indycar

THIS is the root of the problem. 1970-1978 - the USAC Championship Trail, also known as Indycar or Champ Car, enters the age of professionalism as cigarette brand Marlboro becomes the title sponsor of the series. With it comes an age of iconic drivers rolling down the Indianapolis motor...

This thread will cover many American motorsports from 1999 onward including NASCAR (Cup, Busch, and Trucks), IndyCar (IRL and Cart), IROC, and Trans Am (2003 because i can't find an nr2003 carset for 1999-2002)

So after it's IPO CART was awash with cash and offered to buy Formula 1 from Bernie Ecclestone. https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2020/06/02/revealed-indycar-predecessor-made-bid-to-buy-formula-one/?sh=301163cc241c What if Bernie says yes? Is CART still heading straight for an iceberg? Would...

I. The Hare or the Tortoise? ALT TEXT - Mark Donohue and his Penske PC1 at the 1975 French Grand Prix, shortly before its transmission failure. July 6th, 1975 Le Castellet, France Roger Penske was not a happy man. As he stood inside his team's garage at the Circuit Paul Ricard, he pondered...

On this board there's been a few threads about making Indycar as popular as F1 or Nascar, and one way or another they always end up circling back to preventing the CART-IRL split in the 90s that effectively gutted American open wheel racing. Now to too long ago I saw a video about the tragic...

Intro: The year is 2000. Racing is at an all-time high, with the last year seeing the new talent of Juan Pablo Montoya, the rookie who won the CART championship. Greg Ray won the IndyCar championship in 1999. Mika Hakkinen dominated F1, and Dale Jarrett dominated NASCAR. The world saw...

Any ideas on getting more road tracks (as opposed to ovals) into American motorsport?

In our world, Danica Patrick ended up in Formula 1 in the 2000s, being the first female winner of a Formula 1 race in our world, so could she have gone to race in IndyCars? I mean, she's an American, so he becoming an IndyCar driver is not as implausible as it sounds at first glance.

EXCLUSIVE TONY GEORGE INTERVIEW In the debut issue of Racer Magazine, May 1992, Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Tony Hulman George sits down for an interview to discuss the state of IndyCar. RACER: With the 76th Indy 500 happening later this month, how do you feel about the state of IndyCar...

1979: The USAC rebrands itself into the American Auto Racing Championships, or the AARC, in partnership with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This agreement makes the AARC the only league that is allowed to run the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, and gives IMS a permanent home with a league...

Danica Patrick is an retired F1 racecar driver, known for being first woman winning F1 grand prixes and first woman driver since Giovanna amati. The challenge is, have her career be in indy500 instead. With pOd of 2000.

Had there been no fatal accident in the 1999 Visionaire 500K IRL race and it was run to its entire length, what would the race have looked liked?

Had there been no rain in the 1973 Indy 500 and the race was run to the entire 500 miles, what the race have looked like?

If I remember correctly, there had been a rumor in the late 1990's that 4x IndyCar champion Tony Stewart was going to race for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, but he turned it down and the decision clearly paid off with his titles in 2002, 2004, and after the Split ended in...

This What-If project is concerning the 2011 Indianapolis 500. IRL, JR Hildebrand was leading the race on the final lap and looking to produce one of if not the biggest upset in Indy 500 history. However, a lapped car got in the way on the inside of turn 4, and Hildebrand got possibly too...