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    Round 3 - Alabama 27.4.2014

    I almost missed it.

    Round 3 is about to start.

    And its wet.
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    Montoya and Bourdais looking good in the early laps in the damp conditions.
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    Could we actually go more than 3 laps without a full course caution please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steveaki13 View Post
    Could we actually go more than 3 laps without a full course caution please.

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    I missed the first half (packing the kitchen for the contractor to start demo tomorrow). The part I saw was mildly interesting. Some very nice passes and also some boneheaded moves. JPM in the gravel for instance (wonder if he wishes he was back in taxi cabs?). It was kind of fun watching them all struggle for car control on the drying track.
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    Yeah, it was wet. The rain started falling at the end of the Lights race. I ducked into my car and stayed there until it backed off, which was close to two hours,

    Bourdais and Aleshin were going at it pretty well, I thought Aleshin was doing a fair bit of blocking so I'm not too surprised that Bourdais eventually hit him. From the replay it looked to me that Aleshin braked a little early and Seabass was trying to get a more aggressive run at him. Pity it ended up that way but Aleshin got the worst of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by steveaki13 View Post
    Could we actually go more than 3 laps without a full course caution please.

    IMO, this is something that IndyCar should learn from F1. In F1, if a car ends in the kitty litter, it's game over for that car because the race will go on, but with a local yellow for a few minutes. I really don't understand why the whole race has to be halted in IndyCar road courses because of one car that's now off the track. In my opinion, the rulemakers in IndyCar simply want to increase the artificial drama. A full course yellow means all cars get bunched up together again, so you get to experience the thrills of effectively a new start again. In the end, this simply gets really annoying as you have to observe something like four-five of these restarts, for no good reason, on a typical road course race. I understand the reasons to halt the race on an oval or street course because of debris or a disabled car right on track, but on a race course with no car or debris on the pavement, the race should go on, always.
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