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I swear for a moment I though this was an on board form the 90's from Surfers. This is so cool

Sato crashed in testing at Texas today


RACER.com report on the Texas, Dixon was fastest at 222.5MPH
http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/14807 ... as-testing

Recent report on IndyCar's television & streaming rights for 2019+
http://autoweek.com/article/indycar/ind ... ium=social

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A few rumors were making the rounds yesterday that ABC offered 10 network races, while NBC offered 8 network races.

AJ done found another beehive with the bulldozer

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......

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Disney throwing the kitchen sink at it because they know they can't compete on quality. No Sky broadcast to piggyback on here.

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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.

I don't care if ABC offered the whole season while NBC offered a wet fart, I'd still take NBC.

Doesn't matter which network gets more races, both are turds you can't ice.

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The production crew / direction of NBCSN right now is far better than ABC... honestly in some ways I don't care who hosts the race as long as (if on ABC) they ditch ABC's current crew for NBCSN's crew.

From my perspective, though, ABC/ESPN also hasn't shown that they cared much about Indycar over the last few years... indeed, with ESPN seeming to think that talking heads yelling something about sports is more important than sports itself these days, I'm not sure what sports they care about at all these days. My "armchair exec" sense would say stay far away from them, regardless of what sport you are.

The only reason I can see Indycar going with ABC is if NBC is stupid with streaming / Internet media. Indycar's doing pretty good with Internet media from what I see (unlike, say, F1 during the Bernie years), you wouldn't want to lose that.

ESPN is going to roll out an all streaming service independent of any cable provider. That could be good in terms of availability.

NBC is superior in all ways though and I hope they get the contract.

The article on Racer about it
http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/14808 ... bee-attack

Another awesome A.J. quote in there....
"We got 15 gallons of diesel fuel and dropped it and set those bastards on fire. I felt a lot better after that."

Ferrari threatening a switch to IndyCar....... again
http://www.gazzetta.it/Formula-1/14-03- ... 1305.shtml

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While we all know this is most likely just smoke in attempts to get what they want from the FIA. It does make me wonder with all of the FCA / Alfa Romeo rumors flying around & with Scuderia Corsa running the 500 with RLLR.

What's FCA, RLLR?

FCA is the company that manufactures those ugly Fiats you see in your nearby roads, RLLR is a team owned by that bald former IndyCar champion and that old talkshow host

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Fiat Chrysler Automobile. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

It would make sense for Alfa Romeo to come to Indycar. They're increasing their US presence and they run small displacement turbo engines. It's a good marketing opportunity.

On the flip side, FCA has their own issues with multiple recalls on their RAM line of pickups and they too got busted for altering their Diesel mapping in the half ton ECO-Diesel RAM's so one wonders if they will really want to lay out the financial resources. Of course, they could just partner with Cosworth since they have an Indycar engine all designed, just need someone to pay to put a badge on it.

Didn't they say that last year too?

Pretty sure Bestwick put out "I have called my last Indycar race" type tweets only to turn up again this year

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley

Because Bestwick (and Cheever, and Goodyear, and everyone else who was employed by Disney) got fired just before Indy last year and were under the impression that they would not be needed for this year.

I have no idea what Disney's original plan was for 2018 when they sacked all their motorsports people, but clearly it changed as all 3 of the Stooges were back last weekend. Although if none of the others were brought back, it might explain the terrible direction.

This, on the other hand, seems to be either a leak or a premature release of a Disney statement.

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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.

ABC confirmed that this is the last year of their partnership with IndyCar