Rumored 2009 IC Schedule

[Chamoo]

This is basically last years schedule.

I think MarkC is just throwing ***** at the wall, seeing what sticks.

[Spiderman]

According to AR1:

1. St. Petersburg 1.78 Mile Street[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
2. Long Beach 1.97 Mile Street[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
3. Motegi, Japan Sat 1.549 Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
4. Queensland, Au 2.795 Mi Street[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
5. Kansas City 1.5 M Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
6. Indianapolis, IN 2.5 mile Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
7. West Allis, WI 1.032 Mile Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
8. Ft Worth, TX (Sat. Nite)[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
9. Newton, IA 0.875 Mile Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
10. Richmond, VA (Sat. Night)[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
11. Watkins Glen 3.37 Mile RC[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
12. Lexington, OH 2.258 Mile RC[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
13. Toronto, CN 1.721 Mile Street[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
14. Edmonton CN 1.96 Mi Airport[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
15. Sparta, KY (Sat Nite) 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
16. Sonoma, CA RC[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
17. Detroit, MI 2.096 Mi. RC[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
18. Joliet, Ill. 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]
19. TBA[/*:m:3ud1xcu9]

I don't have a problem with it, really. It's a decent transitional schedule. I love that Australia is back in the spring where it belongs. I'd dump Iowa and Richmond for Road America and NH, and finish in Vegas myself. I'd also dump Sonoma for Fontana if I could.

I'd also change the rules to make new smaller front and rear wings to lower the downforce and equalize the competition, put the Handford device on the cars for Kentucky, Motegi, Texas and Chicago, to take the droning boredom out of the 1.5 mi tracks, and hire Panoz to build a variant of the DP-01 for 2010. As long as we're stuck with the CW's for '09 we may as well make the best of it though by cutting some of the downforce to shake up the grid.

Then, put Paul Tracy in a competitive car for '09, 010, and 011, buy AJ Almendinger's and Scott Speed's contracts from Red Bull and I'd be one happy camper.

Too bad I'm not Tony George.

There is not much logic in your schedule.
With the Indianapolis 500 race on may 24 next year (that means Opening Day on May 2nd) and Long Beach on April 19th how will you get Motegi, Surfer's and Kansas in there?

[The instant classic]

what ever happen to the IRL racing at dayonta i know they did some test there once, why not race it?

[anthonyvop]

Kentucky, Virginia and Texas are part of the South. So with Florida, that makes 4.

8/Eight/Ocho


1. Kansas City 1.5 M Oval
2. Indianapolis, IN 2.5 mile Oval
3. West Allis, WI 1.032 Mile Oval
4. Ft Worth, TX (Sat. Nite)
5. Newton, IA 0.875 Mile Oval
6. Sparta, KY (Sat Nite) 1.5 Mile Oval
7. Detroit, MI 2.096 Mi. RC
8. Joliet, Ill. 1.5 Mile Oval

Sparta Kentucky is closer to Cinncinati OHIO than any major Souther City.
Dallas/Ft.Worth is more mid-west than south but I will give you that one. But it isn't the South either.

Still 7 in the Midwest. What a joke.

[turbo-engine]

what ever happen to the IRL racing at dayonta i know they did some test there once, why not race it?

ISC, bumpy, ISC, bumpy, ISC, bumpy.......... That's the reason why they don't race there, and never will. I would love to see Indycars on the oval though

[Rex Monaco]

But it isn't the South either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

"As defined by the United States Census Bureau,[3] the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states and the District of Columbia (with a total 2006 estimated population of 109,083,752.) Thirty-six percent of all U.S. residents lived in the South, the nation's most populous region. The Census Bureau defined three smaller units, or divisions:

The South Atlantic States: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware
The East South Central States: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee
The West South Central States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas"

Edited to add:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C..._Divisions.PNG

[anthonyvop]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

"As defined by the United States Census Bureau,[3] the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states and the District of Columbia (with a total 2006 estimated population of 109,083,752.) Thirty-six percent of all U.S. residents lived in the South, the nation's most populous region. The Census Bureau defined three smaller units, or divisions:

The South Atlantic States: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware
The East South Central States: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee
The West South Central States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas"

Edited to add:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C..._Divisions.PNG

So?

I don't care what Wikipedia or the US Census says.
I care what the sponsors say and Sparta Ky is Mid-West. It is accross the river from Ohio.

We can argue about Ft Worth being mid-west with no consensus
But there is no way Ft-Worth is Southern.

[The instant classic]

ISC, bumpy, ISC, bumpy, ISC, bumpy.......... That's the reason why they don't race there, and never will. I would love to see Indycars on the oval though

yeah very true, wierd why they wolud test at daytona then, but i wolud love to see the IRL race some more superspeedways next year

[Cart750hp]

I'd like to see Laguna Seca and Road America added on that schedule together with Cleveland (night).

But looking at that schedule, it's little early for a huge transition from pro-oval to more street and road courses. I'd like to see it but I don't believe it.

Nice to get the fans going or those extinct Champ Car fans. But too early for a switch. Would be nice, but...nope.

[Rex Monaco]

So?
We can argue about Ft Worth being mid-west with no consensus
But there is no way Ft-Worth is Southern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie

"As a definite geographic location within the United States, "Dixie" is usually defined as the 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. They are (in order of secession): South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. This definition is strongly correlated with history and, in the minds of many Southerners, remains the traditional and emotional South.