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IndyCar 2019
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28-02-2019 4:40pm#1Looking like we might be bunking in with Sky F1 this year: https://twitter.com/f1broadcasting/status/1101073147581947904
St. Pete in a week and a half.
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Its official. https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11651485/sky-sports-to-broadcast-indycar-on-sky-sports-f1-in-2019
How do i get SS F1 on Virgin?
Tickets arrived this morning for COTA too
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acquiescefc wrote: »i think the problem is they havent been able to handle or received handover for the split screen. Plus the complete outage.
Sky seemed to be literally taking the raw NBCSN feed, because there were periods were the American ads were playing! Whereas every other country (including Germany, Brazil, and the countries covered by viasat) had the specific international feed with a graphics package from last year (but not the ****ty old ESPN International one, thank god!) but no ads, just a track-audio-only feed.
People are rather mad Sky didn't have that international feed and that they didn't run it completely ad-free like they do for F1.
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They sort of fixed it for the second race today, still the NBC feed but went to no commentary, no graphics track feed when the many yank ad breaks were on.
The US presentation style can be annoying especially the constant product shilling but I guess as it is Sky that if they had done it in house the alternative would probably have been even worse; Croft and Valsecci anyone?
It was definitely better yesterday but still very poor. By having Indycar on Skysports F1 the theory is that they should have new followers who found it inconvenient to track down the races every weekend (similar story to the NFL). New viewers would not have had a clue who they were looking at without the graphics on screen. I even noticed that some of the commentary-free & graphicless feed was replays from earlier in the race so you cannot even be certain that it is live.
The one great thing though is I can now do series link. So pros and cons really.... Valsecci's overexcitement to overtakes etc would be too much though... whilst being funny for 10 minutes that would certainly be a con I often think that his over-enthusiastic post-qualifying interviews in F1 could inspire a very funny sitcom character. 0 -
What a weekend.
Have to say i really enjoyed it. Had An airbnb 10 mins from the track, very easy drop off even on Sunday.
Non Indy highlight was the Super trucks. Great entertainment. The 1st Lights race was great, i didnt get there early enough for second race. Very early schedule not really sure why.
The race was fantastic, pass after pass at T12. Was actually sat next to Satos manager/spotter in the stands, was good to ask him some random stuff before the start.
Was hoping for a Rossi/Power battle before the yellows came out, he was fast after the restart but i think the reds faded, i know Satos boss was worried about him at the end.
Wasn’t too much of a procession, there was a concern it might be. Good track, quite well set out. Extortionate prices tho, was at one stall and i saw two price lists. $2 Soda and then Indy price list was $5. Ridiculous.
Got a selfie with Ericsson in the pits after the race and ‘accidentally’ stumbled onto the victory circle too next to Hertas car, covered in sparkling cider.
In LAX now, starting the journey back tomorrow
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Wouldn't be surprised. First turn is the most likely overtaking opportunity but it's very tight and is the straight even long enough to gain any meaningful DRS benefit?
Looks a bit dated too. Investment required. Hopefully all the grass and gravel isn't replaced with tarmacked run offs and silly stripy paint. The only positive I can see is maybe this track might actually punish drivers who go off track.
Truth be told, the track is an old relic from a past long bygone that is utterly unsuitable for modern racing, let alone Formula 1. The one and only reason it's going to be back on the calendar is to cash in on the Verstappen craze in the Netherlands paired with the fact the population is well off thus there'll be an huge financial return. It's also close to the UK and Ireland, only a short flight away...I might actually go
What's going to happen is that in the 12 months leading up to the event the track will be butchered and "Tilkeified", vast runoff areas, straightened corners, maybe a couple of chicanes just for kicks.
Runoff areas are likely to be added...we can bellyache all we want about them, gritty unforgiving "real men" sandtraps will not happen in the "skinny soy spice pumpkin latte" ageIt can happen to the best of us
https://www.crash.net/indycar/news/920188/1/fernando-alonso-crashes-second-indy-500-practice
https://youtu.be/jkdtDQMomoc
We Europeans usually fail to understand how much of a delicate process it is to drive an oval track: you need minimal steering inputs in order not to scrub off speed and to avoid unsettling the car (which is set up pretty much for zero downforce), yet the IMS corners are quite sharp at 400Kph and the walls come up hard and fast. Usually an ex-F1 driver's first impact with an oval is an...impact (ask Nigel Mansell), Fernando has done absurdly well up to this point, this CAN indeed happen 0 -
H3llR4iser wrote: »Truth be told, the track is an old relic from a past long bygone that is utterly unsuitable for modern racing, let alone Formula 1. The one and only reason it's going to be back on the calendar is to cash in on the Verstappen craze in the Netherlands paired with the fact the population is well off thus there'll be an huge financial return. It's also close to the UK and Ireland, only a short flight away...I might actually go
What's going to happen is that in the 12 months leading up to the event the track will be butchered and "Tilkeified", vast runoff areas, straightened corners, maybe a couple of chicanes just for kicks.
Runoff areas are likely to be added...we can bellyache all we want about them, gritty unforgiving "real men" sandtraps will not happen in the "skinny soy spice pumpkin latte" age
We Europeans usually fail to understand how much of a delicate process it is to drive an oval track: you need minimal steering inputs in order not to scrub off speed and to avoid unsettling the car (which is set up pretty much for zero downforce), yet the IMS corners are quite sharp at 400Kph and the walls come up hard and fast. Usually an ex-F1 driver's first impact with an oval is an...impact (ask Nigel Mansell), Fernando has done absurdly well up to this point, this CAN indeed happen
Absolutely, and it was a proper concrete barrier Mansell hit too!0 -
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It was obvious from Day 2 that Mc Laren were in serious trouble, they seriously under estimated Indy.tipp_tipp_tipp wrote: »There's some big names trying to get the last 3 spots, hard to call
I do hope Alonso qualifies tomorrow as a world champion and a top quality driver0 -
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Pigot fastest on the Saturday. If it rains all day tomorrow, which is a possibility, he gets the pole; well deserved the lad!
Rest of the fast 9: Power, Pagenaud, Newgarden, Herta, Jones, Carpenter, Rossi and Bourdais.
Pippa, and the Dragonspeed with Ben Hanley made the field!
Nando resigned to the last row shootout; along with Hinch, Karam, O'Ward, Chilton and Kaiser. Which three make it in will definitely be interesting - three of the six cars are Carlin cars, and three of the six are backup cars.
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