Somethingwittyer

“Huge”. ok. Currently there is a 14 second gap between F1’s 2018 pole position and Indycar’s fastest test time. That’s about 15% slower. Your estimating that it will probably end up being 10-11 seconds, and perhaps that’s probably fair. So that’s a ~12% slower time.

For comparison, at the 2018 British GP the Formula 2 pole time (01:40.0) was…[Read more]

I went to the Indycar race in Long Beach this year. I took two weeks off work to travel over, but saw some other things and places in the US on my trip. But the primary reason for travel was to attend this iconic race and see my favourite Indycars in action! This was my third trip to the US to see Indycars; previously I had been to the inaugural…[Read more]

I was in Long Beach for the whole of last weekend and am back in the UK now. I took a lot of photos (which I’m sorting through now) and am keen on sharing my experiences, and the contrast to F1 races, with the forum.

Really looking forward to this one. From what I’ve seen of practice the cars do indeed look great round Long Beach. Should be a cracker!

Absolutely no problem with Indycar being a spec series (although it’s technically not, with two different engine manufacturers).

I really really annoys me when people dismiss spec series because there is no engineering involved. They couldn’t be more wrong.

Here’s how I see it:

F1 is mainly a technology and design contest. Human factors, like…[Read more]

I have no problems with Indycar being a spec series. Technical development is not why I love Indycar. All that I want is open and exciting races. In my experience open technical regulations don’t contribute to this in any way and are more likely to have a detrimental effect on competitive racing as one team is always likely to steal a march on t…[Read more]