Doc,

Don't get me wrong, Indycars on ovals are better than NASCAR on ovals. It's just predictable at times. Pocono has an example of that. JPM had the race in hand, and everyone else was fighting for scraps. I'd much rather watch them fight on the road courses. The small courses still provide good racing, but often limit passing opportunities without banzai moves that can bring out the yellow flags.


I've mentioned a few times here in the F1 forums that I think F1 could learn a great deal from Indycar when it comes to cutting chicanes. In F1 if you gain advantage it's often ignored unless you make a pass. In Indycar they seem to monitor advantage as advantage and take it back more often.

Push to pass and KERS/ERS/whatever are really used in similar fashion but the limited use of push to pass does bring it into play only when the pass or a real defending advantage is at least possible usually. I really don't like the DRS much, but overall I think the Indycar package allows passing without it better, so it seems less artificial.