I had to double take at next year's race length. The same thing that apply's to nascar can be said here- until they take away downforce and make them lift, we're going to keep having "problems".
Still. They've gone from 450 to 500 to twin 275's to 550 and now 600.
It's always been in kilometers.
You must not remember why they had to split the twin 275's. Drivers were getting light headed during the 500K race, but gossage wanted longer, so they split it up. Then they combined them and i guess no drivers complained, so we're going 600 now.
I remember, I just thought you thought it was a 550 kilo and now 600 kilo race.
Yeah, well the new DW12 cars don't even have power steering. When Hinchcliffe was on the TV broadcast of the Pocono race after Lap 1, he said it was really a physical challenge steering these cars at Indianapolis and Pocono. It must be really tough at Texas. I remember when there was that debacle over the attempted (and aborted) CART race at Texas, they said a car is turning 80% of the time at Texas, so it really must be a strain to constantly be steering a car without power steering at 3-4-5 G's.
