Texas Indycar...

What time did it start? I tuned in at 9:25 and they were already running!

 

One hell of a finish! Good on Graham.

 

Most of the race(s) was terrible, but the final 5 laps and the .008 finish was pretty great.

 

I enjoyed the whole race honestly. The start was also epic with all the excessive downforce on full tanks and non-stop sparks.

That place is gnarly. Castroneves is lucky he didn't cause a massive crash.

Sucks Dixon crashed into Carpenter and cut his tire - I think Ed would have been in it at the end. Dixon seems to be making a lot of mental errors this year. The dumb divebomb on Helio at Mid-Ohio (after crashing in practice where no one crashes) and now just driving into Carpenter is really weird.

 

nice to see Fchatters succeeding

 

I don't care what anybody says....Taking Eau Rouge flat in an F1 car is one thing, but three wide at 200mph in an Indy car on a tri-oval is something on a different level of balls......

 

It was an incredible race.

 

Eau rouge ain't what it used to be.....

 

Erhm, I don't think you've been following F1 or sports cars lately, lots of red flags for rain.

 

Since he was the only one to crash there I'm chalking it up to driver error. There's no doubt that Eau rouge is not as daunting as it once was. As for oval racing in the rain, I'm all for it. I believe real professional racing drivers should have to drive to the conditions, no matter how atrocious. Raining hard? Slow down. Raining harder? Slow down some more.

 

2007 European Grand Prix
2009 Maylaysian Grand Prix
2011 Canadian Grand Prix
2012 Malaysian Grand Prix
2014 Japanese Grand Prix

Or if you want to go farther back, 1971 Canadian Grand Prix

 

I stood at the creek at the bottom of EnRouge. It's red thus EnRouge. Acid/sulfur mine drainage. Some old mining rail cars in historic display right below the bus stop.

 

Ha! That's cool - didn't know that.

 

Concur.

They were literally bouncing around in there...Pagenaud had to bail out. Smart move.

 

Always thought it interesting that sports cars (featuring several classes) could race on a
high banked oval such as Daytona in the pouring rain (been there and seen it dozens of
times) but stock cars and American open wheeled cars do not.

Is there something about sports cars (both open and enclosed cockpits) that enables
them to race in the rain at Daytona while utilizing 97% of the oval that stock cars and
American open wheeled cars don't?

BHW

 

It's been said Firestone could create a better rain tire than exists today, but I'm not sure the drivers would believe in it to aggressively drive with it. Besides hydroplaning into a concrete wall, rooster tails seem to be a lot greater in an Indycar than sports cars and that creates little visibility. While on a road course you have a little more lines in the track to escape the tails, on an rainy oval I would assume for Indycar there is only one optimal "groove" so the rooster tail train would affect everyone behind the leader. I don't know how you can create a better rain tire that disperses water and not create rooster tails at the same time, it seems like an impossible task.

 

Yah the spray came to mind for me. Would probably be close to impossible for fans to see anything either. Guessing.

 

Concur. I've driven Homestead nascar 3/4 in the rain and it was pretty gnarly even in a slow openwheel car. But I love driving road courses in the rain provided they aren't flooded.

 

I know enough to know I don't know much about racing yet.

Working hard though and delusional so I'm sure it will end well ; )