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If they still want a similar track in the schedule, they should tell Gossabe to shove it and head to Atlanta.

To be honest, I learned to love the IRL in the early '00s. I'd love to have some of that flavor back, with more cookie cutters ovals in the calendar.

This unnamed driver was definitely paul tracy and I claim my 10$

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I think any track that uses that traction compound is suspect now, because I'm doubtful they will apply it right for Indycar. Pocono is another track that is using that compound, so as much as the tradition folks love that track I'm glad Pocono was ditched for now. MIS and Phoenix likewise use the traction compound these days, I believe.

It's no co incidence that this compound is used on repaved tracks. They never produce any decent racing for years afterwards.

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It's actually impressive what they managed to do. The widest corner possible with the narrowest groove possible. Absolute fucking trainwreck of a corner

It's not just that but the angle you have to cut down into the corner takes the air away from the car behind.

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While that's completely true, there need t be other superspeedways besides Indy. Therefore Michigan, Pocono and Fontana > Milwauke, sorry.
Also I don't actually see how Pocono is more dangerous than Texas anyway.

Oh yes please bring back Pocono and Fontana

Michigan needs less downforce to be safe

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I think we can all agree any race at Las Vegas would be a bad, and pointless, idea.

Maybe if you remove the wings completely?

I think any oval could work for IndyCar if they manage to get the proper aero-power-tyre configuration.

We all know that Open Wheel pack racing is produced by a high-downforce/low-power/tyres-solid-as-rocks combination. A low downforce/high power combination, with the proper tyre, can lead to cool racing that, to me, isn't more dangerous than what we could see at Indianapolis or Pocono.

With this cars, I'd mandate an Indy qualifying setup for this races. Wings as flat as possible and the increased boost.

Maybe with a Hanford-esque device.

I would absolutly love a handfordest device.

didn't Bourdais say he preferred Pocono (when not using chicken wire and scrapes to fix the fence) over Texas as TMS has the fence poles in front of the catchfence wire meshing

im doing a watch through of this season and yea this race was pretty shite. not surprised nascar fucked over another series, although that usually happened in acquisition (see slow demise of cascar>pintys series).

When watching the torrent of this race, I never was so happy to just skip ahead during the side-by-side. Felt like I was getting 1 extra week of lifetime.

it got interesting at the end with lap traffic but the compound ruined a lot of the potential passing we could have had

I know this might come off as spoiled/entitled, but it kinda irks me that, even though I've paid for the NBC Sports Gold package, I still have to watch the side by side and full commercial breaks. (full commercial breaks just go a static screen saying they will return in a moment) I get that the package comes with other perks but usually with any other video subscription you pay for, the commercials are gone. (NHRA.tv for example, buuuut their service was $130 this year I believe while Indycar's is just $50 for the year) Am I just being whiny about this or does anyone else feel that way too?

No, it'd be the number 1 reason I'd pay for PPV tv of any kind. The onboards, practice sessions or whatever else should be bonus extras, uninterrupted race feeds should be it's USP

Like Sky Sports here in the UK. You could be a fully paid up subscriber on their highest tier sports package, but now you have to pay an extra £11 to watch ONE premiership football match
There'l literally no end to their price gouging.

But they know they have people by the balls so from their point of view their happy to do the minimum effort and take your money.
To give the subscribers a clean, advertless feed would require them having to employ someone to switch between feeds and maybe a commentator to cover the silent parts, and that'd affect their profit margins, so nope, not happening.

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the amount of commercial breaks is absurd and usually interrupt the action (even with torrent versions that skip the ads since that still adds extra minutes of the commentators having to state they'll be back and then coming back with additional sponsor plugs). i'm spoiled by other series like btcc and motogp, which is how broadcasts should be done

It's happening everywhere, Foxtel in Aus used to be ad-free for paying subscribers but those days are long gone, YouTube Red is now trialling ads to paid accounts, even full-price games like NBA Live and MMA are showing in-game ads now. Would be nice if consumer rights had some interest in this trend. In the meantime it just encourages me to illegally torrent or IPTV everything I can.

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