In my opinion I think Indy car will start getting a bump with the Netflix series and F1 doing se well. People are getting interested in Racing again. Indy was flying high in the 1980's. Then the split with Cart and Indy set it back years. I think they can start to figure out ways to really grow it. Nascar i think is going to become a fringe racing series. It's just not that good.
I was just thinking this as I was watching the replay of the Indycar race in Alabama the other day, I really didn't appreciate how great it is to just be able to wave yellows at certain sectors rather than neutralizing the entire track behind a safety car every time. There were so many yellows in the Indycar race this weekend, I don't watch enough to know if that's normal or not, but it was really annoying. Not to mention the addition of the virtual safety car.
Indy has so many cautions because they just have so many cars on the track. I don't like f1 having just 20 cars but Indy has way to many cars. I would think F1 should move to 22 or 24.
F1 essentially has the same thing, drivers can use stored energy to increase power to attack or defend, it's just not limited by time.
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For me it's the personalities. I'm some how very invested in the drivers more than the racing. Lewis is my main driver to follow but honestly, love following many others like, Charels, Lando, Russel, Bottas, Kmag, Alonso and some others. Love the back stories and the such. Yes, Drive to Survive played a part in really getting me hooked. I started watching both F1 and Drive to Survive near the same time and it escalated quickly into something I loved following.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I felt like on several broadcast in years past there was talk about DRS going away in the future?? Or was that just hopes of the announcers??I wonder if that would go a ways to fixing the DRS trains you get sometimes in F1.
BTW if anyone didn't follow the Penske push to pass cheating drama from a couple weeks ago it's kind of a crazy story where there is still fallout happening. The tl;dr is they installed software that let them use it when no one else could.
Penske suspends Cindric and 3 others in the wake of a cheating scandal ahead of the Indianapolis 500
Roger Penske has suspended Tim Cindric, along with three others, for two races for their roles in the cheating scandal that has rocked IndyCar.
Yeah, Indycar is terrible with the full course cautions. I think it's a holdover from when they were a mostly oval series. On an oval it makes sense to throw the full course, close the pits and let everyone settle down a bit. Especially when you have people who have to clean up the track and you can't have cars whizzing by at almost full speed. It doesn't make sense on the road/street ciruits though. Especially when they have this mentality that's in only fair everyone who wants to gets to pit under cuation. When the track is clear, pull the caution flag and let's get going. The Virtual Safety Car that F1 does was a brilliant idea. That way you don't have to wait for the pace car to get all the way back to the pits to start the race again. When the track is clear, go.
