2015 IndyCar season

TBK001 · **Joined:** Sun May 25, 2014 11:56 pm **Posts:** 59

Seems like Phoenix is confirmed, judging by what Mark Miles said at the championship banquet.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:53 am

IndyCar test at Road America confirmed to be run on September 22 and will also benefit the Wilson Children's Fund.
http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/12130 ... or-sept-22

While the search for a new director of competition is still ongoing, Mark Miles will be working with the series more.
http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/12130 ... ds-on-role

racer612008 · PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:57 pm

Milwaukee still needs a promoter for next season
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/possible ... 80971.html

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 1:52 pm

trouble at St Pete?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninter ... ix/2245046

iks · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 5:25 am

Probably just typical political bullshit from a city.

It's people like this that kill races though:

Quote:

But others indicated they were willing to play hardball. Council member Amy Foster said that the city has progressed in visibility in the past decade and now has its own momentum. She said she wasn't sure the Grand Prix was "the only thing" that made the city relevant these days.

"I do feel, frankly, that we're a different city than when this race started," she said.

In other words she thinks the race is irrelevant. Yes, St. Petersburg is such a great city. :roll:

Starlancer · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 11:30 am

Notability wise, maybe she was thinking she was in Russia.

Really though, nobody gives a fuck about St Petersburg, Florida outside of a small segment of racing fans.

kals · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:09 pm

St Pete is a shitty and overrated circuit. I've never understood the fascination. If that circuit is dropped and is replaced by Phoenix or Road America (which we know is already confirmed), then that's a good thing.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:27 pm

I remember when it was proposed for champcar,it was mooted to be the "new Cleveland " because of the airport start finish straight. Hardly.

Even during the height of my champcar fanboyism there was was a massive "is that it?" Feeling about the track. Didn't shed any tears when it defected to the irl and they opened up the kerbs to make the irls first ever road course race have lap times that couldn't be shown up by champcar from 2 years previous.

How it managed to bag the prestigious opening slot for so long I'll never know

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:31 pm

Its a staple of consistensy at least. I hope it stays just because of that.

electrodevo · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:54 pm

codename_47 wrote:

I remember when it was proposed for champcar,it was mooted to be the "new Cleveland " because of the airport start finish straight. Hardly.

It's unfortunate that they use so little of the airport. I can think of better "theoretical" circuits for the St. Petersburg area, but none really downtown (where I'm sure the council wants to be) that don't involve closing both the runways.

I imagine weather is a big reason for the "opening" start date, same with why Homestead usually gets early or late races, and the Daytona July race (before the lights) used to start at 10AM. February and November is pretty nice down here. Summer, not so much.

Running an Indycar race in St. Pete in July would be as stupid as, er, Indycar in Houston in July or Indycar at Fontana in July...

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:34 pm

while St. Pete isn't the best of street circuits, it has to stay. The last thing IndyCar needs right now is more lost races/events. Since 2010, IndyCar has lost 18 races that were either on the schedule previously or was scheduled but later canceled (including next season's lost events of Fontana and NOLA)

racer612008 · PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:48 am

some more races have been confirmed with the PWC schedule being released:

Confirmed so far:
March 13, 2016 - Streets of St. Petersburg
April 17, 2016 - Streets of Long Beach
April 24, 2016 - Barber Motorsports Park
May 14, 2016 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Road Course
May 29, 2016 - 100th Indianapolis 500 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway
June 4, 2016 - The Raceway at Belle Isle
June 5, 2016 - The Raceway at Belle Isle
June 26, 2016 - Road America
July 30 or 31, 2016 - Mid Ohio Sports Car Course
September 4, 2016 - Streets of Boston Seaport District

rumored dates:
April 4, 2016 - Phoenix International Raceway - (series in talks, local media reported this date)
September 18, 2016 - Sonoma Raceway - (PWC running on this weekend there but didn't say if it was supporting IndyCar)

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:07 pm

https://instagram.com/p/7sg5QbhWL8/

https://instagram.com/p/7sght6jMqH/

A champ car at road america? *edit* maybe next week

They need to stop doing this to me :8:

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:44 pm

Killing me here!

pending · PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:14 pm

What were they doing with them?

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:23 pm

Quote:

playing around with

TBK001 · **Joined:** Sun May 25, 2014 11:56 pm **Posts:** 59

Or it could be a way to get extra testing without using up their allocation with Indycar. Who knows, maybe they want to have Daly at some point in 2016? If it isn't just some demo run that is.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:56 pm

Max Chilton interested in running in IndyCar next season, also looking at WEC
http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/12156 ... car-switch

iks · PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:56 am

He's had what, one season in Indy Lights? :roll:

I can hear it now:

Scott Goodyear: "Amazing Indy 500 rookie Max Chilton is a veteran of Formula One, following in the steps of Nigel Mansell and Juan Montoya."

Or something like that.

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