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Open Wheel Racing 2021, anyone there to watch?

Russell Jaslow said:
I read that Pirelli is working on producing usable full wet tires. They know they are wasting resources making tires nobody is every going to use.
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I don’t see why they would bother. Maybe make better tires for the heavy inter time and less pattern inters for the transition. Or just keep the one set and ignore the other. Adding a slightly more wet tire (either more wet or dry) would not make the drama better.
 
Don’t see IndyCar getting more tied up with Fox being great for Motorsports in the US. I’m surprised how little they paid.
 
Drew S. said:
Don’t see IndyCar getting more tied up with Fox being great for Motorsports in the US. I’m surprised how little they paid.
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I never saw how much FOX paid, so I can't comment on that. But FOX did put every single race live on their network, not cable (not counting weather delays screwing up the TV timeslots). That's got to count for something.

EDIT: Oh, I see you are talking about today's news, which I just saw. Very, very interesting...
 
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Whatever they did to Leclerc’s car in the final stop, uh, didn’t work.

Red Bull crazy slow all weekend. Aston with a decent go, though.
 
state of hockey said:
Whatever they did to Leclerc’s car in the final stop, uh, didn’t work.

Red Bull crazy slow all weekend. Aston with a decent go, though.
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Whatever they did on the first stop didn't work, either. He was already complaining then.

Russell with his usual isolated podium. 21 off 2nd, 21 ahead of 4th.
 
Sounds like #16 actually had some chassis damage that caused the issues, not adjustments to the front wing. Charles has apologized to the team for his scathing radio comments. 😆
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Whatever they did on the first stop didn't work, either. He was already complaining then.

Russell with his usual isolated podium. 21 off 2nd, 21 ahead of 4th.
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It was interesting in the cooldown room, Russell himself mentioned how the distances between him and McLaren and between him and Ferrari were perhaps the largest of the season.

As for Leclerc, he said in the bullpen that his comments in the race were wrong because he found out after the race something on the car broke. I'll like to know more details about that...
 
Prayers up for Connor Zilisch. I changed the channel on my tv literally like two seconds before he fell. He has to be one of the top prospects in all of sports and would be absolutely heartbreaking if a freak thing like what happened today derails his career.
 
Drew S. said:
Prayers up for Connor Zilisch. I changed the channel on my tv literally like two seconds before he fell. He has to be one of the top prospects in all of sports and would be absolutely heartbreaking if a freak thing like what happened today derails his career.
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One of the most bizarre "accidents" I've ever seen. Heard he was transferred to the hospital despite initial information.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
One of the most bizarre "accidents" I've ever seen. Heard he was transferred to the hospital despite initial information.
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He could have had major injuries in like six different parts of his body. He just said on Twitter it’s a broken collarbone and his head is fine. Hopefully he is 100% healed for Daytona next winter.
 
SVG is head and shoulders above everyone else on the road courses. If he survives the first round of the playoffs he could easily get into the Final 8 with the Roval at Charlotte on the schedule.
 
TIL Alpine’s WEC sports car team has an Austrian driver named Ferdinand Habsburg. AKA Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen, heir to the headship of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen and the Austro-Hungarian Throne (if it existed).
 
Jimjamesak said:
TIL Alpine’s WEC sports car team has an Austrian driver named Ferdinand Habsburg. AKA Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen, heir to the headship of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen and the Austro-Hungarian Throne (if it existed).
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Makes for a hell of an autograph...
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
SVG is head and shoulders above everyone else on the road courses. If he survives the first round of the playoffs he could easily get into the Final 8 with the Roval at Charlotte on the schedule.
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I was there (free tickets). It was so obvious how much he was heads and shoulders above everyone else. When he was in 12th on the last restart, he just ate up cars and spit them out.
 
Drew S. said:
Prayers up for Connor Zilisch. I changed the channel on my tv literally like two seconds before he fell. He has to be one of the top prospects in all of sports and would be absolutely heartbreaking if a freak thing like what happened today derails his career.
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So for playoff points he comes back and starts last night in Daytona. Runs the first 13 laps, then Parker Kligerman comes in relief for the next 91. Kligerman wins the race but Zilisch gets credit for the win. Kligerman had also finished won in the truck race in Daytona in the spring, but was DQ'd, so he's finished first twice at Daytona this year and has zero wins to show for it.
 
Bottas and Checo are being reported as the Cadillac drivers for next year. I kept thinking they'd take one of them and then try to slot an American in, but doesn't appear any are in line for the Super License points at the moment to be able to drive in F1.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Bottas and Checo are being reported as the Cadillac drivers for next year. I kept thinking they'd take one of them and then try to slot an American in, but doesn't appear any are in line for the Super License points at the moment to be able to drive in F1.
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I know this has been said before- but that's a very solid line up. More to develop the car reasonably quickly than their actual race craft- the biggest difference between Bottas and Hamilton was that Bottas was not as good at passing when he was the faster car. Checo was better at passing, but didn't really set the world on fire.

But both could set up a car really well, and both came from team that were the top of the top- so they know what parts of the team culture are important. And both also drove for underdog teams and did really well before stepping up to the top team. So they know how to take an inferior car and make it work.

It also signals that Cadillac isn't suffering for money, as they are only pandering to drivers that can bring sponsorships as opposed to ones that actually pay the team to drive. And for Checo, bringing a sponsor from North America is a good thing.

I really hope they do well, but it's hard to picture them doing much different than what my company did before Red Bull bought them.

As for the American drivers, the one name that everyone has talked about is still on the team that F1 totally turned away from the grid. He's never going to see the grid, as far as I can see, as he will never win a championship, thus getting a superlicence. Maybe Russell can chime on on F2, F3 and the other Jr series for American drivers.
 
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