Quote from MAGGOT :

I haven't watched any Indycar races yet this season, but from what I hear th new cars are a return to proper, classic racing. More difficult to drive, technology battles (engines) and in time, team-designed aero kits. I think they're on to something here, it could be great. It could make Indycar racing exciting again (and I don't just mean on a race-by-race or season-by-season basis, I mean long-term).

When your getting Side by side racing on Tight street circuits you know something is up.

The only problem i have right now is there is too much Talent in the back field cars and not enough in the top cars, once that gets sorted out, the Series will come Alive with proper Championship Battles.

Quote from Hyperactive :

GT6 will come in 2018 which is before Scirocco

fixed.

Damn that was quick

Quote from unclebenny :

i hope they come to pocono.

+1

Quote from S3ANPukekoh3 :

I'd have to say the opposite of that. I can't sit through a whole indycar road race

Oval races are fun to watch (crashes) but most of the time it just feels too much like "second tier" to be taken seriously.

I thought the same before but when you see these half decent F1 drivers coming to the series getting there asses handed to them you think otherwise, the oval based dallara chassis is gone now so the racing has been epic both on Circuits and Ovals you would be surprised, also unlike F1 they have an actual engine war happening with intresting combos.

I wouldn't compare Indy to NASCAR in that regard, because Catch fences do much more damage to an open wheeler then a Stock car.

Quote from rowdog :

Indeed, I agree. This is my first season watching F1 and I love it. On the other hand, I tried to watch IndyCar and I just didn't care for it. I was puzzled at the time since it really is so much like F1, all the way down to the push-to-pass buttons. Ultimately, I just decided that there's no accounting for taste and that while I'm a big F1 fan, I'm not an IndyCar fan, and that's ok.

I have to say the opposite, Im a big F1 fan and have been watching it for many years, and this is my first season watching Indy Seriously(been watching on and off since 2008).

And Im finding the racing Vastly better then F1, because it doesn't feel staged as much, idk but im finding my self being pulled to it more then F1.

This is also the first season of Indy where I can watch an Oval from flag to flag and not fall asleep.

Drivers hope the dramatic race at Texas helps sign a Renewal of Contract as its in Doubt for next year: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100310

I know this might be early, but considering how well Texas went, I think Las Vegas should be an option again, considering its basically the same track and they have shown interest to stage the event, the new Car has Allowed dramatically different racing on the 1.5s which going by the last race is not only unpredictable, but challenging for drivers as well.

Im Surprised the win wasn't stripped, he was running with an Illegal part.

Quote from tristancliffe :

The result was wrong. Fair play to Hamilton for maximising his strategy and doing what he had to do with the tools available.

But I can't help but feel the result should have been Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton at best. DRS makes passing at Canada too easy. I don't mind it when DRS allows the following car to make up the deficit so that they can TRY to pass into the following bend, but when following cars can just drive by I hate it.

But that's not Lewis' fault (for once ), so well done to him. I wonder what is up with Jenson's car? It's probably the driver with qualifying pace, but Jenson shouldn't drop BACK 6 places in a 'normal' race.

Well done to Perez and Grosjean as well. Great drives.

How could Alonso be first if he was overtaken in non DRS zones. Perez had him beat on the main straight before they even got to the DRS zone for example.

Once the tyres are off your a sitting duck.

Quote from Intrepid :

F1 is as spec racing now as it's ever been. Spec ECU, spec tyres, equalized engines etc...

yet what do you compare it to?

Every other racing series is basically spec to the core apart from LMS and Moto GP.

Car isn't as much of a factor as it used to be, besides just because the tyres are rubbish doesn't mean its lack of Appeal.

F1 is about strategy just as much as racing and when it comes to strategy this year it allows the midfeild to go for wins, if you expect spec racing material then F1 isn't going to be for you.

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

Even Justin Wilson can win on an oval not starting from the front row, and Power cannot. The wanker!

umad, either way Power was strong here, apart from that one move he probably had the win.

The whole race was a Set up game, it was weird, cars where falling back then zooming forward just as fast, it was baffling, anyway good win by Wilson.

Im just going to say this but, Buttons raw pace is being Destroyed by Hamilton this year.

I want Schumacher to get Pole, to keep hope of 7 drivers winning in 7 Races, I don't mind hamilton too but you know hes eventually going to win some races.

Im getting a Feeling Lotus may start to fall back from the front guys from now on, i hope im wrong but apart from Valencia the other races aren't really hot so i don't think they will capitalise in current form.

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Ferrari have got there act together this season, everything seems to go to plan and they have perfect pit stops.

Quote from Forbin :

Funny that none of you have even completed uni, let alone with 10's of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.

I know someone with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from a 2nd-tier US engineering-focused university. They were led to believe the massive loans they took out would not be a problem because they'd get a decent-paying job right out of school. Everyone needs engineers, right? It turned out they were quite surprised when there was basically nothing for them and they struggled really badly to find a job. They found one, but it doesn't pay nearly as much as they were led to believe it would going into school, and now they are saddled with a massive amount of debt.

Should of looked more into it before getting it, no one else's fault.

Quote from el pibe :

thank you for doing the thread.

i hope these ****ing stupid students dont **** up the GP. they are annoying everybody here in town. at work just because i am 18 they think that i go to the street and break shit up cause thats what they do. if they do something during the next 3 days im gonna seriously consider to wet cats to their faces.


with that said, last week i made a bet of 10$ that michael wins this race.he has the potential, he has to win.

Got to hate it when there is a bunch of kids who have never entered the Real World yet expecting everyone to pay for Their free ride through Uni.

Quote from Dennis93 :

Everyone gave up on this ?

I just got it recently after buying a 360, im a bit annoyed though, the online racing is soo much dirtier then GT5.

Everyone thinks there Kyle Busch.

can't wait for Texas, i want to see how the new car handles a oval that is known for pack racing in the past.

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

Isn't the Xbox 360 a bit too old to make new games for?

It just seems that the machine is outdated.

I would say the same, but Forza releases games as fast as NFS, so if its good a new one will be out before you are finished with this one.

Um i watched that entire video and they didn't mention once about Multiplayer Free roam, if they miss this I won't bother getting it.

It would be basically suicidal not to add multiplayer free roam, because the need for speed genre is tired and old.

Any word on how big the map is?

Very much looking Forward to this, i don't mind if the handling is arcadis as long as its drivable TDU 2 was soo bad i was scared the Open world driving genre would cease to exist.

Forzas handling is good for open world driving with controller so it should be good, also they have a good sound engine even if its exaggerated.

If they can add all the cars from Forza 4 on it this game it will be perfect.

Also got to Feel bad for Rahal the guy shows soo much Potential on these Road courses but the Gods seem to be playing tricks on him.