Quote from: Troy01505 on June 21, 2021, 08:41:11 AM
Teams need to buy it out as cheap as possible and take over full control

Why would they buy it back, they sold it for a reason?

CAMS should be given it back for free

Neither

The road course race before the 500 is just there to try and restore a "full month of May" tradition

The August event is a double header with NASCAR and the Brickyard 400.... The NASCAR race was lagging and they think a dual bill with indycars will raise interest

I think the only Indycar race at IMS should be the 500

They've been throwing around summer series ideas for 25 years, the only people who were ever really interested in the summer series idea were were mid-90s Channel 7 management, and indeed the series started making a slight shift towards summer in 1996, before the black wiggle decided he knew what was best

Quote from: djr18fan on June 03, 2021, 05:03:51 PM
And the purpose of paddle shift is to reduce costs

https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/06/03/why-supercars-is-serious-about-paddle-shift-auto-blip/

They also then need to introduce traction control, so spinning the rear wheels out of a corner and losing control hitting a wall can't happen, thus reducing repair costs. Same as we need ABS, so a driver can't lock a brake and slide into the wall, thus reducing repair costs.

Maybe we need to race Isle of Man TT style too, less wheel to wheel racing will reduce costs too

Racing costs money, period.

An interesting race, and well deserved win by Helio, a worthy addition to the four timer club, though win number 2 will always be contentious

On another note, the lack of crashes this month, and the way the race was run, show how much the race has been dumbed down in the name of entertainment, the cars are not the challenge to drive that they once were

Quote from: Troy01505 on May 21, 2021, 08:41:08 AM

Quote from: murph_fan51 on May 19, 2021, 08:19:52 PM
This would be good 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/125144126/greg-murphy-eyeing-incredible-return-to-race-at-this-years-bathurst-1000

If it was a similar scenario to Rusty where he is there to mentor a future superstar and groom some mongrel into them then I'd support it but if he teamed up with a has been or a hack chasing an easy payday and some free publicity then I'd rather see him in the commentary team.

Except that Rusty isn't there to mentor...

Great to see it has its own forum, right at a critical time for the class it seems.

Where have all the Porsche's etc... gone?

Quote from: djr18fan on May 16, 2021, 07:04:19 AM
A lot of nostalgia being posted. Again.

The Mustang had it's first test in November 18 prior racing from the start of the 2019 season.
The ZBs first run was in sept 17 prior to racing from the start of the 2018 season.

That suggests not seeing a completed gen3 car on track by mid 2021 does not spell disaster.

I reckon the engines are the main issue at this point.

Mustang and ZB were just new skins on the existing platform


Completely different to a ground up brand new Gen3

Quote from: djr18fan on May 17, 2021, 04:29:06 AM

Quote from: CP on May 17, 2021, 12:39:45 AM
With some of ideas floating around for Gen3 with paddle shifters, roof hatches for driver extraction, production based engines, closer to road going styling cues and the like, it's almost as if there are a group of cars that feature all of this and you can buy them straight off the shelf.

Sure, they'll lose a little bit of an engineering edge with the ruleset they are based around, and they are a little power restricted (which can be taken off) but you can buy them for around the same price as what they're quoting for the Gen3 car anyway.

Surely building the new ruleset around specced up GT4 cars wouldn't do the series any harm? Besides, what other category can you buy ready to go Mustangs and Camaros straight from the factory?

There would still be a need for engine, aero, cof & possibly weight changes to cars from other formula in order to achieve parity. Given the cost of all that - may as well control your own destiny? I prefer technical parity ahead of BOP. Don't want to see some cars suit some tracks & not others, most teams running the same car & changing cars when better models appear. Continuity builds fan support.

What parity would need to be done, GT4 parity is handled by SRO

Technical parity is the same as BoP

Cars suit some tracks and not others as is, and always have.

Teams swap models when better cars appear as is, why have Kelly's and Blanchards gone to the Mustang after it cleaned up in DJRTP's hands?

Quote from: Troy01505 on May 15, 2021, 06:56:48 AM
He took the sport from tears to glory

What were the tears he started with?