Long Beach to have a Standing Start???

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Originally Posted by MAX_THRUST

CART didn't have standing starts, IRL didn't have standing starts. Champ Car tried. For me one of the things I loved about Indy CAr back from the CART days, was rolling starts. Be differernt to every other open wheel series and keep the rolling starts. I'm just not a fan of standing starts in Indy Car. They work fine in F1 and other series, but roling starts are kind of a tradition and should be kept. What makes a series great is history. Lets not loose that piece of history.

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Originally Posted by C3PO

Sad news for chimpcar fans:

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Loose the epithets. If you mean ChampCar, say ChampCar.

Gary

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Loose the epithets. If you mean ChampCar, say ChampCar.

Gary

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I mean chimp car ;)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yWwe5H6b46...chimp_Cars.jpg

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Originally Posted by C3PO

I mean chimp car ;)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yWwe5H6b46...chimp_Cars.jpg

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Out of curiosity....How old are you?

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Loose the epithets. If you mean ChampCar, say ChampCar.

Gary

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Me too - I mean chimp car

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Originally Posted by FIAT1

Your way of thinking is wrong. We are all now Indycar as we where in 90s, yes with a joke of the product that once was.Many of us united again support and love Indy and open wheel. I strongly suggest you do the same. Looking forward to the future and hope for open developement and competition with new ideas from some great people and enjoy having honest conversation with passionate fans who want this thing to secede.Standing starts ,why not,mixed up.

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Originally Posted by mr nobody

We're not friggin IRL either. We are Indycar and if you don't like what the product is or is to become then I guess you need to find something you do like or want.

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We are IRL, just with another name... It's already called IndyCar Series since 2003 anyway. I'm open to new ideas, I liked it that the IRL started to do some road/street racing as well in 2005 but since last year they simply went too far with filling the schedule with too much road/street courses, rather than ovals. Some of the ideas where I'm not open for are standing starts.. If you want to see open wheel racing with standing starts, F1 is your best friend. I want the IndyCar Series to be the IndyCar Series, how it always has been... It shouldn't go the same way as Champ Car a.k.a. Formula America.

Standing starts on the roads and streets. Rolling starts on the ovals.

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Originally Posted by Starter

Standing starts on the roads and streets. Rolling starts on the ovals.

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Aside from the "nobody has done it before" excuse I see no logical reason why we can't have standing starts on an oval as well.

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Originally Posted by anthonyvop

Aside from the "nobody has done it before" excuse I see no logical reason why we can't have standing starts on an oval as well.

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The problem with an oval is, if someone stalls on the grid the cars are back on top of it way too fast. On the road/street courses you at least have a chance to clear it before the pack arrives.

Starting a car with that much power that is set up to turn left on a banked starting line would be messy. You'd have to start them from the pit lane, that would be too dangerous too. Stick withrolling starts. Why doesn't Indy Car ask the fans what they think? They may not get the answers they want, but it would be interesting to see what the fans want.

For me stick with rolling starts all the way, bring back the Japanese oval, Australia Surfers race, Cleveland airport track and Michigan. Then add the German and UK oval...I can dream