I’ve been to many races over the years. The entire premise of anything inside a building getting damaged from the sound of the engines is absurd. There is catch fencing on top of the cement K barriers to contain any airborne cars. The entire track is walled by the K-barriers. This is a road course, not a super, hi banked speedway. If a car gets in the air, it is not that high and could never clear the catch fencing.
Mario Andretti (ever heard of him ?) won 52 Indycar races and was season champion in 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1984 and was Formula 1 World Champion in 1978. He is the only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship. So, yeh "Re", there are "probably others."
Street races are dumb, unless it's Monaco for the history or Azerbaijan for the castles. The rest are just a bunch of jersey walls and cyclone fence. Looks like construction season. Miami, Long Beach, LV, DC, nope. Proper race tracks.
Ah yes, Monaco, where a few years back all of the cars finished in EXACTLY the same order in which they started. Monaco is so narrow and the F1 cars have grown so big that there is virtually no opportunity to pass ( or "overtake" as the cognoscenti are wont to say.) Formula 1 used to have provisions for refueling but that's, ya know, "a bit of bother", toting all that equipment around week after week. So, to increase fuel capacity they couldn't make the cars wider because that would screw up aerodynamics (and they wouldn't fit on the tracks side by each) so they made them longer.
Actually not sure about nascar but innovation in Touring cars tend to be used in future road cars that we all buy. They spend loads of money and because the cars are basically road cars they can then easily see what works and make improvements.
Just to be the 101st to ask: what did this have to do with Formula 1? That circus was I the Netherlands this weekend. While don’t pretend to know anything about Indy cars, is there a link between the two commercial outfits?
Columbus, Ohio decided to hold a Grand Prix-style race in downtown Columbus. The race was on a Saturday. The time trials were on Friday. Besides downtown being completely cut off to workers coming in on Friday, the engine noises echoed through the streets all day.
My office was on the fourteenth floor, and clients on the phone were asking about the noise.
Ok, as shitty as this event probably was-disclosure, have never been an Indy Car fan-this wasn’t an F1 event. Indy Car and F1 are entirely different and unrelated entities and afaik have no business arrangements. For whatever reason, the Orange Shitgibbon has never attempted to glom onto F1 events, could be the regime is suspicious of the drivers, none of whom are Americans and have typically humble origins. F1 has its share of issues but none of them involve fluffing a clown like Mango Mussolini and indeed, when Russia invaded the Ukraine F1 pulled the Russian race from the calendar as a response. With F1 having to cancel events in the Middle East because of the war the regime started I’m guessing Liberty Media/F1 is probably kind of pissed at these guys simply because of the lost revenue.
I bet others have likely mentioned it, but just wanted to say that this race is in no way affiliated with F1. I think the several paragraphs about it should be removed.
That said, fuck the orange POS and all that he's destroying, especially in DC! 😫
I’ve been to many races over the years. The entire premise of anything inside a building getting damaged from the sound of the engines is absurd. There is catch fencing on top of the cement K barriers to contain any airborne cars. The entire track is walled by the K-barriers. This is a road course, not a super, hi banked speedway. If a car gets in the air, it is not that high and could never clear the catch fencing.
I cant imagine living there. We visited in 2005, we rode our bikes all over the Capital. It was nice.
' ”If you ain’t first, you’re last,” which completely missed the point of the film.'
This slogan may miss the point of the film TALLADEGA NIGHTS, but it hits the point of the whole grifty Trump regime right on the nose.
I've only seen a minute or two of "Talladega Nights." Is there a point to it, other than Will Farrell being some sort of motorsports idiot savant?
Rachel had vid of Trump trying to wave a start flag. Someone had to show him which end of it to grasp.
I think the only thing F1 and Indycar have in common is Romain Grosjean, who raced in both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCivN-b4FZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ3a1Hc1FTM
Also Sébastien Bourdais. There are probably others.
Mario Andretti (ever heard of him ?) won 52 Indycar races and was season champion in 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1984 and was Formula 1 World Champion in 1978. He is the only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship. So, yeh "Re", there are "probably others."
Probably should have qualified with "recent". In '78 I was already working a 6 day week.
Street races are dumb, unless it's Monaco for the history or Azerbaijan for the castles. The rest are just a bunch of jersey walls and cyclone fence. Looks like construction season. Miami, Long Beach, LV, DC, nope. Proper race tracks.
Ah yes, Monaco, where a few years back all of the cars finished in EXACTLY the same order in which they started. Monaco is so narrow and the F1 cars have grown so big that there is virtually no opportunity to pass ( or "overtake" as the cognoscenti are wont to say.) Formula 1 used to have provisions for refueling but that's, ya know, "a bit of bother", toting all that equipment around week after week. So, to increase fuel capacity they couldn't make the cars wider because that would screw up aerodynamics (and they wouldn't fit on the tracks side by each) so they made them longer.
F1 is to indycar as Touring cars are to nascar.
Actually not sure about nascar but innovation in Touring cars tend to be used in future road cars that we all buy. They spend loads of money and because the cars are basically road cars they can then easily see what works and make improvements.
NASCAR are really the same chassis with a different engine, only differentiated by the decals.
No real resemblance to production models these days.
Just to be the 101st to ask: what did this have to do with Formula 1? That circus was I the Netherlands this weekend. While don’t pretend to know anything about Indy cars, is there a link between the two commercial outfits?
I think the author is confused.
Columbus, Ohio decided to hold a Grand Prix-style race in downtown Columbus. The race was on a Saturday. The time trials were on Friday. Besides downtown being completely cut off to workers coming in on Friday, the engine noises echoed through the streets all day.
My office was on the fourteenth floor, and clients on the phone were asking about the noise.
They wanted to make it an annual event also, too.
It's INDY cars, not F1.......two WAY different breeds of racing.
Ok, as shitty as this event probably was-disclosure, have never been an Indy Car fan-this wasn’t an F1 event. Indy Car and F1 are entirely different and unrelated entities and afaik have no business arrangements. For whatever reason, the Orange Shitgibbon has never attempted to glom onto F1 events, could be the regime is suspicious of the drivers, none of whom are Americans and have typically humble origins. F1 has its share of issues but none of them involve fluffing a clown like Mango Mussolini and indeed, when Russia invaded the Ukraine F1 pulled the Russian race from the calendar as a response. With F1 having to cancel events in the Middle East because of the war the regime started I’m guessing Liberty Media/F1 is probably kind of pissed at these guys simply because of the lost revenue.
Okay - golfed, mowed the seven-acre lawn, did some other stuff. i must be feeling better!...
This was not a Formula 1 race, it was an Indy Car race. The cars look similar, but they are not the same thing.
As a public event in our nation's capital the viewing ought to be free for all and barriers only for safety, not to prevent viewing.
I bet others have likely mentioned it, but just wanted to say that this race is in no way affiliated with F1. I think the several paragraphs about it should be removed.
That said, fuck the orange POS and all that he's destroying, especially in DC! 😫
I work F1 races in Miami and Austin. It is a massive production that never runs out of stuff to sell, like water, food, and merch.