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4/3/23, 11:51 AM | #11 | ||
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Race Count This Year: 6 Race Count Last Year: 25 Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 9,207 |
I attended every IRL race there from 2000 - 2004 and they blew the doors off any NASCRAP event in that era.
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4/3/23, 12:08 PM |
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Re: IndyCar at Texas
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Indy Cars don't make as good of a billboard as NASCAR. Same as winged sprints. I remember being at a Williams Grove USAC race in 1996. A couple of people asked me how I knew which car was which, without the wing.
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4/3/23, 12:09 PM | #13 | ||
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Race Count Last Year: 48 Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 18,526 |
I also started in 1965; this will be #59 for me. Did you skip any?
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4/3/23, 6:11 PM |
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Re: IndyCar at Texas
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4/3/23, 6:13 PM |
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Re: IndyCar at Texas
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4/3/23, 6:29 PM | #16 | |
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Only missed the Covid year. Thought about coming down to 16th street and hanging out and listening and watching the jumbo-tron but i didn’t want to be tortured.
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4/3/23, 6:57 PM | #17 | |
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At its peak it was 200,000 but Texas is at around 100,000 or less seats now.
The WoO were in the same general area as Texas but as far as I know there was no cross promotion. You have to think at least older folks like both because of the open wheel connection. IndyCar is essentially just the skeleton of Cart and in most people’s opinion a minor league to both Nascar and F1. |
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4/4/23, 6:11 PM |
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Re: IndyCar at Texas
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The race was mostly great, but there should be a little bit of changes to the aero so the leaders don't break away after 20 or so consecutive green flag laps.
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4/4/23, 6:53 PM |
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Re: IndyCar at Texas
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4/4/23, 9:33 PM |
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Having watched CART at MIS in the 90s, I could EASILY be talked into going back there for an IndyCar race.
But it is just going to happen I thought the Texas race this past weekend was top shelf. It was racing. The fastest cars were pulling away and the rest were trying to catch up.
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