davidfarmer

taped it last night to catch insight in the F1 season, but realized there is an IRL race tomorrow (on Versus), and they also had a look at team Corvette testing a Sebring recently.

IRL actually looks interesting, running on a new circuit, but very few people will see it on Versus. F1 will be awesome though............

davidfarmer

IRL race is on streaming, but the camera angles are useless

CDN_Wolf_eh

rustyguns

mousecatcher

It was a neat segment, however I couldn't help thinking about two things while watching.

1) The screw job given to Riley and LGM.
2) The disgraceful actions at Laguna Seca last year (regardless who was at fault, Corvette was not running for points and with a one-off car had nothing to prove, so that level of ... aggresiveness ... was beyond reasonable).

I thought so too. So much for that theory!

Zoxxo

No s**t.

The qualifying session was like watching paint dry (in the desert) and the race ditto. They (=FIA/teams/Bernie) just never seem to be able to leave well enough alone. Sigh.

On the other hand, both Loti made it through the entire race. That's impressive.

Did you see this? Really weird, I must say:

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...turns-with-kv/

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Cloaked323

The Grid that was a good show I have DTV they cancelled the contract it had something to do with Timewarner IIRC.

Lotus is running in Indy and F1 who has the money, Lotus!

mousecatcher

huh? The Grid is on SPEED, any provider that gets SPEED (which is all of them) should show The Grid. Or are you saying it was blacked out?

mousecatcher

Yeah, I must say I feel dense since I don't understand it at all. What could Lotus and Cosworth possibly have to do with a spec Dallara Chassis and Honda engine?

Zoxxo

Well, Kevin Kalkhoven (the 'K' in 'KV Racing') is a co-owner of Cosworth so that makes some sense. I can only guess that everyone saw a good sponsorship/PR op what with the Lotus name back in F1, the relationship with Cosworth (also back in F1), Sato (ex F1) as the driver, interest in Japan, etc. "If we're gonna put the Lotus name back into F1 and capitalize on the heritage then why not get some mileage out of the Indy 500 Lotus heritage, too?"

I guess there is some sense to it once you get past the weirdness of it at first glance. I must admit I love seeing the old BRG+yellow colors on the cars.

edit: a friend of mine who is a Lotus owner just told me "Cosworth will also be tweaking engines for Lotus' road cars in the near future, so seeing this pair join up for a racing effort isn't surprising."

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Cloaked323

I only DVR the Grid, I haven't seen it aired in some time, I just checked my auto sports programing guide,DTV, and I didn't see it. I'll check the SPD website. I guess since It hadn't been recored in a long time I figured it was either cancelled or on another network that had be cancelled either way you guys pointed me in the right direction.