan Phinny is close to getting a ride in the series. It's amazing what happens when you have a sponsor/money  I plan on keeping this thread updated more than a few times per season, so keep an eye out for ninja updates like the 2 I already made...
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http://www.racer.com/international-racing/item/112144-vergne-stays-in-fe-andretti-joins-him Marco Andretti confirmed to be racing Formula E at Buenos Aires on Jan 10. I'll set the over/under on his finishing position at 8.5
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Peanut President posted:edit: I don't think Indycar even attracts new viewers it's just die hards who haven't died yet. Once again give me one year, this year, and I will do my best to fix this problem. Let's just say my solution involves another similar thing that many of us are a part of... 
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IOwnCalculus posted:The 2016 IndyCar Series Presented By EVE Online  Minto Took posted:In related news, PWC owns. That it does  I can't wait for March 16th and the beginning of Spring Training at Barber aka first public unveiling of the new aero kits. Also I'll be there with my digital camera 
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Cygni posted:They would prolly take a ton of downforce off the cars to keep them from packing up, and then we would whine that the cars aren't two-wide and 5 deep the whole race and talk about the lovely IRL pack racing days like it wasn't dumb poo poo that mangled/killed two dozen people and allowed idiots like Greg Ray to win races. Fixed IceAgeComing posted:this one is better The DW-12 was never designed for IRP. No open-wheel cars faster than Pro Mazda should be running at IRP. If iRacing is as realistic as they say they are, then the DW-12 could theoretically do >165mph into T1 which is  Also debating changing thread name to quote:IndyCar 2015: Even a broken clock is right twice a day
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FuzzySkinner posted:Sarah Fisher apparently won the D-Main at the Chili Bowl. I hope she races in the 500 this year
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be nice wicka posted:i was in tears when TK won, i imagine i would just lose control and destroy my apt if sarah won I was sitting right behind TK's pit-stall 7 rows up when he won, absolutely incredible way to end the very first Indy 500
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If anyone else is watching this weekend's 24 Hours of Daytona, the following 14 IndyCar drivers are competing this weekend: Drivers who competed full time in the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series (* Indianapolis 500 only) entered in the sports car race with class in parentheses:
Additionally, 2014 Indy Lights champion Gabby Chaves returns to co-drive the No. 0 DeltaWing with former Verizon IndyCar Series driver Katherine Legge, Memo Rojas and Andy Meyrick. Shelby Blackstock, who moves from Pro Mazda to Indy Lights with Andretti Autosport this season, will share seat time with Plowman. Pro Mazda Championship and Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship teams will test Jan. 25 at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Fla., before moving to Homestead-Miami Speedway for testing on the road course Jan. 28. Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires teams will test on the HMS road course Jan. 26-27 and on the 1.5-mile oval Jan. 29.... Andretti Autosport owner Michael Andretti said that his son, Marco, will likely compete in the Miami and Long Beach rounds of the FIA Formula E Championship this spring. He made his series debut in Argentina earlier this month.
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FIA more liek FYAD amirite? 
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Human Grand Prix posted:Are we talking about cars in general or the technical aspects of the race cars? Because I'm more interested in the latter. The technical aspects of IndyCars are what attracts me to IndyCar and detracts me from NASCAR. I  technology and speed
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I spy a birthday boy that looks like a tired & confused Japanese tourist
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All we can do now is pray for rain during every single oval race this year 
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Congrats to Marco! Looks like IndyCar did some driver photoshops for their meeting
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IOwnCalculus posted:So that's what the marketing team is up to. Probably the most effective thing they've done all offseason. Also the full press release: quote:Barnhart named INDYCAR Race Director
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I know Barnhart is a dumbass, but his dumbassery is now limited by the 3-steward system and Derrick Walker's oversight. Like Robin Miller said, the outcry from fans over this is insane. There's no way IndyCar is that incompetent that they haven't heard the outcry.
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Yo Gabby Gabby! http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/112992-indycar-chaves-expected-to-be-confirmed-at-herta Score one for the Ladder!
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gret posted:Hope BHA's sponsor this season isn't as shady as the one from last season. They should just be happy to have any sponsor as shoestring of a budget they have...
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Here's the full statement from IndyCar I received last night:quote:STATEMENT FROM INDYCAR ON BRASÍLIA EVENT Also CFH Racing is expected to make a big announcement today at 10am Eastern. Assumption is that they're announcing who will be driving the #20 on road courses. Double edit: Luca Filippi has been confirmed as the road/street course driver for the #20, replacing Mike Conway. KingShibby fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Screw the doublepost, but some news dropping this morning:
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simble posted:How will this new number help him not blow up engines? Pretty sure Hinch didn't blow nearly as many engines as Marco, so maybe Hinch's number will help Marco (also in the ladies department)
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FuzzySkinner posted:I think that would be seriously the best case scenario for both. Just have a set of rules for IMS that would make it relatively cheap to get a car, yet have them be VICS-compatible. You could have teams/drivers like Lazier Racing just show up for May, and limit costs for them. 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).
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In my mind it cheapens the 500 because spectators only get to see these drivers once a year. If they could field 33 at Pocono and Fontana, it would make the Triple Crown really mean something, not to mention making the races more exciting. I for one would love to see Townsend Bell race 3x a year instead of 1x
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IndyCar at COTA over Eddie Gossage and Bernie's dead bodies. I'd rather they race at Phoenix or Sebring
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WindyMan posted:I wonder. If IndyCar has already received some/all money up front for sanctioning the Brazil race, might they take less than their normal rate to race at a place like Road America or Phoenix or <insert awesome track here>? If they do this they need to find a track that they can come back to every year and not make this a one-off race because if it goes over well the outcry will be to go back there.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Laguna Seca (only on the schedule once, but still) Laguna Seca is on the current schedule as the final races of the season for the MRTI (Sept 12-13)
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Spaced God posted:Limited number of options? Didn't a good half dozen tracks come out and offer? Nobody came out and offered, IndyCar reached out to them. Also kidcoelacanth posted:Why doesn't Simona have a ride yet. This is bullshit I quit
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So Gabby Chaves was officially announced at BHA this morning, and I've been invited to the teleconference today! I'm trying to think of a question to ask, any ideas?
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Bentai posted:Could do something goofy like "if you could add one race to the ICS season, any track or street course, where would it be and when?" That would be lol but I'd like to be invited back to future teleconferences. I was thinking something about BHA selecting drivers from Indy Lights and the importance of that.
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BMB5150 posted:To me that's too obvious and milquetoast that you'll get the answer that boils down to, we need guys from lower series to run here. Maybe something more personal like what you saw in Gabby that he brings to the table. Now I'm leaning towards lurking for a call or 2 before I open my bigass mouth
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lola is right! http://racecarsdirect.com/listing/57915/lola_champcar_2006_specification.html
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Speaking of Champ Car, their 2015 schedule is out and they too have a new event this year. Theirs is in Istanbul, take that NOLA! 
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I will definitely have to formally interview Simon Pagenaud and Justin Wilson and ask each of them how their ChampCar seasons are going 
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IceAgeComing posted:to be serious; why are indycar testing with the old aerokits? they aren't running the dallara kits at all this year, so why bother testing with them? Teams don't have the aero kits yet. They are with the series and are going through homologation(sp) before they'll be delivered to the teams
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Update on Simona's progress to come back! http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/113247-indycar-de-silvestro-making-progress-on-return quote:The number of seats left for de Silvestro to occupy continues to dwindle, but she reportedly remains high atop the list of candidates to drive for Andretti Autosport in a part-time capacity, and has emerged as a possible teammate alongside James Hinchcliffe at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. De Silvestro was unable to comment on where she might sign, but did make it clear she only wants to drive for a contender.
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VikingSkull posted:Speaking of Lights, 8Star has a bunch of their cars up on Ebay atm to make room for their Lights program. Rich GT Gentleman Drivers assemble! Seriously though you have no idea what I'd give up to buy that FLM09. Whenever I watch TUDOR races I can imagine myself competing in PC.
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BMB5150 posted:Please don't if you don't have racing experience. I would never jump into something so powerful without working my way up. If I had an extra $55k laying around I'd buy this car first.
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Cygni posted:Yeah, I kinda agree. I hope he makes it into the bigcars for the entertainment value of him starting fights, if nothing else. Every series needs a heel, and I'd love to see some good ole fashioned road course retribution
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