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@peartree No it really doesn’t. It’s more of a reflection of what having a drive for Chip Ganassi Racing can do. Should he win this will be the 13th drivers title in the last 25 years for the team going back to […]

@Franco except Gateway gets reasonable attendances – I was there at the race this year and by eyeballing attendance, it was imo the smallest Gateway crowd since the race returned – only being half full.

When […]

It it was 50% wider to the right I’d be in that picture!

You also missed out on the massive police car parade that took place about 15 minutes before this – police cars literally running 4 wide, and the full […]

While not unexpected, I’m still saddened by the loss of Robin Miller.

tbh I wasn’t aware of his significance to US open-wheel motorsport until I started reading his articles around 6-7 years ago. I don’t think […]

An enjoyable race to see in person despite far too many yellow flag laps early on – that broke the flow of the race for me.

Unlike most we sat in the upper deck of the turn 1 grandstand – that meant watching […]

tbh I was suprised that Hunter-Reay made it – I think he last stopped with 93 laps left and somehow made it when it looked like 80 was the limit. Going for the undercut with the early stop certainly helped him. […]

This race played out the way I thought the 1st race at Baku would thanks to the narrow layout. Definitely not a great race and far too much yellow (and again, a red flag in the final few laps rather than end under […]

Don’t rule out Santino for that drive – unless he can’t provide enough funding.

We’ll see. He wasn’t a factor until the early part of this year when he started this season with some great results. He started 3rd at the Indy Road course but from memory had a technical issue of some kind so […]

For the TV public, Friday is actually an inconvenience.
That’s a strange take – are you implying that you’re not a true fan if you’re not interested in watching Friday Practice?

Keep in mind that Qualifying […]

It’s pretty simple. It’s an extra few hours you need to watch to get the full story of the weekend.

I usually only bother watching qualifying and the race – free practice never really interested me, even with […]

Let’s break this down:

Johnson – a good starting point, but you are talking about a 7 time champion who make Kimi Raikonnen look like he’s got 20 years left rather than being the oldest driver in the sport for […]

@neiana Oh dear. Referencing a race 25 years ago at the start of The Split isn’t a great argument if you ignore the intervening years. It took the current Indycar series 7-8 years before it became […]

@Anon Except that the Milwaukee Indycar race hasn’t run since 2015, and attendance was very poor. I went to the 2014 race and the race itself was fairly entertaining, but very few people turned up to watch it […]

Not surprising considering that Australia appeared to keep the travel restrictions in place until the end of the year, and that Sydney is currently in its most extensive lockdown to date.

Guess the big question […]

@stefmeister yellow flags are a whataboutism in this case – the issue is with throwing a red flag because you want to end the race under green “for the show”. It’s not better than NASCAR’s Green-White-Chequer rule […]

Less than a week after Baku and my posting in reply to another comment that Indycar hadn’t thrown a red flag since the 2014 Indy 500 to ensure a green flag finish, this happens.

Like Baku, both were completely […]

Both the Stroll and Verstappen crashes should have been treated the same way – either safety car or red flags. tbh I don’t mind either call, but it should have been the same for both incidents.

I’m especially […]

@eurobrun tbh I don’t think Indycar has been that bad. Last year’s 500 ended under yellow after a Spencer Pigot hit the pit lane attenuator with 5 laps left. And there was a big debate as many drivers thought […]

@nanotech In part, it’s because Indycar varies the race distance per event. And those have changed partly to give the fans more value for money but in some cases it was to prevent fuel milage racing. Take the race […]