Iowa Corn Indy 250

[ACTF_ZETT]

What a sweet sponsor. Anyways, why the heck are all these races so short? 250 miles? Come on this race is going to be over in less than 90 minutes. Just about every NASCAR race is like 400 miles (at least), and it takes about 4 hours to run the race. I am looking through the IRL schedule, just about all the races are 250, 300 mile events? Would be nice to have more time to watch indy cars. Not to mention that out of the 90 minutes of racing, 40 minutes is commercials.

[ACTF_ZETT]

Also there is about 1 IRL caution for every 4 NASCAR cautions, not to mention the cars are a heck of a lot faster.

[RGM Fan]

There aren't enough cars in the field. There are 19 cars If they ran a 500 mile race at Iowa there might be four left running at the end of the race.

[CCFanatic]

Actually it is 250 laps. Not 250 miles.

[Komahawk]

I think it's good to have a few '200+ races on the schedule. It's variety. There have been complaints by NASCAR fans in recent months that the races are way too long, and most were just cruising along until the final 30 laps or so and then go for a sprint.

And the past showed that usually around 15 cars make it back in one piece in the IRL races, 400 miles or 200 miles.

Still, I'd like 3 500-races on the schedule. It was a tradition before the split. Indy, Michigan and California (which sadly isn't on the schedule). I'd also like Pocono BTW, but I guess by now it's probably almost too bumpy even for stockcars.

[Komahawk]

Hey, am I seeing things or are Ganassi using the Panoz-chassis this weekend?

[45 Below]

Ganassi have certainly entered Dallaras and as far as I know they have sold off their Panoz cars. The only time anyone has used Panoz this year has been at Indy.

It may be the different paint jobs this time around and the fact they seem to be running an almost road course style front wing with much bigger end plates. There are also rear wing differences, plus the deflectors just ahead of the rear wheels. Compare an Iowa pic (top) with pic from Texas (middle). I have also posted a link (bottom) to a pic from the Mid Ohio test to show the road configuration.

http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/ph...photo_id=59418

http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/ph...photo_id=58246

http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/ph...photo_id=58568

[Komahawk]

Thanx for the pics!

[turbo-engine]

Ganassi have certainly entered Dallaras and as far as I know they have sold off their Panoz cars. The only time anyone has used Panoz this year has been at Indy.

It may be the different paint jobs this time around and the fact they seem to be running an almost road course style front wing with much bigger end plates. There are also rear wing differences, plus the deflectors just ahead of the rear wheels. Compare an Iowa pic (top) with pic from Texas (middle). I have also posted a link (bottom) to a pic from the Mid Ohio test to show the road configuration.

http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/ph...photo_id=59418

http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/ph...photo_id=58246

http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/ph...photo_id=58568

Did I miss something? Well, yes...the last two races, but what happended to the red target cars? They aren't red any more.

[ChicagocrewIRL]

Did I miss something? Well, yes...the last two races, but what happended to the red target cars? They aren't red any more.

Ganassi runs special paint schemes throughout the season featuring other major sponsors including FujiFilm, Commit, etc. The Target red cars will run the majority of the events this year.