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She's not the best commentator, but she is nice to look at.

Yep.

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I'm supposedly going to write about Indycar for the Swedish Autosport site. Inside info plz.

...huh? Aren't you American?

No, he's a stylish Swede.

Haha, wut? What made you think that? (my Indycar and USAC interest perhaps?) Nah, I'm Swedish, though I have American relatives.

Plus, now with Penske saying that Indycar should have Nascar-styled leadership: I don't think that'll work because if the teams doesn't have a voice, they will just leave to sports cars (okay) or Nascar *shudders*. In Nascar, the teams have to put up with the dictatorship, because they don't have a choice. Indycar's politics will probably remain a mess until the split is undone.

As long as Ganassi, Andretti and Penske are the "leaders" in the paddock the issues will remain.

Conor Daly is going to run indy for Foyt

Allmendinger will race in Long Beach.

I hope I can get my tickets before race weekend, kinda like AJ as a driver, even with all his problems.

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Briscoe's racing at Indy for Ganassi.

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... h-ganassi/

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IndyCar or sports cars could be on Audi's expanded U.S. racing agenda
April 14, 2013
Audi is evaluating programs in IndyCar, Daytona Prototypes and DTM America as it looks to ramp up its involvement in U.S. motorsports.

The German marque's new research and development boss Wolfgang Durheimer revealed that Audi is in the process of making key decisions about its motorsport future in North America and could decide early in the summer in time for a program or programs to be launched for 2014.

"At the moment we are talking about ideas," he said. "We will have important discussions between now and when the holiday season starts, because we need to get our act together and decide when and where we will race."

Durheimer, who also co-ordinates motorsport for all the brands of the Volkswagen group, put meat on the bones of Audi Sport boss Wolfgang Ullrich's comments in January about a possible entry into the Prototype (currently  Daytona Prototype) category of the new-for-2014 United SportsCar Racing championship.

Ullrich left the door open to a possible Prototype USRC entry by Audi, but Durheimer went further and stated that he was in favor of a move into the top class of the merged U.S. sports car series.

"I am personally in favor of Daytona Prototypes, because I think it is important to make overall wins," he explained. "Class wins [with the R8 GRAND-AM] are nice, but at the end of the day you have to win the race."

Durheimer said it was too early to say whether Audi would build its own chassis in addition to an engine or put its own bodywork on one of the three existing DP chassis on the market. He stressed that an Audi USCR car would definitely "look like an Audi."

INDYCAR ALSO A POSSIBILITY

An entry into IndyCar as an engine supplier is also possible, according to Durheimer.

"Another opportunity would be IndyCar, which I think is still very popular and the Indy 500 is an outstanding race," he said.

VW and Audi were part of the discussions that resulted in the new IndyCar engine formula introduced ahead of last year.

Durheimer also underlined Audi's support for the idea of DTM America, which is due to start in 2015 or '16, and explained that it was the brand's intention to compete when the series comes on stream.

"The DTM setup would be perfect, because we know the technology and the suppliers of the parts," he explained.

Durheimer said it was possible that Audi could compete in more than one of the categories under evaluation at some point in the future.

"Two of the three would be the maximum," he said.

The latest decision-making process at Audi follows the appointment of motorsport fan Durheimer last September and the end of its opportunity to race in LMP1 in a North American sports car series. LMP1 will disappear next year when the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am merge under the USCR banner.

Durheimer explained that Audi was looking to step up its racing involvement in the U.S. as it attempts to catch up with rivals Mercedes and BMW in American road car sales.

"We have to catch up in terms of being known as a sporty, dynamic and pushy player," he said, adding that "a solid motorsport program" was a good way of achieving that.

http://mobile.racer.com/indycar-or-spor ... le/288812/

ESPN UK will shut at the end of July.

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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.

Word around the paddock is that a "prominent" IndyCar team held un-official talks with a manufacturer about entering IndyCar. This manufacturer has apparently never gone open wheel (not sure of that means just Indy or what) but seems not to keen on the idea of having the same look as Honda or Chevy. Since body kits have been sorta forgotten it may have temporarily stalled any discussion. All of this from Long Beach.

Wasn't there talk about ChryslerJeepDodgeRAMSRTPlymouthDesoto looking to get into indycar after they bailed out of nascar?

There was never going to be a VAG battle at Le Mans

Michel Jourdain Jr will drive a third Rahal car at Indy.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/107021

Oh, I always liked seeing the Hawaiian Tropic girls at Le Mans each year.

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I still can't believe Takuma Sato won, let alone in the #14.