An F1 Fans Guide to INDYCAR 

Indycar is a great alternative to watch for Formula 1 fans. It may not be as fast as Formula 1 on road courses, but the racing is a lot closer and arguably more exciting, since it's a lot less predictable. Things to know as an F1 fan watching Indycar: * In Indycar, all the drivers drive pretty much the same car only with slight differences in wing, wheel camber/toe, steering and braking adjustments. * Indycars don't have DRS, ERS or power steering like Formula 1 cars do, which makes them more difficult to drive. * Indycars have "push to pass" systems used for overtaking. These systems utilize extra power and fuel sent to the engine. * Indycars are allowed to re-fuel during a pitstop * Indycar pit crews are much smaller than Formula 1's. Hence, why the pit stops take longer. But, keep in mind that in Indycar, these few people are changing tyres AND fueling all at the same time. * There are only 3 types of tyres in Indycar: Red (soft), Black (hard) and wet (for rain). (These three tyre types work similarly to those seen in Formula 1). * Indycar actually has different cars and aero kits for the types of circuits they're racing on: Road, speedway, short-oval, long-oval, etc. * Indycar, unfortunately, isn't international. So, most of the racing takes place on tracks in the United States.

I’ve been an IndyCar fan since the late 1960’s. We also went to a few F1 races in the 70’s. I love them both, but they are very different. One basic that you didn’t capture is pits. Each car has their own area and crew, they don’t share a pit area and crew like F1. And they wait to open pit lane during a safety car… Love that you mentioned the virtual Indy races! During the pandemic those were entertaining. Lando won the IndyCar COTA race, and then got invited to the finale - the one with “the incident”. 🤣🤣🤣. Great job on the video. You have a knack for making topics fun. Hope you enjoy the season.!

Ever since accidentally watching the Indy 500 in 2008 thinking that it was a NASCAR race on the Sky+ Guide, I was hooked

I'm here after a 1 second gap in 1 lap on Bahrain, time get into some decent motorsport

Thank goodness RU-vid has a 0.75 speed setting.

Way late to the party but still want to get this out there because it is interesting... Refueling in IndyCar is actually very safe due the cars being equipped with immobilizers - Honda originally put them in their ALMS Acuras after a pit fire at Mid-Ohio abd they prevented the engine from be started while the fuel hise was connected. IndyCar adapted it by setting the system to keep the car in neutral while connected. Since implementing these systems, there was been ONE pit fire - the result of a stuck valve in the hose. But because the other safety fear in the hose was present(unlike in a certain F1 pit fire people like to bring up in order to imcry about the benefits of not refueling), the resultant fire was minor, no risk to the crew, easily extinguished, and the car was able to continue racing. F1 will never implement this because they HATE doing things IndyCar did first(even when their hand is forced they usually try to give it dome unique spin to try and make it distict - thus DRS instead of push to pass) even after Grosjean's incident proved the dangers of having so much fuel onboard. There was a study a while back that claimed F1 would be worse in terms of on-track racing if they brought back refueling, but that study was based on the assumption they'd do iy as before where cars could start with differing amounts of fuel. All that's needed to fix that is mandate all cars start with full tanks. And guess who already requires exactly that?

Brilliant video mate! Thanks for this.

Excellent! Been a huge F1 fan for a few years now, but definitely lack the time and finances to go to a race. I live in Alabama, though, so I went to the Barber Motorsports race this year in Leeds and loved it, even though I had no knowledge of the rules, teams, or drivers. Now I feel at least a little prepared to keep watching.

This is a really good video I needed this

Great job! Nice and easy to understand, but I’m just here for the F1 summer break, why does it have to be so long 😭

can we get a mid season update and maybe your thoughts on the indy500, current driver standigs and predictions for the rest of the season?

I would suggest to any european F1 fans to give it a try. First couple of races feel odd, points system is confusing, but most races produce great on track battles, and for that it worth it, to tune in from time to time. And Indycar YT chanel is great thing to get started, they upload 2 types of highlights: action under 5 mins and long ones action under 30 mins or something like that. But from the eye test drivers skill is obviously lower, but still great battles, strategy is also not a big thing during the race.

So what did you think of Detroit??

Slight correction to your description of qualifying. For most ovals yes it’s 2 laps for qualifying but for Indianapolis only they actually do 4 laps

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If your not a fan of IndyCar & you have a racing wheel & a gaming PC then I say go play iRacing and run some laps in the Dallara DW12 & Dallara IR18 IndyCars it will change your mind having no ABS and Power Steering is nuts when your doing 200+ Mph

I watch Indycar since 2017 and the most complicated thing about it is the points system, i just dont getit and you probably wont too (otherwise i am really stupid)😂

Thank you that was very helpful. Can you please make one for NASCAR?

Surprisingly Indy car was much more international in the 70s, 80's & 90's with chassis by Lola and McLaren and engines by cosworth. Still a very good and competitive circuit!

Push to Pass is ERS in F1

Anyone else only here b/c you bought Ed Sheeran tickets and he happens to be performing at an indycar weekend…and was curious about what all your tickets included🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm American, but got into F1 4 years ago (netflix lol) and don't know anything about Indy, so here I am, watching a Brit, explain Indy to me so i can watch better racing than year 3 of Max lapping the field and 30 sec in front of the #2 car.

Did you end up watching it much

Your big 3 are Penske ganassi and andretti. I would not put McLaren up there.

That negative canthal tilt, it's over before it even began.

US sport, shows no US tv channels

Me like speed me no like turns me watch indy car

1: don't watch it 2: refer back to step 1