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Double-File Restarts In IndyCar?
June 8th, 2010
FORT WORTH, Texas — If Texas Motor Speedway President and General Manager Eddie Gossage and IZOD IndyCar Series team owner Roger Penske had their way, there would be double-file restarts in IndyCar’s future.
Both have discussed the change with IndyCar Series officials, but not all the drivers in the series think it’s a good idea, including Will Power of Team Penske.
“I think it’s a bad idea,” Power said. “On the ovals, it is close enough as it is. I don’t think you need double-file restarts. It will cause mayhem. The last thing we need is to see cars flying into catchfences.”
Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti is another driver who believes the IndyCar Series should have its own set of rules and not copy what is done in NASCAR.
“I would rather not,” Franchitti said. “A double-wide restart at Indianapolis would never work. You couldn’t do double-wide restarts on road courses, so if you can’t do it everywhere then what’s the point in doing it at all? That wouldn’t be fair to the fans.
“Eddie Gossage and Roger Penske don’t run the championship, so they shouldn’t set the rules.”
Franchitti’s teammate at Target Chip Ganassi Racing, Scott Dixon, said he’d consider a change to the restart procedures.
“It would be tough, but if you are looking for better racing it would be a good idea,” Dixon said. “It’s going to be easy to do that on tracks like Texas or Chicago, but if you do two-wide restarts at Indy that would be tough. I’m not opposed to it.
“If it puts on a better show then it would be good.”
- The IZOD IndyCar Series will set sail for the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, beginning in 2011. The inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix was announced June 2 with the 2.4-mile street-course race scheduled for Aug. 5-7.
The street race will be on the schedule for at least five years according to multi-year contracts with the City of Baltimore and the Indy Racing League.
- Ryan Hunter-Reay hopes to be in a car for the next race at Iowa Speedway, but there remains no deal to continue with Andretti Autosport.
“That is a question for the folks at Andretti Autosport,” Hunter-Reay said. “Right now we don’t have it done; we don’t have it shored up. They are working 20 hours a day trying to make it happen, so we will see.”
- After a lengthy surgery the night of the Indianapolis 500 to repair fractures to his lower left leg, Mike Conway was released from Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis last Friday. The driver who was injured in a spectacular crash in the closing laps of the Indy 500 is expected to be out for the remainder of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season.
Conway may have more surgery to his leg later this week. He also has a compression fracture of one of his thoracic vertebra and is being fitted for a back brace, which he will wear for three months and will prevent him from racing.
“I’m feeling fine at the moment, all things considered,” Conway said. “I’m just thankful that I came out of it alive. I want to thank all of the medical staff at Methodist Hospital, as well as the IRL safety team and all of those at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway who pulled me out of the car. They’ve all done a fantastic job. I also want to thank my parents, friends and race team for all of their support and all of those that have sent on their well wishes. I’m hoping for a speedy recovery and I’m already looking forward to being back behind the wheel of a race car.”
- Ryan Hunter-Reay, who injured his left thumb in a pit lane incident with Scott Dixon in the May 30 Indianapolis 500, was the fastest driver on the track in Saturday night’s Firestone 550k. He started 24th and finished seventh.
“I think we had to work harder than anybody else tonight to get what we got,” said Hunter-Reay, who had surgery on his thumb earlier in the week. “We went from the back to the middle to the back to the middle to the back to the top seven. Once again, we raced well in a pack. We’re good in traffic, but the speed we had on our own just wasn’t enough. This No. 37 IZOD team is extremely resilient. The guys dig deep, I dig deep; we are a great team. We could win a lot of races together. We’ll just have to see what happens.”
Lincoln
June 9th, 2010 at 4:17 amMaybe iRacing should go with single file restarts… It’s tough on double file restarts keeping everyone safe. It would make iRacing restarts less likely to bring out more yellows… Worth considering.
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