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Athanatos posted:Marco wins the championship this year and also continues to be the prettiest driver You can win a championship without winning a race.
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Peanut President posted:You can win a championship without winning a race. 
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Phoenix Raceway has some ticket deals up for next season, including a buy-one-get-one deal for the Indycar race: http://www.phoenixraceway.com/Vanity-Pages/2017/12-Days-of-Christmas.aspx
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The worst kept secret of silly season that was taking an inexplicably long time to be announced has finally been announced: Chilton and Kimball full time with Carlin
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Theris posted:The worst kept secret of silly season that was taking an inexplicably long time to be announced has finally been announced: Chilton and Kimball full time with Carlin FINALLY That's 20 full time rides, plus one part time seat open (#20 for ECR) and one full time seat open (#19 for Dale Coyne)
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Excellent, I was getting a little worried the silence meant it had fallen through, especially when Carlin stepped back into Formula 2.
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22 full timers and 2 part timers lookin to add more races. 10 Chevy, 12 Honda. 2 new full time owners, 2 new part time owners. 29 cars confirmed for Indy so far. Next years schedule has been out for 2+ months. And its not even xmas yet. Good stuff.
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It's a relief to see Carlin come in as a standalone team adding entries to the grid. Alot of 'new team interested in joining Indycar' stories seem to end up as mergers into existing teams that do nothing for the car count.
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I think Indycar realized that their grid was too dependent on superteams. Penske and Andretti-Herta still are 1/3rd of the grid more or less but it's better than Ganassi-Andretti-Penske bening 50%.
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To be honest, the Ganassi 83 and 8 cars never really seemed to deliver.
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Alot of 'new team interested in joining Indycar' stories seem to end up as mergers into existing teams that do nothing for the car count. Not for this season, but there are prospects that these could eventually become full-blown solo operations after enough experience is gathered up. I don't think these latch-on teams have aspirations of just being latch-on teams.
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Cygni posted:22 full timers and 2 part timers lookin to add more races. 10 Chevy, 12 Honda. 2 new full time owners, 2 new part time owners. 29 cars confirmed for Indy so far. Next years schedule has been out for 2+ months. And its not even xmas yet. Who are the 29 confirmed? Gommendy or whoever it was pulled out from what I heard.
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Sightly dated, but this is a rare occasion where I agree with Pippa Mann https://twitter.com/PippaMann/status/939112849909088256
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KingShibby posted:Sightly dated, but this is a rare occasion where I agree with Pippa Mann this week’s This Week in IndyCar podcast from Marshall Pruett features Pippa Mann and they dig into it. Recommended for an IndyCar fix over the offseason.
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Dang, Kimball's family farm got pretty badly torn up by the fires it sounds like. Pretty cool of LBGP association to help out like that. http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/146308-kimball-and-family-roll-with-wildfire-s-punches
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After winning the championship in CART Flag to Flag you unlock a secret high FPS mode. In addition, you get a Bonus car and driver, which is none other than Shigeaki Hattori’s Bettenhausen Epson Car. Somebody at Sega had a wicked sense of humour.
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Yay that he'll be back in a competitive car in May, boo that it's a 500-only deal.
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That puts the 500 total up to 28 confirmed rides, and 2 "I want to do this" rides (Kyle Larson and Ryan Blaney, both who drive for Chip and Roger respectively in NASCAR).
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So, Dinner with Racers continues to be great. Highly recommend for any American open-wheel or sports car fan. I just got through the episode with engineer Craig Hampson (who worked for Newman-Haas and now is Seb Bourdais' engineer at Dale Coyne) and while you want to join for the stories, stay for the god damned Mark Plourde questions. Yes, that Mark Plourde 
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I still need to watch it but I see no reason why this shouldn't be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtOi7p58wkI
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IndyCar heard Andretti's whining, and teams that weren't chosen for manufacturer testing will get an extra test day. Its actually a better deal than it sounds, because the teams that did the manufacturer testing werent allowed to keep their data. http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/146423-indycar-grants-extra-test-day-with-new-aero And in probably bigger news. IndyCar trying to get the aeroscreen ready for a first on track test during the Phoenix open test Feb 9-10: http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/146424-indycar-finalizes-aeroscreen-testing-plans
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Bentai posted:Would PIR be open to fans for the test? Probably. It was free to the public last year, and the even did an autograph session and had concessions open and stuff.
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http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/146426-indycar-slashes-indy-500-qualifying-points 9 points for Indy 500 pole, 1 point for 9th fastest, none for 10th and slower. Good.
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http://www.apexoff.com/2017/12/24/tony-stewart-says-offer-2018-indy-500/
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We already have, if you count unconfirmed rides, 33 for the 500 already 
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Please let this work out.
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iospace posted:We already have, if you count unconfirmed rides, 33 for the 500 already (chanting quietly) bump day, bump day, bump day
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Bentai posted:Would PIR be open to fans for the test? It was last year for one of the two days, my guess is probably Saturday will be open to the public with Friday being media only. Spaced God posted:(chanting quietly) bump day, bump day, bump day Bumping would be cool, but I don't see it happening since it's a disincentive for the manufacturers to have more than 33 entries.
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Spaced God posted:(chanting quietly) bump day, bump day, bump day If anything it will just be Buddy Lazier failing to turn Laps a la 2015.
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KingShibby posted:Bumping would be cool, but I don't see it happening since it's a disincentive for the manufacturers to have more than 33 entries. Yeah, once you have 33 confirmed, the 34th engine contract and the sponsorship needed to pay for it both become exponentially harder to obtain. It's good that there are so many confirmed and viable-but-unconfirmed entries so far, but we're not yet back to where the conditions exist for 34 or more serious entries. I'd also argue that Buddy Lazier, as much as I like him and appreciate the effort, is not much of a serious entry.
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http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/news-multimedia/news/2017/12/26/no-5-cornelison-brings-house-down-2017Alleged Writer, Paul Kelly posted:Then Cornelison opened his mouth to sing. All of us on the front row of the Media Center stopped work almost immediately and looked at each other, eyes staring and mouths agape. Then we instinctively rushed from our laptops to the outside balcony adjacent to our workspace to hear the rest of the song without glass muffling the sweet sounds. Does anybody really give a poo poo? Some traditions just won't die I guess.
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Yes, people care about Back Home Again. Including me. It's the only pre-race tradition I care about tbh.
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Cygni posted:Yes, people care about Back Home Again. Including me. It's the only pre-race tradition I care about tbh. I suppose I've always associated it with Jim Nabors, rather than a pre race tradition that IMS would hold onto in his absence, and that after he was gone it would go by the wayside. A gushing article about his replacement doesn't do it for me.
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It was a tradition for a long time before Jim Nabors.
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Theris posted:It was a tradition for a long time before Jim Nabors. This. The reason why Nabors' version was so well received his first year there is that THIS was the version the previous year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWqQ1PsLrY Lesson: Never have an elderly ex-driver do public singing.
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Reynold posted:Does anybody really give a poo poo? Some traditions just won't die I guess. I haven't been able to hear Back Home Again in a few years since it's hard to hear from the inside of T3, but this new guy is pretty good at singing it (despite singing for the Blackhawks). The song is good and is tradition. I've literally met people who have grandstand seats they only sit in during the pre-race then walk around the track during the race. The pomp and circumstance before the race is just as good as the race itself 
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