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Final standings are out for Indycar Fantasy, congrats KingShibby.
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Basticle posted:174 days until the next race Silly seasons and off-seasons have been getting more more and more interesting, so at least there's this one to look forward to.  Then again, those great off-seasons just make you want the actual season to start already. 
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Sep 17, 2018 18:48
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Bentai posted:Final standings are out for Indycar Fantasy, congrats KingShibby. Wow I guess not everyone put in picks for every race because I know I forgot 1 race this year and had garbage picks, I never expected to win
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Sep 17, 2018 19:08
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Still plenty of sports car racing to watch in the off season
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Sep 17, 2018 19:58
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KingShibby posted:Wow I guess not everyone put in picks for every race because I know I forgot 1 race this year and had garbage picks, I never expected to win I had picks in for every race and finished five spots behind you. My picks were exceptionally bad this year.
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Sep 17, 2018 20:30
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That was a pretty good Sonoma race. This package is excellent. I've heard complaints about how the cars race on speedways but I didn't see too much of an issue there - a lot of golden era races on big ovals were like that too.
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Sep 17, 2018 20:51
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IOwnCalculus posted:I had picks in for every race and finished five spots behind you. I got lucky and finished 3rd by one point.
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Sep 17, 2018 21:08
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Basticle posted:174 days until the next race it's ok we have the ultimate comedy race with nascar running the charlotte roval to look forward to until then
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Sep 17, 2018 21:41
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I've mentioned it before, but I highly recommend people track down a copy of Super Speedway and watch it. That will fill in an hour of time between now and next season  Really wish I saw it in IMAX as intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyugAuAxZO4
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Sep 19, 2018 10:38
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Chaves just got hosed lol. But congrats to O’ward, Herta II, and another car on the grid next year.
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Sep 19, 2018 20:29
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freeranger posted:I've mentioned it before, but I highly recommend people track down a copy of Super Speedway and watch it. That will fill in an hour of time between now and next season It's so good. When it came out, it was showing at the Ontario Mills IMAX the first year CART went to Fontana. Projector broke halfway through, and it didn't make it to an AZ IMAX for a couple years. Maybe this is just a matter of being the right age at the time, but to me, everything PC23-and-newer still looks modern to me, at least from the outside. Yet getting a good look at the cockpit of Villeneuve's Reynard at the IMS Museum this year really shows how much simpler those cars still were versus the DW12. Frond posted:Chaves just got hosed lol. But congrats to O’ward, Herta II, and another car on the grid next year. I'm guessing Chaves is at least getting a severance check, but I think you could argue that O'Ward putting that car in the Fast 6 probably killed Gabby's career.
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Sep 19, 2018 20:39
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I think the CART/CCWS cars were among the last of the big open-wheelers to have gear levers. They were quite aerodynamically advanced though, until development was frozen after the CART collapse.
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Sep 19, 2018 20:55
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Chaves is decent but he’s like a Richie Hearn/Gualter Salles tier driver. Like them he also has no money. I guess he can be a journeyman.
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Sep 19, 2018 20:57
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Alright, so it's that time again! Penske Newgarden Power SiPag Andretti Marco Rossi RHR Veach SPM Hinch Wickens, hopefully Harding O'Ward Herta Special Ed King*/Special Ed Pigot Ganassi Dixon Rosenqvist Carlin Kimball* Chilton* Rumored Third Car? Coyne Bourdais ??? Foyt Leist TK Rahal Graham Taku Shank* (part time) Harvey Juncos* (unknown) ??? *no explicit confirmation, but likely Free Agents Alonso Chaves Daly Kaiser Clamato Fitipaldi Ed Jones iospace fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Sep 19, 2018 22:05
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It would be nice to see a list of drivers banging the doors down to try to land a seat in the series as well. Poor Gabby 
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Sep 19, 2018 22:28
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iospace posted:Alright, so it's that time again! My additions/guesses: Rahal with Graham and Taku and a very likely 3rd. (I always forget them or Foyt when i do the rundown in my head too) Miller has said that Ganassi's 2nd will be Rosenqvist and the contract is signed, so that seems pretty firm. Shank and Harvey are confirmed for at least 6 races, but the hope is to add more. McLaren seems likely at this point, dunno the structure though. Lots of other teams sniffin around, like Scuderia Corsa and Dragon Speed, and a lot of drivers sniffin around too. It looks like at least 25 cars will be the norm next year, which is awesome.
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Sep 19, 2018 22:33
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Cygni posted:Lots of other teams sniffin around, like Scuderia Corsa and Dragon Speed, and a lot of drivers sniffin around too. It looks like at least 25 cars will be the norm next year, which is awesome. Doing the math in my head, we might see some races with 28 (or more????) cars outside of Indy. If McLaren somehow gets its poo poo together and fields a two-car team, bump that number up to 30. That's insane. The good kind of insane. But insane nonetheless.
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Sep 19, 2018 22:42
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Cygni posted:My additions/guesses: I knew I forgot a team.  22 firm full time rides next season!
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Sep 19, 2018 22:50
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Cygni posted:My additions/guesses: Do these potential new teams have Munoz's phone number
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Sep 19, 2018 22:52
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Not indy, but a good sign I suppose. Sales for Sebring so far are up 341% over last year.
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Sep 20, 2018 00:09
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WindyMan posted:It would be nice to see a list of drivers banging the doors down to try to land a seat in the series as well. Added some names.
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Sep 20, 2018 00:11
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Dixon with a real teammate again will be something to watch. Rosenquist should be quick. It’s time to take a breath and realize the good times are here again. Not to be congratulatory or to slack off, but drat it’s so good to see American open wheel properly healthy again.
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Sep 20, 2018 00:37
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harperdc posted:It’s time to take a breath and realize the good times are here again. Not to be congratulatory or to slack off, but drat it’s so good to see American open wheel properly healthy again. It only took 10 years after the reunification but the steady leadership of INDYCAR and their three year cycles has led to steady growth 2019 is gonna be an incredible year 
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harperdc posted:Dixon with a real teammate again will be something to watch. Rosenquist should be quick. It's crazy to think the Split was just over 20 years ago. It's crazy how things have progressed since then
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Sep 20, 2018 01:43
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I can’t watch this sport if Chud gets a ride. Ban me if Chud gets a full season ride. 
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Sep 20, 2018 02:18
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https://twitter.com/GSteinbrennerIV/status/1042549613809606656
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Minto Took posted:I can’t watch this sport if Chud gets a ride. I didn't want to be reminded of him  I'll take Sage over him.
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Sep 20, 2018 02:22
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A Good Steinbrenner.
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Minto Took posted:A Good Steinbrenner. I dunno man, that hair...
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Minto Took posted:A Good Steinbrenner. HE IS 22 YEARS OLD I’m used to athletes being young but An IndyCar Team Owner? My goodness.
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Sep 20, 2018 05:20
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Minto Took posted:A Good Steinbrenner. As a Red Sox fan, there is no such thing.
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https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2018/09/19/indycar-harding-steinbrenner-teams-merge-sign-oward-herta-19/1359322002/quote:Next year, the team will lease dampers from Andretti Technologies, while also sharing chassis development data with the Andretti’s IndyCar team. According to a source at Andretti Autosport, the arrangement also allows for the newly formed team to sub-contract Andretti Autosport engineers, though the details on this part of their arrangement have yet to be sorted out. and https://twitter.com/A_S12/status/1042521878315892737 So it seems the current best path in for Alonso and/or McLaren is through Steinbrenner/Harding. Steinbrenner gets a world-class driver to help teach Pato and Herta to drive, Alonso gets Andretti hardware and engineers to guarantee a competitive car out of the gate, and once Alonso is done with Toyota in WEC he and McLaren are free to come to Honda in 2020 and make the Andretti alliance (or their own proper team) a reality. Plausible.
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Sep 20, 2018 06:46
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Sounds like Zak Brown is a Hack Clown tbh
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Sep 20, 2018 06:48
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Watch Scott Dixon play out one more year with Ganassi then go be the second McLaren driver once they can be a proper Andretti/Honda team.
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Sep 20, 2018 07:26
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If Big Dix Energy had any sense he'd stay far away from anything involving Alonso and Zak Brown.
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Wirth1000 posted:Sounds like Zak Brown is a Hack Clown tbh I'm clicking the kick button and nothing is happening D:
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Sep 20, 2018 14:27
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That would make sense as there still is the “Harding” entry, which was supposed to be Chaves’s car.
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https://twitter.com/indy44/status/1042554290114457601 "IndyCar: Kind of Exciting"
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Basticle posted:"IndyCar: Kind of Exciting" Well yeah compared to baseball 230mph race cars are only  kind of exciting 
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