2016 Verizon IndyCar SeriesOpen Wheel

[GTPorsche]

The car for Aleshin looks slick, and then seeing the Foyt machine from that angle makes it look huge.

 

[catamount39]

That's insane!

 

[Panoz]

That front wing is putting the snow shovels to good use in the summer.

 

[IforceV8]

 

[GTPorsche]

Needs less bullseyes, but that is fantastic.

 

[DcrRaikkonen]

Brandon Fry has joined CGR to engineer Max Chilton. http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/125849-indycar-fry-joins-chilton-at-ganassi

 

[catamount39]

Dude the lightning bolt is amazing. Such a "minor" change but it goes with the car so well.

 

[Dotini]

This is the 100th anniversary year of the Indianapolis 500. Robin Miller can count no more than 29 entries. The 500 has always started 33. The fall in the price of oil has de-funded Sarah Fisher's team, and the needed entries are yet to be found, in part or in whole.

 

[Eva]

This is the 100th anniversary year of the Indianapolis 500. Robin Miller can count no more than 29 entries. The 500 has always started 33. The fall in the price of oil has de-funded Sarah Fisher's team, and the needed entires are yet to be found, in part or in whole.

Still waiting on the 25, 19, possibly another KV car, another Ganassi car possibly with Saavedra. Those four make 33.

 

[GTPorsche]

This is the 100th anniversary year of the Indianapolis 500. Robin Miller can count no more than 29 entries. The 500 has always started 33. The fall in the price of oil has de-funded Sarah Fisher's team, and the needed entries are yet to be found, in part or in whole.

It's still early yet. By this time last year they only had about 26.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

They are going to hype it until SOMEONE enters. We shall see.

 

[TDZdave]

Sadly there just isn't enough used DW12's in circulation, when there has been an abundance of used chassis that's when we have seen the larger qualifying fields for Indy, the biggest field of recent has always come at the end of chassis design cycle,

 

[Carbonox]

How about Grace Motorsports? That all-female team that was supposed to have Katherine Legge driving their car?

 

[Kingofweasles]

How about Grace Motorsports? That all-female team that was supposed to have Katherine Legge driving their car?

There hasn't been any news on that project for a while now.

 

[IforceV8]

There hasn't been any news on that project for a while now.

https://twitter.com/graceautosport

 

[catamount39]

https://twitter.com/graceautosport

Well they have an owl.

 

[ukfan758]

http://www.indianapolismotorspeedwa...st-superbowl-ad-for-sunday-2016?startrow=2091

There's going to be a super bowl ad for the Indy 500 in the mid-west.

 

[catamount39]

http://www.indianapolismotorspeedwa...st-superbowl-ad-for-sunday-2016?startrow=2091

There's going to be a super bowl ad for the Indy 500 in the mid-west.

Ah come on not nationally? Dang.

 

[ukfan758]

Ah come on not nationally? Dang.

The fact that they are doing any sort of promoting this early is shocking. I'm guessing they think that the Midwest and upper South (Louisville got an 8.7 for ratings) are their biggest markets so they only want to spend for there.

 

[Northstar]

Ah come on not nationally? Dang.

Adding onto what @ukfan758 said, I don't think they can afford a national ad considering one spot would cost more than what they are getting for the Indy 500 presenting sponsorship over 3 years.

 

[GTPorsche]

Yeah, 5 million for a national ad is more than they pay out for anything.

 

[ukfan758]

Here's the ad:

 

[MustangManiac]

http://www.indianapolismotorspeedwa...st-superbowl-ad-for-sunday-2016?startrow=2091

There's going to be a super bowl ad for the Indy 500 in the mid-west.

It didn't play here and I am only about 3.5 hours away. It seems a little odd to reach out to only those close to "home". You can't grow up in Indiana or any neighboring state without being inundated with Indycar your whole life. I would think you would want to reach out to those further away, but what do I know? Probably a strategy from the Boston group and we all know how smart those people have proven to be

 

[catamount39]

It didn't play here and I am only about 3.5 hours away. It seems a little odd to reach out to only those close to "home". You can't grow up in Indiana or any neighboring state without being inundated with Indycar your whole life. I would think you would want to reach out to those further away, but what do I know? Probably a strategy from the Boston group and we all know how smart those people have proven to be

If it was the Boston group's decision, it just proves again they need be shown the door.

 

[GTPorsche]

 

[catamount39]

The Chevy looks smaller than the Honda.

 

[Eva]

The Chevy looks smaller than the Honda.

They did last year too.

 

[Kingofweasles]

No sponsorship on the #10 aside from NTT Data? Between this, Ganassi hiring Max Chilton and Sarah Fisher selling out to Ed Carpenter Indycar is in deep trouble.

 

[Eva]

No sponsorship on the #10 aside from NTT Data? Between this, Ganassi hiring Max Chilton and Sarah Fisher selling out to Ed Carpenter Indycar is in deep trouble.

NTT went all out with their sponsorship. It isn't necessarily a downgrade, and we don't know if that's how the car will look at St. Pete. There might actually be more sponsors since this reveal was dedicated to NTT Data.

 

[Northstar]

NTT Data has always been pretty much the only large sponsor on whatever car they are on.

2015:

2014:

2013: