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Jeeez. Glad he's not in a dire state but that's brutal.


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Dafuq? He tripped over his own wheel? One of the weirdest accidents ive ever seen,. And Ive seen a few.


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Reminds me of that classic 80s Indycar oval crash where I think, is it Rick Mears hits the wall coming onto the start finish straight, sheds a wheel and then vaults it, landing flush on his roll bar too

Probably at Pocano or somewhere like that IIRC, I've tried googling but no avail.

Scary accident.

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Reminds me of that classic 80s Indycar oval crash where I think, is it Rick Mears hits the wall coming onto the start finish straight, sheds a wheel and then vaults it, landing flush on his roll bar too

Probably at Pocano or somewhere like that IIRC, I've tried googling but no avail.

Scary accident.


That was Johnny Rutherford at Phoenix in 1980. He celebrated his championship night in the hospital.



Glad Eves is okay, that shit is the definition of a freak accident. Just to see how such a thing tears up one's body is incredible, that is certainly an image.


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Dafuq? He tripped over his own wheel? One of the weirdest accidents ive ever seen,. And Ive seen a few.


Yeah. Something must have failed in the left rear because I can't imagine any other reason for that to have happened that way.


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Quoting this here.

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Brandon Eves broke several vertebrae in his neck and also fractured his eye socket in this crash. Seeing his helmet post crash, I can understand why...


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That's almost as bad as that helmet after a flip in I think South American Formula Renault onto a barrier.


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I'd be willing to bet the next car this series uses has a windscreen/halo on it. That helmet is crazy


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Roger isn't happy
https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/m ... 045922002/


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I never understood why Lights has had so much trouble with attracting a field in recent years. Is the current car really expensive to run or something?


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Lights has been a joke for years yet they still persist with it. It surely has to be a cost thing.

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On the other hand, Lights still have given us Newgarden, O'Ward, Herta, Veekay, Jack Harvey, and some not-entirely useless drivers like Ed Jones, Kyle Kaiser, Spencer Pigot, Carlos Munoz, Sage Karam, Gabby Chavez.


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I think the full answer from the interview gives more context than the chopped-about version from the dedicated story;

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But I’m very disappointed with the way Indy Lights has responded here in the last 24 hours after spending a lot of time with (series promoter Dan Andersen) and some of the competitors. To see what has come out in reference to (not running the Freedom 100 in 2021), quite honestly, if I had known what kind of outcome we’d have when they announced the series would happen, I wouldn’t do it.

It’s been completely unfair. They’ve not been able to produce a series. Ten, or seven or eight cars in some cases. We’ve bent over backwards and said, ‘Let’s have 10 (event weekends). We all agreed we weren’t going to run at Indianapolis. No. 1, we have no idea what kind of flexibility we’re going to need at Indianapolis in 2021. And No. 2, we have no idea who the racers are going to be in that race. We can’t have racers that have never run there running at almost 200 mph on that racetrack, if we’re talking about safety.

We talked about those, and everybody agreed. I never got more phone calls or more people saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got to do it.’ I see the sponsor Cooper Tires is there tweeting this stuff, it’s absolutely bush league, as far as I’m concerned, and I can tell you something, we don’t run our organization that way, and I would think we’d get some credit. There’s not one team that gave me a call or sent me a text or email saying, ‘Hey, thanks for going ahead with it (and helping add Detroit to the schedule).’

What I don’t want to have happen is have 14 cars show up because people want to run at Indy that have never run there because they’ve got a check book. That doesn’t make any sense at all.

NB: So was your biggest frustration the lack of communication of their frustrations before the announcement?

RP: My frustration is I’m involved in the communication and the discussion to make the decision. Indy Lights has got to make their decisions coming out of it. There was nothing I saw that said, ‘Thanks IndyCar, thank you for setting up two more races for us.’ Rather than that, all they did was talk about no (IMS oval) and no Freedom 100. They’re going to have to deliver, the guys that came in begging for us to do this are going to have to deliver, including the Andersen group.

NB: Is there still a chance to try and get more IndyCar teams involved like you had talked about before?

RP: I would say this right now. Anything I’ve talked about is off the table right now.


https://eu.indystar.com/story/sports/mo ... 041932002/

The main issue appears to be that Penske told all the stakeholders that he didn't want to run the Freedom 100 for the reasons he gave (it should also save on money as there will be no need for teams to buy superspeedway parts and there is also much less chance of writing off a tub as well), no-one objected to it at the time, and then when the calendar is published and the feedback is almost entirely negative, all the other stakeholders try and throw him under the bus for it. I would be annoyed too if I were him.

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gkmotorsport wrote:
I never understood why Lights has had so much trouble with attracting a field in recent years. Is the current car really expensive to run or something?


It's expensive (quick Googling suggests about $1 million/year), but that would make it less than a typical full season of Xfinity or Trucks. I guess it's in a weird place -- it's not the idea choice for trying for the top open wheel series in the world (Formula 1), nor is it the idea choice for the top American auto racing series (NASCAR). Still, car counts seem pretty bad compared to even 5 years ago. Not entirely sure why.


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HMD Motorsports announced that they will be fielding 4 Indy Lights cars for 2021.

https://www.tsoladder.com/2020/11/17/hm ... s-program/

For those who hadn't heard of them before, like me, here's some more info about them.
https://hmdmotorsports.com/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Motorsports


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Joe Dooling Autosports is starting up a USF2000 program with driver Trey Burke.


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IRP has fought off the rain so far w/ USAC Silver Crown, Midgets, Indy Pro 2000 & USF2000 on the card tonight.

Road to Indy divisions is broadcast below


FloRacing will have the USAC portion as per usual.


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IP2000 delayed, rain rolling back in

and the RTI stream is a 2 FPS slide show - meanwhile Flo has no issues (but can't show the races due to contracts) :whistling:


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Glad that's not just me then...


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More rain, races postponed until tomorrow at 10AM local

Silver Crown starts first, followed by Road to Indy & Midget features


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