I don't like this one bit, wanna race street courses, use an indy car.
Chicago Street Course in NR2003?
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My guess is that means resurfacing part of Balbo, because so many nerds go do burnouts over there in janky ass old Neons or whatever, and Lake Shore Drive, because it gets used so often by so many cars that it gets torn up really quickly.
Imagine the fans they would bring back/gain if they invested the time and money they will spend on this disaster, the coliseum, and "Bristol dirt" and put that back into the root tracks of the sport, existing dirt/road tracks. Instead they insist on looking like 5th graders who discovered fanasty tracks on an EA nascar game.
That'll be the end of my rants about it.
It's almost as if there is an accessible, complete, and fan/hauler ready race track just outside of Chicago already. Imagine my shock.
During a recent episode of the Dale Jr. Download, NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- who ran the Pro Invitational race at Chicago last year -- expressed skepticism about the idea of actually racing in Chicago or on any other street course.
"I guess I need to ask, what's fun about watching cars racing around a street course? I can't answer that question for me. I can't sit here and go, 'Man, I wish we really had a street course,' because I don't know why street courses are better or different," Earnhardt said. "... Watching the driver try to figure out how to navigate them, it's fun because you see the drivers are struggling. It's frustrating to sort of work around there. But that's with Indy Lights and IndyCars.
"I will say in my experience in the virtual world on iRacing with the Chicago course didn't make me more excited. I didn't think that our cars went around there very well. But that's the virtual world, and the real world is going to be a little different. So I'm still not eager for it."
"I guess I need to ask, what's fun about watching cars racing around a street course? I can't answer that question for me. I can't sit here and go, 'Man, I wish we really had a street course,' because I don't know why street courses are better or different," Earnhardt said. "... Watching the driver try to figure out how to navigate them, it's fun because you see the drivers are struggling. It's frustrating to sort of work around there. But that's with Indy Lights and IndyCars.
"I will say in my experience in the virtual world on iRacing with the Chicago course didn't make me more excited. I didn't think that our cars went around there very well. But that's the virtual world, and the real world is going to be a little different. So I'm still not eager for it."
And there this
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What I'm getting at is this idea is just bad even in the sim world.
No More Chicagoland Speedway NASCAR Racing Ever?
NASCAR will not use the Joliet track for its 2021 racing. No NASCAR races were held there this summer, either.
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What I'm getting at is this idea is just bad even in the sim world.
I Love Jr, always have.
IMO.... Now that's he's out the sport from being an active driver... he's able to express his true feelings and thoughts about how things are done by NASCAR. While I say it seems to be a 50/50 view on things, it's more a 55/45 or even a 60/40 split at times on how things should be or even done (to the correct way of things, not by Nascar).
Had he spoke out like he does with the Downloads while still racing... I'm sure Nascar would have had him on secret fines and super secret probation that others have found themselves on.
IMO.... Now that's he's out the sport from being an active driver... he's able to express his true feelings and thoughts about how things are done by NASCAR. While I say it seems to be a 50/50 view on things, it's more a 55/45 or even a 60/40 split at times on how things should be or even done (to the correct way of things, not by Nascar).
Had he spoke out like he does with the Downloads while still racing... I'm sure Nascar would have had him on secret fines and super secret probation that others have found themselves on.
A (V8) Supercar, which is the roughly same length as a Cup Series car but slightly narrower.
I don't understand the hate for street courses.
Especially considering that I have seen this kind of thing before.
definitely in Chicago, somebody could go spinning an end up inside a pizza place
Adelaide, Newcastle, Sydney, Townsville (and the greatest street circuit of all Bathurst) are(were) all pretty neat.
Maybe it's an Australian thing where we tend to have less straight lines when building roads?
If I was Grand Poohbah and Lord High Everything Else, then I reckon that 10 laps of I-465 would have been ab-so-lute-ly brilliant!
Maybe it's an Australian thing where we tend to have less straight lines when building roads?
If I was Grand Poohbah and Lord High Everything Else, then I reckon that 10 laps of I-465 would have been ab-so-lute-ly brilliant!
For elevation specifically, there will be barely and elevation change because they run right by Lake Michigan, I have been in that area quite a few times before myself
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