Both Kentucky and Chicagoland are near the top of the list if all the pieces were to come together. Cool, I miss some of those IRL tracks. TBH, for oval races to make sense for people to show up, they need to be worth it. 1 IndyCar race + 1 Indy Lights race (with 6-8 cars), won't be worthy for many...
Mag leaving as well. Seems odd to replace both drivers with big rule changes coming soon. You need people who can develop the car. Replacing both established drivers points even more to the fact that one of them will be getting replaced with an experienced driver (i.e. Perez or Hulkenberg, my bet i...
Parking lot circuits, heavy aero, complicated engines, DRS, endless domination, high reliability or whatever is the greatest issue with nowadays F1, what I dislike the most is the fact that the series is in a political and technical state that disallows the chance for new entries to try the sport. W...
I’ve never heard of this series, and isn’t exactly IndyCar in any of its forms. Don’t know if it goes here, but I found it interesting and features a certain Buddy Lazier.
Fuck it, I'd rather watch a sprint race, than qualifying. What I loved about 1-lap qualifying, was that the slight mistake would ruin the starting position for a frontrunner. Now, they just try again. I'd rather have a chance for a Mercedes to lose the front wing at turn one in a sprint race, or act...
Was talking with John Oreovicz over on Twitter via DM, pretty much asking him for information of where could I get his book, without having to pay double for it, to have it shipped to Chile. I was half expecting a free copy, to no success. We got to talking about Salazar (because Chile heh). He wrot...
I would really love that book. Hopefully once it's released it'll pop up on book depository. That's where I got Beast, Black Noon and Rapid Response from. It did take over a month to arrive, but hey, free shipping. I bought it already on Book Depository. It's available for pre-order, since it's bei...
Indeed the vast majority of us here are big Hakkinen fans and I for one even liked Mika Salo. I think Salo doesn't get enough recognition for jumping into Schumacher's Ferrari and doing a good job, even taking into account unrestricted testing at the time. Plenty of later drivers proved just how di...
There are several other ovals than can provide much better racing than that. Let NASCAR play there, and put IndyCar in Michigan, Chicagoland, Kentucky, Homestead or Fontana before it gets neutered.
They should build a lot of those cars and made them available for small teams to try to qualify them for the races, while the 10 full time teams can develop the shit out of their own cars.
Did a bit of a research, to get a look as to what this deal compares to others in the past: If there are 18 races next year, that'd mean that 72% of the races will be shown in network TV. In 2001: - CART had 9 races in ABC (41%), rest in cable (ESPN/ESPN2). 2 were shown tape delayed (I think both eu...
The big issue here, is that Hamilton won the race. The blacklash would be significantly less if he finished 5th or something. Race ban? No. 10 seconds? Maybe a light penalty, considering. Perez left no room for 2 cars in Austria, cars that continued racing, and eventually got the same penalty. I thi...