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CactusWeasle posted:That sounds awesome, except the part about Max Chilton Yeah in all seriousness Carlin is a good operation and them running a full-time Indycar team would be nice.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:32 |
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gret posted:Chilton has a better racing resume than half the field in IndyCars. I'd have a good record with a car too if I drove it at a safe speed miles away from everyone else
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:33 |
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Spaced God posted:I'd have a good record with a car too if I drove it at a safe speed miles away from everyone else Which already puts him ahead of drivers like Saavedra. And please do not insult multi-time GP2 race winner Max Chilton.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:35 |
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gret posted:Chilton has a better racing resume than half the field in IndyCars.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:43 |
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Dyson is running the car and Chilton is absolutely better than the other 17 year old rich kids that are a lot/most of the field in Lights. I could absolutely see him winning a race. Big cars? Eh. I guess if Huerta can win anything is possible.
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:44 |
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my gran could have won a race last year in indy lights
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# ? Jan 22, 2015 23:46 |
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chilton literally never crashed, you could do much worse
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 03:58 |
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be nice wicka posted:chilton literally never crashed, you could do much worse 2014 Canada and I think in Spa or another race
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 04:00 |
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Spaced God posted:2014 Canada and I think in Spa or another race bianchi's fault
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 04:03 |
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Max caused Pastor to crash in Monaco in 2013, but it doesn't count because Pastor.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 04:06 |
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gret posted:Chilton has a better racing resume than half the field in IndyCars. He's a real talent.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 05:14 |
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Max ChiltOwn.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 05:21 |
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Was/Is Carlin ever aiming at fielding an F1 team? I'm a tad bit curious if this will become a trend considering how F1 is becoming increasingly cost-prohibitive for teams over across the pond. Also I recall reading that "Euro MotorSport" is allegedly interesting in jumping into lights. (Yes, the old CART team). This is good news regardless. The more new teams we can get involved? The better.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 07:01 |
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I think they looked at it in the intake that eventually gave us Good Lotus, The Karun and Bruno show and From Russia with Love but decided that would be suicide. I think they've been proven right there.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 09:32 |
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Dudley posted:I think they looked at it in the intake that eventually gave us Good Lotus, The Karun and Bruno show and From Russia with Love but decided that would be suicide. It was originally Wirth's Magical Computer Team brought to you by Richard Branson, but yeah. I'd imagine Indy is a slightly better option, but the real beneficiary are sports cars.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 09:54 |
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congrats to future 500 winner Max Chilton.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 10:08 |
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I wasn't enthusiastic when Honda used Wirth's company to design their aerokits.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 15:33 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:I wasn't enthusiastic when Honda used Wirth's company to design their aerokits. Those Acura's/Now HPD's in LMP2 fair pretty well. Just keep Wirth away from F1 and they might be a bit more competent.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 15:49 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:Also I recall reading that "Euro MotorSport" is allegedly interesting in jumping into lights. (Yes, the old CART team). they have an interesting wikipedia page because they seem to have sold out their car on a race by race basis and ended up with like ten drivers in their car over the course of a year
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 15:57 |
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Uh was that the team run by F1 reject and Inaugural F3000 Champion Christian Danner? Because if so lol. Also; Human Grand Prix fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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harperdc posted:It was originally Wirth's Magical Computer Team brought to you by Richard Branson, but yeah. I'd imagine Indy is a slightly better option, but the real beneficiary are sports cars. Yeah but I didn't have a pithy name for that. Should have used yours.
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# ? Jan 23, 2015 17:09 |
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Let's talk about Team Penske Who would be the best driver to have ever run for RP? Gotta be Rocket Rick or Al Sr. right?
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# ? Jan 24, 2015 04:10 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:Also; Best outing by Andrea Moda though it's Euromotorsport but that's not saying much for a poo poo team in CART in the early 90s anyway. e: Also this wasn't run by Danner, it was started by Antonio Ferrari. Are you thinking of poo poo CART driver Eric Bachelart since he started and still has Conquest Racing? BMB5150 fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jan 24, 2015 |
# ? Jan 24, 2015 04:17 |
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the pole speed in these races was 230+ cart had lots of very lovely pay drivers in the 90s, they just had so many cars that they either DNQd a few of them or started 32 cars
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# ? Jan 24, 2015 04:20 |
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BMB5150 posted:Best outing by Andrea Moda though it's Euromotorsport but that's not saying much for a poo poo team in CART in the early 90s anyway. Is Antonio Ferrari indeed related to Ferrari?
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# ? Jan 24, 2015 04:21 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:Is Antonio Ferrari indeed related to Ferrari? Don't know. Not directly related at least.
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# ? Jan 24, 2015 04:39 |
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BMB5150 posted:Best outing by Andrea Moda though it's Euromotorsport but that's not saying much for a poo poo team in CART in the early 90s anyway. Yeah sorry I was thinking of Project Indy :X
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# ? Jan 24, 2015 05:01 |
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The mayor's new Indy ride? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC4nf3mlF1Q
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 00:26 |
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Just came across this doom and gloom, uh...quote:There were a lot of IndyCar drivers on hand for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which was won Sunday by Chip Ganassi Racing with Scott Dixon in the saddle at the finish. http://www.thestar.com/autos/2015/01/25/indycar-on-borrowed-time-tsn-sportsnet-ignore-daytona.html?app=noRedirect
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 06:01 |
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Honestly, I see a huge downturn of motorsports within the next 10 years, so it would just be going with the trend.
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 06:25 |
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in all honesty I expect to see the death of "major" motorsport in my lifetime.
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 06:26 |
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My friend sent me an email about a sponsor not renewing, here's a huge trackforum post wrapped in faux concern. Jesus Christ, does that guy get paid to write? That seriously might be the worst racing article I've read since the split. E: lol every indycar article he writes is just him pouting about something and using someone else's quotes to try to spin a CATASTROPHE story. He's an idiot with a newspaper blog and bad ideas. Cygni fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jan 26, 2015 |
# ? Jan 26, 2015 06:59 |
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And Indycar is still fielding more cars every week than F1 can muster, admittedly with a different cost base and fewer actual teams.
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 08:26 |
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Cygni posted:My friend sent me an email about a sponsor not renewing, here's a huge trackforum post wrapped in faux concern. Yeah I was a tad bit concerned because he wrote for a legitimate newspaper. Some people have a weird ave to grind it seems. My sincere honest belief if the sport was anywhere near dying? Tony George, Kevin Kalkhoven, Michael Andretti, Chip Ganassi, and Roger Penske would probably find a way to buy it and "Save it". I don't know if it' is indeed say, Verizon going "Hey, extend the season to how normally is or we're loving out", but I'm sure Miles would change his tune about things and not gently caress around if this were the case. As for his suggestion about the Indy 500? I don't think anyone in the NASCAR paddock would seriously be game for running an IndyCar team. Roush, Henrdrick, Childress Gibbs and Haas seem happy in NASCAR, and I don't think would bother with the effort. I recall the Wood Bros. being very complimentary of the Indy 500, and I think they'd be your lone interest in terms of doing such a thing. (for a one-off) (The Wood Bros. loving own, and this is to never be disputed. Ever). Even then I don't think they would seriously consider it being that they're a fairly small team in NASCAR, so you can rule them out. I would support, however making the Indy 500 a bigger more "open" event in some regards, but I'm unsure how that would mess with the current series. Like it would be cool if we were in the "Bring what you got"-era of the sport in some aspects, but it doesn't really seem to be all that feasible in the year 2015. e: Also LOL at the reasoning at the claim that NASCAR running "The Chase" had anything to do with IndyCar ending at Labor Day. I really doubt that. FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jan 26, 2015 |
# ? Jan 26, 2015 11:41 |
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I don't think IndyCar is going to die any time soon since it's a vanity project, and those tend to last well beyond their expiration dates, but I don't see anything that tells me it's poised for any significant growth any time soon. It's got a solid niche, and it should be sustainable barring any stupid decisions. EDIT - just to clarify I don't mean "vanity project" as an insult
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 15:11 |
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Alain Post posted:in all honesty I expect to see the death of "major" motorsport in my lifetime. at some point in our lives they will have to stop using internal combustion engines, the series that survive will be the ones that don't make a huge fuss and just get on with it
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Bhester posted:I don't think IndyCar is going to die any time soon since it's a vanity project, and those tend to last well beyond their expiration dates, but I don't see anything that tells me it's poised for any significant growth any time soon. It's got a solid niche, and it should be sustainable barring any stupid decisions. Right, I don't think anyone here or anywhere is pretending it's ever going to be 1994 again. I don't think the sport is as "toxic" as it once was so I don't think we'll see any drastic exits in the way we saw Toyota, and several stars of the sport did back in the 2000's. I think we'll see the ladder system continue to improve, more events like "New Orleans" being created, a few new teams here and there, and potentially? A new engine manufacturer or two. (I think it's going to be Nissan Cosworth). I also believe the "bleeding" has stopped and we won't see guys that were destined for Indy Car take the NASCAR route as often. I don't think we'll ever see high ratings for the Indy 500 or any other races of the series I do think it can grow it's niche audience a bit though with some promotion. While I believe the american public has begun to move on from auto racing as a whole, I would imagine there has to be a group of people here or there that haven't given the sport a try just purely because they've never heard of the sport. When I'm getting responses like this: "I'm an IndyCar fan" ""Oh...is that like NASCAR?" You have some problems on the PR front.
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 18:18 |
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be nice wicka posted:at some point in our lives they will have to stop using internal combustion engines, the series that survive will be the ones that don't make a huge fuss and just get on with it it's not that, it's more the whole "people don't give a poo poo about cars anymore" thing. NASCAR's audience is getting older and older and they clearly have no freaking clue how to lure young fans other than maybe having Tony run more people over
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 18:22 |
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Alain Post posted:it's not that, it's more the whole "people don't give a poo poo about cars anymore" thing. NASCAR's audience is getting older and older and they clearly have no freaking clue how to lure young fans other than maybe having Tony run more people over Jumps. Speed Arrows.
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George Zimmer posted:Honestly, I see a huge downturn of motorsports within the next 10 years, so it would just be going with the trend. this is why im not really worried. the american motorsports landscape is gonna have a hell of a reset when the bottom falls out of NASCAR
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 18:48 |