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Mar 12, 2020 15:24
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Annnd they cancelled general attendance. The race itself is still up in the air.
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Mar 12, 2020 15:39
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This is probably the most ideal outcome.
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Mar 12, 2020 20:10
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https://racer.com/2020/04/07/the-racer-com-guest-mailbag-with-mario-andretti-presented-by-hpd/ Mailbag with Mario.
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What was the deal with the Toyota oval CART engine again? Like one side of the engine (right side bank? I’m probably wrong) fed the Turbo right? So the exhaust from both cylinder banks was routed to one side?
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Apr 8, 2020 16:21
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Cygni posted:im pretty sure thats what 31 cars at michigan was, but they binned half the cars on the first lap Michigan could easily run that many cars. In 1994 at CART's zenith there were sometimes up to 32 car fields, bizarrely though only on street circuits or road courses (31 at Toronto, 32 at Portland). They actually had to send Franck Freon home at Road America that year although he eventually started anyway because Ross Bentley withdrew prior to the start due to to a cracked Bellhousing (WTF?!?).
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Apr 13, 2020 17:57
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Cygni posted:im pretty sure thats what 31 cars at michigan was, but they binned half the cars on the first lap That happened in reality too.
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Dudley posted:We've all had nights like that. I just find it odd Coyne didn't have another transmission available.
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Apr 14, 2020 14:17
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Then again, while CART era Coyne sometimes ran up to 3 cars only the "lead" car would have spares or new parts. '97 was a good example. Jourdain's car got all the upgraded parts while Vitolo was using the initial Lola spec, which was borderline undriveable. As an aside, most think Hiro was the worst of the later CART era - but on road courses at least Vitolo had nothing on him. He was shockingly slow (he was parked in Toronto 1997 for "handling"). Coyne also employed this guy (Nearburg) for 3 races. I think one of the conditions of hiring him was that he paid for a Reynard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qP8qfSZAmw
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In retrospect the sponsorship might have been a result of Dale himself. Both Gualter Salles and Takuya Kurosawa had VIA sponsorship: one of our (Canada’s) state owned rail corporations.
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Apr 14, 2020 15:43
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Vitolo also must have known somebody because he inexplicably kept getting rides.
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Apr 14, 2020 15:44
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hunnert car pileup posted:someone is Totally Not Mad about being called a gamer I am a gamer.
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Cygni posted:that guys account went from cool links to old pictures once a day, to like 50 daily posts breathlessly tweeting at Danny Sullivan in 1 month flat He still posts some cool stuff but it’s getting silly.
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Cygni posted:and the 30+ drivers that broke their backs because the IRL refused to admit that their longitudinal gearbox design was a loving joke from the moment they announced it I was rewatching the Fontana ‘97 Broadcast and that statistic floored me. Although weren’t some of the injuries during 1996 due to the teams using worn out poorly maintained ex-CART chassis?
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May 1, 2020 21:23
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I watched the ‘96 IRL “season”...I had low expectations but Christ it was even worse than I imagined.
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Cygni posted:yall have way way more faith in the american government and people than i do. they are absolutely gonna reopen and let lots of extra people die, and nobody will really care. I mean, I guess it’s making the best of a bad situation. Will Texas have spectators?
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May 6, 2020 18:11
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I hope it’s a closed event. 3 of my family members came down with it.
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May 6, 2020 18:26
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Whew.
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May 7, 2020 19:50
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Long Beach 1998 is one of the greatest CART races of all time.
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May 10, 2020 22:41
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Ribiero actually DNQ’d at Nazareth at I think. From what I understand he was badly affected by the switch to Goodyear tires more than anything else (he spent his entire prior career on Firestones) and was used to driveability of the Honda vs. the Ilmor.
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May 10, 2020 22:45
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dsriggs posted:Jimmy Vasser did the same thing though. Mediocre his first 4 seasons, permanent front runner from 1996-98, then only scored a couple more wins & a few podiums in his last 8 seasons. That late 90's Ganassi team was just on a roll. Vasser was pretty good IMO. And one of the genuinely good Americans in a period when there were very few. Late 90s CART did expose the flaw of the US ladder system in developing American open wheel drivers. This has since been rectified.
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May 10, 2020 22:47
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To be fair, both Pacwest and Blundell were stuck with the Mercedes engine, which got progressively worse after 1994 - there was a dead cat bounce in 1997.
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May 11, 2020 02:41
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I like the mutant 1999 Patrick Racing car that was a Reynard 97i with a mix of 98i and 99i parts.
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May 11, 2020 02:43
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Pacwest ran Reynards with Lola wings at Long Beach in either 1994 or 1995.
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May 11, 2020 02:44
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I welcome them.
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May 15, 2020 01:20
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Toyota is pretty incredible because they blew a LeMans win on like 5 separate occasions.
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May 15, 2020 04:34
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I've been to the Toronto Molson/Honda Indy weekend since 1992 more or less. Bummer it's been cancelled.
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May 21, 2020 22:16
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I found out in like 2016 that there was an Arie Jr. Also AJ Foyt IV.
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May 27, 2020 14:47
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I don't actually care about Marco Andretti. He's fine I guess. Certainly the Andrettis (and the Rahals I guess) have produced better results than the Unsers and Foyts.
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May 27, 2020 16:06
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A cool thing is backmarkers producing more backmarkers, like the Binders.
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May 27, 2020 17:06
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Vasukhani posted:why would people be mad at sato? dude drives fearlessly and it did a lot of good for indy in japan Crashes. That’s it. Andrea De Cesaris derangement syndrome.
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Jun 2, 2020 13:30
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Also he has the stigma of being a Japanese “pay driver” (which isn’t accurate at all but hey.)
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Jun 2, 2020 13:32
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Vasukhani posted:that race sucked It’s true.
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Carpenter didn’t sound like he was particularly thrilled with Veekay.
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Vasukhani posted:https://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/...impression=true I mean this is good news, but the actual race itself was...lacking.
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96i correct?
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An Interesting thing that I heard was that the Lola T96/00 was actually the better chassis - however the only team running the superior Honda/Firestone combo with the Lola was Tasman who were a relatively small operation.
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Fuji would be a great circuit if it wasn’t for that lovely final section.
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