INDYCAR iRacing Challenge: "Let's take Lando out!"

iks · PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:02 am

FHgrad99 wrote:

This race was the total opposite to what I was expecting. I was expecting a wreck-fest with a close finish. It wasn't a wreck-fest and there wasn't a close finish.

It was kinda underwhelming.

Juihi · PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:32 am

Tough crowd

I enjoyed it

Joe A · PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:09 am

I enjoyed it too, even though I spent half the race on my phone with my ladyfriend and lost interest in the race as a result. I really want to see IndyCar run a 500-miler again at MIS. I mentioned it on Twitter and people seemed to agree, so take that for whatever.

Juihi · PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 3:13 am

Jeff wrote:

I think Dixon has already quit. Watching Daly's Twitch stream.

Yea looking at McLaughlin's twitch stream, he was saying he had suspension damage which wouldn't get fixed in the game, so I guess it would have been pointless him continuing

Beezle · PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:59 am

It was'n't a close finish but until like 3 laps to the end people had no idea who would win.That's enough for me. I liked it.

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:14 am

Kyle Busch is going to run the IndyCar iRacing event at Motegi this weekend. I'm a Kyle Busch hater, and even I think this is cool as hell. :flag:

makeyourself · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:37 am

That's pretty awesome!

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:17 pm

Ah I miss Motegi, that track always provided great racing

Gaara · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:19 pm

They never fixed the oval after the earthquake did they? Don't they just store cars on it now.

iks · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:25 pm

I'm not sure what is damaged on the oval, maybe something structural underneath.

But I walked on it and it was completely fine.

Beezle · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:31 pm

I was hoping NTT would take actions to get Motegi back on the schedule, but nothing happened.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:50 pm

I guess Honda didn't bothered to fix as they use more the road course and the oval was only for CART/Indycars

iks · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:07 pm

Beezle wrote:

I was hoping NTT would take actions to get Motegi back on the schedule, but nothing happened.

Yeah especially after Takuma won the Indy 500 (still can't believe he did).

And NTT is the title sponsor.

They do use the oval though, it's not like it's just sitting there being used to store things.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:49 pm

iks wrote:

I'm not sure what is damaged on the oval, maybe something structural underneath.

But I walked on it and it was completely fine.

Either that or problems on the buildings, needing to be rebuilt at a high cost.

electrodevo · PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:24 am

iks wrote:

Yeah especially after Takuma won the Indy 500 (still can't believe he did).

Takuma Sato actually took some ceremonial laps at the Motegi oval the year of his win.

From that video, it does seem like that the oval is okay enough to drive on to some degree. But the earthquake made portions of the pavement quite bumpy, possibly too bumpy to safely run a high speed Indycar race (the backstretch looks pretty bad and Sato is always bottoming out on turn 3). So some sort of resurfacing might be necessary. On that, I can't tell from the video, of course, just how far down the damage goes -- maybe there's additional structural issues.

Either way, if the economics of an Indycar race would justify the repair, I'm sure a resurfacing job could be done. But I guess not even Sato winning the 500 was enough for that.

Joe A · PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:58 am

iks wrote:

Yeah especially after Takuma won the Indy 500 (still can't believe he did).

That is still one of the most awesome races I've ever seen. Like, the chances everyone was taking was just utterly insane. The fact Dixie got out of that wreck unscathed, the fact Alonso was so competitive, the fact the racing was so good, and the winner was Taku, that was legit a 10/10 race.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:39 am

electrodevo wrote:

iks wrote:

Yeah especially after Takuma won the Indy 500 (still can't believe he did).

Takuma Sato actually took some ceremonial laps at the Motegi oval the year of his win.

From that video, it does seem like that the oval is okay enough to drive on to some degree. But the earthquake made portions of the pavement quite bumpy, possibly too bumpy to safely run a high speed Indycar race (the backstretch looks pretty bad and Sato is always bottoming out on turn 3). So some sort of resurfacing might be necessary. On that, I can't tell from the video, of course, just how far down the damage goes -- maybe there's additional structural issues.

Either way, if the economics of an Indycar race would justify the repair, I'm sure a resurfacing job could be done. But I guess not even Sato winning the 500 was enough for that.

The track is built on posts and there is a couple damaged apparently, but not as bad as they originally thought in 2011

Honda doesn't want to spend the extra bucks to fix it, especially with how shaky the travel is to get a IndyCar + NASCAR dates

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:01 pm

YouTube stream (likely the raw feed):

Spotter Guide: CLICK HERE

Twitch / PoV streams + highlight reels:
Conor Daly (plus Rossi, Hinch, Ed, RVK & friends)
Scott McLaughlin
Robert Wickens
Colton Herta
Sage Karam
Dalton Kellett
Zach Veach
Juncos Racing
Santino Ferrucci
Oliver Askew (YouTube)
Ed Carpenter (Facebook)
Josef Newgarden (YouTube)
Simon Pagenaud (Facebook)
Kyle Busch (YouTube)
AJ Foyt Racing (Facebook)

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:22 pm

apparently Hinch had his internet go out

OOF

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:44 pm

Wickens starting from pole

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