IndyCar 2025

[JPM]

Ole ole ole oleeee Patooo  Patoooo

[Radoye]

Doslo je do promena u rukovodecoj strukturi IndyCar:

 

https://racer.com/2025/02/11/why-did-indycar-split-with-jay-frye/

 

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In a Zoom meeting that lasted approximately 40 minutes, Penske Entertainment CEO Mark Miles and new IndyCar president Doug Boles met with select members of the media on Tuesday to field questions on the personnel changes that included the firing of Jay Frye and the elevation of others within the organization to new or increased roles.

 

[Radoye]

Rinus ViKej potvrdjen kod Kojna u bolidu #18, kao sto je bilo i ocekivano. To je bilo poslednje upraznjeno mesto na ovogodisnjem gridu (ne racunajuci Indy 500):

https://racer.com/2025/02/14/veekay-joins-coyne-to-complete-2025-indycar-field/

 

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The 2025 IndyCar Series grid is complete. Dale Coyne Racing, which held the last of 27 seats to fill, has done as expected and signed five-year veteran Rinus VeeKay to drive the No. 18 Honda and lead new teammate Jacob Abel, who will pilot the No. 51 Honda during his rookie season.

 

[Radoye]

- Kruze glasine da bi Konor Dejli mogao ostati bez mesta u Hunkosovom #78 pre nego sto uopste dobije i priliku da odveze jedan krug za njih - izgleda da sponzor nije ispostovao obecano...

[Radoye]

Poslednji test pred pocetak ovogodisnje sezone (za dve nedelje u St. Pitu) vozo se danas na Sebringu. Timovi i vozaci su podeljeni u dve grupe, u prepodnevnoj najbrzi je bio pato O'Vord:

 

https://racer.com/2025/02/17/oward-tops-opening-morning-of-indycar-sebring-test/

 

1. Pato O’Ward, 52.347s
2. Alex Palou, +0.148s
3. Christian Lundgaard, +0.316s
4. Sting Ray Robb, +0.429s
5. Marcus Armstrong, +0.457s
6. Kyle Kirkwood, +0.503s
7. David Malukas, +0.547s
8. Scott McLaughlin, +0.574s
9. Louis Foster, +0.625s
10. Christian Rasmussen, +0.657s
11. Marcus Ericsson, +0.672s
12. Graham Rahal, +0.754s
13. Rinus VeeKay, +0.854s
14. Robert Shwartzman, +1.048s

Od ove godine vozacima ce biti dozvoljen restart motora na pitlajnu uz pomoc hibridne komponente pogona - do sada su to smeli da rade na stazi ali u pitlajnu je morala da se koristi rucna startna procedura.

 

https://racer.com/2025/02/17/self-starting-indycar-hybrids-coming-to-pit-lane/

 

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Self-starting on pit lane was banned as the series wanted to give teams a chance to grow accustomed with using and interacting with the hybrid machines during the second half of the season before entertaining the possibility of allowing drivers to use the motor generator units (MGU) to fire their internal combustion engines and depart the pits.

 

Manuelni start ostaje kao opcija budu li timovi zeleli da ga koriste.

[Radoye]

Gotovo testiranje na Sebringu, kombinovana vremena:


 

Rozenkvist je u ponedeljak bio bolestan pa je njegov #60 vozio timski Markus Armstrong. Dikson je zbog kvara prvi dan odvezao samo 2 kruga. 
 

[Radoye]

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2025/02/18/indycar-rule-changes-2025-season-race-lengths-oval-restarts-practice-formats-hybrid-local-yellows/79064188007/

 

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IndyCar will add at least five laps to six races in 2025 in order to help vary strategies and eliminate processional fuel-save races.

 

The series has altered some of its procedures for starts and restarts to try and eliminate crashes that occured multiple times in 2024.

 

Most road and street courses will use new format for Practice 1 that had been used sparingly in the past.

 

[Romantik]

Gledam ove rezultate i glavni utisak mi je ocajno vreme McLaughlin-a, zna li se uzrok? iako nisam njegov navijac on je meni bio pik broj 1 za ovu sezonu mimo ovala, pa je ovo bas neocekivano.

[Radoye]

7 hours ago, Romantik said:

Gledam ove rezultate i glavni utisak mi je ocajno vreme McLaughlin-a, zna li se uzrok? iako nisam njegov navijac on je meni bio pik broj 1 za ovu sezonu mimo ovala, pa je ovo bas neocekivano.

 

Svi Penskiji su prvog dana testiranja bili na samom dnu poretka tu gde je Mekloklin. Drugog dana su Njugarden i Pauer iskocili, Mekloklin ostao. Ko zna sta su testirali, ne bih se ja sekirao za njih Penski zna sta radi.

[Radoye]

Pominjao sam Dejlijeve probleme sa sponzorima:

 

https://racer.com/2025/02/21/juncos-hollinger-says-its-status-quo-on-daly/

 

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Conor Daly’s seat at Juncos Hollinger Racing is not under immediate threat after a $3.5 million shortfall in sponsorship recently came to light.

 

According to JHR team principal Dave O’Neill, Daly’s appointment to the No. 77 Chevy was not contingent upon the delivery of the sizable amount sought from crypto-industry company Polkadot.