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It’s not even really an Indycar thing, the current cameras in Indycar are actually cameras that were developed for NASCAR and later used in Grand-Am as well.
I don’t see a shorter season resulting in layoffs, in fact I see them keeping or needing more staff during the season because they’ll have less turn-around time between races to get the cars prepped.
As far as the schedule goes, the long off-season is being used to give teams the time to prep for a longer more diverse 2015 season that may even see the return of international touring for the series.
What exactly happens with the FIA fine money? I know a few years ago NASCAR started taking their fine money (which had at the time just been placed into the end of the year points fund for the series the fine came from) and putting it towards the NASCAR Foundation which then distributes it to various charitable organizations.
The initial contact just looked like hard racing, nothing wrong with that. The contact after-the-fact, am I the only one that thinks it didn’t mean to hit him & that he actually meant to just kind of speed off infront of him making him come to a stop but he just misjudged it by a few feet?
If this happened in July (as the images and article state) why is it just being made public by Nico (well his handlers) now and why was there no mention of it at all (atleast that I remember) during the German GP?
If it was legit stolen in July then that helmet has been sold the most it’s going to be sold and is now sitting in somebodies collection who likely knows it’s stolen and don’t care.
At the same time with Hamilton behind if for some reason his nose would break in the same way before they got back to pit in then they could call him in too and do a double (but costly time wise) stop.
That’s actually a really good point, rather have him skid off track infront of Lewis instead of skidding off track into Lewis.
The rear wheel bumper had nothing to do with this crash, Dario launched after his wheel touched the sidepod of Sato not the rear bumper thing.
I’m fine with the sponsors branding being incorporated into the trophy as afterall they are the ones that are paying for the race to be put on. However I do agree that the trophy itself should be more then just the companies logo.
The car was launched because Darios front tire made contact with the sidepod of Sato. That is nothing that the rear nerf-bars or the extended front floor can prevent and it even happens in full-fendered full-bodied cars as Clint Bowyer demonstrated in 2011.
That one from Hungary this year looks like something you would put a dead persons ashes in haha.
I think F1 needs to spice it up with some unique trophies like these.
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http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/7836711.jpg@fer-no65 I wouldn’t say the fencing is unsafe, it’s the same setup that F1 uses at many tracks such as Singapore (where it’s temporary like in Houston) and Korea (where it’s permanent) the only difference being that in the USA we use chain-link fence (which note, isn’t the part that failed it was the poles that failed) and F1 uses what I like to describe as something that looks like the side of a shopping cart.
Singapore: https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/merc-hami-sing-2013-3.jpg
Korea: https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/start-redb-kore-2013-2.jpgAlso I believe that Indycar requires their road/street courses to be FIA Grade 2 tracks. Or atleast they did a few years ago anyway.
EDIT: Taking a second look at the Indycar fence from this picture http://www.hostingbytes.us/images/3/1409963.jpg is pretty much the same exact thing as F1 raced with in Singapore a few weeks ago & Korea today (and a bunch of other tracks this season).
