"lets take a look at that again in slow motion!" - dave 5-31-2011 6:47 pm [add a comment]
you'd think they couldn't possibly go any slower until they come to a complete stop and balance on their bikes staring at one another. how nerve wracking. why not just skip the first two laps and have the damn sprint? - linda 5-31-2011 8:35 pm [add a comment]
when you said "goofiest" i was guessing that they were going to race backwards. i cant even imagine how that race evolved over time. i blame socialism. - dave 5-31-2011 8:47 pm [add a comment]
"fixed wheel bikes are so last year." - bill 5-31-2011 9:24 pm [add a comment]
There's a similar phenomenon in motorsports, but not as extreme. If a track (and vehicles) are such that the draft is a deciding factor on the final straight, it may be best to be second or third in line coming at of the last corner before the checkered flag. (The "draft" is an aerodynamic effect.)
Sometimes the leader will try to sucker someone else into taking the lead by blowing a corner. "Oops, I overcooked that one."
Motorcycles on the roval at Daytona are an excellent example of this. Riders can draft past another rider and then get drafted back again running down the straight. A bit of multi-player chess going on at 170 mph. (They're crazy. I don't go anywhere near that fast, and I want to be surrounded by a steel cage.) - mark 6-01-2011 7:26 pm [add a comment]
10 million watch Indy 500
165 million watch Monte Carlo Grad Prix - Skinny 6-02-2011 2:13 pm [add a comment]
Tony George, owner of the Indy race track, caused a rift splitting America's top racing series into two competing series. Nice work, Mr. George. I'm sure the France family (the founders of NASCAR, and still major stake holders in the business) is very thankful.
Part of what made the Indy race compelling in the past was the competing technologies that teams brought to the event. Now it's a spec series (another Tony George-ism). They all drive essentially the same car. That's awesome at an amateur level, or even in a feeder series which develops new driver talent. But kinda goofy in a pinnacle series, which Indy Car no longer is IMHO. - mark 6-02-2011 6:34 pm [add a comment]
this has got to be the goofiest sports event i have ever seen.
- linda 5-31-2011 4:58 pm
"lets take a look at that again in slow motion!"
- dave 5-31-2011 6:47 pm [add a comment]
you'd think they couldn't possibly go any slower until they come to a complete stop and balance on their bikes staring at one another. how nerve wracking. why not just skip the first two laps and have the damn sprint?
- linda 5-31-2011 8:35 pm [add a comment]
when you said "goofiest" i was guessing that they were going to race backwards. i cant even imagine how that race evolved over time. i blame socialism.
- dave 5-31-2011 8:47 pm [add a comment]
"fixed wheel bikes are so last year."
- bill 5-31-2011 9:24 pm [add a comment]
There's a similar phenomenon in motorsports, but not as extreme. If a track (and vehicles) are such that the draft is a deciding factor on the final straight, it may be best to be second or third in line coming at of the last corner before the checkered flag. (The "draft" is an aerodynamic effect.)
Sometimes the leader will try to sucker someone else into taking the lead by blowing a corner. "Oops, I overcooked that one."
Motorcycles on the roval at Daytona are an excellent example of this. Riders can draft past another rider and then get drafted back again running down the straight. A bit of multi-player chess going on at 170 mph. (They're crazy. I don't go anywhere near that fast, and I want to be surrounded by a steel cage.)
- mark 6-01-2011 7:26 pm [add a comment]
10 million watch Indy 500
165 million watch Monte Carlo Grad Prix
- Skinny 6-02-2011 2:13 pm [add a comment]
Tony George, owner of the Indy race track, caused a rift splitting America's top racing series into two competing series. Nice work, Mr. George. I'm sure the France family (the founders of NASCAR, and still major stake holders in the business) is very thankful.
Part of what made the Indy race compelling in the past was the competing technologies that teams brought to the event. Now it's a spec series (another Tony George-ism). They all drive essentially the same car. That's awesome at an amateur level, or even in a feeder series which develops new driver talent. But kinda goofy in a pinnacle series, which Indy Car no longer is IMHO.
- mark 6-02-2011 6:34 pm [add a comment]