IndyCar: 2021 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix

[gnomesayin]

An inauspicious start. Hopefully they can do some racing eventually.

 

[RFK-PensekeFan]

Holy Crap!

 

[Kiante]

Bourdais has had a cursed season man, Foyt has another expensive weekend.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Bout time they settled down.

 

[RFK-PensekeFan]

Bout time they settled down.

You were saying?

 

[Charlie Spencer]

You were saying?

Yeah, I apologize.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Hinchcliffe wasn't near McLaughlin

 

[RFK-PensekeFan]

Yeah, I apologize.

No problem.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

You would have to toss out a hook and drag me to pit road before I gave up position.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Saw that coming before they went green.

 

[RFK-PensekeFan]

Big jam up in turn two!

 

[ToyYoda]

Kinda glad I didn’t go downtown today to watch this cautionfest.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Derpy race.

 

[gnomesayin]

Saw that coming before they went green.

Big jam up in turn two!

Thanks for helping me realize that I thought I was watching live, but was about a minute behind. Forgot I backed it up earlier to rewatch the first lap fracas.

Now I see it. LOL.

 

[Kiante]

This experiment needs some work.

 

[Kiante]

Takuma had no where to go...

Yikes man.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Low percentage move by Will.

 

[Mispeedway15]

Is Knoxville Iowa next?

 

[gnomesayin]

I think Tracy is right, that's on Power.

 

[aunty dive]

Get out of the car, Jimmie.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Is Knoxville Iowa next?

Roger's going put dirt down at Indy.

 

[kkfan91]

...I think the track may be a just a bit to tight

 

[Kiante]

Low percentage move by Will.

Roger is going to demote Power to V8 Supercars.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Lol

 

[TexasRaceLady]

This has been a fiasco from the start. Crazy.

 

[Kiante]

...I think the track may be a just a bit to tight

I agree, it needs to be a tad bit wider.

This is about the bumpiest track I've seen since San Jose, too.

 

[Mispeedway15]

The restart zone is horrible. There’s a reason Mid Ohio has it on the backstretch

 

[Tony_K]

I'm starting to feel embarrassed for Indycar.

 

[RFK-PensekeFan]

It's a long day for Team Penske

 

[gnomesayin]

In 2019, WoO made a much hyped visit to Nashville when they covered the Fairgrounds with dirt. The Music City Nationals. Had a huge crowd show up, and it was probably the worst race of the year, because the track was too tight, narrow, and surface was poor.

Major shades of that here, unfortunately.

 

[FLRacingFan]

The restart zone is horrible. There’s a reason Mid Ohio has it on the backstretch

They started on the back side of the bridge, they need to restart there too. Doing it in the janky stadium section is just asking for a mess.

 

[Kiante]

A couple years ago, WoO made a much hyped visit to Nashville when they covered the Fairgrounds with dirt. The Music City Nationals. Had a huge crowd show up, and it was probably the worst race of the year, because the track was too tight, narrow, and surface was poor.

Major shades of that here, unfortunately.

It's an unfortunate growing pain.

The backdrop is wonderful in Nashville, but the group behind the scenes and track designers are going to have to come up with a solution for these issues.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Okay, which was a bigger cluster, this or Cup at COTA? The Cup guys can at least claim they couldn't see what they were doing.

 

[Kiante]

Okay, which was a bigger cluster, this or Cup at COTA? The Cup guys can at least claim they couldn't see what they were doing.

I think the amount of passing zones are there, just this car is a tad bit wide. Also, drivers will need to finish passes ASAP, going side-by-side through these corners are tough business.

 

[FLRacingFan]

With everything that has gone into making this a marquee event, it's a shame that it is on a dead cable channel.

This is turning out to be the most merciful aspect so far.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

I don’t think I’d shed a tear if I never saw this track on the schedule again.

 

[RFK-PensekeFan]

 

[gnomesayin]

Oh, they were shooting for Monaco style racing. Now it makes more sense.

I don’t think I’d shed a tear if I never saw this track on the schedule again.

I think it's a bridge in search of a track.

 

[Kiante]

Oh, they were shooting for Monaco style racing. Now it makes more sense.



I think it's a bridge in search of a track.

Long Beach is Monaco-esque enough.

Let Nashville be Nashville, if the track was a bit wider as @kkfan91 mentioned. I think this would be a hit.

 

[Reck]

Jimmie sure is testing the patience of a patient man.