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Originally Posted by broadrun96
22 compared to some lean years isn't a 33 car field but it's more than a enough for that track. I'm not sure what size grid people want but 22 is already insane on anything but Indy and Texas.
Even good CART years more than a half dozen cars with a chance to win was good, and lots of those fields were old car garbage that would be laughed off track now. ByKolles builds cars and we give him no end of grief, CART teams would buy last year's chassis, a junk engine and go "racing." Yet somehow because there were more it was better?
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CART never raced at Iowa, so making a comparison with this weekend's race is very difficult. The shortest oval on the CART calendar was Nazareth, from from 1987 to 2001. It was 0.946 miles / 1.522 km, compared to Iowa at 0.894 miles - 1.408 km and the track layout is quite different.
As for field sizes, take 1996, '98 and 2001 all good years, the field was 26, 26 and 25 cars respectively.
To say CART teams would buy last year's chassis, a junk engine and go "racing.", is somewhat of a sweeping and inaccurate statement. It's actually more applicable to Champ Car and IRL teams, as chassis and engine development was non existent.