Now, before I start, I have something to say (Editor’s note: no joke).As many of you know, I don’t worry about protecting racing cars all the time.I am very pleased to see F1 adopt the halo and cabin protection from IndyCar.cage to keep the aerosol screen. Well made for any of them.But there are still paintings to be made.
There are plenty of old Formula 1600 cars and North American formula cars that are used in series like Road to Indy Lights (Indy Lights, etc.) where there are no halo/aeroscope screens and drivers are still sitting there, exposed.
When I complained and complained about it a few years ago, pushing to install a super modified flavor protection ring on all open-wheeled cars, I was told that there was no way to do it and that any chassis change, amendment or addition awaits.for the next generation of cars.
Well, I have a friend who’s waiting. Brian Stewart, who owned and led an Indy Lights racing team for years after winning several Canadian national racing championships as a driver, designed and installed a mini-halo in a bunch of Champ Car Lights racing cars he has in his workshop.Ont.
We were visiting last Saturday and I saw them and asked them what was going on, the guy who presented the race, among others, of Paul Tracy, Scott Maxwell, Bryan Herta, Filipe Giaffone, Cristiano de Matta, Pedro Chaves, Eric Bachelart and PJ.Jones, “I paint for a guy who likes to drive on the road at Toronto Motorsports Park.He does it for a laugh, but he’s looking to feel a little safer.
“So I bought chrome-molybdenum metal tubes, welded them and figured out a way to fix it so I wouldn’t compromise the integrity of the race car and that’s it.And I made an improvement in the design: I moved the mirrors on the sides of the chassis and fixed them on the tube and they don’t t t tremble as they do when they’re just attached.”
Stewart believes he can install the mini halos (see photo) in any open-wheel car for around $500.Interested? Call Stewart at 1-289-338-6787.
I’m not on the loose to reveal the name, plus I had this opportunity, however, a well-known member of the IndyCar network said those precise words before this year when the coronavirus forced the first NTT IndyCar Series 2020 race to be postponed and put others at risk:
“Run the 500 at some point and it’s a day for the 2020 season.”
The 500, of course, is the world’s largest and most well-known race, the Indianapolis 500, initially postponed since its classic date on the last Sunday in May, is now scheduled for Sunday, August 23.
The date of Sunday, August 23rd, would come with fans.IndyCar executives said that if the virus forced them to postpone that date, they would run it until October.But there wouldn’t be any guarantee they would have it at the time either.
For more than two weeks, IndyCar has been hit by COVID.They had to cancel the last two races of the season in Portland and Monterey.Then, this weekend, next weekend’s double title was canceled in Mid-Ohio.And since last night. (Monday), the opening day of the 500 events, next Tuesday, has been postponed.
Currently, with the dream of a double race at Gateway Motorsports Park in St.Louis (August 29 and 30), there are no races scheduled at two other place in Indianapolis on October 1 and the race was postponed to St. Petersburg on October 25.
And COVID-19 doesn’t seem to disappear soon in the United States, even endangering those races.
The big dog is the TV. You can’t just run the Indy 500 whenever you feel like it.Baseball, basketball and hockey are underway and the NFL is coming.The Indy 500 is back in a corner.
If I had to advise Roger Penske, et al, that’s what I’d say: Run on August 500 without spectators.Indiana University Health Network, which has a lot of influence, opposes the presence of spectators, so why fight it?Make the big run, either in St.Louis (if you can), then call it season.
The last thing you would like to do is run until the end of August, then disappear until October 1, then disappear until October 25.We know this year has been strange, but it would be ridiculous.
A friend of mine who is aware of these things says he expects an announcement related to the next 500 next week, maybe before.Let’s hope that everything that comes out is decisive and realistic, this year 2020 is unhappy and has been unhappy from the beginning, let’s see losses and plans for 2021.
One last thing about IndyCar: unlike all kinds of people, I don’t need Jimmie Johnson, seven times the great NASCAR champion, to race at IndyCar.It ended up in popular cars: look at one of the races and it’s not.more competitive. His presence at IndyCar will do nothing for the series (except that he will still be some other “big guy” that is taking place).
You know who I want Kyle Larson.Il is young and it’s a rocket Why go through old and a slower step when you can have thunder and young lightning?
The British Grand Prix at the Silverstone circuit in the UK on Sunday was boring as water dishes until the last 3 laps, when the magnificent Pirelli tyres began to disintegrate.
Lewis Hamilton clung to victory in his Mercedes but crossed the line limping; Max Verstappen kept the most out of him in his Red Bull.Charles Leclerc finished third for Ferrari after Valtteri Bottas, who ran the top of the race, suffered a puncture and had to drive his Mercedes everywhere before he could look for a new one.and topped the points, as a result.
For a complete story about the weekend race, click here.
Notebook notes
Sebastian Vettel’s season sabotage via Ferrari continued when he was given a car that was almost to drive, he controlled to finish tenth and at points.
I enjoyed Danny Kvyat.After crashing and returning to the pits, he attacked a camera, the cameraman (and the cameraman) are unforgivable and I hope there is a fine and it is heavy.
Nicholas Latifi of Toronto made his first valid F1 pass to Williams when he hit Kimi Raikkonen.Smart enough for your first season in a car that doesn’t live up to the task.It took two seasons for Rikky Von Opel, who drove for Ensign in 1973 and Brabham in 1974.Rikky was so excited he bought drinks from everyone on the plane.Back to England from Sweden, entering the process.
When Sergio Perez ruled Sunday’s Grand Prix after testing positive for COVID-19, the call made to Nico Hulkenberg to update him at Racing Point throughout our Lance Stroll, I can’t sense that.Racing Point takes shape and becomes a threat.The car wants one or more drivers who can get everything they can.Hulkenberg is just one of those who fills the seats that do almost nothing to justify his lifestyle in the most sensitive of the ladder of motorsport.177 kicks, he hasn’t climbed the podium once, but that’s not enough.
Now Hulkenberg is a great guy. I love him as a person.I’ve spoken to him and you’ll find a more open and charming person.
But we’re talking formula one here. (Or IndyCar.O NASCAR Cup.) I don’t notice when I hear things like, “Nico’s a great guy, he deserves to be on the grill.”Or “Untel is on the grill; he’s so smart for the sport.”.”
Do you know who’s smart for sports? Lewis Hamilton is smart for the sport, but Nico Hulkenberg isn’t.You are in F1, IndyCar or Cup because you are a racing winner or are constantly winning races.You have no problem with kindness.
I know Hulkenberg has a super license and there aren’t many, but he’s Force Major.You can make an arrangement for a race.What about the Racing Point designation of two drivers as a booking/emergency replacements if they are not available or can’t?to get the job done, what’s it about?
Stoffel Vandoorne is one of them, however, he is competing in Formula E this season, which is getting rid of his 2020 schedule all at once this week by setting up six races in Berlin.Esteban Gutierrez is the other and has not complied.an angry flyer on F1 since 2016 and probably wouldn’t be up to date on technology.I think it’s poor management, two emergency drivers and none available?
In the end, of course, every theorist because in the last second, a gremlin engine entered the Hulkenberg powertrain and may just not run.Although Hulkenberg is here and ready, Racing Point still has time to do better.Fernando Alonso, perhaps.?
Brad Keselowski (see photo in most sensitive column) won Sunday’s New Hampshire Cup, with the moment Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. third, followed by Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick in fourth and fifth, there were some nasty injuries and a bunch of cut tires that put affected drivers on the wall.
But it’s a cup-of-a-year race; nothing particularly interesting.However, I thought the socially estranged crowd reminded me of the participation rate in IndyCar’s careers the last two times they went to Loudon (it’s a joke…)
For a detailed history of the race, click here.
Notebook notes
Keselowski is doing a wonderful task for Roger Penske this year and was rewarded on Monday by signing a contract extension; however, it is worth noting that the press release does not say how long, probably a year.At some point, Keselowski or Joey Logana or Ryan Blaney will have to move on, to be replaced by Austin Cindric, who is a very intelligent racing driving force but also happens to be the son of Tim Cindric, president of Penske Racing.Work.
Meanwhile, the better for Keselowski.Il he calls things by name.Here’s what he told Motorsport.com after Sunday’s race about the fact that the effects are no longer a job guarantee:
“The landscape is very strange,” he said, “not only because of the virus, however, I think one of the things that stands out and replaced the landscape is the threshold, or the bar, so to speak, you have to pass as a driving force to be eligible for the Cup.It’s been considerably reduced since I started playing the sport.
“This is starting to attract a wave of paid drivers, so to speak, who pay for their trip.It greatly damages the contract market when there are drivers willing to pay for their trip, not to mention being paid.
“They are willing to pay to take their car.This adjusts the market dramatically.”
That’s also the case in other series, and I’ll come and say it: it’s not true Can you believe that Jimmy Bryan or Eddie Sachs or Fireball Roberts or Dalehardt Earn Sr.have to find cash to buy a seat?to run? The idea is ridiculous.
I didn’t see the race on Sunday. So I print an IMSA press release written through David Phillips, a sports car racing veteran:
Although it is impractical, even frankly uncomfortable, for enthusiasts present, there is nothing like a sledgehammer (mixed with thunder, lightning and hail) to animate a race en route.
A mid-career downpohorse is Mother Nature’s prankster; maintaining the proverbial game, forcing drivers to immediately adapt to harmful conditions, groups that exchange methods calculated by decisions in a fraction of a second based on instincts rather than spreadsheets, and race officers place that sensitive balance between protection and the entertainment factor suddenly added.winners and losers, not those who seemed destined to win or lose before the rains came.
Winners
Needless to say, Acura and the Penske team, DragonSpeed USA, Corvette Racing and AIM Vasser Sullivan and Lexus were the winners in Road America, but DPi’s victory is satisfying for Acura and Penske, given last month’s announcement that their partnership would conclude at the end of the season.
In addition to the complete professionalism of the Penske team, victory (associated with the first-line lock on the leaderboard) can only be Acura’s trading position when courting potential partners by 2021 and beyond.Taylor, Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya have made strong statements about their long-term “employability.”
In addition, DragonSpeed USA made a replacement on rain tires even when the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA, leader of the LMP2 class, deviated from its path to turn what gave the impression of being a defeat (they dragged the leaders 3/4 minutes to a stage) in a victory for Ben Hanley and Henrik Hedman.
Meanwhile, unlike their GTLM rivals, Antonio Garcia and Tommy Milner managed to stay on the road (slippery) to score a double and a third consecutive win for the Corvette C8.A, Townsend Bell by AIM Vasser Vasser and Frankie Sullivan Montecalvo were awarded Lexus’ fourth GTD victory in so many tests in 2020.
losers
Okay, the losers is a tough term, however, Mazda’s resolve not to call Oliver Jarvis for rain tires until the charge of avoiding the red flag and the yellow one that follows gives them a valid chance of winning a back-to-back Mazda DPi victory on Road America.
And while no one can say what could have happened if they had kept their noses blank in really difficult conditions, Earl Bamber and Nick Tandy of Porsche, John Edwards (BMW Team RLL), Simon Trummer (PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports) and Mario Farnbacher (Meyer Shank Racing) Acura) are ruining their “offs” that might have claimed victories of elegance.
More winners
More winners? Spectators in the place who checked the weather forecast and brought their rain gear and watched the last difficult laps with relative comfort; Similarly, enthusiasts who saw in the dry comfort of their home on NBC and were invited to a race that saw not one, not two, not 3, but 4 winners of elegance in the final minutes of a completely unpredictable 2-hour, 40-minute run.And for that, they can thank Mother Nature, not to mention the IMSA competition in DPi, LMP2, GTLM and GTD.
Jeff Kingsley, 22, of Whitthrough, won the first of two rounds of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA on Saturday at Road America. He finished moment in the race on Sunday. It looks like it’s another Canadian driving force for the Porsche GT3 Cup with a bright future. ArrayArrayArrayArrayArray Called keeping everything in the family. Niagara-on-the-Lake NASCAR truck driver Stewart Friesen continues to blank the changed dirt track. On Saturday night at Fonda Speedway in New York, he won the feature film and his wife, Jessica, Momento.ArrayArrayArrayArrayArray Barrie’s Kyle Marcelli Moment at the IMSA Pilot Challenge race at Road Atlanta this weekend.ArrayArrayArrayArray Greg Panunte, Dave Bailey, Josh Sliter, Fabio Olivieri and Jordan Fidler hit the victory lane at Merrittville Speedway this weekend. ArrayArrayArray Toronto’s Mark Wilkins co-drove with Harry Gottsacker to bring his Hyundai Volester to 3rd in elegance at Road America. ArrayArrayArrayArray Former NASCAR Pinty Series champion Alex Labbe has been suspended for two Xfinity Series races through NASCAR for violating a rule prohibiting education on the tracks where the races will take place. Labbe caught testing for an SCCA team at the Daytona Road Course before the next NASCAR races.
And that’s it for this week.
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