It was a fun city to visit. My wife and youngest went to the casino to gamble and get tanked up. I wandered around with the older two for a while before we went into the race. Sort of surreal. There was a used car place there that sold Ferraris and Lambos and for the budget shopper they had Lotus.
I was always partial to rally racing after I got my Subaru WRX. Peter Solberg and Marcus Gronholm Seb Loeb and Carlos Sainz.
The last lap overtake happened in front of my middle son and his buddies. Really exciting when they were able to actually race and not scraping a car or debris off the track. I liked the moments when three or that one time four cars were neck and neck. And the restarts have their own form of excitement
I’m definitely a newer F1 fan, now watching my third full season, but yea the track is too small and the cars too big to generate any real racing. The spectacle is fantastic, and last year quali was bonkers with max scraping the wall and getting P1 as time expired and then the rain during the race caused chaos, but this year I knew it’d be a dud once they played Russell’s radio and he was told to manage lol.
Some of that is on the series management. Get more brand awareness work in. Other than the Indy 500 I couldn’t tell you what any of their other events are and I can name a bunch of NASCAR events that I don’t even watch. I’m also not sure the higher speeds and lower downforce are all that safe and maybe they need to look at that?
Nooo, the complete opposite actually.
Nooo, the complete opposite actually.
Low downforce on road courses allows actual racing to happen. The drivers talent shows more as they man handle the cars and there is less dirty air to get trapped behind, causes more passing. They aren’t glued to the track like slot cars like F1 which makes it hard to pass. Its also safer, its harder to catch a high downforce car on fast curves when it slips because the traction is reliant on the downforce, low downforce and the driver can actually save the car with their talent, as shown with Pato wheeling it at 210 mph on Sunday. A high downforce package and thats a crash, no way to save this
Also, low downforce on ovals is safer as it doesn’t create pack races. If they had high downforce everyone will be full throttle and you will have dangerous packs like this where they cant get separated and bad things happen.
(Rip Dan, my favorite driver and childhood hero)
Well, 6 million people watched the 500 on Sunday. If they enjoyed the race an easy google search will show the calendar. Next up the Detroit street race this weekend.
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I’d think about wetting that track on purpose. It really makes for much more interesting races.
I have to watch UF play Clemson in baseball super regional. I’ll check Indy Car after the baseball ends. My youngest is prepping for colonoscopy so he he gets priority today
The big storyline was Newgardens shunt during qualifying. It was a wet wualif session which turned dry and everyone went out on slicks with little margin for error.
