Because it is such a "Mickey Mouse" track, always has been. Barber is a much better course.
I await the summer races - Road America, Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Portland (and am astounded I can actually watch three of those).
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Because it is such a "Mickey Mouse" track, always has been. Barber is a much better course.
I await the summer races - Road America, Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Portland (and am astounded I can actually watch three of those).
Am I the only one with a raised eyebrow regarding the manner in which the rear attenuator appeared to come off of Lundqvist’s car in his wreck today?
I’m not going to play armchair engineer on specifics, but it sure raised a knee-jerk “I don’t think it’s supposed to do that” reaction from me.
I’m not going to play armchair engineer on specifics, but it sure raised a knee-jerk “I don’t think it’s supposed to do that” reaction from me.
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Durge Driven
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Check out Colton's start at WWTR 
This led to Herta’s father, Bryan, who is also the strategist for Kirkwood and a co-entrant for one of the cars at Andretti Global, voicing his thoughts to NBC Sports reporter Bruce Martin.
“I wasn’t saying that Colton didn’t deserve a penalty, what I’m saying is there is a growing feeling in the paddock there is not a level playing field,” Bryan Herta said. “One guy [Newgarden] who clearly caused a three-car accident checking up the field and wins the race gets no penalty. Then somebody else, racing hard, has to block a guy and gets a penalty. ... What Josef did was worse because he caused an accident taking three cars out of the race. Why does that not rise to the level of a penalty? His own teammates are flipping him off.
“I wasn’t saying that Colton didn’t deserve a penalty, what I’m saying is there is a growing feeling in the paddock there is not a level playing field,” Bryan Herta said. “One guy [Newgarden] who clearly caused a three-car accident checking up the field and wins the race gets no penalty. Then somebody else, racing hard, has to block a guy and gets a penalty. ... What Josef did was worse because he caused an accident taking three cars out of the race. Why does that not rise to the level of a penalty? His own teammates are flipping him off.
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It has long been this way. Zanardi won the championship by cutting corners, blocking other drivers, even running them off track ...and nothing was done about it. Ask Bobby Rahal his opinion of Jacques Villeneuve, who won his championship the same way. Such incidents are often so blatant that a conspiracy theorist could make the argument the sanctioning body has decided who will win the championship, not who has won it.
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Maybe they could organise an Indycar race at Monaco, it F1 can do it why not have Indycar there too, it'll give a chance for the two disciplines to got head to head as it were, I'm sure the cash wouldn't be a problem and teams could think of it as a knid of 'busmans' holiday.
