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I agree, it kept my interest all the way through. So the top three galloped off and there wasn't loads of passing lap after lap. Don't always need those for a good race.

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I thought this was a pretty good race. True the top 3 domintaed & lapped everyone 2 or more times but there was some nice racing further down & the championship going down the way it did at the end made the final few laps a bit intresting.

Overall not the best season I've seen but it had some good moments & the changes to the cars should see next year be more intresting.

On this race I disagree. Sure, the competition with the rest of the race was piss-poor, but the battle between the top 3 contenders was a great fight, they were going flat out all the way, well, Dixon and Briscoe that is, and Dario just used his head and outsmarted them both. If anything is compared to F1, is the strategy which Dario pulled off.

I guess that's what watching F1 for many years will do to you.

If I'm in the minority, then so be it.

I watched the last 50 laps and they were extremely dull. Glad to see Dario won though.

You missed the whole setup, like watching the final quarter of a movie.
I thought it was a good race, off course a photo finish is much more exciting, but we didn't have that because it was caution free.

Seeing Briscoe and dixon going flatout was also very good, no way this was a boring race.

The race was average for me, but it doesn't matter it just a warmup for Bathurst. Glad that Dario won in anycase. and heck Dario's a Scot. To bring up the age old saying "British when they win, Scottish when they lose" is what I see being used here.

Well I guess at least in this thread you are one of the majority though, it just proves that strategy race can be interesting too, but it needs unpredictability. It is probably just too predictable for F1 that makes their strategy race lackluster comparing to this one. To me though, I wasn't actively following this lead battle and there were rarely any 2 way battle all the way through the entire field, and that bores me rather quickly.

I have turned onto many other races with a quarter of the race to go and enjoyed it. And it's not like I actually missed any action by the sounds of it.

Congratulations Dario! Great win. After a humiliating season at NASCAR last year, he now proves he was born to drive the open wheels.

Congratulations to Dario

Nice of him to dedicate the win to his friend Greg Moore. I was just thinking about Fontana 10 years ago when Franchitti started to say that.

Race sounded pretty dull. Assuming it was Darios crew chief which switched him to a fuel saving strategy. If so, what an epic call. Seeing early enough that the car was too slow to run for the win on outright speed, and the only way was to swap to a 3 stopper was a brilliant idea. Sure, Dario had to do the fuel saving and drive faultlessly, but the whoevers idea it was to change strategy deserves a boat of credit for that.

This has to go down as the fastest motor race in history.

I guess you haven't seen sprint car racing...

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Well the Indy Car race was a 201.4mph average speed. What do Sprint Cars do?

About 140. Then again, sprint cars are restricted to short tracks.

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So they aren't as fast as an Indy Car average speed then? How could they possibly be faster?

According to the IRL site, this is the second fastest race in the series history. It didnt say what the fastest was.

Okay, I take that back then. I was basing off the elapsed time.

And it seems that you're right, this race is fast, but not the fastest in series history, let alone in auto racing history.

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Dario wins it? oh dear, that's a good thing, go to see videos of the race now.

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What was CART's average at Fontana in 2002? I know that was the fastest ever.

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