Your custom calendar

[heliocastroneves#3]

Just took this from another forum, as I'm always curious to see what you guys see as the perfect IndyCar calendar.

I'll start, I'm a supporter of the balanced IndyCar schedule anyway.

01. Streets of St. Petersburg - Road/street
02. Streets of Long Beach - Road/street
03. Streets of Sao Paulo - Road/street
04. Indianapolis 500 - Oval
05. Texas Motor Speedway - Oval (a 600 mile race please, shoud be a night race)
06. Iowa Speedway - Oval (shoud be a night race)
07. Richmond International Raceway - Oval (should be a night race)
08. Streets of Toronto - Road/street
09. Edmonton City Centre Airport - Road/street
10. Burke Lakefront Airport - Road/street
11. Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca -Road/street
12. Fundidora Park - Road/street
13. Emerson Fittipaldi Speedway - Oval
14. Rockingham Motor Speedway - Oval
15. Chicagoland Speedway - Oval
16. Michigan International Speedway - Oval (a 500 mile race please)
17. Houston Reliant Park - Road/street
18. Streets of San José - Road/street
19. Phoenix International Raceway - Oval
20. Auto Club Speedway - Oval (a 500 mile race please)

[jwhite9185]

1. St Pete
2. Phoenix
3. Barber
4. Long Beach
5. Indy 500
6. Milwaukee
7. Texas
8. Richmond
9. Portland
10. Cleveland
11. Toronto
12. Edmonton
13. Michigan
14. Mid-Ohio
15. Loudon
16. Sears Point
17. Kentucky
18. Houston
19. Surfers Paradise
20. Fontana

7x Street/Temp
4x Road
9x Oval

[Jag_Warrior]

I apologize. I got a little excited when I saw your thread title. I'm trying to put together a concept for a custom, digital (monthly) racing calendar that would feature gifs. So every month (or even every week, if I get the idea to work) would feature a different action/motion racing image. If anyone has experience creating and working with gifs, please PM me.

Sorry to interrupt. Carry on! :wave:

[ICWS]

Oval Tracks:

Phoenix, Arizona
Motegi, Japan
Indianapolis, Indiana
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Brooklyn, Michigan
Fontana, California

Street Courses:

St. Petersburg, Florida
Long Beach, California
Houston, Texas
Cleveland, Ohio
Toronto, Canada
Surfers Paradise, Australia

Road Courses:

Laguna Seca, California
Watkins Glen, New York
Portland, Oregon
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Montreal, Canada
Mexico City, Mexico

[chuck34]

Just took this from another forum, as I'm always curious to see what you guys see as the perfect IndyCar calendar.

I'll start, I'm a supporter of the balanced IndyCar schedule anyway.

01. Streets of St. Petersburg - Road/street
02. Streets of Long Beach - Road/street
03. Streets of Sao Paulo - Road/street
04. Indianapolis 500 - Oval
05. Texas Motor Speedway - Oval (a 600 mile race please, shoud be a night race)
06. Iowa Speedway - Oval (shoud be a night race)
07. Richmond International Raceway - Oval (should be a night race)
08. Streets of Toronto - Road/street
09. Edmonton City Centre Airport - Road/street
10. Burke Lakefront Airport - Road/street
11. Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca -Road/street
12. Fundidora Park - Road/street
13. Emerson Fittipaldi Speedway - Oval
14. Rockingham Motor Speedway - Oval
15. Chicagoland Speedway - Oval
16. Michigan International Speedway - Oval (a 500 mile race please)
17. Houston Reliant Park - Road/street
18. Streets of San José - Road/street
19. Phoenix International Raceway - Oval
20. Auto Club Speedway - Oval (a 500 mile race please)

I like this, with a couple of changes. I'm not sold on Sao Paulo street race. What is Fundidora Park? And replace the streets of San Jose with Kentucy.

[heliocastroneves#3]

Fundidora Park is a circuit which lies in Monterrey, Mexico. CART/ChampCar drove there from 2001 until 2006. Also A1GP drove there a couple of times.

[jwhite9185]

They did! Think the track (or at least part of it) has been destroyed now.

[00steven]

Ovals:

Indy
California
Phoenix
Michigan
Miami
New Hampshire
Texas
Iowa


Road Courses:

Watkins Glen
Leguna Seca
Road America
Montreal
Mid Ohio
Mexico City


Street Courses:

Toronto
Long Beach
Surfers Paradise
St. Pete
Cleveland
A new street race at Las Vegas

[call_me_andrew]

Here's a leftfield idea: let's start the season on Labor Day, and then end with the Indy 500 on Memorial Day in the next year.

September
1. Darlington
2. Pocono
3. Michigian
October
4. Toronto
5. Edmonton
6. Detroit
November
7. Mid-Ohio
8. Sonoma
December
9. Fontana
10. Texas
January
11. Disney
12. Phoenix
13. Barber
February
14. Brazil
15. St. Petersburg
March
16. Memphis
17. Martinsville
April
18. Road America
19. China
May
20. Indianapolis

10 ovals, 4 permanent road courses, 6 temporary road courses

[garyshell]

With no races at all in the rest of May, June, July or August... the prime travel season for most folks who go to out of town races? MidOhio in November???? It is freaking cold here in the winter!

Left field indeed!

Gary

[DanicaFan]

I will take a run at this. It would be a predominantly oval schedule which it should be. You cant deny what this series (IRL) was founded on and that was ovals.

1. Streets of St. Petersburg (Street Course)
2. Streets of Long Beach (Street Course)
3. Iowa Speedway (Oval)
4. Kansas Speedway (Oval)
5. Indianapolis Motor Speedway -Indy 500 (Oval)
6. The Milwaukee Mile (Oval)
7. Texas Motor Speedway (Oval)
8. Richmond International Raceway (Oval)
9. Nashville Superspeedway (Oval)
10. Watkins Glen International (Road Course)
11. Michigan International Speedway (Oval)
12. New Hampshire Motor Speedway (Oval)
13. Chicagoland Speedway (Oval)
14. Kentucky Speedway (Oval)
15. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (Road Course)
16. Infineon Raceway (Sonoma) (Road Course)
17. Auto Club Speedway (Oval)
18. Phoenix International Raceway (Oval)
19. Atlanta Motor Speedway (Oval)
20. Homestead-Miami Speedway (Oval)

[SarahFan]

You and I may not be able to deny it.... But it sure seems the folks running things can

[DanicaFan]

You and I may not be able to deny it.... But it sure seems the folks running things can

I know, its sad huh?

What do you think of my schedule ?

[SarahFan]

It has 12 ovals that have failed at least once... Some twice or mOre

It time to rethink the entire sport....

[00steven]

I will take a run at this. It would be a predominantly oval schedule which it should be. You cant deny what this series (IRL) was founded on and that was ovals.

1. Streets of St. Petersburg (Street Course)
2. Streets of Long Beach (Street Course)
3. Iowa Speedway (Oval)
4. Kansas Speedway (Oval)
5. Indianapolis Motor Speedway -Indy 500 (Oval)
6. The Milwaukee Mile (Oval)
7. Texas Motor Speedway (Oval)
8. Richmond International Raceway (Oval)
9. Nashville Superspeedway (Oval)
10. Watkins Glen International (Road Course)
11. Michigan International Speedway (Oval)
12. New Hampshire Motor Speedway (Oval)
13. Chicagoland Speedway (Oval)
14. Kentucky Speedway (Oval)
15. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (Road Course)
16. Infineon Raceway (Sonoma) (Road Course)
17. Auto Club Speedway (Oval)
18. Phoenix International Raceway (Oval)
19. Atlanta Motor Speedway (Oval)
20. Homestead-Miami Speedway (Oval)

Well better get used to it, because we are going CART style now and it's better. I don't know who wants to see that many 1.5 miles after the events at Las Vegas. The IRL was the biggest failure in motorsports history, which nearly killed AOWR for ever.

[SarahFan]

Hardly. F5000, CanAm II and PG's version of TransAm come to mind right off the bat. There's a few more too.


But to be equally fair none of them had the i500 as it's focal point upon which to build

[00steven]

Nor did any of them last more than a few years. Most only 1-2 years compared to the life span of the IRL/Indycar which is still alive and going. With, so far, a fairly healthy number of teams and venues set for next year. That takes it well out of the "biggest failure" category. Of course, I think we all wish it was doing much better than it is at the moment.

The IRL is dead, IndyCar is a merged AOWR series.

[SarahFan]

Nor did any of them last more than a few years. Most only 1-2 years compared to the life span of the IRL/Indycar which is still alive and going. With, so far, a fairly healthy number of teams and venues set for next year. That takes it well out of the "biggest failure" category. Of course, I think we all wish it was doing much better than it is at the moment.

I really don't know much about any of those.... Did any of of them have a leader that had a vision subsequently burn thru hundreds of millions of dollars and ultimately get fired by his sisters?

[heliocastroneves#3]

Anyways, I just had to call this topic "Your 2012 schedule" instead of calendar. Here below are my "road course only" and my "oval only" schedules.

Road/street course only:

01. Streets of St. Petersburg
02. Streets of Long Beach
03. Houston Reliant Park
04. Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
05. Jerez de la Frontera
06. Streets of Sao Paulo
07. Autodromo Nelson Piquet
08. Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
09. Streets of Baltimore
10. Adelaide Street Circuit
11. Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca
12. Streets of Toronto
13. Edmonton City Centre Airport
14. Barber Motorsports Park
15. Fundidora Park
16. Surfers Paradise
17. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
18. Streets of San José
19. Mont-Tremblant
20. Streets of Las Vegas

Ovals only:

01. Homestead-Miami Speedway
02. Phoenix International Raceway
03. Kansas Speedway
04. Indianapolis Motor Speedway
05. The Milwaukee Mile
06. Texas Motor Speedway
07. Iowa Speedway
08. Richmond International Raceway
09. Emerson Fittipaldi Speedway
10. Michigan International Speedway
11. Charlotte Motor Speedway
12. Atlanta Motor Speedway
13. Nashville Superspeedway
14. Kentucky Speedway
15. Chicagoland Speedway
16. Pikes Peak International Raceway
17. New Hampshire Motor Speedway
18. Walt Disney World Speedway
19. Gateway International Raceway
20. Auto Club Speedway

[IceWizard]

1) Long Beach - Street
2) Laguna Seca - Road
3) Road Atlanta - Road
4) Michigan - Oval
5) Indianapolis - Oval
6) Watkins Glen - Road
7) Toronto - Street
8) Montreal - Road
9) Edmonton - Road
10) Miller Motorsports - Road
11) Chicagoland - Oval
12) Michigan - Oval
13) Mid Ohio - Road
14) Road America - Road
15) Rockingham, England - Oval
16) Texas - Oval
17) California - Oval
18) Las Vegas - Street
19) St Petersburg - Street
20) Homestead - Oval

= 8 x oval, 8 x road, 4 x street

[heliocastroneves#3]

What happened at Las Vegas is very tragic, but could've happened at Texas or another oval as well. The tragic accident of October 16th is not a reason to ban 1,5 mile ovals from IndyCar racing. The reason I don't want to have Vegas on the schedule next year, is because it reminds me too much from Dan. But the oval itself is great, that's why I wouldn't be against it if Chicagoland or Kentucky would replace it.

I don't like DanicaFan's schedule. It has some good ovals, but c'mon... This would be better for the GoDaddy DaniCar Series, but that doesn't exist. Of course you're free to post the race schedule as YOU would like it.

I'm a fan of the balanced schedule as you may know. I might be one of the few people around here, who liked the IRL very much. Honestly, what we have nowadays is WAY better (INDYCAR with both ovals and road courses).


My favorite IndyCar race schedule was the one from 2010, when they had 9 road/street courses and 8 ovals. Also for this year it was supposed to have 9 road/street courses and 8 ovals.. But due the very tragic thing at Las Vegas and the Motegi race that was replaced from the oval to the road course, I didn't like it as much as the 2010 schedule. Many people would maybe think I hate the 2012 schedule, and for some reason I don't. Instead, I like it very much. :)


Some people might think IndyCar is the new version of CART, but it isn't. Now we have IndyCar, and both CART and IRL don't exist anymore.