F1 Fanatic

I know it will most probably never happen, but I think having one or two ovals on the calendar would be great. Something completely different and a welcome addition to the season.

But aren’t Indy Cars specially designed, with all the important stuff on one side of the car because they only have to turn one direction? In this era of cost cutting, F1 teams aren’t going to be designing new cars for a single oval race per season.

But, what I’ve always thought would be a great idea is a Figure of 8 ‘oval’, like that one off Mario Kart. That’d mean the cars would have to turn both left and right, there could still be high speed laps and banked corners, and of course there’d be a crossover section and thus some elevation changes. But, as far as I’m aware no such circuit exists, so it shall forever remain a pipe dream of mine

I don’t see why they’d need to be specially re-designed. In their current spec the F1 cars would simply be slower than the IndyCars, something which the FIA would be very happy about considering how horrified they are of cornering speeds.

Of course what we really need is more straight-line speed-dependant circuits anyway. An oval would be a great start.

Funnily enough Geoff, the difference would be less on on oval, because Red Bulls are draggy as hell whereas HRTs have no downforce anyway!

I don’t think it would matter if it wasn’t as good, nor would it really blur the lines. IndyCar hasn’t lost its identity because of having more road courses. I understand your opinion though.

Geemac – exactly like individual pursuit cycling!