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19th January 2009, 22:17 #1
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Anyone notice the month of May has been shortened?????
for the eagle eyed people out there, did you miss this?
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/schedule/
Looks like official practice doesn't start until Wed afternoon and then the following week, practice has been shortened to by a day. So two and a half days of running less all told. All in the interests of saving money. Could be interesting if it rains.
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19th January 2009, 23:33 #2
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It was in the Indianapolis Star on Saturday:
http://www.indystar.com/article/2009.../1052/SPORTS01
Seems reasonable to me. If rain affects the schedule too much, there's plenty of time to add more practice."Risk sweetens everything" - Peter Revson (1939 - 1974)
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20th January 2009, 00:10 #3
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Its been two weeks too long for 13 years now.
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20th January 2009, 11:20 #4
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I was about time, the value of the Indy 500 is low, that i made sense !
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20th January 2009, 19:10 #5
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The Indy 500 schedule is just plain outdated, it harks back to a time when the Indy 500 was a one-off, when the time was required to prepare the cars and ready them for the 500. Now the majority of the cars do the whole season (certainly the ones that are anything like competitive) this amount of practice is a) not required, b) just gives the teams added expense of running extra days for no good reason and c) creates a big hole in the schedule that could be filled with more racing. My proposal would be not to make the 500 like an ordinary weekend, that would be an insult to the tradition of the race, but to bring it more up to date, it would be a 2 week event max with the first weekend being preceded by practice sessions and pole day qualifying on the 1st Saturday with Bump Day on the Sunday, meaning that qualifying is wrapped up in 2 days a week ahead of the event it's self and then further practice on the week leading up to the event to allow teams that qualified to sort thier race setup. This more rational schedule would allow for at least one extra round to take place prior to Indy without extending the shedule and make the 500 it's self even bigger in my view, no waiting around for a fortnight knowing whos on pole, the last week wouldnt be an anti-climax of little running before the race it's self and it would make the whole thing more affordable for the teams.
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20th January 2009, 20:41 #6
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It depends on how much "tradition" you can stand. I would love for practice Thursday, qual days Friday and Saturday and the race on Sunday just like the rest of real racing has evolved into since 1911. I would drive the motorhome out Wednesday and come back Sunday night or Monday morning.
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20th January 2009, 22:31 #7
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Anyone notice the month of May has been shortened?????
Acutally, May is still 31 days long as it was before...
but the Indy 500 campaign has been shortened -as it should. Not so bad now - but when I was a CART fan May was a looooonnnngggggg month.
Even the super bore, er, bowl, is a 2-week process and that's what Indy ought to be.
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21st January 2009, 06:37 #8
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Originally Posted by SoCalPVguy
The driver has to learn the track. The team has to learn to adjust to the various possible weather, temperature, wind conditions which could be presented on race day.
Is it just another race or the race that defines American Open Wheel Racing? Two and a half weeks is really not that long to invest in what could make or break a team, a driver, a series.
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21st January 2009, 16:54 #9
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Originally Posted by Wilf
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21st January 2009, 19:42 #10
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