Grand Prix Rejects

Cynon wrote:Get out Dallara. Just get out.

Wizzie wrote:

Cynon wrote:Get out Dallara. Just get out.

Amen to that

mario wrote:Now that is going to put Dallara under further pressure over their design - the whole point of the bodywork behind the rear wheels was to prevent cars becoming airborne, but that clip suggests that it hasn't worked as effectively as had been hoped.

Sublime_FA11C wrote:How on earth do you get your REAR wheel to 'climb' over another cars rear wheel? The first contact between Andretti's front and Rahal's rear went ok-ish, but if you pause the video at 2:31 you'll se what's got me confused. That's almost impossible.

Wizzie wrote:Actually, it's not that uncommon. The same thing happened to Jacques Villeneuve in the 2001 Australian GP and the same thing killed Jeff Krosnoff many years ago in a CART race in Toronto. In both those instances, once the rear wheels made contact, the airbourne cars made a B-line for the nearest catchfence so in that regard, Marco was incredibly lucky.

SimtekFan32 wrote:ROTR for me: I have four nominees.

1. Helio Castroneves (or as we called him in T.O., What-the-Hellio Castro-numbnuts), for thinking he could go through Rubens Barrichello's car in the final hairpin, taking himself, Rubens, Servia and Wilson on the last lap. Or as we also say, typical Helio.

2. EJ Viso, driving the Citgo car, taking Milka Duno's place as moving chicane. Need I say much more?

3. IndyCar: for imposing a preposterous 10 spot penalty for all the Chevy teams, which was as effective as restarting a race on an oval, in the rain (Thanks TGBB.) I thought ineptitude and incompetence was gone from IndyCar, due to Beaux being appointed. Thew winner was still a Chevy from Penske's stables.

4. Dario Franchitti: For his repeated offences of avoidable contact, including the first corner, when he turned right into Josef Newgarden, taking him out of the race.

All in all, an exciting race. I'm also glad that Mr Hinch wound up with 3rd, making the GTA proud.

Chris

Cynon wrote:Pick any two of these drivers and you have the people who will DNQ Indy this year, provided nobody else wrecks really hard:

Alesi
Bourdais
de Silvestro
Legge

Servia will be getting a Chevrolet engine and Tagliani a Honda, reportedly. Dragon Racing has Bourdais so they've actually been able to get speed out of the Lotus, but if Bourdais is Bobby Rahal in 1994, then Legge is Mike Groff (a bit of a deadweight at the moment).

About Legge, TrueCar is a sponsor that motorsport I think needs -- because it's the only sponsor that I know of that only backs female drivers exclusively. Not only that, but the white and metallic blue paintjobs it comes up with are fantastic. One of their liveries in SCCA looks oddly like HRT's livery from last year except instead of red there's blue!

eurobrun wrote:

Cynon wrote:Pick any two of these drivers and you have the people who will DNQ Indy this year, provided nobody else wrecks really hard:

Alesi
Bourdais
de Silvestro
Legge

Servia will be getting a Chevrolet engine and Tagliani a Honda, reportedly. Dragon Racing has Bourdais so they've actually been able to get speed out of the Lotus, but if Bourdais is Bobby Rahal in 1994, then Legge is Mike Groff (a bit of a deadweight at the moment).

About Legge, TrueCar is a sponsor that motorsport I think needs -- because it's the only sponsor that I know of that only backs female drivers exclusively. Not only that, but the white and metallic blue paintjobs it comes up with are fantastic. One of their liveries in SCCA looks oddly like HRT's livery from last year except instead of red there's blue!

So like Lynxe in the TM Master Cup series.

You really should start a thread for the TMMC in the McCarthy forum.

Cynon wrote:I probably would have started a thread for it if I thought more than 2 people would read it (counting myself).

tommykl wrote:

Cynon wrote:I probably would have started a thread for it if I thought more than 2 people would read it (counting myself).

Well, there would be me, eurobrun, eichy, maybe WaffleCat and I believe ADx_Wales. That's six including you

Wizzie wrote:Honda and Chevy to go to war on Thursday

This can only end well... What I can't quite understand is why the two parties got to pick the representatives hearing the case but I could be missing something fundamental here.

MinardiFan95 wrote:New IndyCar game announced

As the blog entry suggests, it'll probably be based on the aging rFactor 1 engine (much like the Superleague game from a few years back if I remember correctly), but the fact that I'll be able to race as Takuma Sato once again in a game will probably tempt me into getting it

Cynon wrote:

eurobrun wrote:

Cynon wrote:Pick any two of these drivers and you have the people who will DNQ Indy this year, provided nobody else wrecks really hard:

Alesi
Bourdais
de Silvestro
Legge

Servia will be getting a Chevrolet engine and Tagliani a Honda, reportedly. Dragon Racing has Bourdais so they've actually been able to get speed out of the Lotus, but if Bourdais is Bobby Rahal in 1994, then Legge is Mike Groff (a bit of a deadweight at the moment).

About Legge, TrueCar is a sponsor that motorsport I think needs -- because it's the only sponsor that I know of that only backs female drivers exclusively. Not only that, but the white and metallic blue paintjobs it comes up with are fantastic. One of their liveries in SCCA looks oddly like HRT's livery from last year except instead of red there's blue!

So like Lynxe in the TM Master Cup series.

You really should start a thread for the TMMC in the McCarthy forum.

Basically. Only a different shade of blue.

I probably would have started a thread for it if I thought more than 2 people would read it (counting myself).

Also, officially Lotus has split with Dreyer & Reinbold and Bryan Herta. This could be good for Lotus in the long run, because remember how shite Honda was when they started in 1994? They had two cars only (Rahal and Groff) with a third part-time entry showing up rarely (Johnstone), ran like crap (especially Groff), blew up early on, then in 1995 had only 1 full-time car (Ribiero) with two part time cars (Goodyear and Johnstone)... and then in the middle of 1995 it became apparent that the Honda really was the best engine when Johnstone put it on the pole at Michigan, it's just that Ribiero was a noob.

Cynon wrote:Also, officially Lotus has split with Dreyer & Reinbold and Bryan Herta. This could be good for Lotus in the long run, because remember how shite Honda was when they started in 1994? They had two cars only (Rahal and Groff) with a third part-time entry showing up rarely (Johnstone), ran like crap (especially Groff), blew up early on, then in 1995 had only 1 full-time car (Ribiero) with two part time cars (Goodyear and Johnstone)... and then in the middle of 1995 it became apparent that the Honda really was the best engine when Johnstone put it on the pole at Michigan, it's just that Ribiero was a noob.

dr-baker wrote:

MinardiFan95 wrote:New IndyCar game announced

As the blog entry suggests, it'll probably be based on the aging rFactor 1 engine (much like the Superleague game from a few years back if I remember correctly), but the fact that I'll be able to race as Takuma Sato once again in a game will probably tempt me into getting it

There's one thing I didn't quite understand - will it be an online racing game, or will it be a console game for XBox, PS3, etc?

F1000X wrote:

dr-baker wrote:This weekend's IndyCar race from Sao Paulo was televised on Sky Sports F1, so I got to watch most of it (inbetween BTCC races). I only discovered it was going to be on that channel thanks to a Facebook posting from Pippa Mann. A very entertining race, particularly in the final stages, and a brilliant result from Takuma Sato.

Faustus wrote:

dr-baker wrote:This weekend's IndyCar race from Sao Paulo was televised on Sky Sports F1, so I got to watch most of it (inbetween BTCC races). I only discovered it was going to be on that channel thanks to a Facebook posting from Pippa Mann. A very entertining race, particularly in the final stages, and a brilliant result from Takuma Sato.

Good race, wasn't it? I really liked it.
By the way, Sky Sports F1 have and will broadcast all of the Indycar races, including the Indy 500.

dr-baker wrote:

Faustus wrote:

dr-baker wrote:This weekend's IndyCar race from Sao Paulo was televised on Sky Sports F1, so I got to watch most of it (inbetween BTCC races). I only discovered it was going to be on that channel thanks to a Facebook posting from Pippa Mann. A very entertining race, particularly in the final stages, and a brilliant result from Takuma Sato.

Good race, wasn't it? I really liked it.
By the way, Sky Sports F1 have and will broadcast all of the Indycar races, including the Indy 500.

Ahh brilliant!!! IndyNerdism, here I come! Gonna love the Indy 500!!!

dr-baker wrote:This weekend's IndyCar race from Sao Paulo was televised on Sky Sports F1, so I got to watch most of it (inbetween BTCC races). I only discovered it was going to be on that channel thanks to a Facebook posting from Pippa Mann. A very entertining race, particularly in the final stages, and a brilliant result from Takuma Sato.