2021 IndyCar Silly Season Thread

sennadesillva · PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:12 pm

Funny concidence, but Pietro Fittipaldi will be filling in for Grosjean during the ovals this season.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/pietro-fi ... ean-ovals/

RtN · PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:42 pm

Now confirmed by the team.

https://dalecoyneracing.com/2021/03/04/ ... -with-rwr/

Nice to see Pietro get a tilt at the 500.

EDIT: I assume that this means James Davison will be in the #52 instead for the 500.

sennadesillva · PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:38 pm

RtN wrote:

Now confirmed by the team.

https://dalecoyneracing.com/2021/03/04/ ... -with-rwr/

Nice to see Pietro get a tilt at the 500.

EDIT: I assume that this means James Davison will be in the #52 instead for the 500.

In the announcement Davison posted, the number on his race suit was #51. I know that doesn't confirm anything but just saying.

RtN · PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:13 pm

Chilton's return has been confirmed. Same races as last year; everything with right-hand corners and the 500. No word on whether Daly (or someone else) will complete the schedule for that car.

RtN · PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:42 pm

Juncos has done an interview where he states that he has not sold his chassis to Paretta but is renting it to them. Penske will make upgrades to the chassis and after the 500 Juncos will get it back along with those upgrades. So they might pop up at some point.

sennadesillva · PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:32 pm

More about Top Gun Racing and that RC Enerson will be driving for them in the 500 this year
https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/m ... 878111002/

And Indycar have decided to make all road course weekends, for the 2021 season, just 2 days events now.
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news ... s/5641792/

Chris A · PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:58 pm

sennadesillva wrote:

And Indycar have decided to make all road course weekends, for the 2021 season, just 2 days events now.
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news ... s/5641792/

Caveat:

Quote:

Given their more ‘festival’ nature, the street races at St. Petersburg, Toronto, Nashville and Long Beach will remain three-day events.

Schumifan · PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:36 pm

The Indycar iRacing Challenge is back

Karan · PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:51 pm

In a moment of amusing irony, Grosjean spun coming out of the hairpin with Ericsson right behind him lol
Edit - Asked Romain in his post-race chat on Twitch what he thought of the iRacing IndyCar vs. the real thing and was cool to hear his response

sennadesillva · PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:13 pm

Sooooo apparently Conor Daly wanted to ride in on a buffalo for Indy 500 driver intros last year lmao

https://amp.indystar.com/amp/4742581001 ... bpolotZjA0

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:45 am

sennadesillva wrote:

Sooooo apparently Conor Daly wanted to ride in on a buffalo for Indy 500 driver intros last year lmao

https://amp.indystar.com/amp/4742581001 ... bpolotZjA0

nah, it was a question for this upcoming May

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:46 am

the annual Historic Racing Exhibition that's held during Carb Day & Legends Day has been canceled for a second year due to the pandemic
https://imsmuseum.org/special-events/in ... xhibition/

RtN · PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:58 pm

Seabass has a sponsor.

https://racer.com/2021/03/23/rokit-sign ... s-sponsor/

RtN · PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:16 pm

Another optimistic article on the 500 entry list from Pruett.

https://racer.com/2021/03/23/pruett-bum ... 500-field/

tl;dr

-Foyt may add a 4th car.
-Carlin will not add a 2nd.
-Davison is not yet confirmed with Coyne although he remains the favourite.
-Dreyer & Reinbold will likely be just 1 car for this year.
-Citrone\Buhl are not likely to return alongside Rahal but RLLR are planning to run a third car by themselves with Ferrucci currently at the top of their list.

All told, there are 30 confirmed driver\team\engine combos and 6 probables (Foyt, Andretti, Coyne, Reinbold, Rahal & Top Gun), as well the outside chance of a second DRR car.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:14 pm

Michael, Mario & Zak Brown has started a blank check company
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data ... rom63144_9

FiatFan83 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:57 pm

racer612008 wrote:

Michael, Mario & Zak Brown has started a blank check company
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data ... rom63144_9

Wasn't that United Autosport?

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RtN · PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:33 pm

In last year's Texas thread, I wrote:

Going to have to figure out how to chisel this shit off by next year.

The good news is that they are quite literally chiselling that shit off (at night).

https://racer.com/2021/03/24/indycar-co ... exas-show/

Philthy82 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:42 pm

This process of conducting major engineering works they don't fully understand and then panic-blasting it off when it has undesirable results reminds me vaguely of Chernobyl.

FiatFan83 · PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:27 am

Philthy82 wrote:

This process of conducting major engineering works they don't fully understand and then panic-blasting it off when it has undesirable results reminds me vaguely of Chernobyl.

At night no less! Don't worry, Eddie Gossage will go home, get some sleep and oversee the test...er I mean the resurfacing, personally!

Don't worry about safety:
https://youtu.be/i19vKZJn9z4

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racer612008 · PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:20 pm

IndyCar testing push-to-pass on ovals again, because it looks like that will be the only option possible with the incoming hybrid engines
[tweet]https://twitter.com/PitlaneParley/status/1375117292825161735[/tweet]

:yuk:

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