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Really cool video where Rossi explains some technical details about Indianapolis in terms of car/tyre behaviour and differences between the turns:

The state of Indiana has allowed all of the teams based there to go back to work. Texas in 4 weeks is still the plan.

https://racer.com/2020/05/06/indycar-te ... n-to-work/

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Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

It was confirmed by IndyCar. They’ll attempt to start the season at Texas, on June 6th.

One day event, no fan attendance.

I am really not liking the practice-qualy-race all in one day, especially at Texas.

IndyCar used to do 1 day shows in the past (60's and 70's especially), so that's nothing new per say

It's better than running limited to no practice & qualifying at all (Pocono the past 2 years, the 8 weeks of Texas when the race was postponed to August at quarter distance etc.)

like it or not, 1 day shows will be the future for some IndyCar & NASCAR races in my honest option. 3 to 4 days at a track is just insane when you don't race until Sunday. Even more insane if it's 1 race a day like most ovals & 99.9% of the NASCAR schedule.

Larry Curry has passed away after a stroke
https://racer.com/2020/05/08/larry-curry-dies-aged-68/

I interviewed Oliver Askew last week, about the iRacing challenge, his Road To Indy career, and ahead of his rookie campaign.

https://play.acast.com/s/879d1370-4214- ... 6a3bc007e8

Intro is in Swedish, interview starts at 17 minutes.

With luck, the season will end at St. Petersburg.

https://racer.com/2020/05/13/indycar-se ... n-october/

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

2 cars were on track yesterday, at least we have something halfway normal happen this May

(uh, doesn't this go against Indiana's order that all tracks aren't allowed to host on-track activity?)

On the same week as the original St. Pete race, Carlin's shop caught fire
https://www.speedcafe.com/2020/05/13/in ... n-factory/

Here's why they were at the track
https://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2020/ ... tner=Yahoo

https://www.autosport.com/indycar/news/ ... ycar-entry

I would have thought a spec chassis would be right up their street, considering how often the Old Man complained about British men in sheds building better chassis than he did.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

BS. It will never happen. That will mean IndyCar opening up their rule book, and Penske is too smart to let that happen in this economic environment.

This is Ferrari having a hissy fit, as usual. Do people never learn?

I don't think it's a threat to quit F1. It says in the article that they've accepted the budget cap. But they want to lay off as few people as possible.

I read elsewhere that Italian employment law looks very dimly on companies that make mass layoffs, for whatever reason, so Ferrari have an incentive to avoid that.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Well, it would be huge if they actually did. I think they saw McLaren doing it and decided to follow. Specially with all the budget cap, it's a good way to still keep their staff employed, but not invested in F1 anymore.... And doing Indy is a good thing for them, as there's probably people that don't follow F1 but watch Indycar and specially the Indy 500. Also Penske buyout last year might also help....

Whatever the reason, if they did, would be great for Indy, to attract new teams, sponsors for all the teams, engine manufacturer.... keep that success snowball growing.

in their first attempt it was a feasible thing as they could build a car from scratch. Now they would race in a spec chassis and perhaps a spec engine (?)

for Ferrari is more business trying to develop a DPi or something more bound of sportscar racing

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I can't see Ferrari entering if they have to use a Dallara chassis

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I can see Penske opening up a tiny area of chasis development which hopefully doesnt raise cost much and to allow them to call it a Ferrari.

When Cart was big, chassis manufacturers had to compete to keep costs down relative to each other, so maybe a little of that might help
(Yes, I know this was a time when there was a lot more money in the sport, but still...)

Dallara has been in Indycar's pocket since the phoney tender process they had pre-DP-01 which was basically "we've decided on Dallara already, but lets pretend we're going to have a design contest so Dallara can get some good ideas for a new chassis and make their opponents pay for it. Also some lunatic will turn up with a DeltaWing we can all laugh at, we'll probably never hear of that thing again obviously"

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I just feel Indycar is in such a rich era where the competition is so crazy good, literally anyone can win, so why mess with a winning formula

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Roger is no dummy. This will be a single chassis series for a long time to come. Eh, if Ferrari aren't lying (not banking on that) and their motivation really is to keep employee's employed, it could make sense to be an engine manufacturer. There's plenty of work to develop and maintain the engines, on-site technical assistance, etc. They supply engines to other teams in F1, this really wouldn't be any different than that. There wouldn't be a factory team, just a bunch of satellite teams.

Would also give them another place to develop future talent.