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18th July 2008, 21:02 #1
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Rumored 2009 IC Schedule
According to AR1:
- St. Petersburg 1.78 Mile Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Long Beach 1.97 Mile Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Motegi, Japan Sat 1.549 Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Queensland, Au 2.795 Mi Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Kansas City 1.5 M Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Indianapolis, IN 2.5 mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- West Allis, WI 1.032 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Ft Worth, TX (Sat. Nite)[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Newton, IA 0.875 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Richmond, VA (Sat. Night)[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Watkins Glen 3.37 Mile RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Lexington, OH 2.258 Mile RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Toronto, CN 1.721 Mile Street[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Edmonton CN 1.96 Mi Airport[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Sparta, KY (Sat Nite) 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Sonoma, CA RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Detroit, MI 2.096 Mi. RC[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- Joliet, Ill. 1.5 Mile Oval[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
- TBA[/*:m:2ioxi3kl]
I'd also change the rules to make new smaller front and rear wings to lower the downforce and equalize the competition, put the Handford device on the cars for Kentucky, Motegi, Texas and Chicago, to take the droning boredom out of the 1.5 mi tracks, and hire Panoz to build a variant of the DP-01 for 2010. As long as we're stuck with the CW's for '09 we may as well make the best of it though by cutting some of the downforce to shake up the grid.
Then, put Paul Tracy in a competitive car for '09, 010, and 011, buy AJ Almendinger's and Scott Speed's contracts from Red Bull and I'd be one happy camper.
Too bad I'm not Tony George."It was easy. These cars are so easy to drive, my grandmother could do it." -- Juan Montoya
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18th July 2008, 21:30 #2
No, more like thank GOD you're not Tony George, cus he's the most unreasonable and sick being on this Earth.
But back to the topic at hand...I want to see Cleveland and Portland back, IMHO. Those are the roots of CART Racing, and we need to see those back on the schedule.
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18th July 2008, 21:42 #3
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Here we go again. MarkC is onto things in the ICS now, starts putting things together.
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18th July 2008, 22:50 #4
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7 road or street out of 19 races is not bad. #19 (if it happens) will hopefully be Vegas. Although Chicago is a great track I'd prefer to see Vegas as the closer.
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18th July 2008, 23:36 #5
I think it's still in Chicago's contract for 09 to be the finale, but not sure of that. It depends on whether the SMI deal of five races is added or not (NHIS and LVMS).
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19th July 2008, 02:20 #6
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19th July 2008, 02:31 #7
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8 races in the Midwest and 1 in the south!
Yep. The brand marketers would love that schedule.
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19th July 2008, 03:14 #8
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Originally Posted by anthonyvop"For 80 years this place has run on tradition. From today forward it will run as a business." - Tony George (Failed businessman)
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19th July 2008, 03:33 #9
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Not really much of a different schedule then this year which was really just the IRL schedule with some CC races added last second. The schedule needs to get rid of tracks like Iowa and Richmond that are really too small for Indy Cars espically with this many on the track. Replace them with any two 1 mile tracks you want as long as they have two lines for passing. I wish Detroit could be off the schedule since it is always a parade but Penske has so much money in it he won't allow it. I would get rid of Edmonton and Sonoma and replace them with Cleveland (one airport track for a better one) and Road America.
I would also like to see a 20 race schedule with 10 ovals and 10 Road/Street courses and at least 5 or 6 of the CC tracks. Hopefully the reason alot of the IRL races are still on the sechedule for next year is that their contracts are not up and the IRL can phase them out and bring in new races as those contracts come up.
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19th July 2008, 04:00 #10
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