Edmonton Indy

[Mantis]

Anyone going? I am leaving Calgary in about an hour, sitting in grandstand 10. If anyone is attending send me a PM, maybe we can meet up.

[Mang]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Don't forget to pick up a free souvenir Indy tire! (Used of course) If you're lucky it may come with a rim or get a Nascar tire!

I worked at the Indy a couple of times... always wanted one of them. Never had the room in my car to bring one back

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Fucking IRL ruined open wheel racing in NA why the **** would i support them in any way

[RONDAL]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Fucking IRL ruined open wheel racing in NA why the **** would i support them in any way

agreed

[sabbySC]

Re: Edmonton Indy

At the end of the day if you don't support them, you won't have anything to support. What other racing of this caliber comes to Alberta? I personally don't care for the rich folk sport of open wheel racing, but I do recognize that we need any form of auto racing we can atract to this province.

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

There are plenty of different forms of racing you can go support you just have to travel a little. We don't get any other form of racing in this province because this province doesn't have any race tracks!

The only savior of open wheel racing in NA is these guys and they are doing a great job so far with the lower classes and growing every year.
http://www.f2000championshipseries.com/
http://www.f1600series.com/
http://www.atlanticchampionshipseries.com/

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Must of been hard to get a seat.

[bonfire]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Any chance I can get a Coles notes on why they ruined open wheel racing?

I have no idea.

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Ah the downfall of Open Wheel racing in North America is a classic tale of greed betrayal and despair.

Sad thing it is the second time it has happened obviously they never learned from the first split between USAC and CART way back in the day.

Following the late 80's and early 90's Cart/Indycar was at the height of its popularity great drivers good mix of tracks sponsorship money great racing etc

Mid 90's roll around and Tony George who runs the Indy 500 wants all the money and power for himself. Meanwhile the rest of the teams want to hold other races in may and shorten the amount of time spent at INDY then it was 4 weeks spent at the speedway and Tony made everyone pay for each sheet of toilet paper they used and the air they where breathing. Teams say drop it to 2 weeks and they will hold another race earlier in the month thus begins the fighting. (Now a days they only spend 2 weeks at Indy go figure )

Tony George sets up his own series The Idiot Racing League (IRL) in 94ish and starts it racing by 96 all the quality teams split with INDY and are the Championship auto racing teams (CART). So cart has all the good teams Penske, Newman Haas, Players Forseyth, Ganasi, etc and run most of the road courses the IRL has the INDY 500 and 100% pay drivers trying to kill themselves and others at only ovals as they haven't learned how to turn right yet. As the split took half the sponsorship money away from each then the half the TV ratings then everybody got tired of it all and Nascar took all the money. So by the late 90's the teams of CART are running out of money and have no sponsorship and a shitty TV deal but still good attendance at the race tracks say 150K at the molson indy toronto compared to last years IRL Toronto indy of 15K. So the CART teams are running out of money while Tony and his IRL lose massive amounts of money but he still has the deep pockets and the Indy 500. Eventually due to no more money CART/Champcar folds and is re-absorbed by the IRL and renamed ITARDZOD INDY CAR WHO GIVES THE **** SOMETHING OR OTHER. Some teams come over Ganasi etc but the rest say **** it all and retire from racing.

Now with no competition left IRL decides to kill open wheel racing buy making it a spec racer series with the 3rd ugliest car ever made and to top it off put rear fenders on it thanks DULLARA.

O by the way i am slightly biased towards the CART side of things.

[P Arkus]

Re: Edmonton Indy

lol with your lack of proper grammer in the above post, you sound kind of drunk and angry too Roger. But a good explanation none the less. Thank you

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Makes me so angry when I remember it I used to love going to the Toronto and Vancouver Indy's as a kid.

Ha ha just re-read my post wow I wish I was drunk that would at least give me an excuse but it was just blind rage i guess.

At least i didn't snap mentally like this guy.

http://champcar-ws.com/

He keeps the series alive in his mind and on the internet.

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Well thats the end of that.

http://www.thespec.com/sports/articl...3-indycar-race

wonder if we get to keep running at the airport next year.

and LOL at the drivers liked the track for the long straights and wide corners.

They love to make **** up damn track is as boring as racing on a wide open runway wait a minute!

[Tuna]

Re: Edmonton Indy

I'm kind of disappointed as I was hoping to try to make it in the next year or 2. I'm not a major fan or anything just heard it's a really fun time and, well, it's racing.

[R-Audi]

Re: Edmonton Indy

Read on twitter yesterday that Indy might be coming back to Alberta.. but this time Calgary! Apparently there are plans to have the track done on the Stampede grounds... not sure how concrete any of this is.

[RSS]

Re: Edmonton Indy

That Stampede rumor is almost as old as Castrol raceway is building a road course rumor. But Indycar did mention that they would have 2 Canadian races this year Toronto and ? I am thinking Montreal personally.