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That was really interesting to watch. I didn't know a lot about that split. Amazing how people never seen to learn from history...

I still attest that 220-225mph laps in an Indycar at Dega, with the less stringent safety standards of the time, would've been a deathtrap.

Especially with ground effects being a relatively untested concept in the sport.

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Absolutely correct.

That's an example of a race that shouldn't have even been considered. Thank goodness that race was never held, because someone would have been killed. Period. If a tire blew out at those speeds, say going 230 going into turn one, someone would have lost their life right then and there. Or, if someone got too loose or low in the first corner and overcorrected ala Gordon Smiley, I don't want to imagine the aftermath.

BTW, that video is awesome, and as custom with a nascarman production, more than a few TILs - like Rockingham, NC having a date on the 1979 CART calendar and NASCAR, IMSA, the SCCA and the freakin' NHRA being considered as possible hosts of the Indy 500. How different would the Indy 500 be if the NHRA took sanction and ran with it?

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Slightly indycar related but, my dad told me about this article a couple days ago. It's about Paul Dana's wife and her life after his crash. Nice article about her but, obviously, a bit sad. Apparently Paul never knew he was going to be a father. She wanted to tell him in person and, since she was not at the track with him that weekend, she never got the chance.
https://einsurancenews.com/2019/06/30/h ... car-wreck/

so if a sanction body like NHRA took rights over the Indy 500 they could change the rules as they wish?

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Technically yes. For years the PPG Indycar World Series was sanctioned by CART but the 500 was santioned by USAC. USAC's rules, which were slightly different to CART's, are what made the Penske Mercedes in '94 viable.

Theoretically, anyone sanctioning the Indy 500 could have made the rules whatever they wanted.

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this randomly appeared again

Remember when Marco was a front runner?

Yeah, me neither.

I may have to watch that 2003 Mid-Ohio race later. That was the first Champ Car race I attended in person.

Marshall Pruett feature on Porsche's only IndyCar win

lol@AMDK6

I just realized the IMSA Acura livery looks incredibly similar to the Acura livery used by Parker Johnstone in 1994:

this week's classic upload was the 2014 race from Pocono, given how new the upload is - here's the 1971 highlights


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this weekend marks the start of annual State Fair season as the USAC Silver Crown dirt championship cars & the ARCA stockers take on the dirt miles of Springfield & DuQuoin. Here's highlights by Dick Wallen from both races back in 1963 when it was apart of the National Championship.


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highlights from the first IndyCar race at Sears Point