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3 Mar 2008, 01:22 (Ref:2142877) | #126 | |
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I think most anyone wants one series.
Probably what is of interest now is where it goes from here. The irl in it's current format doesn't interest me. I don't like the cars or the engines or the "spec" rules. Nor does many of the current venues like Richmond for instance appeal. I'll watch with interest how it develops over the next year or two. I can see history repeating itself and a new "white paper" happening. |
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PT just called Helio C. "Twinkletoes" on WIND TUNNEL
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3 Mar 2008, 15:19 (Ref:2143332) | #128 | |
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This thread has gone a long, long ways. It's gone from rules to venues to insults to rights to wrongs to grumpies who don't realize that the SPORT has won by becoming one series.
Growth? Time will tell, but it has a much better chance of getting a series sponsor as one, it has a better chance of putting on a better show with the other teams included, TV will be much more focused, there will be no more confusion and the more the merrier. But this will come in small steps...an autograph session, an appearance, a TV interview, couple tenths of a TV rating point, Helio dancing, Danica in SI....I hope PT gets a decent ride because he's the "character" the SPORT needs who isn't always PC and he has a great Canadian following. All these things and others will cause the SPORT to grow as one series. But it won't happen overnight. |
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3 Mar 2008, 16:20 (Ref:2143363) | #129 | |
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And no stupid gimmicks like push to pass or red tyres.
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I missed Paul Tracy on Windtunnel last night - did he say anything interesting?
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Until we nip blocking in the bud, Wills, I think pust-to-pass is a reasonable option on road courses. If you have it set like it was at Mexico City, drivers will eventually find blocking to be fairly useless. The option tires will be useful as long as we have a spec, of de facto spec, series. With the cars so even and blocking being tolerated at some level, you almost need that something extra to create a differential between the cars.
Until we get a new rules package and new cars from multiple manufacturers, I think push-to-pass is a good option at road courses, and option tires would be useful at all tracks. |
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3 Mar 2008, 19:50 (Ref:2143539) | #132 | |
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Isn't there a no blocking rule anyways?
It's a stupid rule mind you... just wave everyone past, jeez... |
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the cars need a COMPLETE redo come 09 (just start over); engine and chassis---long live Panoz! push to pass should be as unlimited as possible (just put a big NOS tank in there and press the button til its all gone) fast speedways w/ some flat tracks---not short tracks unless they are dirt street courses and the NA, OW, natural terrain road courses that everyone likes run 30 races a year starting in March and Ending in Sept with at least 25 cars on the gird for every race make it happen Last edited by fieldodreams79; 3 Mar 2008 at 21:32. |
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What blocking rule? I am aware of a few things, but if there was a serious rule, it was never, or almost never, properly enforced. In which case, it may as well have been as if there was no rule.
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4 Mar 2008, 10:07 (Ref:2143992) | #137 | ||
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There is a blocking rule in the IRL. I remember screaming in disbelief at my TV when Tomas Enge was given a drive-through for "blocking", when he was trying to get out of the way of a slower car and cut off another driver by mistake.
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Hopefully having Tony Cottman on board will result in fewer opportunities for screaming disbelief, Down F0rce!
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Was that Canada or Cleveland, or am I thinking of another driver?
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4 Mar 2008, 17:08 (Ref:2144280) | #141 | ||
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It was Canada. It gave Servia his first win.
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Were they inflating the numbers for press purposes? Turn one banking is eighteen degrees. Mark Donohue drove off it with the Porshce 917 when a tire deflated. He walked away, unhurt. The straight was briefly named after Grey Young, when he was the first one to hit two hundred miles per hour on it, with a Can-Am car. If they can handle Road America, they should have no problems at Donnybrooke. |
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Bob, the numbers I used are from the BIR website itself. I am curious though, where exactly did you find the precise banking for Turn 1? I didn't spot it on the track website offhand, then again, I could have missed it.
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IT was within the past three weeks I again saw the banking numbers, arrrrh. It might have been in one of the books I disposed of recently, or perhaps one I went through to see if it was worth keeping, but that is guessing, I am sure it was not off the net. I am guessing that the five thousand feet is if one includes the banked curve, which would make sense. I guess I heard it so often it became an automatic respnse. Some gents have kept the pedal to the metal all through the corner. (They asked Miguel duHamel why he did not keep the throttle open, he said it was because his skirt kept blowing up over his head.) Bob PS--The short track was cut because of the goo the NHRA puts down turns into grease when it get wet, and even with the squared turn nine for bikes, they never did like going under the bridge. I hope they are done screwing with it. (Although watching formula vees on the looooong straight was a matter of patience, or how many beers you could dring before they made one lap. |
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With this chassis shortage where are all the Panoz (would the plural be Pani?) chassis? Second, will the drivers be racing for the Vanderbilt cup any time soon or is that dead and gone?
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