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GTPorsche
Sage Karam suffered a crash in testing today. Wasn't cleared for the afternoon session because he injured his wrist in the crash.
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From what I had heard and read elsewhere, the crash was big enough to crack the tub of his car... Fortunately, Sage didn't break any bones and is expected to race in St. Petersburg.
 
TenEightyOne
I'm a bit confused (which isn't news, of course), why are there two Indy 2015 threads?
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Because it is that much better than Formula bankruptcy presented by Mercedes Benz it needs 2 threads? Or the OP was busy for a few months so Earth started a new thread. I would say both personally.;)
 
TenEightyOne
I'm a bit confused (which isn't news, of course), why are there two Indy 2015 threads?
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IforceV8
Because it is that much better than Formula bankruptcy presented by Mercedes Benz it needs 2 threads? Or the OP was busy for a few months so Earth started a new thread. I would say both personally.;)
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In F1's defense, it is the most popular Motorsport/racing league in the world where a single GP gets hundreds of replies (Aussie GP already has 700). A whole season would have over 10,000 replies. I think the new Indycar thread is just fine (heck, it already has 12 pages for this season while this one only has 2 since September. )No offense but this thread needs to be retired and have a new thread every year instead.
 
IforceV8
Because it is that much better than Formula bankruptcy presented by Mercedes Benz it needs 2 threads? Or the OP was busy for a few months so Earth started a new thread. I would say both personally.;)
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Fair comment... although teams have been going bankrupt since 1950, Mercedes were away for a looong time and it continued ;) Presumably no Indy teams ever went bankrupt? :D
 
Dale Coyne Racing has signed Draccone to 4 races, and has retained Carlos Huertas.

They showed up to Barber with a spec car. I'd take a good guess that they won't make it through the year.
 
GTPorsche
Dale Coyne Racing has signed Draccone to 4 races, and has retained Carlos Huertas.

They showed up to Barber with a spec car. I'd take a good guess that they won't make it through the year.
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Considering that Draccone is thought to have less talent than Milka Duno on a bad day, crashed on his first run in that spec car and the cost of the new Aero Kits (And the replacement parts & pieces), maybe Dale Coyne didn't want to have spend more money than needed on him?
 
Northstar
I think there are already too many street courses as it is.
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I am usually against street circuits but if it is a good circuit/layout (Sao Paulo, Belle Isle 2013+, and Toronto) I am fine with it, if it is like the parking lot track in Houston or that scribble mess in Baltimore, I would be against it.

Anyway, a race in Boston would definitely help with growing Indycar's audience in New England :)

Here is my draft circuit (Bostonians on here please point out the major traffic problems this would cause :lol:). I think the park would be a good open space to be able to put bleachers and other things and the streets are divided which would allow for a pit lane.
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Northstar
I think there are already too many street courses as it is.
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I like the street courses - the racing constantly appears to be closer than at the road courses. (Which, incidentally, there would've been an overabundance of this year, if the Brazil/Dubai/Mosport events all went through)
 
Can't wait for the new season of the IndyCar Series! I'll surely try to catch as much of the St. Petersburg race. Tough to believe this course has been around for at least 10 years. I sometimes look at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix kind of like the Long Beach GP of the East Coast- just not as glamourous, of course.

One race I was looking at a few days ago was the Grand Prix of Louisiana. Seems like a pretty interesting track. I thought initially that it was going to be a race around some temporary course in New Orleans (like roads around the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, for instance). But it will be at the NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, LA, USA. I want to see how that one goes. So this 2015 season goes from March 29 in St. Petersburg to August 30 at Sonoma Raceway.

Strap in. It's going to be a wild ride for IndyCar racing.
 
They want to be an option for countries that can't afford F1 races.

Yet, the teams don't actually want the expenses of travelling, which is why there was only one international race on the schedule before it was dropped.
 
Again, I ask: Who actually wants Indycar?
 
Being a Kiwi I only follow Indycar because of Scott Dixon, and have enjoyed watching for many years now....But these new aero kits on these cars are just plain too ugly to watch, looks like they have just tacked on hundreds of little wings etc everywhere. TBH I thought the standard DW12 was ugly enough, now they have taken it to a whole new level of ugliness !
It's a shame because I love watching and cheering on Scott but I value my eye sight more. *looks for bleeding eyes smiley*
 
RACECAR
Again, I ask: Who actually wants Indycar?
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Australia, Brazil, Canada are the three that I've gathered. Japan and Mexico could be there. It's a matter of management seriously trying to do what's best. Not a solid footing.
 
BRRT_Angel
Australia, Brazil, Canada are the three that I've gathered. Japan and Mexico could be there. It's a matter of management seriously trying to do what's best. Not a solid footing.
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I would say these and the United Kingdom (mainly the drivers being from there) would be good places to have international races, the problem is that apparently the teams don't have the money or just want to stay in North America.
 
Travel costs are covered by the sanction fees for a fly-away event so that is not the issue. Finding the right location to race in February of early March is the issue.

From media days CEO Mark Miles http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/113520-q-a-indycar-s-mark-miles-and-derrick-walker

We're not trying to shorten the season. We are actually planning to lengthen the season. What we're trying to do is slide the season earlier.

We've shared with the drivers, with the team owners, with the promoters, the vision, the plan, which we'll get closer to in 2016, where we hope we begin the weekend after the Super Bowl, early February, and go through Labor Day for the championship. That gets us into eight months, a little over seven months of racing.


Our objective is about 20 races.


So, yes, we started by ending earlier. You haven't yet seen us start earlier. But I want you to understand that's where we're going. We want to race in a very full schedule, about 20 races, from the weekend after the Super Bowl in early February through Labor Day. That will feel very different than it did last year and this year. You will see the expansion.


Related to that, there's the question of international races. We said we think there's an important market opportunity for us on a limited basis at the very beginning of the championship. The strategy about when we schedule ourselves beginning of February through Labor Day is not dependent upon international races.


We could fill that early part of the series, February, with additional North American races. But, one, there aren't too many places where we can race climate-wise. Two, we're determined to find really vibrant new race opportunities. So we're going to be discerning about that.


We still continue to believe that we're not going to become Formula One. We're not going to be chasing ourselves around the globe week after week after. That is not the strategy. But we can imagine a limited number of international races at the beginning of the calendar in February, then get to the States, North America, stay in North America.


I would emphasis this is not about shortening the season, and we're not shunning North American opportunities for international ones. This is about lengthening the season, racing a full seven-month schedule, and perhaps having international races on a limited basis at the beginning of that schedule.
 
I know it's not the current subject of discussion, but...

I still don't get how this whole scheduling thing is supposed to work.

Here is option A:

Extend the season into Fall and compete with early NBA, NHL, NFL and NCAA games as well as the MLB Playoffs.

Option B:

Start the season early and compete with NCAA Bowl games, NFL Playoffs and mid-season playoff pushes for both NBA and NHL teams.

Now, in both cases they are going head to head with the big 4 sports, but at least with option A you are only competing with early season games that people are probably more willing to miss.

Anyways, I guess only time will tell who is right on the scheduling issue, I just hope if Miles is wrong the damage isn't too bad.
 
They ideally want the schedule to go from after Super Bowl to Labor Day Weekend, which puts it right between the entire NFL schedule, but they still have other things to compete with.
 
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