Based on pit road those turn numbers make no sense.
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Based on pit road those turn numbers make no sense.
S/F line is on 3rd St so they have the Capitol building directly in the backdrop. No room for the pit lane to be there though.
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I'm just really skeptical of them being able to pull this off on such a compressed timeline. They'll probably do it, but there's already signs of them scrambling to get the planning issues staffed (and that happens before they actually get stuff done).
But agree, should look pretty dang cool. Man, though - late August in DC is brutal.
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Those photos depict an "anti-clockwise" racing line - is that the plan? The pit lane orientation looks clockwise.
From what they’ve rendered I think the cars taking the first turn will take the NW-bound lanes on the far side of the street and pit road will be a sharp entry into the nearside SE-bound lanes.
I’m impressed they managed to come up with a layout with only one right-hand turn. That seems like some kind of record low for a street course.
Lime Rock has only one real left-hander.
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Got it - so it will be counterclockwise.
It looks like your average American steet course but it's only gonna be held once and this is quite clearly not so much about the track but about the location and the event itself.
Looking forward to it.
Looking forward to it.
F2 will compete at Miami and Canada, that likely means Colton won't compete at Indy.
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it" -George Carlin.
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IndyCar to exclude non-chartered teams from races other than Indy 500 in ‘27
IndyCar will stop letting open entries compete in races other than the Indy 500 after this season, in a move the series hopes will help suppliers plan better but could also assist in raising charter values.
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Open test next week at IMS.
How much trouble is it for an unchartered team to put together a car for a single race? Is finishing 33rd in the I500 profitable?"It's a big club, and you ain't in it" -George Carlin.
IndyCar to exclude non-chartered teams from races other than Indy 500 in ‘27
IndyCar will stop letting open entries compete in races other than the Indy 500 after this season, in a move the series hopes will help suppliers plan better but could also assist in raising charter values.
There was pretty much no way anybody was going to be able to compete unchartered come 2028 when the Honda and Chevy factory entries bring the number of chartered teams up to the maximum grid capacity of 27. This is just getting there a year earlier, and there really wasn’t any chance of anyone running unchartered over the next season and a half as it’s become very apparent PREMA have no prospects of being sold or invested in right before a massive regulation change."It's a big club, and you ain't in it" -George Carlin.
IndyCar to exclude non-chartered teams from races other than Indy 500 in ‘27
IndyCar will stop letting open entries compete in races other than the Indy 500 after this season, in a move the series hopes will help suppliers plan better but could also assist in raising charter values.
It used to be much more of a thing before the full-time field grew to the size it is now. RLL have fielded one-offs in recent years to give Lundgaard and Jüri Vips a taste of INDYCAR. Scotty Mac got his debut in a one-off Penske ride in St. Pete at the end of 2020. MSR and JHR both gradually developed from part-time entries into full-time multi-car entrants. Quite a few teams with extra entries for the 500 have also fielded the same car at the Indy GP over the years. But there wasn’t the same strain on resources then as there is now with 25+ regular entries. Chevy and Honda lose money on each engine lease, and that math won’t get any better when the new engines come on line.
That's why I wish Toyota would come back, Chevy and Honda telling Indycar we are are only making so many, take it or leave it.
Toyota coming back would be huge but I don’t think it increases the appetite for more cars outside of Indy. The cap of 27 is mostly imposed by safety concerns and pit lane/paddock capacity. Where it would help the most would probably be getting north of 33 entries at the 500 and reintroducing bumping, since we’re not getting it this year. The current arrangement is just such a strong limiting factor with regard to both the engine themselves and the engine technicians that come with them. Though the economic realities of the sport now also dictate you probably won’t ever see more than 36 or so entries ever again - almost nobody likes to risk all that time and that money to not even make the field anymore.
Legacy MC will provide some engineering and pit crew talent to McLaren on RHR’s entry at the 500. Wouldn’t be surprised to see JJ expand the team further into INDYCAR later down the road.
The initial target was for the car to be 85-100 pounds lighter, sounds like that’s well on track: