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Why not have an F1 Indy 500 once a year?

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Do you think having an Indy 500 with F1 cars competing would be a good idea?

Yes
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38%
No
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63%
 
Total votes: 64
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strad
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Re: Why not have an F1 Indy 500 once a year?

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One word:
Avus
http://www.stradsplace.com/VIDEOS/avus59.mpg
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NathanOlder
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Re: Why not have an F1 Indy 500 once a year?

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Websta wrote:
Mafia wrote:
Websta wrote:And the fact that oval racing is incredibly difficult and dangerous for the inexperienced.
:wtf: :?:

yea specielly when its wet, Oh no they dont run cars if its wet :mrgreen: . Wussies.....

where as running F1 cars, full speed at soaking spa is.... FUN and EASY i believe :roll:

F1 retiree nigel went to indy and won, thats the standard of oval racing.
You do not have pack racing in F1, it's not something you learn overnight (which you would need to for this proposed race). But "incredibly" difficult was an overstatement, I mispoke. Barrichello spent all season at it this year and had two top ten finishes - one tenth place and one 7th. And let's check in with our friend Takuma Sato and see what he has accomplished on the rings... Yeah, walk in the park :roll:
To be fair to Takuma, He had the 500 won untill Dario shafted him this year! He was a hell of alot closer at winning on an oval than he did on a circuit. Not that that means anything
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strad
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Your Point??
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”
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flynfrog
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so looking through the book I got for Christmas

Indy was on the F1 Calender from 1950 to 1961. They first ran the banking at Monza in 1960 with the British teams boycotting.They ran the banking until 1969 at Monza
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Monza was so bumpy even the Indy cars had many breakages
in the '2 worlds cup' aka 'the race of two worlds'
have you tried to Google that or Tony Bettenhausen ? (AFAIK he still holds the lap record)
also the 1971 Questor GP at Ontario Speedway
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Ray
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NathanOlder wrote: To be fair to Takuma, He had the 500 won untill Dario shafted him this year! He was a hell of alot closer at winning on an oval than he did on a circuit. Not that that means anything
Shafted? I love Takuma, but he went for a gap that didn't exist, and overdrove the corner by pinching the entry waaaaay too tight. He crashed himself out of winning the 500, Dario was just there when it happened. There's a reason Dario made it, and Takuma didn't.
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