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MoMike
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Which do you enjoy viewing more? An IRL road course, or an IRL oval race?
I'd tune in to an oval before an open wheel roadcourse.
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I'd tune in to an oval before an open wheel roadcourse.
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VaDirt
Dirt Track Fanatic
Oval tracks all the way. I watch both, but much prefer the ovals.
blue92
Team Owner
Road courses all the way. when I drive to work I don't come across any ovals, I do have to turn right and left. 
wilson89
Team Owner
About the same but I would lean more towards Road courses since there is a better chance a Target or Penske car might not win.
Road courses all the way. when I drive to work I don't come across any ovals, I do have to turn right and left.
You should drive in Jersey
blue92
Team Owner
You should drive in Jersey
Lot of traffic circles eh? Yea there's still one or two here in Texas. I drive out of my way to avoid them.
Lot of traffic circles eh? Yea there's still one or two here in Texas. I drive out of my way to avoid them.
seems around my area they are adding more
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SlowNeasy
Guest
i can't really pick a preference for one or the other. i like them both. the road courses are certainly more challenging and show off a driver's ability more than ovals. guess that means i lean towards the road courses. <g>
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chromehorn
Guest
road course.
Would love to see IRL cars balls out at Dega or Daytona just once.
Would love to see IRL cars balls out at Dega or Daytona just once.
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chromehorn
Guest
Wouldn't it be awesome though?
it would be amazing but geez they run 230 at Indy and they need to break for turns there, Talladega geez I can't even think how fast they'd be going, not to mention that if they crash someones probably dead
Compromise. IRL run the Daytona Road Course.
even then still at least 1/3 of that course is run on the banking if not 1/2
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MoMike
Guest
Hey, they've got more protection than the bikes do.........get em' out there.
VaDirt
Dirt Track Fanatic
For y'all that think IRL should run 'dega or Daytona, apparently you haven't see this video. Mario was lucky that day, and the speeds at the high banks would ludricous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMeE9NAh60I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMeE9NAh60I
thats basically what my arguement was
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MoMike
Guest
Yeah, but that could happen even at any 1.5 mile oval if they hit a piece of debris, like I believe he did, at Indy.
Refresh my memory, did he walk away?
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chromehorn
Guest
I've seen it before but so what? 200 mph will kill you just as much as 260. What does an IRL car top out at anyway?
wilson89
Team Owner
260 is way to unsafe. If was just as safe as 200 they wouldnt have to keep slowing the cars down. Take in note Scott Brayton 1996 running laps near 235 and Tony Renna in 2003 Turn lap time of 228.
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chromehorn
Guest
Good point wilson89.
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foehammer111
Guest
Personally, I like both ovals and road courses for different reasons.
IMO, IRL has one of the best balanced schedules between oval, street, and road courses. The tracks they race at aren't always the best, but there's a lot of variety. I wish other series like NASCAR would race at more road courses or even a street course.
Hell, I'd love to see F1 try out an oval race. Maybe that will be the answer to the lack of passing in F1 recently.
IMO, IRL has one of the best balanced schedules between oval, street, and road courses. The tracks they race at aren't always the best, but there's a lot of variety. I wish other series like NASCAR would race at more road courses or even a street course.
Hell, I'd love to see F1 try out an oval race. Maybe that will be the answer to the lack of passing in F1 recently.