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wood

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4 hours ago, utee94 said:

Toeing the line I'm sure.  

It proved to be pretty dangerous, so I hope the next time around they'll enforce them.

Regardless, I really enjoyed watching the indycars race at COTA, and hope to make the entire weekend next time.

Yeah it's no coincidence that easily the two biggest incidents of the weekend were at T19. The Qualifying incident was worse becuase of the lack of track limits and the race incident was at least partially caused by it. It's stupid.

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Prepuce of Doom

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Rossi really walked the dog there.

A few miscellaneous bad pictures from the day. Some of Stadium Super Trucks (always worth the price of admission), and a picture of the wall on the outside of Turn 8 at the end of the weekend.

I'll put some pictures of old racecars and shit in the Classic Car thread in Hobbies.

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Indy GP weekend is here....

 

some full race broadcasts of Indy 500's on IMS Youtube channel  link

2011 - 2013 - 2001 - 1985 - 2014 - 2006 - 1987 - 2015 - 2012 - 2008 - 1966 - 1974 - 1989  - 1994

also a couple of segments of Drive Like Andretti on NBC Sports Youtube channel link

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Restart after Ericsson caution Dixon puts big pressure on Rosenqvist causing him to lock up in turn 1. Herta spins behind them after getting hit by Harvey then gets clipped by Hunter-Ray who I think was tapped by someone else. 

Herta was showing speed and is now miles back. 

Rosenqvist lost the lead to Dixon. 

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Wow. Castroneves pits for wets and on pit exit spins straight into the gravel. 

Everybody about to pit and they aren't sure which tires to use. Some going slicks and some going rain. 

Rosenqvist sets another fire on pit lane. 

Crazy stuff.

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From 1958 to 1988, qualifying speeds went from 145 mph to 219. 

From 1989 until now (also roughly 30 years) qualifying speed has basically just bounced around from 220-230 depending on year-to-year rule changes.

In 1990, if you had asked me how fast the cars would be lapping in 2020, I would have said at least 250. Why does it seem like technological progress on the cars has stopped?

 

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54 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

From 1958 to 1988, qualifying speeds went from 145 mph to 219. 

From 1989 until now (also roughly 30 years) qualifying speed has basically just bounced around from 220-230 depending on year-to-year rule changes.

In 1990, if you had asked me how fast the cars would be lapping in 2020, I would have said at least 250. Why does it seem like technological progress on the cars has stopped?

 

safety.   they would probably do 260+ if things were more unlimited like in the old days.   they would also probably have a car fly into the grandstands and kill a few hundred people on raceday.   just imagine what tony renna's testing crash would have been like had it happened during the 500 if you added 30 mph to it 

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6 hours ago, Hawndoh said:

McLaren will be doing good to just to qualify. 

I doubt they could contend for top 15 much less a win. 

Well, I think Alonso was top 8 before he crashed a few minutes ago. Wild ride.

This won;t help, but I think they'll get the car qualified. They also have a Carlin backup car iirc.

 

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Fast Friday. If McLaren doesn't get solid time on track and show some decent no-tow speed they are in trouble tomorrow. 

I'm also curious to see if Carpenter racing can lock out the entire front row. 

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On the plus side Alonso ran a bunch of laps and did improve his time little by little through the day. 

But he is still way down the time sheet. 

I do think he makes the race now but they're going to have to find a lot of speed during the practices between qualifying and the race. 

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5 hours ago, Hawndoh said:

On the plus side Alonso ran a bunch of laps and did improve his time little by little through the day. 

But he is still way down the time sheet. 

I do think he makes the race now but they're going to have to find a lot of speed during the practices between qualifying and the race. 

Yeah they ran the 2nd most laps of anyone and Alonso said they made a lot of progress finding the right directions to go with different things, gathered a lot of good data, etc. Now they just need to make the field and then keep making good progress in the upcoming practices...

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