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[jonpollak]

Drink Up Race Fans !!!

The wait is OVER

 

WELCOME to the 2023 Indycar Season !!!

Gonna be fun.

Gonna be thrilling.

Gonna be competitive.

Gonna be 'Tight&Punchy''©BusBros

 

This is a DRIVERS series so...

 

Where is your favorite driver racing this season????

 

Spotters Guide (caution: This may blow up your phone)

 

Here's your weekend info and a few other tidbits.

Full Weekend Schedule

 

https://www.indycar.com/Schedule/2023/IndyCar-Series/St-Petersburg

 

Or, casual intrest mode : Green Flag / RACE STARTS AT 12:37 EST THIS SUNDAY

UK time 5:37pm

The rest of you are on your own.

 

TRACK MAP !!!

 

https://www.gpstpete...al/festival-map

 

 

LAST YEARS RACE

 

Download the NEW (and doubtfully improved ) INDYCAR APP

 

Join our very own Fantasy League (Atlas-Autosport)* in the Indycar Fantasy Challenge game

* You must PM Afterburner to gain admission to our private league (I know, I know, what a pain..but we do not make the rules, No, that's some intern's job at IndyCar.)

 

 

Where can I watch the race on TV ?

International Broadcast info

 

As this is a UK cindric forum here is where Sky is putting there coverage of ALL the weekend's action.

The race itself is on LIVE @5:00pm GMT on Sky Sports Action channel 407 on your commercial satellite.

Repeat on SSF1@ 10pm GMT

Thank you @nellietellie.

 

 

 

Well, over to you now as I have to cook dinner for the kids.

Jp

Edited by jonpollak, 03 March 2023 - 00:40.

[Dolph]

So Power is #12, not #1?

[jonpollak]

My handy drivers link says....12

 

Jp

[DS27]

Can't wait for race-day.  

 

If we were in the Autosport Fantasy league last year, are we automatically entered again this year?

[FLB]

For those in Canuckistan, the race will be on both TSN3 and TSN5: https://www.tsn.ca/live/schedule

Edited by FLB, 02 March 2023 - 20:08.

[WonderboyF1]

FYI if like me you only have SSF1 on your sky sports package your not entitled to view Sky sports action as it’s behind the full sports package paywall, unlike if it was on sky sports mix which is free to view..

[jonpollak]

FYI if like me you only have SSF1 on your sky sports package your not entitled to view Sky sports action as it’s behind the full sports package paywall, unlike if it was on sky sports mix which is free to view..

Go have a nice dinner then tune in at 10pm.
Jp

[jonpollak]

Can't wait for race-day.

If we were in the Autosport Fantasy league last year, are we automatically entered again this year?

Yes,
You’ll just need to sign in again but the league remains as is.
Jp

[DS27]

Yes,
You’ll just need to sign in again but the league remains as is.
Jp

 

 

Good news. Team picked. 

 

The lack of available drivers between $18 and $23 caused a few head scratches, and the fact I know nothing about the drivers at the lower end of the price range. Best I watch FP

[LolaB0860]

I'm looking more forward to the Lights race, as (finally) it's not a total micro-grid anymore AND more importantly to see how Chadwick actually performs. The initial Sebring test results weren't particularly helpful at the end of the day. Hopefully it won't be a total letdown

 

The feature event itself, well IMO this track has always been the most overrated in all of ICS (Indianapolis RC is obviously worse but no-one likes it so it doesn't count). Even though it's a street circuit I find that often the races here are very, very boring, akin to Mid-Ohio, but I guess I maybe watch it after Bahrain nevertheless.

 

As of interest, Race 1 of SRO GTA on Friday is scheduled to end 6.35PM. As sunset for St Petersburg on March 3rd is 6.32, quite a bit of that race will be run in the dusk with car headlights for the first time, similarly to what they do at Nashville. Now again, I don't like GT3 cars, but it is always a spectacle to watch something shiny like that in a street event as it is so rare, so I might turn in.

Edited by LolaB0860, 02 March 2023 - 23:53.

[GlenWatkins]

Good point regarding Chadwick. Totally agree.

[Dolph]

Nice to see all you folks for the start of the season 

 

 

Also, burn in hell, Fontana!

[red stick]

Good news. Team picked. 
 
The lack of available drivers between $18 and $23 caused a few head scratches, and the fact I know nothing about the drivers at the lower end of the price range. Best I watch FP

Word.
Who will be this year's Malukas?

[jonpollak]

"No Pressure" but Armstong has the chance.

But I see the same mantle being challenged.

Jp

Edited by jonpollak, 03 March 2023 - 00:49.

[FLB]

First time winners this year? Grosjean? Kirkwood?

[jonpollak]

I'm looking more forward to the Lights race, as (finally) it's not a total micro-grid anymore AND more importantly to see how Chadwick actually performs. The initial Sebring test results weren't particularly helpful at the end of the day. Hopefully it won't be a total letdown

 

The feature event itself, well IMO this track has always been the most overrated in all of ICS (Indianapolis RC is obviously worse but no-one likes it so it doesn't count). Even though it's a street circuit I find that often the races here are very, very boring, akin to Mid-Ohio, but I guess I maybe watch it after Bahrain nevertheless.

 

As of interest, Race 1 of SRO GTA on Friday is scheduled to end 6.35PM. As sunset for St Petersburg on March 3rd is 6.32, quite a bit of that race will be run in the dusk with car headlights for the first time, similarly to what they do at Nashville. Now again, I don't like GT3 cars, but it is always a spectacle to watch something shiny like that in a street event as it is so rare, so I might turn in.

 

Our own Tom Gaymor !!

Jp

[Afterburner]

Also, burn in hell, Fontana!

Boooooooooooooooo

[Jim Thurman]

Nice to see all you folks for the start of the season 

 

 

Also, burn in hell, Fontana!

 

Boooooooooooooooo

I'll second that booooooooooooooooo!

 

Fontana, the city, and the speedway itself did not kill Greg Moore. Those who feel that way need to get over it. If it was the only track that hadn't paved the entire backstretch area, that would be another matter. As it was, no tracks had done it prior to Moore's accident. As is so sadly the case with motorsports, it took something like that to get them to start doing what should have been done years earlier. So, in that regard Greg Moore's death prevented others. It's not much, but it's the only thing close to positive that can be taken.

[Dolph]

Yes, I get it. But the heart still says otherwise. Safe to say, if I haven't gotten over it in 23 years, its not gonna happen after your post.

 

But onto St Pete. Its just about time for my annual story of how I got my St Pete's mixed up. 

[jonpollak]

Let’s hear it.

All aboard for the Санкт-Петербург to Tampa express !
Jp

[sblick]

Go St Pete!!!  Bummer about Fontana.  When I lived in San Diego it was a nice track to go to and see a CART race.

[GlenWatkins]

It looks like another beautiful day in St. Pete:

https://www.cruising...sburg-florida2/

 

[jonpollak]

Paddock Tour

 

Jp

[DS27]

Apologies for the potentially dumb question, but where did the alias 'DJ Willy P' come from for Will Power. Is there a story behind it?

[Disgrace]

This opening Indy NXT practice session is a destruction derby.

[jonpollak]

We 1st Practice NAO.
Jp

[Peat]

Are they massively limited on tyres?

I would have thought they'd all be out pounding laps?

[Disgrace]

Pedersen was making ugly moves even prior to that incident. Wild.

[Peat]

1st TBell "WHAAAOOOOO" of '23

[StraightEdge]

we might as well have a betting pool how many times Pederson will spin and bounce off the wall

[StraightEdge]

Sting Ray squealing those tires

[StraightEdge]

red flag. Track coming up?

[Disgrace]

Session one, race one, and the track is breaking up. An omen for the season?

[Peat]

Session one, race one, and the track is breaking up. An omen for the season?

 

IndyCar HAS occured. 

"It's happened immediately!"

[Disgrace]

That Rahal RLL is covered in stickers like the inside of a dive bar.

[red stick]

we might as well have a betting pool how many times Pederson will spin and bounce off the wall

Let's see if Turn One mishaps are linked to the ride . . .

[Disgrace]

Two red flags and Pedersen is seven tenths behind the next slowest car, no bueno.

[Peat]

Canapino looking solid again.

[Jops14]

Yes,
You’ll just need to sign in again but the league remains as is.
Jp

Excited for this indycar season and decided to join the fantasy league after 2 years and lurking and thinking “that looks fun”

[Peat]

Magnetic walls today

[FLB]

Apologies for the potentially dumb question, but where did the alias 'DJ Willy P' come from for Will Power. Is there a story behind it?

From what I remember, the first person I heard naming him that was Jamie Little.

[Peat]

Gr'am complaining is as predictable as the tide. 

[jonpollak]

Excited for this indycar season and decided to join the fantasy league after 2 years and lurking and thinking “that looks fun”

Welcome Jops14
Remember to PM Afterburner with your team name so you can join our Atlas-Autosport league !!!
Jp

[jonpollak]

Practice 1



Jp

Edited by jonpollak, 03 March 2023 - 22:01.

[StraightEdge]

Rossi and Newgarden going

[FLB]

Not looking great for RLL... again.

[Frood]

Kirkwood will win races this year. He looked poor at Foyt last year but it was obvious he was trying to make up for a lack of pace by overdriving. The guy has an enviable record in lower formulae.

[MattPete]

I wish they would list the teams on timing and scoring.  For example, other than Graham, I can't remember who drives for RLL this year.  And who is/are Sting Ray's teammate(s)?

 

-Matt

[Frood]

I wish they would list the teams on timing and scoring. For example, other than Graham, I can't remember who drives for RLL this year. And who is/are Sting Ray's teammate(s)?

-Matt

Other RLLs: Lundgaard and Harvey (+Kathy Legge at Indy)
Sting Ray's team-mate: Honorary Bus Cousin Malukas.

Edited by Frood, 03 March 2023 - 23:04.

[krapmeister]

Just saw the practice highlights - track looked quite tricky today, especially T3 and braking for T4.