Indycar Watkins Glen

smooch71

Great to see this series finally throw up an interesting race with a great result for Dale Coyne. His team has been cruising aroung the midfield for as far as I can remember watching Indycars. It's ironic that the IRL, a series that was built around the "American heritage of oval racing", needs road courses to make it exciting.

The IRL needs to seriously look at the short oval tracks they're currently running one, Richmond is a joke, and also the aerodynamics on the cars need to be reduced.

They need to dump all the all oval tracks that are shorter than one mile and I'd love to see Fontana or Michigan speedway back on the calendar.

But I guess they haven't a hope of filling these places.

Grim.

yeah i was watching it yesterday wilson just destroyed them after the last caution great bit of driving.

cool track also what other road courses do they race at smooch? road atlanta/road america etc?

amacachi

Street races in St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Toronto and Edmonton Airport, Watkins Glen, Infineon and Mid-Ohio.

Have to admit the series really isn't great. Overtaking on the short ovals seems next to impossible. Compare that to the end of the Coke Zero 400 the other night to see why NASCAR is dominating.

Grim.

amacachi wrote: »

Compare that to the end of the Coke Zero 400 the other night to see why NASCAR is dominating.

aye lol talk about carnage

smooch71

Grim. wrote: »

yeah i was watching it yesterday wilson just destroyed them after the last caution great bit of driving.

cool track also what other road courses do they race at smooch? road atlanta/road america etc?

They don't do Atlanta or Road America anymore. I'll love to see them back at Elkhart Lake or even Laguna Seca.

From memory they race at:
Infineon Raceway
Mid Ohio
Exhibition place Toronto
Long Beach

Possibly a few more but can't recall.

smooch71

amacachi wrote: »

Street races in St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Toronto and Edmonton Airport, Watkins Glen, Infineon and Mid-Ohio.

Have to admit the series really isn't great. Overtaking on the short ovals seems next to impossible. Compare that to the end of the Coke Zero 400 the other night to see why NASCAR is dominating.

I've tried time and again over the last few years to get into Nascar but it's just not doing it for me. I watched about half an hour of the repeat on Sky last night and switched over to Motogp.

But this years Indycar has been pretty dire. Even the Indy 500 had very little overtaking. At Indycar's peak in the mid 90's it blew Nascar off the map. It's such a shame to see it become a shadow of it's former self.

gs39t

Indycar are well aware of the current oval racing problems (ie, being crap) and are making rule changes for Kentucky, so there should be an improvement in racing by then.

For next year there's talk of a season opener in Brazil, additional road races in Barber motorsports park in Alabama, and an outside possibility of a double-header on Burke lakefront airport, the old Cleveland CART/Champcar track. One oval will be dumped, but they wont say which. It's moving closer to a CART-esque series, which can only be a good thing.

smooch71

gs39t wrote: »

Indycar are well aware of the current oval racing problems (ie, being crap) and are making rule changes for Kentucky, so there should be an improvement in racing by then.

For next year there's talk of a season opener in Brazil, additional road races in Barber motorsports park in Alabama, and an outside possibility of a double-header on Burke lakefront airport, the old Cleveland CART/Champcar track. One oval will be dumped, but they wont say which. It's moving closer to a CART-esque series, which can only be a good thing.

Apparently the Burke lakefront circuit will be held over two days, an oval one day and streetcourse the next.

They need to get rid of those pig ugly horrible sounding cars too, but that ain't happening till 2011, if the series survives that long.