@@danielecattabriga2168 And back when driver crossovers from other series were more common. I still remember the 2007 Rolex 24 when Gordon, Johnson, Stewart, Legge, Allmendinger, Montoya, Tracy, the Dysons, Castroneves, Dixon, and so many others, all shared the track.
I’d love to see a deeper dive into the Grand Am series… was a huge fan of how many engines supplied the top cars and the crazy look of the DP’s… couldn’t decide wether I liked the euro based ALMS or all American Grand Am more as a kid
I liked ALMS probably because those were the races my dad took me too. Being fractured into competing series may not have been a good thing for sports car racing or open-wheel racing on the whole, but as a kid growing up in that era I liked having the variety.
I was crazy about motorsports as a kid in the late 2000s, and I can remember not really choosing sides in the "split series", so to speak. I liked watching Champ Car and the Indy Racing League equally, and the same was true for both Grand-Am and the ALMS too. I just loved racing no matter what form it came in, and the Speed Channel was my childhood.
A deep dive in the GX class would be great, but the story of the GX class is really just a brief chapter in the saga of the Mazda diesel program, and that farse is truly the tale that must be told.
Nothing deep there...3 cars, 2 of which just quit almost every race smoking + 1 Porsche Cayman for which no-one ever explained what was special about it and why it was there. So it was about who did not crash/burn to take the "win".
Indianapolis is being treated as special because it's Indianapolis, the international capital of racing, even GT World America gets attention there. Personally I'm disappointed that the endurance race next year is 6 hours when I feel the 8 Hours of Indianapolis should be made the IMSA event and the GT World race reduced to 6 hours.
The SRO has been there for several years and they are not going to reduce their race to please another race organization. IMSA can on its own lengthen their race and maybe that is a possibility further down the road. They are starting slow and going step by step.
@@ZontarDow That does not matter. It is a separate organization that has a contract with the Speedway. They pay MONEY to the Speedway and Roger Penske is smart enough to know that you do not shit on your race organizers.
@@ZontarDowyes sro isn’t on the same level but in talking to some of the teams that run both series they don’t want the 8 hour to go anywhere else but Indy the teams and drivers love the weekend and don’t want to lose it
It's not, the chicane was added because Indycar doesn't have power steering. Why everyone else with power steering (minus motorcycles) still use the new circuit instead of the old one is beyond me. I can understand bypassing Turn 1 for safety reasons given the crashes F1 saw in its stint at Indy, however that was largely the result of a tire war between Bridgestone and Michelin; not the track itself
@@BB_SebringThe last corner single handedly made the old road course layout interesting. With it being bypassed, it's just a very mediocre circuit at best with not much excitement.
I do like the slower F1 hair pin at least driving wise, you’re not on the edge of grip at T3 then slalom to the right to setup the eating curbs chicane
@@ianrynerson6904 actually it's more like the Indy road course is a local GoKart track just scaled up to GP size while not actually being that good of a race track, good races come and go - but it's not the norm. Which Sebring definitely isn't, the actual track layout is prretty good and the bumpiness adds some nice pazzazz to it. I have the same gripes with Silverstone and Hockenheim just being there because of the legacy they hold from a different layout.
