FLRacingFan
Team Owner
Big weekend at the bull ring. Watching Indy cars rip around this place is amazing.
This was taken during ARCA last week…you lose the entrance to turn 3/end of the back straight. They’re adding video boards in turns 2 and 4 to try to make up, but…Three stories? How much of the view of the back stretch is blocked from the grandstand seats?
It’s new for this year, but I’m not sure when it was announced. I only first saw it last week. I don’t think it’s terrible or even necessarily bad - you should be able to see most of the track no matter what at Iowa - but I would certainly be a bit miffed if I bought tickets over there and there was an unexpected obstruction come race day.How long has that infield suite been there? Were those who bought grandstand tickets already aware it was there or was it a late addition? I’d be kind of angry if I bought tickets in advance, only to find that this thing was built and now partially blocking my view.
It’s new for this year, but I’m not sure when it was announced. I only first saw it last week. I don’t think it’s terrible or even necessarily bad - you should be able to see most of the track no matter what at Iowa - but I would certainly be a bit miffed if I bought tickets over there and there was an unexpected obstruction come race day.
It’s something every week with that bunch. I don’t think Herta has had a normal race in over a year or something.Colton Herta's day is essentially ruined by a wheelnut.
Palou is having the season that I was expecting (not wanting, but expecting) Pato to have.With Alex Palou, I know the quality of the drivers around him much more strongly than I do Max Verstappen and the F1 grid of 2023. Sounds weird, but I would happily explain further. Point is, I also know Palou is in a spec chassis and is managing, once again against grown, experienced, professional racing drivers, that he is exceptionally good. If he never gets a shot in F1, it isn't because he hasn't shown himself to be capable of racing there. It's because F1 has mutated in ways that will ultimately bring it down from the lofty heights they are achieving.
IndyCar has to find a pathway for WoO stars to enter the series as it was back in the day. NASCAR winning all the young grassroots stars is still the one thing that holds IndyCar back.Josef is pretty much everything Indycar allegedly needs for a return to relevance, but obviously he alone is not capable of doing that without appreciable lifting from promotional partners and people with enormous checkbooks. He won't win the title this year but he's practically assured to finish second in points with a goodly number of wins including The One That Really Counts. Could be a lot worse for him.
IndyCar has to find a pathway for WoO stars to enter the series as it was back in the day. NASCAR winning all the young grassroots stars is still the one thing that holds IndyCar back.