Round 3: Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach April 17 - 19, 2015

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by joeb

I seem to have confused myself. Was that the incident that caused the yellow? I thought when I was watching last night that I saw Kimball lose half his front wing with nobody around him. I did have some gin in me, but I don't think I was imagining it!

Yep, Chaves/Hawksworth was the only incident that caused the yellow to come out.

[JacobP]

Almost a processional race. Zero great races out of three this season so far, which is surprising. The 2012-14 early season races were pretty good.

[Burp]

Last 20 laps were a decent watch. Was a bit static before that.

[D.R.T.]

The last 15 -20 of St Pete was decent as well. NOLA aside - the racing has been decent enough for the beginning of 2015.

Indycar has set itself some fairly high standards

[JacobP]

Let's hope the rest of season is better. Personally, I'd love to see another NOLA race. I think the concept of racing in a swamp is pretty good. It gives races a bit of a "regional flavor". I just wish they didn't race there during the rainy season.

[Paradise City]

Somewhere where hurricane season is in full swing as a roaming funnel demolishing the surrounding countryside would be a cool backdrop or how about slippin' and slidin' in the polar ice caps? Maybe some circuit in the middle of volcano season where the cars can be duckin' and divin' around lava flows?Let's have some real Mario CART.


If they can find a window at NOLA, fine. Picking a season where they are pretty much going to be washed out of the place, isn't smart. I wasn't fazed by the race personally as it was unpredictable with good albeit brief bursts of racing but it's not something that the market will think favourably of if the disparaging online reaction was anything to go by.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Paradise City

Somewhere where hurricane season is in full swing as a roaming funnel demolishing the surrounding countryside would be a cool backdrop or how about slippin' and slidin' in the polar ice caps? Maybe some circuit in the middle of volcano season where the cars can be duckin' and divin' around lava flows?Let's have some real Mario CART.


If they can find a window at NOLA, fine. Picking a season where they are pretty much going to be washed out of the place, isn't smart. I wasn't fazed by the race personally as it was unpredictable with good albeit brief bursts of racing but it's not something that the market will think favourably of if the disparaging online reaction was anything to go by.

It obviously wasn't the smartest move to hold the race at the wettest time of the year but with 16 races crammed into such a short season, that was probaly the only slot they could get, without clashing with the other race dates.

[10TENTHS]

It did clash with a festival with in New Orleans, but according to the information I've found the wettest months are March and July in the area. October is the driest month and April around the middle.

http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate...tates/usla0338

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by 10TENTHS

It did clash with a festival with in New Orleans, but according to the information I've found the wettest months are March and July in the area. October is the driest month and April around the middle.

http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate...tates/usla0338

They can't hold the race in October because Mark Miles doesn't want the series to clash with the NFL and there weren't any other dates available in April. I don't know if they could have swapped NOLA with Barber but it would be worth bearing in mind for next year.