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12 Sep 2024, 13:25 (Ref:4226251) | #1 | ||
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Round 17: Big Machine Music, City Grand Prix. Nashville Superspeedway. Sep 13 - 15
Round 17: Big Machine Music, City Grand Prix. Nashville Superspeedway. Sep 13 - 15
Here we are, the last race of the season and with the driver's championship still to be decided. Points leader and reigning champion Alex Palou, goes into the Music City Grand Prix with a 33 point lead over Will Power. This year's season finale will be the fourth running of the Big Machine, Music City Grand Prix at Nashville but with a difference. It was decided on August 3rd, just before last year's Big Machine Grand Prix, that the race would be the season finale from 2024 onwards. However on February. 14 this year, Big Machine Label Group Chairman and Founder Scott Borchetta, announced the race would not be held on the downtown street circuit but instead would be held at Nashville's Superspeedway, which hadn't hosted an IndyCar race since the Firestone Indy 200 in 2008. Reasons cited for the change of venue, were the start of construction on the new Tennessee Titans Stadium, plus the proposed new layout of the street circuit would mean several key locations and the space around the stadium, allocated for teams and spectators would no longer be available. The change of venue also means the season finale will be run on an oval for the first time since 2014, when Team Penske’s Will Power was crowned champion for the first time at the MAVTV 500 at the California Speedway in Fontana. Can he do it again? - History In 2021 Nashville, the music capital of Country and Western, hosted the innaugural Big Machine Music City Grand Prix. After three years of negotiations between Nashville sports and tourism officials and IndyCar series executives, which previously had resulted in three failed proposals to hold the race, it was announced on September 16, 2020, the NTT IndyCar Series would add the Music City Grand Prix to the 2021 calendar. The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix marked the return of IndyCar to Nashville since the Firestone Indy 200, which had been held at Nashville Superspeedway between 2001 and 2008. It was also the first new street race for the IndyCar Series, since the Grand Prix of Houston in 2013. The race was won by Marcus Ericsson, driving a Dallara IR18-Honda HI21TT Indy V6, for Chip Ganassi Racing. However it was marred by 9 caution periods, totaling 33 laps and 2 red flags. The 2022 race was not much different, with 9 caution periods, totaling 36 laps and 1red flag. There was also a big delay to start of the race, which was scheduled for 3:30 PM ET, due to lightning in the area. The race didn't start until 5:13 PM ET. 2023 was better, with only 4 caution periods, totaling 8 laps and 1 red flag. Some Trivia Driver with the most wins: 0 Team with the most wins: 2 Chip Ganassi Racing, 2021, 2022 - Nashville Superspeedway The track is a concrete oval track 1.333 miles (2.145 km) long, with 14 degree banking and was opened in 2001 to host IndyCar and the NASCAR Busch Series, now known as the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Since the track's opening, owners Dover Motorsport Inc. had tried to host a round of the lucrative NASCAR Cup Series race. However by 2011, still unable to get a Cup Series race all the major racing series had gradually left due to poor attendance, with the track and facilities essentially left desolate and abandoned for nearly a decade. In early 2020, Cup Series drivers, Clint Bowyer and Chase Elliott, called for the series to return to the Nashville, with races to be held at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, due to it being nearer to the Nashville metropolitan area than Nashville Superspeedway. In June 2020, owners Dover Motorsports Inc. announced plans to hold future Cup Series races at Nashville Superspeedway instead, starting in 2021. The decision came as a surprise, because of the Superspeedway's less favouranle location compared to that of the Fairgrounds. However, because the approval processes to resume racing at the Superspeedway was simpler than the approval processes for the Fairgrounds, Dover Motorsports Inc., choose the Superspeedway over the Fairgrounds. The first Cup Series race took place on June 20, 2021, with Kyle Larson winning for Hendricks Motorsport. In December 2021 Nashville Superspeedway was bought from Dover Motorsports Inc., by Speedway Motorsports, LLC, who own a number of other race tracks including Charlotte, Dover, Sonoma and TMS, for $131.5 million. Track Layout Length: 1.333 miles (2.145 km) Turns: 4 Lap record Sam Hornish Jr., July 19, 2003, 0:22.9685 Sec., 208.461 Mph (334.744 km/) Team Penske, Dallara IR-02, IRL IndyCar Series Previous race at Nashville Superspeedway Firestone Indy 200, Saturday, 12 Jul 2008 Pole Hélio Castroneves Team Penske Dallara IR-05-Honda Indy V8 Winner Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara IR-05-Honda Indy V8 - Last year's race https://www.indycar.com/news/2023/08...ille-nics-race Pole Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske Dallara IR18-Chevrolet Indy V6. Winner Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport Dallara IR18-Honda HI23TT Indy V6 Laps: 80 Distance: 173.6 Miles (279.38 Km) Race Time: 1:58:02.3028 Average Speed: 85.396 Mph (137.432 Km/h) Fastest lap Linus Lundqvist - Meyer Shank Racing Lap 57, 76.7115 sec. 98.551 Mph (158.602461 Km/h) Cautions: 4 Laps: 8 - Practice and Qualifications Practice 1 Saturday, Sep 14 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET Qualifications Saturday, Sep 14 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM ET Final Practice Saturday, Sep 14 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM ET - TV Coverage Sunday, Sep 15 NBC, Peacock. 3:00 PM ET 7:00 PM UTC Sky Sports F1, 8:00 PM BST |
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12 Sep 2024, 15:12 (Ref:4226263) | #2 | ||
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Serious question and excuse my ignorance but is it anywhere near the bad weather and stuff that I read is threatening parts of the US at the moment?
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12 Sep 2024, 23:47 (Ref:4226293) | #3 | ||
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Rain is potentially a problem for the weekend. It would be less of a problem if we still had the street course but construction says otherwise!
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13 Sep 2024, 01:59 (Ref:4226306) | #4 | |
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Looks like tomorrow is a complete and total waste, Saturday looking worse, Sunday may be better
Sucks for the crew guys trying to get everything going and ready in a wet wet wet paddock |
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Im not actually in Aus atm, still in Spain visiting my Mother, but looking at the Aus news they have a weather report re the race and contingency plans (though little detail of what those plans might be) in place. References to AEST are Aus Eastern Standard Time
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Fingers crossed that contingency plans are not required and damage and inconvenience to those in the troubled areas are minimal. I know some here are from those affected areas. Thoughts, hopes and best wishes. |
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13 Sep 2024, 13:25 (Ref:4226356) | #7 | |
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On a serious note i dont ever remember an Indycar race being postponed until the Monday, has this ever happened? If it has, when?
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The 1997 race was scheduled for Sunday, May 25, but was postponed by rain. Rain stopped the race after 15 laps on May 26, and it was completed on Tuesday, May 27. Wasnt the 500 this year the subject of weather delays? Edit, the Indy 500 website details more... Quote:
Those of course are all for the 500, a bit of a special race. Routine championship races that suffered weather delays I dont know but someone will. Last edited by E.B; 13 Sep 2024 at 13:56. |
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13 Sep 2024, 18:40 (Ref:4226390) | #9 | |
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It's been a minute, I can't find any details but I would guess last rain delay was likely Richmond or Loudoun outside of the few Indy delays
Street course would likely result in rain running or cancelled to stay on schedule so at least the oval helps there. Sunday is looking better but tomorrow could end up with them rolling by points order |
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Weather doesn't seem that bad really, low percentages on Saturday that trail off for Sunday
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14 Sep 2024, 16:52 (Ref:4226551) | #11 | ||
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Alex Palou, Scott McLaughlin and Alexander Rossi receive grid penalties.
https://racer.com/2024/09/14/palou-m...for-nashville/ |
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14 Sep 2024, 19:22 (Ref:4226578) | #12 | |
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Palou got some work to do tomorrow, qualified 15 but guess he's going to the back at 24th. Power 4th
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14 Sep 2024, 20:45 (Ref:4226593) | #13 | ||
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Qualifying Result
Congrats to Kyle Kirkwood, who takes his second career pole, his first on an oval and his first since Long Beach last year. Driver's championship contender Will Power starts 4th, while reigning driver's champion and championship contender Alex Palou, who qualified 15th, will start 24th due to a nine-spot grid penalty for an unapproved engine change. Scotty Mac, who has a mathematical chance of winning the driver's championship, qualified 9th but will start 18th, as he also took a nine-spot grid penalty for an unapproved engine change. |
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14 Sep 2024, 23:00 (Ref:4226606) | #14 | ||
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Having the nice new engine. Mmmm, lovely.
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15 Sep 2024, 01:02 (Ref:4226626) | #15 | |
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I did wonder after watching the qualifying onboards if the bump in 3,4 would cause issues with mechanical parts and in the final practice Kirkwood has a suspension failure as he hit the bump and ended up in the wall.
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Should be dry for the race. I'm going to be on delay but hope to have it caught up by the evening.
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15 Sep 2024, 18:10 (Ref:4227058) | #17 | |
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F1 first on a bit of FF cause ESPN thankfully told me who won before I could watch and maybe some yard stuff before and may listen to radio coverage pretending to clean up leaves and things but more excuse to have a cigar and Indy
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Grid penalties for Santino Ferrucci and Christian Rasmussen, due to unapproved engine change following final practice on Saturday.
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15 Sep 2024, 19:30 (Ref:4227085) | #19 | ||
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A clean start.
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15 Sep 2024, 19:36 (Ref:4227089) | #20 | ||
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Power makes an early stop and his safety belt has come loose. He is 5 laps down.
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15 Sep 2024, 19:51 (Ref:4227093) | #21 | |
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Well that went sideways fast on seat belts for Penske again. Do up your belts guys
Oops, they just used the Nascar logo going to break there |
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First FCY, as Felix Rosenqvist stops on the back straight. He hit the wall and destroyed his right rear suspension.
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15 Sep 2024, 20:08 (Ref:4227096) | #23 | |
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Rosenqvist definitely had rear suspension broken before the wall and finished off on the wall, the rear went down in front of Herta
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2nd FCY. Katherine Legge brushes the wall and goes off into the grass on the infield.
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15 Sep 2024, 20:26 (Ref:4227099) | #25 | |
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Stingy looking good to bring in the Leader's Circle money at almost halfway but even with the ECR car. Course he's getting that money for Malukas now
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