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31st May 2010, 23:34 #11
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Be interesting to see what Adam Carrol can do later in the season and if that secures him a drive for next year.
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1st June 2010, 02:27 #12
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Originally Posted by NickFalzone
Sam is a Penske driver. They might only be able to run 3 Cup cars next year and Kurt Busch, Keselowski and Allgaier are a lock for those 3 seats. Sam's Cup career is going nowhere and its time for him to go back (like Dario did) where he was best.
Sam was a Pennzoil driver for many years. Sam won the Indy 500 with Penske. Penske won the Indy 500 with Pennzoil before. Pennzoil is going to be a part of the Penske Indy Car program next year.
Makes a lot of sense. RP has Power and Helio for the road courses. Sam was a stud on the ovals and would win again in short order for RP in Indy Cars. Would make a complete team and would add a winning American driver to the sport. Plus Sam had developed quite the fan following in his last few years in the IRL (he would regularly get one of the biggest hands during driver intros).
Just something to keep an eye on.
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1st June 2010, 14:05 #13
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I like the idea of Sam back at Indy. Like DP, it is a track where he runs REALLY well, even if nothing is working anywhere else. Briscoe isn't ready for prime time and at Penske, that is a death knell to the career with him.
Simona to me is doing all the right things, and I hope she gets a result that makes the great unwashed and the idiots in the tv trucks pay attention. It is clear that the Danicamania the grips ESPN and to a lesser extent VS has blinded them to the rise of Simona di Silverstro.
AS for other things I noticed from this year's race. I think the idea of the covered front wheels anyhow might be coming. The one thing on the Delta Wing that has great merit is those faired in front wheels....
That crash with Conway and Hunter-Reay was scary stuff, and I thought of two things when it was over. 1) Conway was about 5 to 10 feet short of clearning the fence, and I would think no car could get that high but it was just too scary to conteplate. I will also say that those posts holding the fence really tore his car up. Much like the fatal crash in Toronto years ago, the posts are hard on a monocoque chassis, and Mike was lucky in a sense for all the research done on making cars survive these hits. 2) Mike's crash was because he was desparately trying to make something happen. Indy is a hard place to get by people with stock cars or IRL cars, but I think this format of Dallara's with Honda's for everyone has made it really hard.
I hope in the future the first step to making this series interesting is letting the teams pick and choose chassis that fit the rules, and do some mod's that are property of the teams. In short, maybe spread the field out a little....The fact is, the best teams are the best teams in any format, but at least with some speed differential and some ability to find ways to make a car much faster, it gives hope..."Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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1st June 2010, 14:43 #14Originally Posted by Mark in OshawaN.Hayden L.Hamilton D.Earnhardt R.Gordon S.Speed T.Stewart J.P.Montoya G.Rahal Ferrari Lotus
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1st June 2010, 19:05 #15
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Originally Posted by NickFalzone
He has had success, and sometimes unique success, but he really is outside his comfort zone there.
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1st June 2010, 20:55 #16
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Originally Posted by e2mtt
Maybe I am naive, but I think something that allows people to see new ideas, and the innovation that we used to see in racing have some sort of resurgence. I am not pining for the days of people showing up with diesels or gas turbines....but at some point, fresh ideas have to be in the mix."Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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1st June 2010, 22:19 #17
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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Go back to trim tabs and spoilers such as were run up to 1971.
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1st June 2010, 22:29 #18
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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe"Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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2nd June 2010, 02:07 #19
I've said it many times... one of the big reasons why I'd like to see a LOT more variation & heavy use of bolt-on parts is for sponsorship & fan involvement reasons. Rather then have a chassis totally built by Dallara (some Italian race-car company) with engines leased from Honda (engines you can't buy for any other reason), you could have cars with parts bolted on from Brembo & Roots & Stillen & K&N & BBS & American Racing & all of the hundreds of other small manufacturers specializing in performance aftermarket parts. Maybe even bolted onto Ford & Honda engines that are the same displacement as what's in street cars.
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2nd June 2010, 02:58 #20
Also relative - the cost of entry has got to come down.
Most figures say you can buy/build a complete Nascar Cup car for $125,000. Of course the salaries & travel & facilities mean there is no upper limit on what you can spend, but $125,000 gets you a shiny new racecar that can make the field on Sunday and pick up an $65,000+ purse for being dead last.
Best as I can figure, right now it cost over $400,000 to buy a new chassis these days. A lease for a full year of engines costs 1 million, and you don't get to keep 'em. A lease for an engine for the Indy 500 costs between $90,000 & $210,000 depending on how much you want to practice. Indy pays great purses, but most Indycar races don't pay a purse at all - you get 1.2 million at the end if you run all the races in a season.
Anyway you look at it, racing is incredibly expensive, but it sure seems like Indycar could do some work in making entry easier.N.Hayden L.Hamilton D.Earnhardt R.Gordon S.Speed T.Stewart J.P.Montoya G.Rahal Ferrari Lotus
Impressive morning from Evans and Ogier tho.. Let's see if some rain would come in the Afternoon, some clouds ale rising here
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