IndyCar 2016

TheChrisD

Chilton just got confirmed for the full season in the #8 Ganassi car :eek:
http://chipganassiracing.com/News/2016/2/CGRT-Signs-Former-Formula-1-Driver-Max-Chilton.aspx

Also, recently enough Sarah Fisher had her bankroller Hartman pull out due to the oil collapse, so CFH is back to just being Carpenter's team. Thankfully JoNew is still full-season.

21 confirmed full-season cars so far.


EDIT: Also, Aleshin might have just revealed the updated Honda aero kit:

https://twitter.com/mikhailaleshin/status/694138758258659328

roroliam

How can I watch the 2016 season.

TheChrisD

*cough*

Would love to be watching this...

How can it be this hard to watch a race?! :P

Jordan 199

Deleted User wrote: »

How can it be this hard to watch a race?! :P

I wouldn't know.

Couldn't blame someone for thinking of conspiracy theories after that. ****ing farce of an ending when it was shaping up so well.

nu_90

Long Beach tonight

Ghost Train

nu_90 wrote: »

Long Beach tonight

Starting now

Charlie-Bravo

I know it's a completely different race series, but these cars look ugly compared to F1 cars.

Do they have far more down force?

Adbrowne

astrofluff wrote: »

I know it's a completely different race series, but these cars look ugly compared to F1 cars.

Do they have far more down force?

they have the wheels enclosed to prevent cars touching wheels and going airborne.

Ghost Train

That first pass for lead was a bit clumsy

Good battle for lead though

Brian_Zeluz

Where to watch the Indy 500 lads?

Infoanon

BTSport/ESPN are showing indy qualifying at the moment and will have live coverage of final qualifying tomorrow night (Sunday) from 9pm with live race coverage next Sunday

Charlie-Bravo

Nice...excellent qualifying session.

Ghost Train

Was good they gave Montoya a second run after the plastic bag incident, good battle between last few drivers for pole

acquiescefc

Great story for Hinch, maybe now people can stop reminding him of his accident last year.

Would like to see Munoz, Newgarden or Rossi do well with a quick car.

Experience always seems to count tho.

Great coverage of Quali by BT/ESPN, acting on feedback from the UK/IE.

Ghost Train

Only thing that wasnt great was the timing info in kph. Would have made much more sense to have mph. And the overlay at bottom of screen, over the onboard shots stopped you seeing driver in car

Rossi IRL

Nice to see BT have their own people over at the race doing interviews instead of the usual American tv reporters.

Ghost Train

The speeds they do here are kind of scary

RobertKK

Team mates crashing again, but unfortunate in this case.

RobertKK

Sato up to 5th.

TheChrisD

RobertKK wrote: »

Sato up to 5th.

aaaaaand he's gone

RobertKK

RobertKK wrote: »

Sato up to 5th.

Somethings stay the same, Sato crashed.

tbf to him I haven't watched him much at all since his F1 days.

Ghost Train

Wonder can Castroneves come back from that, he's looked strong all day

TheChrisD

Ghost Train wrote: »

Wonder can Castroneves come back from that, he's looked strong all day

This late in the day, doubt it. If it'd been 100 laps ago, more than likely.

Rossi IRL

Amazing.

Harika

Finally an US american again.

Cool_CM

Wow, fair fups to Rossi.

Ghost Train

Bit of a surprise at the end. Sounds like he didn't believe it himself.

Charlie-Bravo

Nice job, on the limit of fuel. Good strategy by Rossi's team.

RobertKK

Happy for Rossi, nice story of trying to make it in motorsport, F1 didn't work out so far, tried Indy Car and now the Indy 500 champions...what dreams are made of.

Ghost Train

Pity BT commentators talked over Rossi being interviewed, coverage was pretty great otherwise

acquiescefc

acquiescefc wrote: »

Would like to see Munoz, Newgarden or Rossi do well with a quick car.

Ha, can i say i called it?

jelutong

Conor Daly 2nd overall in tonight's Indy Car race in Detroit. Great stuff.

TheChrisD

Texas on tonight. Race is starting about an hour later than planned due to afternoon rains, green flag ETA at about 2:45

EDIT: Make that 3.30. Prep the coffee and/or energy drinks!

EDIT EDIT: Postponed. Racing at 7.15pm tomorrow. Yup, same time as F1 and Cup :rolleyes:

Charlie-Bravo

just switched over from watching the F1. Race at Texas is red flagged at 72 laps out of 248 due to rain.

TheChrisD

Yup, we were under yellow for at least 30 laps beforehand for the aftermath of this: https://twitter.com/Mattzel89/status/742073536936808448

Charlie-Bravo

Race postponed......


..... Until August 27th!! There'll be a practice session and they'll restart the race in the order compared on lap 71. That's a long wait to complete a race.

http://www.indycar.com/News/2016/06/06-12-Texas-Cancelled

Nice one, always love the Texas race so maybe I'll get to see some of it now. :P

TheChrisD

Newgarden just rinsed the competition at Iowa tonight https://twitter.com/IndyCar/status/752285980191625217

Sparks43

So glad I now have by sports

Harika

Sparks43

Watkins glen tonight starting very soon

Chilton high up on the grid

Nice way to finish off a weekend of Racing

Where's showing it these days?

Sparks43

BtSport Espn

Got lucky when switching to sky. Could use the free bt deal

Max Headroom

Caught a bit of some Indy race yesterday..i dont watch it so i'm amazed at the few hundred spectators compared to nascar...is this the norm..??

TheChrisD

Max Headroom wrote: »

Caught a bit of some Indy race yesterday..i dont watch it so i'm amazed at the few hundred spectators compared to nascar...is this the norm..??

Pretty much. Open wheel in America still hasn't really recovered since the split back in 1996. There's also the secondary aspect in that the race was only announced four months ago as a replacement for the cancelled Boston street race.