Official 2024 Indycar Season Thread

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chrismscotland

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I know its not as popular as F1 on here (although lets see if the 2024 keeps being as exciting as Bahrain was!) - its the first Indycar race this weekend as well so I thought it would be an idea to at least have a season thread!

First up St Pete next Sunday at 4PM!

Season Schedule 2024 (UK Start Times) - All on Sky Sports F1

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Feek said:
Every year I try and watch some Indycar and every year I just sort of drift away from it. I think it’s an unfamiliarity with most of the drivers (and I appreciate that if I watched more, that problem would go away), the identical cars and the way the show is produced. It’s just sooooo American!
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I've watched on/off for years and I'm ashamed to admit it was probably Grosjean moving there in 2021 that made me tune in more, since then there's even more Brits and its helped by being pretty competitive at the front as well. Also helps its often live on a Sunday evening when there's naff all else on!
But yeah its very very American!
 
Fantastic looking grid with some real surprises out there as well; not many would have given Rosenqvist or Grosjean a chance of making the Fast 6 after joining Meyer Shank and Juncos Hollinger over the winter.

Would have liked to see Ilott higher up the grid though; still possible the Arrow McLaren isn't great - fine in the hands of Pato O'Ward in 3rd but Alex Rossi just ahead of Ilott in 15th.

Ah well no Grand Prix today so this should be a nice replacement!

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A really poor spectacle; as others have said felt like an ad for the "Thermal Club" a lot of the time. Seems to me like it was effectively a test session (they've had about 8 hours of testing across Friday and Sat) with an exhibition race tacked on the end.
Ah well a month until Long Beach; at least that should be a proper race!
 
Forgot that Theo Pourchaire was making his Indycar debut this weekend for Arrow McLaren; replacing the injured (still) David Malukas.
Calum Illott had been standing in but he's on WEC duty at Imola this weekend
 
Psycho Ned said:
Should be a good race today, proper decent circuit. See who ends up going gardening by the fountain :p

Watching the anthem and wonder how long it'll be before F1 starts having the girlfriends and wives on the grid with the drivers! I guess most of them don't do the circuit round the world like these races all being in the States.
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Give it until Miami!
 
the-evaluator said:
I had to give up watching it. The 10 second or so offset between the audio and video made it unwatchable.

I want to enjoy IndyCar, but I also want the quality of the program not be rubbish.
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Lol I actually thought the audio delay was down to how I was watching it; didn't realise it was like that on Sky as well!
 
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Yeah very strange; how the hell do two cars in a 3 car team think a rule has changed but 1 (Power) doesnt? Even he seemed to sound fairly skeptical when interviewed yesterday; basically saying that if he had noticed the push to pass working he would have "radioed the team to ask"
 
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