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Caesar's Palace is the worst drat track of all time, and nobody wanted to watch cars drive around a glorified Auto-X course in 118 degree heat. It wasn't Bernie that hastened its demise.
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The France family. It would be funny if they opened long beach up to bids and NASCAR threw in.
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Anyone who wants to host a summertime race in Vegas that is not held at 8pm at night is out of their drat minds.
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Bentai posted:Anyone who wants to host a race is out of their drat minds.
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Bentai posted:Anyone who wants to host a summertime race in Vegas that is not held at 8pm at night is out of their drat minds. Oh c'mon, last time I went to Vegas it was only 115 degrees! What's the problem?
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Bentai posted:Anyone who wants to host a summertime race in Vegas that is not held at 8pm at night is out of their drat minds. This is the series doing a double header in houston in June, after all...
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http://andrettiautosport.com/news/?p=4058 Keep your pants on, Fuzzy.
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Just one more person to meet and take a photo with in the garage at Indy. Unfortunately I won't be able to have the photo printed for him to autograph at Belle Isle 
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I get the feeling that if Kurt does well, it might inspire others to give it a shot (especially his SHR stablemates). Big ups to GM for letting him run a Honda, too.
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I'm still holding out hope for a 5th Ganassi car for Larson (or Sage Karam would be cool, too).
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This pretty loving cool guys, don't you think? Field is loving stacked. Winners in Indy, F1, USAC (Ed counts damnit!), and NASCAR. Champions in those respective series too.Bhester posted:I'm still holding out hope for a 5th Ganassi car for Larson (or Sage Karam would be cool, too). Sage is more likely. I think he'll be full-time next season, but Ganassi will put him in that ride. Larson says he's interested, so that's a good sign. Cygni posted:I get the feeling that if Kurt does well, it might inspire others to give it a shot (especially his SHR stablemates). You KNOW this has got to have Smoke jealous. The one trophy I think he wants is the Borg Warner. Foyt taunted him over it.
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kidcoelacanth posted:http://andrettiautosport.com/news/?p=4058 Meh.
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If Panther doesn't go away and we have 2 RLL entries we've already got 27 on the Indy list. An extra Ganassi, SFHR and/or ECR entry and we could have meaningful bumping.
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Bhester posted:If Panther doesn't go away and we have 2 RLL entries we've already got 27 on the Indy list. An extra Ganassi, SFHR and/or ECR entry and we could have meaningful bumping. Lazier is going to be back as well. I think we will end up with 33 cars for 33 spots simply because once that 33rd car is announced, one-off deals get a whole lot harder to sell to sponsors who could potentially miss the race.
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Oriol Servia will be in the No. 16 Rahal Letterman Lanigan entry for Long Beach, Barber, and both Indy races (that's still really weird to type). Additional races are possible if funding is secured.
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Anyone wanna get in on Jaque Lazier's second attempt at making it into the 500 with a team scraped together from handouts? http://www.vaildaily.com/news/10456837-113/jaques-racing-indy-team
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He should run with Doobie's Dogs on the sidepods.
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Bentai posted:"Get Out" frog on the endplates. My Dallara already has those  
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Whoa! Didn't expect this one. Jack Hawksworth will be driving for BHA http://racer.com/index.php/component/content/article/52-indycar/101631-indycar-hawksworth-lands-bryan-herta-autosport-drive
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efb This can't be right, a team actually signed a driver that's from Indy Lights?! 
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Gotta say, gonna be rooting for Kurt really loving hard come May. I kinda miss the old rear end in a top hat Kurt, but this new Kurt is way better. Now we just gotta get him in a Pro Stock again. (yes he competed in the NHRA once)
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VikingSkull posted:Gotta say, gonna be rooting for Kurt really loving hard come May. He came close to racing for Davey Hamilton in USAC back in the day Viking. Said he chose Stock car racing, but said it was close.
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What he's done in the last two years impressed the gently caress out of me, there's literally no one in Cup that I'd rather have in SHR than him.
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Going to St. Pete this year. Taking some out our work client people so I get to expense at least part of it. Enjoyed Baltimore the last 2 years (RIP) was going to do to St. Pete last year but missed out.
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http://www.gazettes.com/news/updated-council-may-consider-opening-long-beach-grand-prix-to/article_62b1d212-a0ea-11e3-90fd-001a4bcf887a.html gently caress off Bernie. Go find some oil rich middle eastern country that will put up with your bullshit. Leave Long Beach alone.
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I hope F1 doesn't come to Long Beach. Not for the obvious reasons, but because if it did that would mean no more support series worth seeing. No more sportscars, no more stadium trucks. So yeah, gently caress off, Bernie.
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There really isn't a need to have 2 US GPS for F1, although Long Beach was an F1 event in the past. In a perfect world both could run there.
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VikingSkull posted:There's not even a need for 1 USGP, honestly. Unless it's at the Glen. You have to admit, as unlikely as it would be, it'd be amazing to see open wheel cars in October (possibly during the rain and wet) run with the foliage in the background. drat picture-esque. WindyMan posted:I hope F1 doesn't come to Long Beach. Not for the obvious reasons, but because if it did that would mean no more support series worth seeing. No more sportscars, no more stadium trucks. That's part of what makes Long Beach cool. It's not so much that Indycar race, but it's how all these awesome support series run it. Even stupid things like the Celebrity race, make it an event. I've not been to LB (want to some day though), but I've been to Indy races at Mid-Ohio, and I can tell you seeing the "Road to Indy", ALMS and World Challenge series is the ultimate cherry on top. My dad for example, was more  over seeing the Cadillac Race Team there.Also, the ticket prices for F1 are loving ridiculous. If I was a dad with kids, and this switched to F1? I'd just take them to races at Fontana. Bernie has no loving clue what North American race fans want.
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FuzzySkinner posted:http://www.gazettes.com/news/updated-council-may-consider-opening-long-beach-grand-prix-to/article_62b1d212-a0ea-11e3-90fd-001a4bcf887a.html He is trying to get signed on with Azerbaijan so yeah. Only way LBGP becomes and F1 race if it brings in a ton of money from Bernie. It's already established and doesn't need the recognition of F1. Could also be the give us a race or California like in other sports.
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Sorry Fuzzy, that part of New York gets snow pretty regularly by October.FuzzySkinner posted:Bernie has no loving clue what North American race fans want. If he did, he wouldn't even try, because we* sure as gently caress don't want F1. *that being the we of US race fans, not the loving foamers that post in these threads
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FuzzySkinner posted:I've not been to LB (want to some day though), but I've been to Indy races at Mid-Ohio, and I can tell you seeing the "Road to Indy", ALMS and World Challenge series is the ultimate cherry on top. My dad for example, was more Yeah, my dad wanted to go to Long Beach just to see the Cadillacs, too. Goddamn, the noise those things make. If F1 took over Long Beach, there'd be two crappy open wheel feeders and a bunch of Porsches that you'd need to pay 5x the price to see. Whoopee.
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VikingSkull posted:Sorry Fuzzy, that part of New York gets snow pretty regularly by October. Meh. It can certainly be a thing. I argue that the Austin GP is good enough for the time being, and that if the NJ GP ever got off the ground, it would be okay. But you know...IndyCar, despite all it's problems, despite all the fighting, and every thing else? It's still more popular here than F1 could ever say. You can have a GP here, maybe even two. They'll do well enough, they'll get people to show up (a good mix of US fans with enough disposable income, and Foreigners on vacation), it'll get covered by NBC and get decent ratings. That's not enough to satisfy Bernie though. You, I and the vast majority of US race fans simply can't afford it, thus it's kind of irrelevant towards the average fan. Frankly, with the amount of money that could be spent going to one F1 race weekend, I could spend on not only going to the Indy 500, but a few NASCAR races, and a race at Eldora to see WOO thrown in as well! Honestly, THAT sounds way more appealing to me. I imagine you'd be very much in agreement as well?
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