A violent crash during Saturday's qualifying session for the Indianapolis 500 had resulted in several fractures for Sebastian Bourdais. A small correction of oversteer sent him straight into the wall, badly damaging his car that immediately burst in flames as well.
I actually liked the call, in principle, to not enforce track limits. I get frustrated when ‘enforcing’ track limits becomes arbitrary and inconsistently applied, ie, only certain times, conditions, turns, after so many offenses, etc.
Why does that matter? It's a couple seconds slower than the last WEC qualifying too, but the racing in Indycar is a country mile better than F1. I never understand the fixation on laptime when all you get is very fast cars processing around a track basically in the order they started.
There is far better racing in F2 and one need not be worried about full course cautions and pit stops that make things so much like WWEjjn9128 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2019, 10:22Why does that matter? It's a couple seconds slower than the last WEC qualifying too, but the racing in Indycar is a country mile better than F1. I never understand the fixation on laptime when all you get is very fast cars processing around a track basically in the order they started.
I think that worked only because the inside car had to take a line that didn’t push the outside car off (edit: in the case where the outside car stays within the track limits), but the outside car had a choice to go wide and therefore gain the advantage (inside car had to go into corner conservative). If both cars go in knowing the outside cars line will be wide (as in the case of an expanded track layout) it gives the inside car more leeway to also go wider and faster through that turn.
I’m not sure if the “racing” is that much better... It seems artificially induced to me.jjn9128 wrote:Why does that matter? It's a couple seconds slower than the last WEC qualifying too, but the racing in Indycar is a country mile better than F1. I never understand the fixation on laptime when all you get is very fast cars processing around a track basically in the order they started.
F1 and Indycar are the top categories of open wheel racing. I think its very natural that people compare them. I don't think that looking at the times you can say witch one is better. I don't even think that makes sense saying that one categorie is better than other. Comparing times is just mere curiosity. It's been a long time that Indycar and F1 have the same circuit on the calendar.jjn9128 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2019, 10:22Why does that matter? It's a couple seconds slower than the last WEC qualifying too, but the racing in Indycar is a country mile better than F1. I never understand the fixation on laptime when all you get is very fast cars processing around a track basically in the order they started.
I am not talking when car is already side by side. I am saying on exit if both cars run equally wide the car behind can follow easier than the tighter official track lines.subcritical71 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2019, 12:50I think that worked only because the inside car had to take a line that didn’t push the outside car off (edit: in the case where the outside car stays within the track limits), but the outside car had a choice to go wide and therefore gain the advantage (inside car had to go into corner conservative). If both cars go in knowing the outside cars line will be wide (as in the case of an expanded track layout) it gives the inside car more leeway to also go wider and faster through that turn.
