Race With Romain Grosjean At The WWT Raceway! 

had a similar experience in Toronto. Romain is a class act!

thats what I love about IndyCar, the accessibility to the drivers is awesome

I had the same at Miami airport on the way to the Canadian Gp! He’s seemed like he always has time to talk to people. Class act indeed 🙌🏽

I feel it's just a matter of time before he is a consistent top finisher. Seeks like a great person too.

Comments like this are great to read, especially considering the average F1 fan loves to bash oval racing :)

@@FloosWorld_AoE They don't understand that there's more to NASCAR or IndyCar than just turning left.

@@SN57ONE True and in fact, ovals are in the minority in the IndyCar calendar and Nascar now wants to expand its schedule with road courses.

@@FloosWorld_AoE Glad I actually saw Kimi Raikkonen back on track again on NASCAR, until he got "Chastain'ed" of course 😅

Long time and highly regarded American racing journalist, Chris Economaki, once said that "road courses are for drivers, but ovals are for racers." Once you watch more oval racing, you see the wisdom in his quote. Despite it being boiled down to as simple as possible a quote, there is a lot of nuance you can unpack with it. Ovals are indeed much more conducive to side by side racing and overtaking than road courses are. And judging by Romain's performance here both this year and last (his first oval race was at this track last year after skipping the rest of them the entire season), I can confidently say that we can infact use "racer" to describe him. Good show!

If you noticed his DNFs and bad strategy has been his Achilles heel this year. He's always been fast. A little more luck and better team work with his crew and he'll have a much better year next year.

Agreed. Those passes on the outside look so difficult. One little mistake and you're in the wall.

That's why I usually like to make an analogy with cycling since there are different kinds of tracks with flat and mountain stages. It's very similar to IndyCar.

It's mostly just F1 fans

@@SN57ONE It's a big debate among indycar fans as well. Some want more ovals and some want less.

Anyone know why Indycar doesn't make a visit to Daytona? More super speedways (Indy, Texas, Talladega etc.) would be awesome! The smaller speedways where 2/3 of the field end up a lap down or greater isn't that great.

It sounds more like NASA to me, but jet fighter crew chief also makes sense.

I'm so used to F1 cars I didn't even know know they shifted down for the turns. It's way more that it seems.

daniel loves the fame & drama over real racing tho

More Ricciardo than Vettel, he wants to spend more time with his family

for me as a europe guy it's a little bit boring because the riders just go in circles. the speed and the constant attempt to overtake is very interesting again 👍

@@krecky7332 Ovals aren't circles tho.

dude are you sure you want to say this? 'road courses are for DRIVERS, ovals are for RACERS' ovals are great but, what??

Economaki was right. He wasn’t denigrating either style, but on an oval you’re rarely more the 3 car lengths away from another car, lapped or not while a road course can get really spread out.

@@cflashi he didn't mean it to put down road racing. It was just a simplified way of saying there's a difference between the two. Road racing is for sure a lot more technical and doesn't have as much side-by-side racing. Of course it is still a huge mental game of how to time a momentum advantage you have figured out in order to overtake the guy in front. Ovals are primarily figuring out how to do that. It's generally more competitive and there is a lot more side by side racing. It's much more repetitive over a lap, but the point of Ovals is less about outright driving ability and more how to time your momentum, taking different lines to complete an overtake. Less technical but challenging in other ways.

É praticamente um estilo de corrida próximo ao que vemos com os co-pilotos de Rally

The spotters normally use binoculars from the top of the grandstand, but this track is kind of small, just 1.25 miles (just short of 1 kilometer) so the spotter may just use his eyes instead.

They’ll still have binoculars even on a short track like Gateway.

Les spotters comme en NASCAR sont souvent eux dans les grands stands élevé pour vraiment voir toute la piste et suivre leur pilote, ils ont aussi des jumelles et quelques caméras (surtout sur grands circuits)

Gostaria muito que Grosjean vencesse uma corrida de oval. Ele está com uma curva de aprendizagem muito bom, principalmente nos ovais curtos como Gateway e Iowa.

none of the races are covered live on RU-vid (legally), you'll have to find a way to watch the NBC/Peacock broadcast (Sky F1 also broadcasts Indycar races)

Nobody knows yet. Some people say they'll either follow Rossi to McLaren or leave the series.

@@paulo143PE thanks, I hope they stick around.

Ano passado comentei com amigos como achei equivocado a saída do GROSJEAN da DALE COYNE pra Andretti.

Detalhe: Malukas, da DALE COYNE,foi segundo colocado no sábado

tbh nobody knows, and it changes every year

Yes, these guys are called "spotter" and they're neccesary on Ovals

do your research before you ask...

They're called "Spotters" and usually sit in a tower on ovals

Not sure if you came over from F1, but... 1.) Indy has points for more than just the top 10, in fact P13 means 17 points. There is also 1 bonus point if you lead at least one lap + another 2 for leading most laps 2.) You'll only get points when you actually do finish the race 3.) 26 drivers raced there

@@FloosWorld_AoE você tem muita paciência com fanboys da F1. Congratulação

@@rafaelcoutomarinho6314 1.) English pls, just use DeepL. 2.) Well, I'm not sure if OC is an F1 fanboy.

You can go flat out on certain oval tracks, especially Speedways like the Indianapolis oval - Gateway is not one of them.

@@FloosWorld_AoE ovais curtos estão mais próximos da dirigibilidade dos circuitos mistos, principalmente Gateway que é um oval assimétrico.

The straights at Gateway are maybe 1/4 mile at most before your into the next turn, and like Rafael said, one set of corners is a much tighter radius than the other. Iowa can handle more throttle in the corners because it’s shaped more like the common “D Shaped” oval that is symmetrical.

Das ist ein Spotter, der ist auf Ovalen notwendig, da man ständig um die Position kämpft

Except it isn't

No one likes an elitist, just enjoy some motorsport or move on.

it's not his engineer, it's his spotter. they are required on ovals

They're going way too fast on ovals to be able to drive and avoid cars. Unlike F1 where they're only going fast during a small percentage of the race

Cala a boca e vá assistir o "emocionante" GP de Singapura de F1

@@rafaelcoutomarinho6314 Calma, tá nervoso ?

@@spectregamesxd2406 na verdade tô rindo muito com um doente mental q vi por aí

lol what?

But necessary

On ovals it’s more like having a partner looking out for your back. Also the amount the spotter talks and what info they give out is often driver dependent. So RG get as much info as he wants

@@billkuduk1159 thanks for the info.

Yea its dangerous dude

Can’t run an oval race in rain. There’s no tire made that can handle an IndyCar pulling 4 Gs over a long turn without throwing them into a wall, and the spray would blanket the entire track so that nobody (drivers/camera/fans) could see anything until they all crashed.

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