Just for clarification...Briscoe was right. Hunter-Reay was wrong...

[redgtxdi]

And let me preface this by saying that I would rather RHR wins anyway, but justice is justice and it's interesting to me how everyone turned a blind eye to RHR's obvious fault.

2 cones mark acceleration zone. You CANNOT overtake lead car until lead car accelerates or unless lead car has passed the 2nd cone. RHR accelerated within that zone while Briscoe (lead car) had yet to do so. That should invoke a penalty to RHR. It did not.

I don't believe RHR did anything but gamble, however, he knows the rules too. There are 2 cones, not 1.

P.S. I also flipping HATE chicanes!

/rant

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'm assuming this post has something to do with IRL... which, as a big fan of open wheel racing, I have absolutely no interest in.

 

[redgtxdi]

I'm assuming this post has something to do with IRL... which, as a big fan of open wheel racing, I have absolutely no interest in.

I feel the same, though, with a lapse in AMA and MOTO racing this last weekend, I was dying for something so IRL had to fill the bill.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I feel the same, though, with a lapse in AMA and MOTO racing this last weekend, I was dying for something so IRL had to fill the bill.

The Grand Prix of Belgium was on. Spa-Francorchamps is one of the best circuits on the grand prix calendar. Too bad Alonso got taken out on the first corner. Raikkonen put a pass on Schumacher in Eau Rouge that was pretty ballsy.

I watched the Mid-Ohio IRL race this year and it was a complete snooze fest. I probably won't watch another IRL race until Long Beach or Indy. I just don't care about it at all.

 

[LTC8K6]

The Grand Prix of Belgium was on. Spa-Francorchamps is one of the best circuits on the grand prix calendar. Too bad Alonso got taken out on the first corner. Raikkonen put a pass on Schumacher in Eau Rouge that was pretty ballsy.

I watched the Mid-Ohio IRL race this year and it was a complete snooze fest. I probably won't watch another IRL race until Long Beach or Indy. I just don't care about it at all.

Well, with a gear missing and old tires, Schuey was bait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcb5qFrPLFg

I'd say Spa was the best race of the year. It's still breathtaking when they take sections flat out.

Imagine the racing we'd have had without that crash.

 

[endlessmike]

Pre-split IndyCar was one of the greatest racing series around. Post split CART was still pretty damn good, but it could never sustain long-term. The IRL has been irrelevant from day one, and will be until the day that the Hulman-Georges can no longer or choose not to subsidize it - which has perpetually never seemed too far away.

You could blame completely inept management over the past almost 20 years, but the crux of the problem is that it was a series that never needed to exist in the first place.

 

[redgtxdi]

The Grand Prix of Belgium was on. Spa-Francorchamps is one of the best circuits on the grand prix calendar. Too bad Alonso got taken out on the first corner. Raikkonen put a pass on Schumacher in Eau Rouge that was pretty ballsy.

Yes, I watched this too!! AWESOME track! (when it doesn't rain) The race could probably have been a little better but still 10x better than IRL. And, yes, I LOVE the flat out speeds of F1 (though I enjoy flat outs in IRL too if we're talking Indianapolis)

IRL was at Baltimore and I have to say that was the MOST PATHETIC track I think I've ever seen. There was possibly more yellow than green racing with all the fast-forwarding I did. I'm sick of 200mph cars on 20mph tracks. BE DONE WITH THAT SH!T ALREADY!!

No more sub 1-mile tracks for Nascar
Let Monaco be the ONLY slow-turn track for F1 folks anymore
And stop putting slow-ass IRL cars on tracks like Baltimore and then throwing an Fing chicane in the midst of an otherwise great straight.

I would've loved to have seen an F1 car pull out onto that Baltimore track. Would've stuck the other 50% of the field into the wall too. LOL

 

[endlessmike]

I believe I heard that the problem in Baltimore is that cars were starting to get airborne on some bumps. They had issues this year with the Detroit track literally coming apart as well.

In the heyday of Indy/CART, one of the great things about it was the mix of super speedways, short ovals, road courses and street circuits. A 900-1000 HP Champcar tearing around wide open Burke Lakefront was something to see, and hear, but that was a lot more wide open then a concrete canyon street circuit.