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Post by indycals on Jan 14, 2011 0:34:33 GMT -5
I think that is good idea, however with GPS we could have the pacer lights in the cockpit. Each car would have to maintain their relative position. With today's technology you could detect cheating and penalize the driver. Well I was just joking.  If we ran that rule in today's situation we would never have a lead change. The Pacer Lights rule only works good on an unreliable field of cars. Exactly. As much as it sucked seeing your favorite driver blow up, it DID an an element of excitement and unpredictability to the race. |
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Post by Calvin on Jan 14, 2011 1:36:20 GMT -5
Well I was just joking. If we ran that rule in today's situation we would never have a lead change. The Pacer Lights rule only works good on an unreliable field of cars. Exactly. As much as it sucked seeing your favorite driver blow up, it DID an an element of excitement and unpredictability to the race. When you think about it most or I should say a lot of the races in the history of indy have been won because the best car or the leading car in the closing laps had mechanical trouble. 1978 Unser basically won because Ongais blew 1977 Foyt won because Johncock blew 1976 Rutherford won basically because Foyt had shock trouble. 1975 Dallenbach had it won but his blew. 1974 Rutherford won because Foyt blew 1973 well everyone seem to blow up.... 1972 Bettenhausen had trouble 1971 Donohue had trouble so the list goes on...... But I think the only way we will see an engine blow up at Indy this year is if Mario Andretti jumps in a car. ;D I like Mario but it just blows me away (no pun intended) how much trouble he had at Indy. |
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Post by indycals on Jan 14, 2011 1:48:23 GMT -5
1979 Mears won because Al Unser blew up and Bobby Unser had a stuck gearbox
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Post by Calvin on Jan 14, 2011 1:52:33 GMT -5
Yep just like 1994, 1992, 1987, 1967, 1966, 1962, ....
but I'd have to say the 70's was the decade of mechanical troubles in the lead.
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Post by SWT500 on Jan 14, 2011 13:39:28 GMT -5
If one examines in detail the four triumphs enjoyed by A.J. Foyt, one could argue that he deserved none of them. In 1961, Sachs had the race in hand when, instead of slowing, chose to pit for a RR. Clint Brawner never forgave him and called him a coward. In 1964, Ward's car was much faster, as were others, but Foyt held off all challengers. In 1967, the turbine had everyone covered until it broke and in 1977, Foyt was a sure runner up to Johncock, before the latter's crankshaft broke. On the other hand, A.J. should have one in 1975 and 1976, so it apparently all evens out.
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Post by harveythedog2 on Jan 14, 2011 13:44:26 GMT -5
Hey Steve, Tell Mario it all evens out! ;D
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Post by billgtp on Mar 12, 2011 19:46:37 GMT -5
I really dont care. To me the racing has sucked since Tony ruined it with IRL. I dont care for the spec. cars. Why cant they get back to what CART was? The whole thing reminds me of Nascar.
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Post by trevor83 on Mar 12, 2011 21:19:19 GMT -5
You must have hated Champcar in 2007 then.
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Post by stonecold44 on Mar 27, 2011 18:07:48 GMT -5
The restarts today were perilous at best. Looks like it needs some tweaking. I hope they don't implement it at Indy this year.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 18:22:06 GMT -5
Tweak the whole thing back to the drawing board.
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Post by Calvin on Mar 27, 2011 19:00:34 GMT -5
As AJ Foyt would say: "Bumper cars at kitty land"
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Post by trevor83 on Mar 27, 2011 20:08:28 GMT -5
At Indy I would think they have a longer distance and a less sharp turn to sort it out by. I like that they are starting the race closer to the start/finish, that will be a lot better at Indy. Will be more like the old days when the pace car stayed on track thru turn 4.
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If we ran that rule in today's situation we would never have a lead change. The Pacer Lights rule only works good on an unreliable field of cars.
