I gave up on oval racing in Indycar. The series is scared after Dan's death and never more so after Indy this year.

Making the turns harder, i.e slower, will make everything better. The racing, the safety, the challenge.

In short: MORE POWER, LESS DOWNFORCE!

That's the old roadcourse Honda config

You might be right here, times are changing with oval racing. Racing an open-wheeler with open cockpit at 230mph is considered too dangerous almost as a rule. Everyone reacted very passionately on what happened at Indy this year. The bottom line was that safety is a big concern and risks should be minimized.
Times have changed so much that serious accidents are always as well analyzed like the airplane crashes, no casualties are accepted. Which is good, no one wants to see Vegas happening all over again. But when we analyze the circumstances at Vegas, we start to take a closer look on what we see happening on other ovals. We see what was wrong at Las Vegas and with the lessons learned, we try to avoid it repeating. That's why we had an "over correction" at Indy this year. Yes, we saw cars go airborne, yes, we've seen that happen before Vegas, but now we wanted to avoid it to happen again. Flips are not acceptable anymore, but racing at these speeds makes things complicated. We want fast, but we want safe. We want action, but we don't want to see the dark side of it. It's difficult to find the correct formula for this.

Let's hope we'll see a great race today.

I know, just pointing out that if it's up to the manufacturers it will only get worse, downforce wise.

Stream?

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