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This is embarrassing. Playing out just as everyone else expected.

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IndyCar video game delayed beyond 2023

Motorsport Games announced in an earnings call on Friday that its dedicated IndyCar game will not be released in 2023, as the company’s 2022 fourth-quarter financial report painted a grim pic…
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What a joke. If we can have a damn World of Outlaws game, we can have an IndyCar game
 
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Don't sweat it. They will go back to Iracing, or another platform and then everybody will forget about it. After this, they will probably be more careful to pick a good one. I guess Iracing is the best one, and they aren't going to hold a grudge if they can make money instead.

It's not a catastrophic blunder that's going to destroy the sport. We got over the split, so this by comparison is nothing.
 
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Attending my first Indy car race this weekend! I don't watch enough of the series to know car designs, so I'm going to be slightly confused as to which car is which driver and what the drivers car numbers are. Still, I'm super pumped to see these cars race in person for the first time.
 
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Brentford said:
Attending my first Indy car race this weekend! I don't watch enough of the series to know car designs, so I'm going to be slightly confused as to which car is which driver and what the drivers car numbers are. Still, I'm super pumped to see these cars race in person for the first time.
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I never thought I'd be going to TMS after the races two years ago, but here I am, flying to TX tomorrow. You going to any of the other races this weekend?
 
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World of Outlaws are running at Devil's Bowl in Mesquite too on Friday and Saturday night. Even times out well to combine with the Truck race. Yes, I'm going to all of it. LOL
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Thanks for letting me know! I kept looking for some local racing that ran on Friday night, but somehow I didn't catch that one. We've got plans Friday, but if we finish up in time, I might have to head that way. I'm not familiar with WOO either. If we decide last minute to go, could we still catch it? Or do tickets typically sell out?
 
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Brentford said:
Thanks for letting me know! I kept looking for some local racing that ran on Friday night, but somehow I didn't catch that one. We've got plans Friday, but if we finish up in time, I might have to head that way. I'm not familiar with WOO either. If we decide last minute to go, could we still catch it? Or do tickets typically sell out?
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Almost all their business is walkup; we're actually planning on buying tickets on site for everything this weekend. The Outlaws run both full shows (qualifying, heat races, feature) both Friday and Saturday night, so either night is an option potentially for you. You never know who's trailer will show up either beyond the guys who run with them every night. That goes from Rico Abreu to Kyle Larson.
 
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virtualbalboa said:
Almost all their business is walkup; we're actually planning on buying tickets on site for everything this weekend. The Outlaws run both full shows (qualifying, heat races, feature) both Friday and Saturday night, so either night is an option potentially for you. You never know who's trailer will show up either beyond the guys who run with them every night. That goes from Rico Abreu to Kyle Larson.
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Thanks for the information. Much appreciated!
 
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Brentford said:
Attending my first Indy car race this weekend! I don't watch enough of the series to know car designs, so I'm going to be slightly confused as to which car is which driver and what the drivers car numbers are. Still, I'm super pumped to see these cars race in person for the first time.
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Google 'IndyCar Spotters Guide'. You should find a .PDF file with car images and driver names. Usually it will fit on one page so you can print it.
 
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I think they should have free spotter guides at the track as well, or at least they always did at St Pete
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Yeah, I've collected a pile of these over the years and would anticipate that it along with earplugs will probably be distributed from some tent (though I could be wrong! I can very well be wrong!). I would assume the Indycar app will also have access to a spotters guide as well.
 
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Just to bump this - field for the Devil's Bowl race yesterday was top notch. Chili Bowl winner Buddy Kofoid showed up, as did Rico Abreu, Brent Marks (2022's biggest money winner in Sprint Cars), ASCS champ Blake Hahn, 10 time IRA champ Bill Balog, and the usual assortment of Outlaws regulars (including Kasey Kahne, who I think a lot of people forget runs full time with them). Might even see more guys tonight depending on who decides to try and truck in from all the states that cancelled weekly features.
 
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Just to bump this - field for the Devil's Bowl race yesterday was top notch. Chili Bowl winner Buddy Kofoid showed up, as did Rico Abreu, Brent Marks (2022's biggest money winner in Sprint Cars), ASCS champ Blake Hahn, 10 time IRA champ Bill Balog, and the usual assortment of Outlaws regulars (including Kasey Kahne, who I think a lot of people forget runs full time with them). Might even see more guys tonight depending on who decides to try and truck in from all the states that cancelled weekly features.
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If you are interested over in the short track racing section we have all kinds of sprint car threads.
 
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saw a video of indy @ texas in the past, and it seemed the chassis was SUPER low. was the old chassis lower than the new one? And what is the old chassis called? New one? Wonder indy has cool names like the F1 ones do
 
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saw a video of indy @ texas in the past, and it seemed the chassis was SUPER low. was the old chassis lower than the new one? And what is the old chassis called? New one? Wonder indy has cool names like the F1 ones do
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The first race at Texas was in the 96-97 IRL season, and the chassis that year were made by Lola, Reynard, Dallara , and GForce (Panoz).
 
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DanicaFreak said:
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saw a video of indy @ texas in the past, and it seemed the chassis was SUPER low. was the old chassis lower than the new one? And what is the old chassis called? New one? Wonder indy has cool names like the F1 ones do
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Open wheel cars have been pretty ride height sensitive for quite a while now so I don’t think it’s anything different, the current speedway cars also don’t have much topside downforce compared to the 2012-2014 and 2015-2017 aero kits.

There hasn’t really been a new chassis in IndyCar in quite a while, the IR-18 is just an updated DW12, but the tubs are the same. They’ve made a lot of safety and handling enhancements to it over the past decade or so. Before that the IR-05 was the spec chassis.
 
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FLRacingFan said:
Open wheel cars have been pretty ride height sensitive for quite a while now so I don’t think it’s anything different, the current speedway cars also don’t have much topside downforce compared to the 2012-2014 and 2015-2017 aero kits.

There hasn’t really been a new chassis in IndyCar in quite a while, the IR-18 is just an updated DW12, but the tubs are the same. They’ve made a lot of safety and handling enhancements to it over the past decade or so. Before that the IR-05 was the spec chassis.
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FLRacingFan said:
McLaren Indy 500 tribute liveries to Alain Prost’s MP4/2 Monaco GP winner, Lone Star JR’s M16C/D Indy 500 winner, and the F1 GTR Le Mans winner. Pretty well done.





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love the hommage

Whens the Senna inspired car?

Senna reminds of dale sr - sr even commented on Sennas passing. Senna knew no quitm knew no other job.
 
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Indy500 open test
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Streaming available both days:

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