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Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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It'd think it would be patently obvious that Ford only cares about endurance racing and building the EcoBoost brand around that. Hell, its the only type of racing actually drawing manufacturers to it. It wouldn't surprise me to see CGR draw down to two cars and concentrate the bulk of its effort(and better drivers) with Ford on IMSA/Le Mans.

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Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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its me im the adorable little shark

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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airboxes are the loving devil

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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its a generic as all hell track with a big hill which I must admit gives it more 'character' than 99% of other new tracks but still lets not pretend its Monza

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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gret posted:

Buy all the shares of Dallara stock.

worldwide carbon fiber shortage

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Let it go Fuzzy

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Karam is a worse Scheckter

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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I say repeatedly that Michael's 1996 season was the best of his career.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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That Houston circuit was so loving bad

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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I really liked Rahal's Miller Lite scheme

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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No sponsor money is worth drinking 101 Miller beers

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Its almost like a great number of sports owners are gigantic pieces of poo poo!

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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What if Fuzzy is Mark Plourde

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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disaster of a car or not I really liked the look of the PC-27

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Between the Ilmor packaging problem, Goodyear eating poo poo and Penske Cars losing all drivability they're lucky they even had podiums

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Human Grand Prix posted:

I'm almost done 1999 - this Houston street circuit is still appalling.

The Circuit of Endless 90 Degree Turns

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Lotus 2.0 is just what the series needs

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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WindyMan posted:

Can anything possibly beat San Jose in abominable street circuits? Maybe that Chinese A1GP circuit with the unnavigable chicane? Boston (lol)?

The China one wasn't a chicane, it was a hairpin that was too tight for the cars to actually take. Like, they were having to stop in the turn.

Incase you're wondering, yes. It was a Hermann Tilke design.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Hmm there is some racing happening lets now take 5 minutes to look at a graph that shows the likelyhood of Marco Andretti winning this race

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And now for a commercial break!

*misses 3 passes for the lead*

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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well on the bright side they'd of set the record for quickest safety truck response time

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Fauxhawk Express posted:

I think Montoya demolishing everyone at Indy a few months later was where it really began.

Yep. Once he showed that CART teams could moonwalk all over IRL regulars it was just a matter of time before everyone switched over

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Audi went to Formula E because a) technology and b) its cheaper than running a WEC program

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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The 1996 New Hampshire IRL race is a great look into those early days. Tony Stewart nearly had the entire field 3 laps down only for his Menard Buick to do as it was born to do and die.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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It's a shame because I liked the track.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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wicka posted:

This should happen just so we can see PPG try to stage a Pittsburgh GP in response. Have any cars crashed due to potholes recently?

Does Belle Isle disintegrating mid race count?

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Marco is a sponsor's dream since he's guaranteed airtime because of his name and the inevitable caution where we'll spend a few minutes focused on the remnants of his car.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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CBJSprague24 posted:

In tight-fitting underwear.

Eight out of ten ladies would have swiped left on Tinder because they don't like shirtless selfies.

You can be sure that if someone swiped right Sage would have wrecked it

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Tying the aerokits to engine manufacturers I probably the biggest thing stopping another engine supplier from jumping in.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Human Grand Prix posted:

And considering the 2017 F1 cars, probably better for developing drivers. They are very physical to drive. This is a slippery slope though; Indycar is a Tier 1 racing series so I'm not sure Miles et. al want to position it as an F1 feeder series.

IndyCar would be lucky to have F1 teams willing to throw comparative pennies at them for training seats.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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financially racist posted:

and also making literally everyone who does not wear ear protection permanently deaf

the IRL 4.0 days. I watched NASCAR guys stuff cigarette butts into their ears to try and survive.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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has someone told her that no one really gives a poo poo about her favorite series either

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Wirth1000 posted:

Well, that was actually relatively fun to watch. I can't remember the last time I watched an IndyCar race from start to finish and I do watch more than just F1 but never gave IndyCar a second glance.

As long as you look past the American Exceptionalism which tries to shroud that this is a bunch of terrible and washed-up drivers in heavy ugly cars and seemingly implies this is some sort of top-tier series then, yeah, it's a lot of fun. I think I'll be watching the next race as well which hopefully will be more indicative of the coverage vs. an extended interview of Actually Good Racing Driver in the booth.

NBC's graphics are atrocious. Is there an alternative?

Also, I've only been just exposed to this man but gently caress Townsend Bell forever. What an atrocious person and I hate listening to him.

Thanks for having me, IndyCar thread.

Somewhere FuzzySkinner had a seizure and he knows why

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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maybe we just accept that Jenna Fryer is an idiot and move on

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Alonso is going to do Indy a few times but spend his retirement years doing WEC like god intended

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Cygni posted:

Jesus christ the way these cars turn in the center of the corner with 6klb of downforce is insane

Somewhere in Daytona Brian France sits in a dark room, lit only by the glow of the TV and thinks "imagine if our cars had more downforce"

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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lol 3 laps within .003mph

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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"he watched Ed Carpenter's in car on the flight over."

so what'd he do with the other 7 and half hours of the flight?

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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Somewhere, Jenna Fryer is screaming WHO EVEN WATCHES A YOUTUBE ANYWAYS, ITS NOT EVEN ON CABLE!

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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221.720 lol

edit: 221.721 on his next run

Proud Christian Mom fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 3, 2017

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Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
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lol that wheel has like 40 less controls than an F1 wheel

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