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IOwnCalculus posted:Not-at-all bold prediction: Marco claims to have made more progress in the offseason, but the only battle he really factors in is for "full season AA driver with the least points" between him and Sato-san. Only slightly less prediction : Marco wins this battle. i.e - he's last.
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Alain Post posted:how many series have ford pulled out of since this ad. already see V8SC and WRC They pulled out of WRC before the picture even, so they're taking credit for the M-Sport built cars. To be fair, the engines are still Ecoboost, same as the Motorbase built BTCC Focii.
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Also notable for Ganassi scraping together a 3rd car for Dixon halfway through the season when PacWest went under. 15 years later he's still there.
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The start is the operative word there, I don't think they made it more than 2 or 3 rounds.
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Cygni posted:Sigma Autosport also folded up after 5 races, which is why Ganassi picked up Dixon to keep the field at 18, which was the series contractual minimum for the races. So basically Dixon's entire career is an accident of contract?
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gret posted:I remember AutoGP was pretty weak back when I first heard about it (probably when Pippa Mann contested the Sonoma rounds way back when). Can't imagine the field has become much stronger. Yep, that guy won the last race of the season. 2nd in that race? A guy who owns a supermaket in a Minardi PS04B.
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Is there any crowdfunding? Because I'm going to NEED to see Pastor at Indy.
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7 is taken but 11 is only reserved by KV so he could probably have it for the price of a Big Gulp.
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Yeah, it's basically a lack of competition thing. Dallara got to a point where they could make good chassis at a cost effective price and people used them. So other people used them. So Ralt and Reynard went under. So other people used Dallara....
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IOwnCalculus posted:You can probably trace this back to the tobacco money leaving, and more spec consolidation. The money isn't there to support the costs of multiple shops doing very small runs of cars with revisions throughout each season. It's barely there to support something like the DW12, which is downright mass produced by comparison. Yeah that makes sense. Not so long ago you had 28 full time cars who (mostly) replaced the car every year vs now where there's 22 and I believe several 2012 tubs still on the grid.
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Dorrbecker of course is the guy whose last win was ahead of a 13 year old Minardi being driven by a guy who owns a supermarket. I'm sure he'll be great.
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Human Grand Prix posted:The PC-27B's biggest problem was probably the tires(the Lola that they used also didn't bring great results) Goodyear looked like they gave up in 1999. The Ilmor was increasingly uncompetitive as well, a problem that didn't only affect Penske. So much so that he, uh, stopped using engines from the company he owned. To be fair he also stopped using chassis from the company he owned as well.
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Feb 28, 2017 09:13
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I suspect Indycar themselves would prefer not because it gives the impression of Indycar as a feeder series rather than a destination. That's fine for Super Formula, which is essentially Japanese GP2/F3000 but probably not what Indycar is looking for.
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Yeah I'm thinking purely in the way they market themselves. Super Formula is happy to be a stepping stone, Indycar would rather avoid it. That said, I suspect what would override that for Indycar is having guaranteed car count.
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Mar 2, 2017 11:19
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Honestly I'm more concerned about the full season count than the Indy500 one. Since the end of the old car we've lost Conquest, Dragon, Dreyer and Reinbold, HVM, KV, Newman Haas and Panther as full time runners. We've gained ECR. It's a problem masked a little by the fact 3 teams are running 4 cars each, but even so we're down to 21 full time cars now. Carlin and (More seriously) Juncos are sniffing round at a full time run of course but so were people like Michael Shank and it never came to pass.
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George Zimmer posted:Surely one of Portland's artisanal lightbulb makers or feminist bookstores would sponsor a a race. Now all I want to do is come up with a single name that works for both of these. "Bright Ideas" is as close as I've got.
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They're well off last year's practice times though, so I don't know how much it means. What were the conditions like?
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Mar 22, 2017 09:40
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awyeahz posted:https://twitter.com/GrahamRahal/status/845365070750236675 Interesting, then Chilton's speed may not be entirely false.
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Dallara built reasonable F1 chassis in the late 80s/early 90s too for BMS Italia who eventually merged with Minardi.
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Human Grand Prix posted:I love the F191. Yeah, as a kid, if you asked for an F1 car drawing it's basically exactly that shape.
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Ah, "Doing a Menard".
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Ok, that's super classy.
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Isn't the series already picking up the tab for 2-3 cars a year on the quiet to get to 33 anyway?
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Cygni posted:what the hell is happening on this dumbass planet So long as the Susan G Komen foundation for increasing awareness of Susan G Komen is still on the side of Pippa's car, that's not the worst we got.
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It said "I actually think wicka is an ok poster". Boy's gone mad.
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Bentai posted:gently caress, I only got 99 points from this week's race. drat you Honday! I don't know how I pulled it off but I picked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th.
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Good on him. And that's a huge amount of attention Indycar needs.
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wicka posted:"2 old dudes" it's loving Mario Andretti and Johnny Rutherford Yeah that's almost the best bit, just 2 guys who know their poo poo musing while a guy they clearly respect throws some laps. It's actually delightful. He's going to get straight into the 220s isn't he? And I assume this is a "Race boost" car.
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May 3, 2017 16:38
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221.7, it's absolutely not impossible. But given he's altering this setup as a rookie this is already speed that tells you he's going to be just fine speedwise come practice.
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iospace posted:e: how many top car series today still use NA engines? I know NASCAR does and LMP2/DPi do, but beyond those two I'm drawing a blank (though I'm also tired atm). Depends what we're calling "top" I guess. The Ex-Formula Renault 3.5 is still NA V8s, Formula 2 does this year but goes turbo next, GP3 is NA.
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Cygni posted:i already stream every race without payin, suck on that world Oh god I'd forgotten about them, they were insisting after forgetting cars need engines last year they would 100% be ready for 2017. So that worked out.
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Fauxhawk Express posted:After reading the continued ballad of Carl Long, here's hoping that You'd have to tell Nascar to let them put it on the car first.
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sponsorship can eventually replace the long lost tobacco $$$ and restore Indycar to its rightful glory.
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iospace posted:Honestly, the one question I want to ask him: What's it like going from a honda that you don't know will even last a lap to one that has just churned out lap after lap. Also, I love the 98 logo on the camera mounted below the rotating one. Is that just because they've borrowed it from the Herta car?
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We should probably attempt that again some time. Especially now my biggest competition has hosed off back to the states. *waves at McMadCow* Downhill hairpins at indoor circuits are fun, Cardiff teamsport has one, complicated by the fact you take off shortly before it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVw3U0w-L30
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Pvt. Public posted:I have gone several times. I love the facility, as others have said and the karts are in really good shape. It is probably the best-run facility in the Midwest and is my favorite kart track. And man, that oval is surprisingly tough on you. How much passing goes on with that oval? Do you need brakes? edit : That said I just saw a video of the road course, those karts are slow as balls. Dudley fucked around with this message at 11:43 on May 19, 2017 |
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wicka posted:I lived in Indiana until I was 23 and barely even thought about the 500 until I moved because some dumbfuck morons refused to televise it live in most of the state. I know this is common practice in America but it'll never stop being hilarious to me.
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wicka posted:It's insanely, unbelievably stupid because it effectively limits your audience to the people who are already watching. You're undermining your ability to attract new fans because so few people are going to spend money to attend an event they've never seen before. Several sports have done studies related to TV blackouts and shown that attendance increases when a blackout is lifted (CITATION NEEDED), because you're actually advertising your sport. And it's so unbelievably obvious this would be the case.
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Lazier to be last I presume?
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Uncle Jam posted:So Bourdais is out of the race. But what if they asked YOU to take his place? You're doing the Lord's work son. FartingBedpost posted:I mean, it's gonna feel even worse when notable Chevy driver Ed Carpenter gets pole. I feel like Penske is really underperforming. Yeah I noticed Wil talking about the gap to "The Hondas", clearly hoping everyone will forget a team consisting of a man of indeterminate quantity of chromosomes and a part timer just stuck both their cars ahead of him.
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Wait a second. Qualifying is over, no-one qualified the ex-Bourdais entry. So surely Davison can't race? Is there an existing provision for this or are they going to cheat it "For the show"?
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