Re: Tony George-Nothing Wrong With Track
- From: SimRacer <NOsimracer68@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:34 -0400
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:56:00 -0400, "Crusader" <cru357@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Crusader-who thinks 9 degrees & groovy ain't fit fer stockcars!
Agreed, but only on tracks longer than ¾ mile. Flat and groovy would
work fine at short tracks - where one would not be approaching 205mph
going into turns 1 and 3.
Tony George is right tho, that track was ground when they had the 3-4
car test on it, it wasn't IMS's fault IMO. Wasn't Goodyear's either
really, there's only so much they could have been expected to learn
from a few hot laps from 2-3 different cars. No, IMO, it comes down to
NASCAR and the teams. The teams were polled as to where *they* wanted
many-car open tests and Indy did not get enough votes. And to NASCAR,
this is what they get for 1) giving into the owners and NOT completing
the 2-year CoT phase in and 2) for building a car so safe that it
ended up too tall, too right-side heavy, and has too little downforce
to work with "last year's" tires - which Goodyear was forced to use
when they (see #1) went all CoT all the time in one less year than was
originally planned. I'd say the Indy Fiasco is a blaring and classic
example of The Law of Unintended Consequences.
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