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Tommy Vercetti
PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:43 am 
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Welcome to Houston, home of such amazing teams like the Houston Texans (lol), the Houston Rockets (only when they are good, so pretty much when Hakim Olajuwon was playing), and the Houston Astros (only when they're good, so lmao).

And this IndyCar race.

Also infamously known as the track which ended Dario Franchitti's career.

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10-turn 1.634-mile parking lot circuit
90 laps

Schedule of Events (all times Central)
Spoiler:
Friday, June 27th, 2014
9:00 a.m. Gates Open
8:00 a.m. – 8:20 a.m. Radical Demo Laps
8:35 a.m – 9:00 a.m. Spec Racer Ford Practice 1
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. PRO MAZDA Practice 1
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Verizon IndyCar Series Practice 1
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Mx-5 Cup Practice 1
11:45 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Vintage Charity Laps
12:25 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Radical Demo Laps
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. PRO MAZDA Practice 2
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Verizon IndyCar Series Practice 2
2:45 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. IndyCar Standing Starts Practice
3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Mx-5 Cup Practice 2
3:00 p.m. – Miss Grand Prix Contest (Budweiser Stage)
3:55 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. Vintage Sedan & Open Wheel Practice
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Driver Autograph Session
4:40 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. Spec Racer Ford Qualifying
5:25 p.m. – 6:25 p.m. 2-Seater and Event Car Rides

Saturday, June 28th, 2014
9:00 a.m. Gates Open
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Radical Demo Laps
8:30 a.m – 9:00 a.m. Mx-5 Cup Qualifying
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. PRO MAZDA Qualifying
10:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. Verizon IndyCar Series Qualifying #1/ Firestone Fast 6
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. IndyCar Driver Autograph Session (Fan Village)
11:25 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. Spec Racer Ford Race #1
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Celebrity Go-Kart Race, Benefitting MD Anderson
12:10 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Mx-5 Cup Race #1
1:05 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. PRO MAZDA Race #1
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston – IndyCar Race #1
5:15 p.m. – 5:30 Radical Demo Laps
5:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Vintage Open Wheel & Sedan Qualifying
6:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Car Corral Parade Lap

Sunday, June 29th, 2014
9:00 a.m. Gates Open
7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. 2-Seater and Event Car Rides
8:50 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Radical Demo Laps
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Vintage Warm-up
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Verizon IndyCar Series Qualifying #2
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PRO MAZDA Warm-up
11:10 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Spec Racer Ford Race #2
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Mx-5 Cup Race #2
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. PRO MAZDA Race #2
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston – IndyCar Race #2
5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Radical Demo Laps
5:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Vintage Open Wheel & Sedan Race
6:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Car Corral Parade Laps


Past winners
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1998: Dario Franchitti
1999: Paul Tracy
2000: Jimmy Vasser
2001: Gil De Ferran
2006: Sebastian Bourdais
2007: Sebastian Bourdais
2013: Race 1 Scott Dixon
2013: Race 2 Will Power


Both races are on NBC Sports Network. Yes, I said both--this is a doubleheader.

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Going by the trackmap; all the turns are rotarys (or roundabouts for the non-colonies friends here) now. :flag:
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Sadly since this is an NBCSN race I probably won't get to watch.
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$300 million spent on COTA. IndyCar decides on carpark circuit. Logic.
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mclaren2008 wrote:
$300 million spent on COTA. IndyCar decides on carpark circuit. Logic.


IndyCar isn't allowed to race at COTA as the contract prohibits them from running large open wheel cars that isn't F1 for x number of years.
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Geez, looking at that track map, I'm surprised the race isn't;

2014 Reliant Grand Prix of Houston
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ellis wrote:
mclaren2008 wrote:
$300 million spent on COTA. IndyCar decides on carpark circuit. Logic.


IndyCar isn't allowed to race at COTA as the contract prohibits them from running large open wheel cars that isn't F1 for x number of years.


Never knew that, always thought it was IndyCar's reluctance. Its a shame really, but I guess that's the rules.
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BenMac wrote:
Geez, looking at that track map, I'm surprised the race isn't;

2014 Grand Prix of Reliant


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mclaren2008 wrote:
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$300 million spent on COTA. IndyCar decides on carpark circuit. Logic.


IndyCar isn't allowed to race at COTA as the contract prohibits them from running large open wheel cars that isn't F1 for x number of years.


Never knew that, always thought it was IndyCar's reluctance. Its a shame really, but I guess that's the rules.

:o Didn't know that either.

These kind of contracts smell insecurity and weakness. You're afraid that competition might drive people away from your potentially crappy package, so you pay in order to avoid said competition.
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Fucking Bernie.
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ellis wrote:
IndyCar isn't allowed to race at COTA as the contract prohibits them from running large open wheel cars that isn't F1 for x number of years.


Hmm... I've always heard the biggest obstacle (promoter wise) hasn't been Bernie, it's been Eddie Gossage... that there is nothing contractually that prevents Indycar from going to COTA at the moment... and there was some talk about going to COTA a couple years back.

Might be wrong, of course. Instinctively I doubt that Bernie feels threatened by the Indycar product these days, like he felt threatened by CART in the 1990s. Instead I would guess the deal would be like why Indycar can't return to Road America and other places: for the current product, the sanction fee is too darn high for them.
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Eddie Gossage will complain about any race in 1000 miles radius from his track because this guy can't stand any competition. His latest complain was that US GP is on the same day as NASCAR race on his track and that F1 is stealing his customers.
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No-one goes to his track in November anyway.
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Streaming of practice sessions returns from this weekend on indycar.com :thumbsup:
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That is GREAT news, what changed? :8:

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Anyone has the stream working properly? It keeps freezing for me. Why do they use crappy ustream and not youtube for livestreaming?

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/verizonindycar
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mclaren2008 wrote:
No-one goes to his track in November anyway.


no-one goes to his track period, it seems nowadays.
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The Pennzoil car is back :)
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unwatchable for me and I have the fastest internet connection available.
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