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Post by Carl on May 3, 2021 5:08:03 GMT
Josef Newgarden on Saturday drop-kicked Sebastien Bourdais hard into the wall. On Sunday, Pietro Fittipaldi took out seven cars before they reached the start/finish line at the start. Both explained by saying the other car(s) came at them from ahead, an argument that could, if it becomes popular, complicate traffic liability on ordinary roads.
"I was driving faster and the school bus driver failed to keep ahead of me."
I watched only on Sunday and, except for the huge crash, it was a great race won convincingly by young Patricio O'Ward, outdriving Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal as though he was the experienced veteran.
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Post by chrisb on May 3, 2021 13:57:27 GMT
My word Carl, what a spectacle, so glad no one was hurt and I genuinly feared for Conor as that car just went on and on, but the ovals are just incredible, I would love to get to see a race one day, I have been to Indy and that was fast enough, as was the original Rockingham, but the Texas track was just hairy and well done to Patricio, a very good overtake and victory,
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Post by René on May 3, 2021 15:51:57 GMT
What's wrong with Josef? The second time he caused an accident. He's a good driver and I'm a fan but he should stop doing this! Anyway, enjoyed the racing in Texas and great to see O'Ward win yesterday! There's a lot of talent in Indycar right now and the racing is really close. No idea who's going to win the next one!
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Post by charleselan on May 3, 2021 16:35:01 GMT
Missed both races thanks to incorrect timings being displayed on the motorsport.com site over the weekend, they had last nights race to be transmitted at midnight European time, Pah!
Not too worried to be honest as I am not a fan of ovals, unless it is Indianapolis.
Joseph is turning into a bit of a liability at present, and poor Sebastian got taken out on both days.
Onwards and upwards then.
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Post by robmarsh on May 8, 2021 7:39:27 GMT
I just wish the cars looked better. I hate that aero screen and the "nappy" around the rear tyres.
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Post by René on May 8, 2021 9:59:41 GMT
I just wish the cars looked better. I hate that aero screen and the "nappy" around the rear tyres. The nappy, haha! 
From some angles and seen from the side they look quite nice and you get used to it, at least I do. And the racing is good.
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Post by charleselan on May 8, 2021 15:15:45 GMT
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Post by René on May 8, 2021 16:21:25 GMT
Thanks for the Bobby Unser post.
I read it on Autosport a few days ago and wanted to mention it here but didn't came to it.
He was an American racing icon.
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Post by charleselan on May 8, 2021 17:16:33 GMT
To be honest I wish I could have written something better and more respectful, but hope the beautiful pictures of all his Indy 500 winners do him the justice he deserves.
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Post by robmarsh on May 8, 2021 18:11:43 GMT
Loved those cars. Thanks Charles, a great tribute. My favourite one is the 1968 car, somehow they just looked so right and the multi-coloured sponsorship liveries suited them to a T.
For me the cars in both Indycar and F1 between the years 1967 to 1970 were the best. My all time favourite is the Lotus 49 in the 1968 SAGP livery.
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Post by Carl on May 8, 2021 22:17:15 GMT
Loved those cars. Thanks Charles, a great tribute. My favourite one is the 1968 car, somehow they just looked so right and the multi-coloured sponsorship liveries suited them to a T. For me the cars in both Indycar and F1 between the years 1967 to 1970 were the best. My all time favourite is the Lotus 49 in the 1968 SAGP livery. Rob, I agree, and those were classic years for design. One development I really enjoyed was the increasing width of tyres in the 60s and 70s
but also really like certain earlier Indy cars such as this beautiful 1927 Miller 
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Post by Carl on May 8, 2021 22:45:24 GMT
The other day I read that Bobby Unser sadly passed away, a great Indy legend from the Unser dynasty. I believe that he won the Indianapolis 500 three times driving Eagle & Penske cars, firstly the multi coloured Rislone car in 1968; and then the fabulous All American Racers Jorgensen Eagle in 1975; and finally in 1981 driving Roger Penske's PC-9B.    John, Many thanks for three wonderful photographs of a legendary driver and his winning cars at the Brickyard. All three are beautiful, even if the trendsetting and amazingly fast 1970s Eagle designed by Roman Slobodynski seems wide to modern eyes.
-Carl
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Post by Carl on May 8, 2021 23:33:17 GMT
Bobby Unser was amazingly fast on ovals of any size and surface. Always a threat to win on the dangerous and deadly one-mile dirt ovals in a USAC Sprint Car, Bobby was the dominant Unser over three decades of family success at the Pikes Peak hillclimb when it was unpaved and so unnerving that some drivers would take a look and quietly withdraw.
1968 USAC champion 
He was never good on road courses, as he made clear at Monza in 1968, failing to qualify after BRM had somewhat unwisely gambled on the Indy 500 winner. Tony Rudd should have consulted a clairvoyant and summoned Unser's younger brother, Al, whose great road racing talents were not yet widely known.
The Unsers were a strange family, clannish and unsophisticated, but family patriarch Louis and his sons Bobby and Al were awesome race car drivers. Possibly the best was older brother Jerry, who died at 27 in practice at Indianapolis. Despite early success and promise, Al Unser Jr. was not in the same league as his elders.
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Post by robmarsh on May 8, 2021 23:38:28 GMT
Yep Carl I also loved those roadsters before the rear engined cars. I have a book by Joe Scalzo on the Indy roadsters, worth getting a copy if one can.
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Post by chrisb on May 9, 2021 6:02:19 GMT
Bobby was one incredible racer, I remember watching something about Pikes Peak and how awesome Bobby was, but it will always be Indy I would associate the Unser's with. One abiding memory was Bobby in the 1965 race in a roadster retiring quite early and thinking that is some beast, and when you see one in a museum you think wow.
As you say Carl what an incredible family, I too had read that Jerry was supposedly the one who had been expected to be the best but tragedy intervened there.
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