Iowa Corn Indy 250

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Originally Posted by ACTF_ZETT

Also there is about 1 IRL caution for every 4 NASCAR cautions,

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Really? Watching today's race, I didn't notice. :confused:

Thats an interesting fact lol

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Originally Posted by Starter

Indy type cars are a lot tougher on the drivers because of the G loads at the higher speeds they run even though they're not quite as hot as a stocker. Especially at some of the shorter ovals where you are turning all the time.

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I think what's actually harder physically varies from race to race and track to track, especially since NASCAR races are longer and temperatures are higher.

Did you see the telemetry on todays race though? They were pulling 4.5G's in the corners.

How close were those gs to what CART were doing in Texas when the race got cancelled? Weren't they doing 5.2g or something like that?

So did Milka get black-flagged for being a chicane or what, I didn't hear the announcers mention it. I guess Barnhardt made that call? After the qual and practice times, they were probably ready to make that decision before the race even started.

I'm disappointed Simmons got caught up in TK's spin. It just seemed like the fastest engines were not getting traction on cold tires, and were overly aggressive on restarts because Wallace's track wasn't gonna allow easy passing once everyone's up to speed. But I guarantee next year there will be a lot more cautious driving here.

As far as Danica's "mistake", I saw the crash from her in-car cam and she was just surrounded by overly aggressive drivers. I think it was almost 4 wide at time of the crash. Should she in retrospect have slowed to let Carpenter by? Yes. But she was trying to protect her position in a packed group. Running inches apart 3 wide was just dumb for all involved, and she was stuck in the middle.

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Originally Posted by Starter

With CART it wasn't the Gs in the turns (as in toward the side) but Gs pushing the drivers down in the cars which was the problem. The aero and the banking allowed speeds which forced the drivers down in the cars - like in a centrifuge. A similar problem was encounter at Road Atlanta a while back when (I think it was) IMSA GTP cars would generate huge forces at the bottom of the last hill on the straight.

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Yeah I had remembered it was more the overall resultant gs that scuppered the race at Texas - I guess it was a non-issue at Iowa, as their overall top speed was much lower than what CART ran at Texas (by a good 40-50mph if memory serves).

Did Vitor's car hit something on pit road, or what? Very strange that the suspension would just snap like that. He looked disappointed (to say the least). And was he really at fault in the Patrick/Hornish, etc. crash? I didn't see that during the replay.

IIRC correctly the fear with the CART race was that those downward Gs, over a prolonged period, could make it hard for the heart to keep enough bloodflow to the brain, starving them of oxygen, and causing some of them to blackout.

Damn this race really wrecked my pickems.