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Old 2 Mar 2015, 01:30 (Ref:3510534)   #2551
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I can't believe that newspapers sign these kind of marketing deals.
It's just a contra deal. Not every paper can sell 100% of it's ad space all the time, so they flog that off to the series and the series puts their name out there.

Mostly how USA Today stays alive is doing deals to sell papers to hotel chains to hand out for free to their loyalty card members who are typically business travelers. When you wake up in the morning the paper is at your door. Kinda like CNN, CNN has appalling viewer numbers but they stay in business by doing deals to buy TV's, install them in airports and other high traffic public areas and play CNN all day.
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Teams get road/street and short-oval aero-kits.

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Not exactly IndyCar news but it could have implications regarding participating in the 500 and the IndyCar series.

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Did anyone else notice the IndyCar backdrop in Will Smith's new movie Focus?

It doesnt seem to paint team owners in a good light, that all of them paid Mr Smith for the fruits of industrial espionage....

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New TV-deal in place for Sweden. All IndyCar races will be shown on Viasat Motor this year. Not sure if this includes other countries in Scandinavia where Viasat Motor is available (like in Norway, for example), but I would assume so.
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New TV-deal in place for Sweden. All IndyCar races will be shown on Viasat Motor this year. Not sure if this includes other countries in Scandinavia where Viasat Motor is available (like in Norway, for example), but I would assume so.
Awesome news! Now I don't have to search for streams every sunday!
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Did anyone else notice the IndyCar backdrop in Will Smith's new movie Focus?

It doesnt seem to paint team owners in a good light, that all of them paid Mr Smith for the fruits of industrial espionage....

I reckon most people will recognise its a fictional movie.

Carlos Munoz did the driving for the film
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Coletti gets KV drive.

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Honda Racing/HPD have posted these renderings of their aero-kit, on their Facebook page.

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Old 10 Mar 2015, 01:33 (Ref:3513525)   #2560
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I like the Engine cover area.

Plenty of downforce on the car. Will be interesting to see the impact on lap time
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If it is fast then I think they will be fairly happy.
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So... who exactly asked for these new aerokits??





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How much winglets can Honda get in order to stay competitive? But hey, it's better than having the generic Dallara bodykit!
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Is the new Honda kit *really* a decent evolution from..

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Those stills look completely daft, no two bits about it.

A more grotesque version of the 97 Tyrrell, with these odd looking winglets incongruently bolted on. And there seems to be too much real estate at the back, it weakens the idea that they are open wheeled racers at all

But I need to see these cars in action and together. Strange and terrifying can carry an appeal. As long as they don't come across as fat, slow and of the middle rank in single seater terms, then it's OK.
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So... who exactly asked for these new aerokits??
Faster and a new and different kind of ugly is better than not as fast and the same old ugly.
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Looking at the front wing of Mercedes's 2015 F1 contender,



It's got nothing on Honda's 2015 short oval/road course front wing.

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Those stills look completely daft, no two bits about it.

A more grotesque version of the 97 Tyrrell, with these odd looking winglets incongruently bolted on. And there seems to be too much real estate at the back, it weakens the idea that they are open wheeled racers at all

But I need to see these cars in action and together. Strange and terrifying can carry an appeal. As long as they don't come across as fat, slow and of the middle rank in single seater terms, then it's OK.
Until one piece breaks off, and then the car loses downforce, and they need to make a nosecone change.. and blow $200k to replace it, what with all those pieces of lovingly made carbon fibre
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Cautions are going to last until midday Tuesday this year trying to pick up half the garbage resulting from even a middling tangle....
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Ahhh the good old days when wings were made from aluminium
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So... who exactly asked for these new aerokits??

Jeez...
Not me. THey look like the Cars tuners:

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Ahem. That Panoz DP-01 was a spec racer, of course it wouldn't have mad wings on it.

Anyway..



That looks like a proper indycar to me.

How is it any different to what was?

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