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Great seeing these babies in action. The cars all look very good. I'm not going to complain over the sounds of these machines or anything. We're going to get our first idea(s) of this new chassis this weekend. I already like the new chassis outside of the DW12 chassis.
 
JohnBM01
Great seeing these babies in action. The cars all look very good. I'm not going to complain over the sounds of these machines or anything. We're going to get our first idea(s) of this new chassis this weekend. I already like the new chassis outside of the DW12 chassis.
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It's still a version of the DW12 chassis.

Anyway. WHAT A QUALIFYING SESSION!
 
That was a really good qualifying session. Lots of surprises and the weather really made the drivers have to think as well as react to the loss of grip.

Unfortunately, Always Bad Coverage has the race broadcast tomorrow, so expect to be bored to tears as Allen Bestwick tries to inject some life into a telecast that has no camera direction or coherence, Eddie Cheever makes the same old claim of a street course being "Practice for The Indy 500" and Scott Goodyear dusts off the old "These cars cover a Football Field per second!" chestnut that has been debunked over and over...
 
Can you feel it? Can you hear it? The 2018 IndyCar Series season starts today!

Good luck to all drivers and teams not only today, but this entire season.
 
Unfortunately having to watch a less than ideal stream since I’m out of the US this weekend. Still excited for the race as it’s been pretty good so far. Cheering on my main man Rossi!
 
Who is the guy starting from the back due to a spin that they said won the race once when he got pushed to the back in race? I wanna see how he's doing.
 
I love this new racing! My drivers of the day just so happen to be the two drivers leading this race! I doubt that’s a coincidence
 
Gutted for Wickens, but I see it as a racing incident. Rossi was already there and unfortunately lost it.

Though I may be biased. Still, Wickens has to be a serious threat from here on out. Deserved a win
 
Wickens should have given a little more room as well, I think a no call was the right choice.

Congrats to Bourdais.
 
With the lack of knowledge on how the cars act in such extreme conditions Rossi should not have been so aggressive at the first turn of all places. Give it a minute. You have three laps, try that next lap when you probably have a better draft out of the last turn.
 
DesertPenguin
With the lack of knowledge on how the cars act in such extreme conditions Rossi should not have been so aggressive at the first turn of all places. Give it a minute. You have three laps, try that next lap when you probably have a better draft out of the last turn.
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The thing about that is he got himself a huge flat spot not long before those last cautions. T1 was probably his only chance but I still think he could have stalked until T4.
 
It's been a while since I've yelled at my TV while watching a race! I really wish Rossi's move had stuck. It was looking good right up until Rossi got on the runway paint, then it just came out from under him. Other than that it was a great race to start off the season!
 
Northstar
Wickens should have given a little more room as well, I think a no call was the right choice.

Congrats to Bourdais.
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I caught the last quarter or so of the race. My first take is Wickens gave enough room and Rossi just got selfish going for the win. It was Rossi's responsibility to make a clean pass, but in the end it's a racing incident. I don't think there was anything intentional, but I do feel terrible for Wickens.

Congrats to Bourdais. Man I love his livery. 👍

On a separate note, did the new chassis's do away with the "cheese wedge" bodywork behind the rear tires, or is that only on the oval bodies? I haven't watched Indy Car real closely since the CART days, but I'm giving it another go. The car's look good - sooo much better than the disaster that is F1 at the moment.
 
raven214
On a separate note, did the new chassis's do away with the "cheese wedge" bodywork behind the rear tires, or is that only on the oval bodies? I haven't watched Indy Car real closely since the CART days, but I'm giving it another go. The car's look good - sooo much better than the disaster that is F1 at the moment.
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As you can see from Marco Andretti's Honda IndyCar at St. Petersburg, the rear bumpers have been eliminated. 2018 IndyCars are essentially modernized CART IndyCars. :D
 
FutureF1
Gutted for Wickens, but I see it as a racing incident. Rossi was already there and unfortunately lost it.

Though I may be biased. Still, Wickens has to be a serious threat from here on out. Deserved a win
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You're joking right? There was no way he was going to make that stick, half a dozen other guys did the same thing. Isn't that what everyone rags against online players about constantly...dive bombing the corner? If I was Wickens I would be feeding Rossi my helmet. I have no respect for that crap, online or in real life!
 
MustangManiac
You're joking right? There was no way he was going to make that stick, half a dozen other guys did the same thing. Isn't that what everyone rags against online players about constantly...dive bombing the corner? If I was Wickens I would be feeding Rossi my helmet. I have no respect for that crap, online or in real life!
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Except peoples problems with that is when it happens in Turn one on Lap 1, when there is plenty of race (and tire) to get a pass done. Big difference between that and only two laps to go that close to the leader AND with realistically only one good corner to do it in.

Also, that's not even close to a divebomb. That was a move that only went wrong because the car got loose underbraking, not shooting for a gap that never was there (you know, like certain players do on GT Sport everytime at Interlagos).
 
Useful insight from Paul Tracy writing for Racer:

If anyone was going to side with Robert Wickens after being knocked out of the lead and a potential win in St. Petersburg, it's his countryman, Paul Tracy. The Don of Canadian IndyCar racing, however, wasn't swayed by love of country or his strong affinity for the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie in reviewing the incident between Wickens and Andretti Autosport's Alexander Rossi.

"By all accounts, Wickens had an amazing first weekend in IndyCar, and he's an amazing talent," Tracy told RACER. "I've known him since he was a baby; his parents had me take a picture with him at the [Toronto] Molson Indy race when he was an infant, and then he was with my team where I won the [Champ Car] championship, Forsythe Racing, in Atlantics when he was 15 or 16, before he ventured off to Europe. So I've known him a long time. And I feel bad for him the way it ended.

"But in reality, it looks like he didn't get a great restart, didn't protect the inside, left the door wide open, and I can see it from Rossi's perspective. If it was me, I would have drove it down the ******g inside as well. You could've driven a Mack truck through there. I would have been disappointed in Rossi if he didn't go for it. Rossi went for it, ultimately, they banged wheel to wheel, and he hip-checked Wickens out of the way. But the door was left open and that's what racing is."

Although Tracy was impressed by the class Wickens displayed after losing a race he dominated from pole position, he's hoping for some interpersonal drama to build – akin to what PT had with Sebastien Bourdais in Champ Car.

"I do think he handled himself with class, but I'd like to see some rivalries," he continued. "I'd like to see him say, 'to hell with him. Next, race, I'm getting you back.' And I want to see Rossi change his 'Mr. Nice Guy' thing and become the villain. People are talking right now and people are going crazy over it on social media, and it would be nice to them get after each other. I like Rossi; he races hard all the time, but then he gets out of the car and is quiet. But you can be quiet and be the villain."
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