Spot on .... social media! One thing they should have done was to do a free (not behind a pay wall) live stream for the 2 days at Thermal to get the fans pumped up for the new season.
Especially if the main purpose of the event at Thermal was for teams to attract new sponsors. If Indycar did a free live stream of the test, those potential sponsors would have benefited from a free platform to advertise their products & use the sport of Indycar racing to do so.
@Chris Guardiano it's private member only facility with property scrounging track being only by billionaires there is no way to do live stream at thermal they tried but could not do it
God I'm sick and tired of that IS IT MAY YET bullshit. Focusing soley on 1 race all year while all the other races are less important is the reason why indycar isn't a year round sport.
The issue is Indy is the reason many sponsors buy in. It was why CART struggled without Indy. And the flipside is it kills the rest of the series for attention. American businesses don't seem to get what this series can be
I am a 52 year old man. I live in Indy...I go to the 500 and other Indycar races all over the country. I can say this without hesitation that I would not have gotten into IMSA racing without getting hooked on Forza a few years ago. I think Indycar needs to up the console gaming plan. Not saying it would solve any problems but it would certainly help spread the word about how intense Indycar racing is.
I think you made a lot a great points about the social media part and keeping the content going year round. I would love to see shop tours on the off season. I want to see what a shock dyno does and how teams work with shocks. Show me inside the hauler and what maintenance is done off season. Go to engine rebuild shops and show us what they do. One reason I have fallen back in love with sprints and midgets is because of the great content I’m finding on social media about that type of racing. I probably watched over 40 hours of racing on Flo from the Tulsa Shootout and The Chili Bowl this year because of following a lot of the racers on UA-cam and social media. $$***&&$$$ THERE SHOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE TO THE CARS IN INDYCAR EVERY 5-7 YEARS!! It needs to be built into the business model.
Posting content and being active on social media in the offseason is honesty even more important than during the season. It keeps fans from completely forgetting the sport and also adds and brings in hype and anticipation for when the series begins. Im a huge Indycar fan but literally every year March comes around and I realize I completely forgot about Indycar because they hardly post anything on their socials until like a week leading up to the first race.
One thing that's bugged me about Indycar's UA-cam ever since NBC took over is that there's been so much that's been put behind a paywall. Prior to 2019 we got nearly every practice and qualifying session streamed on UA-cam and full races would be put up within a day or 2 of them happening. Now, everything since then has been locked away on Peacock. It wasn't until a few months ago that the 2019 and 2020 seasons got uploaded to UA-cam. At the very least, the full races need to start getting put up on UA-cam again.
I think IndyCar would benefit from having two "Spec" chassis rather than just the Dallara. Competition between manufactures is always exciting. Like LMP3 having more than one manufacture made it more interesting then LMP2 for me at this years Daytona even if LMP2 got the exciting photo finish and LMP3 was a ruaway
@@Guilherme4KFPS There is just too much risk of a "war" or dominance going for multiple chassis, or even some engine development. We've already seen this happen in previous iterations of the rulebook
Agree with David. IndyCar actually used to be ahead of other championships around 10 years ago (specially F1), but they've been overtaken faster than DW overtook a damaged Hildebrand. Also, I think they should emphasize around the fact that this is the American national championship, which also happens to be the oldest racing championship in history (over 100+ years with different names and organizers). Obviously the Indy 500 is the biggest race of the year, by far, but you also have plenty of other exciting and in many cases historic races as well (Long Beach being the best example), and if you want fans (specially casual fans) to focus the entire year the 500 can't be your only bargain chip. And regarding cars, I think it's difficult (and counterproductive) to try to match F1 with the difference of chassis. However, it would be nice to add a second chassis manufacturer and let each team decide which one to use, similar with Honda and Chevy with the engines. Oh, and I almost forgot. But one of the best ways (if not THE best way) to get young people to watch is to have a good video game for both console and PC. And IndyCar not only hasn't had a standalone game since Scott Dixon was a one-time IRL champ, but also has its license kidnapped by the worst racing game developer currently in the market.
My biggest gripe with Indycar is the way they schedule the races. It is so herky jerky. The opener in St. Pete is March 5! Get the fans excited! Then take 4 weeks off. So when they come back a month later, who gives a shit? I think the only time they have races 3 weekends in a row is the last 3 of the season. That's not the way to build a following. I would like to see more races, but if not, at least compress the schedule.
Roger Penske’s inability to separate profit from success as a mindset is slowly killing the series. He runs a top tier team in his series but is unwilling to eat a potential loss to run a highly publicized one off. If Randy Bernard had that kind of direct control there’s no way that Las Vegas would’ve died down in hype to just “Dan Wheldon last to first challenge”
However without Penske's money, Indycar would have instantly died after Randy Bernard left & there would only be NASCAR, the NHRA, IMSA & the World of Outlaws as the top US based racing series.
You can thank Michael Andretti for fireing Bernard . It was pure bullshit. He organized the other teams to go along w Andretti s agenda and had him fired.
Penske is the reason the series has more teams and a stable schedule. You can't run a series on gambles constantly. The next three years however is where Roger or his successors will have to start taking some chances
Social media and a docu series to educate people. The interest is there for sure. The record Daytona attendees is evidence that American interest in racing is growing.
I mean they do content,but F1 is taking away the americans from indycar even,so indycars need to attack at europe or asia,or south america,return to brazil or in a time when no one wants Russia,go to sochi ,its such a great indycar track
I started watching F1 in 2019 but quickly switched to watching and enjoying Indycar much more because F1 was way too predictable. 2019 and 2020 F1 seasons were over before they even started and it’s looking like that is still the case.
The innovation part of F1 being under estimated as its biggest attraction is what really anoys me when I hear some talking heads say fans dont know the difference between cars. They do and its good that you recognise that as the flaw in Indycar theres no what will they run excitement comming into May anymore. The cars arent 'specials' anymore
Really think the series should go to Australia right now. Racing is growing in popularity, getting a start before Nascar and F1 would be helpful, and the biggest stars of the series are from down there. It is an international sport lineup-wise, but only runs in North America. Makes no sense
Indycars used to race at the Aussie Gold Coast--Surfers Paradise, and Motegi before the oval was destroyed by the huge earthquake that also caused the Fukushima disaster. Would love to see them go back there--maybe New Zealand too.
Mexico or Argentina and then probably a grade 2 circuit in Europe is next. Australia is by far a bigger proposition for logistics than some other international options.
@@sams-pg7hj yeah, but being the first race would help alleviate that. Like 2 weeks in Australia and then March race at St Petersburg. That said it isn't like Australia is a huge market, it could completely bomb and not be worth the exposure. But upside is we are racing ahead of other series and more interesting race venues
@@Rearmostbean I would love a return to many places around the world but I think realistically, Mexico or Argentina will be our first return to more international racing along with new domestic tracks like I think Milwaukee has a huge likelihood of returning in '24 along with other possibilities in the coming season
Yea we've been thinking that for over a decade now. I don't think it's going to happen. The teams are far more interested in making a profit rather than taking a risk and expanding the sport.
F1 is popular across the world bc it's talked about on TV and media all across the world. That's the driving force behind it, nobody cares if it's not put in front of them everywhere they go, and buying news articles and TV segments is expensive.
I would love to see an broadcast where they tear down and rebuild a wrecked car, say McLaughlin’s from the 2022 500. Every step from receiving the car in Gasoline Alley, prepping it for the transporter, unload at the shop and all that involved making it race-ready again
Off the Subject but Curious of your Thoughts on this David. The 2007 Panoz DP-07. Has Many of the Lap Records on most of the Indy Car Tracks. Road America,Laguna Seca, Long Beach, Houston, Cleveland Etc. None of them are Recognized. The reason I bring this up is because the Curent Indy Car is Slower than the ChampCars from 16 yrs ago. This is Part of the Problem
UK fan here, problem for me is the car looks like gash. The aero screen doesn't look good. F1 cars look better, NASCAR cars now better, based on road cars, bigger wheels. Think it makes a difference.
One Nation sport, need Mexico and Brazil at least and about 20 min races, atm it's an under series by comparison, but has huge potential. Next car chassis needs to be variable in some ways imo, like the front nose and wing sidepods or somethings that make the look of the cars different. Will pose a challenge to the teams for the best aero at a particular track as well as appearance variation.
On top of your well made points; an annual video game is a must, I know one is in the works but it's been almost 20 years FFS. Also the season needs to be longer, 20 races would be the sweet spot and get rid of one of the Indianapolis Road Courses so we've got 4 more slots to add in total. Make 2 of those ovals to try and tempt some of the older fans/stock car fans who prefer oval racing to the sport. Merchandise? I go on the official store and the options are so sparse compared to F1.. doesn't help I live in the UK and shipping is about $40. Also I know this is reverting back to the point about the schedule but imagine a double header weekend at COTA with F1, I know there would be some logistics to sort out but I think it would do wonders for the series. I see soo much potential in IndyCar and we get every qualifying session and race broadcast over here in the UK on our Sky Sports F1 channel now.. people just need some encouragement to tune in.
I agree David social media the way to reach young people. I cannot say Liberty pr program better than RP. Netflix did an awesome job with their F1 program.
To add onto the new car point, if they can do something to get a better engine sound they should. I know it's dumb, but man some of those older engines in both Indycar and F1 are like a siren's song, you are drawn to them and want to be at the track to hear them. I haven't felt that in a long time in pretty much any racing series.
Indy needs a new chassis, body, bring the 2.4 engine out in the next 2 years, need a few more races and better soical media . On the races they need 1 more in Canada, 1 in Mexico, get rid of 1 of the indy road course races and go somewhere eles they need to try to team up with f1 at Cota and/or Las Vegas to draw more fans in. I would love to see practice streamed of youtube
Before they start going to other countries, there are other parts of the US where they don’t even race anymore that they should work on instead of tripling down on the Midwest and southwest.
Like the Pacific Northwest even though there is a race in Portland. I remember the CART days as a small child in which they went to both Portland and the street circuit up in Vancouver & going to both races each year from 1997-2000. Those were awesome experiences & adding Vancouver back onto the schedule would certainly grow Indycar's fan base in Canada as well as bring in large crowds from the Seattle area (where I live). This is because Pacific Raceways is mainly built for the NHRA & the road course that is attached to the drag strip is far from the standards needed to host an Indycar race. Indycar also needs to put a few more races in the Southeast such as Atlanta at Road Atlanta (Atlanta Motor Speedway is too dangerous for Indycars) or even try to do a race at a small oval like North Wilkesboro or Richmond.
@@chrisguardiano6143 I’m in Richmond. Was planning to go in 2020 before it was cancelled. I went to most of the races in the IRL days and was thrilled that it was coming back. I don’t mind traveling a bit, but the closest track on the schedule to a lot of the eastern US is Mid-Ohio. The whole eastern seaboard is shut out. Anywhere would be nice. Richmond, Charlotte roval, NWBS, Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen, whatever. Shutting out a big part of the country isn’t it for growth.
If Indycar is going to grow in United States (as it should as a North American Series) and if F1 wants to be successful in North America then Indycar seriously needs to be sanctioned by someone else than FIA. I never understood that strange arrangement anyways. Side note: Penske needs to get OUT of the racing team business (give it to Cindric or something like that) and instead focus on promoting the series better.
I think race strategists need to be better prepared for the curve balls thrown at them. I was a Colton Herta fan last year, his own team sabotage him more than once last year.
Dang I hadn't heard about Power's accident till now. I've been hoping the switch to a new car soon. It would be nice if they didn't all have the same aero kit but that's not too big of a deal.
F1 is popular for one major reason... teams. They have a constructor's championship and this the focal point of the series despite the fact that the drivers are idolized. The fact that it's a team sport is reason why F1 feels like year round sport. The solution to Indycar's lack of popularity is really simple. Indycar needs a team championship, which basically would require each team to have the same amount of cars per team. I think with 10 full time teams they can mandate 3 cars per team. This would make it 30 cars on grid all season long. Implementing a team championship would raise the awareness and interest in the teams. It would bring more casual fans to series who just want to watch one team beat another. Indycar has some prestigious teams, but apparently nobody seems to know who they are or have any interest in them. A team championship would give the team purpose and dramatically change the way the series is marketed.
Quit having generic spec chassis and engines. Its way more interesting when you let the teams create and develop their own race cars like they did in the 70's and 80's.
They need to make the product (races) more readily available with fewer roadblocks to turn away fans and potential fans. So far as I know, most races are now on Peacock, not only behind a paywall, but only available in the US. I'm in Canada and, in recent years, even the Indy 500 is behind a paywall on a subscription sports network that has little other content to interest a racing fan. I know all these roadblocks _can_ be circumvented, but how many will bother if F1, NASCAR, etc are more readily available? Indy car have been chasing short term cash, with exclusive TV, video game deals, and the private practice session in Thermal, but in so doing they are driving away fans and thus undermining the value of Indy car to the TV networks, video game companies, and sponsors.
New fans don't know that there hasn't been a new car in a while, they are new. Only diehards care about the car and DTS F1 fans don't know anything about the cars, they can identify the liveries, but they don't know or care that each team builds a new car each season, they want to know if Gunther is yelling at his drivers.
You might want to move the podcast clips to a second channel. I dont want to get notifications for stuff I have already watched. It might mess up your algorithm from people not watching podcasts clips a second time
i think indycar could also go to new tracks and markets or go back to old tracks. theres no reason why theres 2 races at indianapolis road course when they could go michigan or pocono again, they could go to circuit giles villeneuve or mosport. having a 12 year old car on the same 15 tracks or so every year gets old.
Maybe hold the season during the off time of F1? People crave Motorsports during the winter season. Also simplify the point system a little bit. I began liking Motorsports through F1 but i love Indycar more now after understanding and watching it. I think it’s more raw and competitive. Your videos have been a huge contributor to that, so thank you for your content!
I thought “year-round sport” meant racing like NASCAR races, so that begs the question, what do you think of the way NASCAR has their season. As an outsider looking in, it’s too long
As an european, really i get why indycar does some things,it should be indycar not trying to be f1,but yeah they can improve on many things even though i prefer indycar nowdays,i think they can improve some track selection firstly,second they can really capitalize on having a more competitive sport and more old school sport,i think that refueling is amazing for open wheel racing
David, good points, and I think these things all contribute to the problem as a whole, but do you think Indycar needs a change in Leadership? It feels like Indycar needs a passionate visionary (preferably with some money) from the outside to come along, buy the series, and think big, think outside the box. Many of the same egos that were around during the split are still steering the ship.
Concerning social media, we can said the Indycar must increase his presence but what about the team and the pilot ? They have two show to the public what happen in there team between races, the have to communicate. How many teams have an Instagram our UA-cam channel ? Pilot generally post some personal information but not too much content concernant the Indycar series. After Indycar have to put on track a new open wheel car, faster ..... If you are an F1 fan, it is difficult to understand that Indycar is a top series even if the car are 10s slower than a F1 on COTA Track ! New indycar driver coming from Indylights or F2 said that Indycar is not sot different than they have drive before. Superformula car in Japan are faster than indycar on road circuit .... Remembered the CART years in 90s and 2000s, the car was huge in term of performance (not faster than an F1 on road course but maybe 5s off only).
I've been saying for years bring jan beekhuis his tech talks were so good. Jan beekhuis used to do indycar tech talks. 2020 came along and they were doing these wheres rut segments and jan beekhuis. Also nbc needs to visit Australia and check out supercar broadcast because they have exciting engaging broadcast you have awesome commentary team. You have pit reporters and then before race you have strategy that goes over strategy really cool. Then there is camera shots you have low to ground and wall mounted cameras that show the speed of cars passing that add to the excitement but seriously tv broadcast needs work. These goofy where rut segments you have commentators bashing sport on tv. Last year you had steve letarte on air saying indycar should have no practise like nascar.
I think they seriously need to bring in a competitor to Dallara again. Same Safety Cell and general size but with some different ideas between the Dallara and whoever else they get involved. The cars would be mechanically the same as suspension and powertrain should be the same basic package but when you look back on when CART was top level and rivaling F1, you had at least 2 different cars and possibly 3 fighting for supremacy. then obviously something else happened that killed it but that's beside the point. if you ask me, I only care about Indycar when they drive down I-80 to get to Newton. Plus I did have the thought of having Indycar do a "Knoxville Prelude to the Nationals" or something of that nature because quite honestly Dirt Racing is probably taking the US back over as far as racing in general is concerned. I know more people who watch and enjoy dirt oval racing than either NASCAR or Indycar.
Social media don't make F1 famous!! Is the people and investors all included made it cause Indy is famous is the lack of commitment to expand it to another level with more investors, new countries were they hasn't been seen yet like Japan, Mexico, Brazil ect ect, new engines with more power to reach higher speeds!! And nooo!!, big teams like Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes Benz were there like 400 employees!! Indy only needs bit of a push but not social media!! F1 has been famous since the debut.
Get another chassis manufacturer!! The golden days of CART had Reynard, Swift, Lola, Eagle ect... chassis. I know they made a spec chassis to keep costs down with the loss of tobacco $$$, but IMSA is doing a great job at bringing multiple chassis manufacturers and OEM engine suppliers. I love the old CART days but IMSA to me is more exciting this year.
The swift was an also ran. Never truly competitive. Same w the eagle. The lola had good and bad years. There isn’t enough sponsorship to afford new chassis every year. Do some fact checking.
@@grooviefan fact checking? I don't need to check, I watched every race every season in the CART era. Did I say the Swift or Dan Gurney's Eagle were successful? It was just nice to have some variety. It was nice to have Honda, Toyota, Ford and Mercedes Benz engines. It was nice to have the Firestone and Goodyear tire battle. Just because the Honda/Reynard/Firestone was the package to beat doesn't mean that it wasn't good to have the others competing. I know there isn't the same amount of sponsorship money out there now, but I think IMSA is showing how to attract multiple manufacturers while also keeping the cost of entry relatively low. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to have a few different options in the field than just a choice of 2 engines differentiating the cars.
@@drock6627 G-Force went out of biz due to not being a competitive chassis. Panoz is gone. Reynard is gone. Lola is history. Who is going to b the other chassis mfg ??
Indycar 100,000,000,000% needs a new car, since the DW12/IR18 has been around with the only changes being a few aero changes and the aeroscreen... Indycar also NEEDS to promote every race on the schedule outside of the Indianapolis 500, I mean in terms of that, just look at NASCAR: last night they had the Busch Light Clash at the LA Coliseum mentioned numerous times during WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox, hell, they even did a segment where Rey Mysterio and The New Day were hanging out with Michael Waltrip and Clint Bowyer only for The Judgement Day and Ross Chastain to show up leading to a race around the track between Rey Mysterio and his son Dominik Mysterio because Rey is feuding with his son with the segment ending with Rey winning the race and Dominik throwing his helmet at his father and Clint Bowyer leading everyone to be separated by track workers from Auto Club Speedway... You don't see Indycar allowing something like that
Indycar is an American sport and needs American sportscasters and not an Englishman calling the shots on TV. For F1, that's great, but for Indycar, not so much. Does this bother anybody else, just saying. Yes, the series needs to be longer because they lose the momentum the series generates. Even the drivers want to be in the car longer and not layoff for 5 months.
Chassis, aero kit, engines and tires have become stagnant, there is literally nothing to talk about during the off season or the long pauses between races to start the season. Teams and driver lineups are mostly finalized by the end of the current season, yet again, nothing to talk about. Six months from the end of the 2022 season to the start of the 2023 season and then another month between races, that's a lot of filler time when the only thing to really talk about is if more than 33 teams will show up for the 500 and make qualifying worth paying attention to. Hard to build a social media juggernaut with that much dead time and nothing to talk about.
I funny follow NASCAR at all. What comes up in my Google feed? NASCAR. I follow F1 and Indycar. I get F1. No Indycar. Zero. Their website is a joke. They're was at least one Saturday night race last year that I didn't know about until Sunday. There's zero promotion and no media presence.
The big problem with Indycar is they are domestic they likes to stay home. While Formula 1 is international likes to travel the world. But still the biggest problem of all is...MONEY and is Indycar willing to spend it. Some people are happy driving there Cadillac...while some others people are happy driving there Ferrari...You pick.
honestly, the IR-18 may be a nice ish looking car, but at the end of the day, it's still an 11 year old car underneath. (no, the lola is not the best looking Indycar ever made, that would be the dallara ir-05. i could never get tired of those beauties, even though they were used for 9 years. true golden era of Indycar, those cars were.) as much as the IR-18s have grown on me, we desperately need a new car. and hopefully, if we do get a new car, it can look as good as the IR-05s did.
@@DW98rosy To be transparent, I wasn't referring to the Lola David was talking about. Anytime I hear "Lola" and "Indycar" in the same mention, I automatically go to the 90's 😄
What did Champ/CART do to Rival F1 in the 90s?... Fast and Bad Ass V8 Turbo open wheel cars with Multiple Manufactures with Multiple Chassis , Multiple Tire Manufactures, Unique Tracks and an actually World Series of Racing on multiple track Layouts Go back to Surfers Paradise , Montreal, Mexico, South America Great Racing exist now. But the Cars are 10 yr old chassis , Boring and it's a Spec Series. It's all about the cars the Drivers and the Tracks.
So what is missing from the 1990s when IndyCar rivalled F1? Major sponsorship and engine manufacturers willing to lay down money to cover the travel costs. Think back then of the sponsors… Texaco gasoline, Kmart, Marlboro, Players cigarettes, Valvoline, Miller, Budweiser, Target, etc. Billion dollar companies in which half are out of business or cannot sponsor sport teams any more. Engine manufacturers like Toyota, Ford, Chevy, Honda, and even Mercedes.
Roger Penske owns and run IndyCar, but doesn't seem he can promote it as far as on social media and TV. He should find investors who can invest and get people who can properly promote the series because promotion of IndyCar has been non existent. Slow in modernizing, development and innovation seems like IndyCar is the "3rd world" of racing compared to other top racing series. New livery each season is the best IndyCar can do?
I like both but Indy for me it's better do to is only driver and the car!! No technical support in the race the driver use his habilities to win not getting help from another computer to see how your car is doing!!
Indycar is simply never going to rival F1. Indycar is basically a a rich guy kit car racing class. F1 cars are the most Innovated Racecar on the planet. They are not the same thing.Not even close.
Hate to say it, but the purchase of Indy by RP may turn out to be worse than The Split. Well, whatever. Auto racing was a XX century thing anyway. Proper auto racing.
That's a good one. Everyone expected a great saviour that will lead the series into the new golden era. But instead we got a complete lack of vision alongside with "one step forward, two steps back" leadership style.
@@sams-pg7hj there's no such thing as 'stability'. If there's no progress, regress takes place. Just look where so called stability took IndyCar. 12 year old ugly cars, 7 months of silence each year, no manufacturers interested to join the series. And what's more horrifying is that there's no intention to change anything from Penske Entertainment.
@@nicksaturn2897 The series is growing and tons of interest from outside drivers, high crowds, new events, new ideas for events. things are definitely moving in the right direction
@@sams-pg7hj I really hope it's a sarcasm. The only reason outside drivers look at IndyCar is because F1 has no enough seats to meet the demand while, formally, Indy is the next in line. New events? The series has a bright Mexican star in O'Ward for 3 years now and there's still no talks about a race in Mexico. And it's even not breaks a small North American series conception that Penske and Miles so fond of.
Yeah the content Indycar puts out is bland. Nothing is interesting to read about consistently day-in-day-out. In F1, I always find something interesting to watch, read, learn, etc. It's a never-ending dance that F1 and related media put out every day
IndyCar is kinda disrespecting themselves by not doing international races… It’s the 2nd highest ranked open-wheel series in the world, yet they’re still living off the crumbs of an American motorsport audience that’s mostly oval-racing obsessed, when they could be globalizing their product/brand. And how does a spec-racing series have a 5-6 month offseason?? That goes back to the 'American-based' thinking of… "We don’t want to compete with the NFL during the fall." That’s not good enough from a business leadership perspective. The vision is clearly lacking… You’re not giving the American fanbase the big-fast oval races they want, and you not giving international fanbase’s any races at all. Therefore, you’re stagnant!!
@@scottbarbour9745 Penske, Ganassi, Rahal, Andretti & Shank all wanna go to Le Mans with their very expensive brand new LMDh cars… It’s not about money, it’s about desire. Indycar’s budget isn’t going to 'magically' spike someday.
I was thinking what if indycar went international like racing at Monza or spa. Would that make indycar not better than F1, but have like more popularity as F1? If there's a way anyone can answer that lemme know.
I’m guessing you are pretty young, everything you said happened in the 1990s and led to the dissolving of the sport due to the enormous travel costs. IndyCar raced in Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Europe, Australia and Canada
F1 is cool because it is on the cutting edge of development, a driver can when because his engineers gave him a better car. IndyCar would be way cooler if it took the best developments of F1 and put them in all the cars for all the quality IndyCar drivers to have a fair competition.
@@fqeagles21 Basically what I'm trying to say is right now IndyCar needs to be the 2020 Mercedes. Obviously with the cooperation of Formula One and Mercedes (or whoever ends up developing the all time F1 car)
Indycar doesn't need to do anything to rival Formula 1. Formula 1 has lost credibility and is no longer the pinnacle of motorsport. F1 should be looking at what it can emulate from Indycar.
Spot on .... social media!
One thing they should have done was to do a free (not behind a pay wall) live stream for the 2 days at Thermal to get the fans pumped up for the new season.
Especially if the main purpose of the event at Thermal was for teams to attract new sponsors. If Indycar did a free live stream of the test, those potential sponsors would have benefited from a free platform to advertise their products & use the sport of Indycar racing to do so.
They used to do Spring Training streams on UA-cam! TF happened to that?
This would have been awesome
@Chris Guardiano it's private member only facility with property scrounging track being only by billionaires there is no way to do live stream at thermal they tried but could not do it
Of course Indy car isn't a year round sport. It only happens in May right?
To this day, I hate the all about Indy mentality!!! I would rather have a good 20 race, well funded, diverse, international series like we had before.
you can't be that dumb right?
Ouch
God I'm sick and tired of that IS IT MAY YET bullshit. Focusing soley on 1 race all year while all the other races are less important is the reason why indycar isn't a year round sport.
The issue is Indy is the reason many sponsors buy in. It was why CART struggled without Indy. And the flipside is it kills the rest of the series for attention. American businesses don't seem to get what this series can be
I am a 52 year old man. I live in Indy...I go to the 500 and other Indycar races all over the country. I can say this without hesitation that I would not have gotten into IMSA racing without getting hooked on Forza a few years ago. I think Indycar needs to up the console gaming plan. Not saying it would solve any problems but it would certainly help spread the word about how intense Indycar racing is.
I think you made a lot a great points about the social media part and keeping the content going year round. I would love to see shop tours on the off season. I want to see what a shock dyno does and how teams work with shocks. Show me inside the hauler and what maintenance is done off season. Go to engine rebuild shops and show us what they do. One reason I have fallen back in love with sprints and midgets is because of the great content I’m finding on social media about that type of racing. I probably watched over 40 hours of racing on Flo from the Tulsa Shootout and The Chili Bowl this year because of following a lot of the racers on UA-cam and social media.
$$***&&$$$ THERE SHOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE TO THE CARS IN INDYCAR EVERY 5-7 YEARS!! It needs to be built into the business model.
Posting content and being active on social media in the offseason is honesty even more important than during the season. It keeps fans from completely forgetting the sport and also adds and brings in hype and anticipation for when the series begins.
Im a huge Indycar fan but literally every year March comes around and I realize I completely forgot about Indycar because they hardly post anything on their socials until like a week leading up to the first race.
Louder and faster engines. I love the drivers. They all seem pretty decent fellows.
One thing that's bugged me about Indycar's UA-cam ever since NBC took over is that there's been so much that's been put behind a paywall. Prior to 2019 we got nearly every practice and qualifying session streamed on UA-cam and full races would be put up within a day or 2 of them happening. Now, everything since then has been locked away on Peacock. It wasn't until a few months ago that the 2019 and 2020 seasons got uploaded to UA-cam. At the very least, the full races need to start getting put up on UA-cam again.
As long as there with nbc that won't happen.
I think IndyCar would benefit from having two "Spec" chassis rather than just the Dallara. Competition between manufactures is always exciting. Like LMP3 having more than one manufacture made it more interesting then LMP2 for me at this years Daytona even if LMP2 got the exciting photo finish and LMP3 was a ruaway
LMP2 has 4 manufactures the problem is that ORECA made an way better car.
@@Guilherme4KFPS There is just too much risk of a "war" or dominance going for multiple chassis, or even some engine development. We've already seen this happen in previous iterations of the rulebook
This is the first I heard about Will breaking his collar bone!!!
Agree with David. IndyCar actually used to be ahead of other championships around 10 years ago (specially F1), but they've been overtaken faster than DW overtook a damaged Hildebrand.
Also, I think they should emphasize around the fact that this is the American national championship, which also happens to be the oldest racing championship in history (over 100+ years with different names and organizers). Obviously the Indy 500 is the biggest race of the year, by far, but you also have plenty of other exciting and in many cases historic races as well (Long Beach being the best example), and if you want fans (specially casual fans) to focus the entire year the 500 can't be your only bargain chip.
And regarding cars, I think it's difficult (and counterproductive) to try to match F1 with the difference of chassis. However, it would be nice to add a second chassis manufacturer and let each team decide which one to use, similar with Honda and Chevy with the engines.
Oh, and I almost forgot. But one of the best ways (if not THE best way) to get young people to watch is to have a good video game for both console and PC. And IndyCar not only hasn't had a standalone game since Scott Dixon was a one-time IRL champ, but also has its license kidnapped by the worst racing game developer currently in the market.
My biggest gripe with Indycar is the way they schedule the races. It is so herky jerky. The opener in St. Pete is March 5! Get the fans excited! Then take 4 weeks off. So when they come back a month later, who gives a shit? I think the only time they have races 3 weekends in a row is the last 3 of the season. That's not the way to build a following. I would like to see more races, but if not, at least compress the schedule.
Roger Penske’s inability to separate profit from success as a mindset is slowly killing the series. He runs a top tier team in his series but is unwilling to eat a potential loss to run a highly publicized one off. If Randy Bernard had that kind of direct control there’s no way that Las Vegas would’ve died down in hype to just “Dan Wheldon last to first challenge”
Completely agreee....
However without Penske's money, Indycar would have instantly died after Randy Bernard left & there would only be NASCAR, the NHRA, IMSA & the World of Outlaws as the top US based racing series.
@@chrisguardiano6143 That's where we're headed anyway. Just slower.
You can thank Michael Andretti for fireing Bernard . It was pure bullshit. He organized the other teams to go along w Andretti s agenda and had him fired.
Penske is the reason the series has more teams and a stable schedule. You can't run a series on gambles constantly. The next three years however is where Roger or his successors will have to start taking some chances
Social media and a docu series to educate people. The interest is there for sure. The record Daytona attendees is evidence that American interest in racing is growing.
I mean they do content,but F1 is taking away the americans from indycar even,so indycars need to attack at europe or asia,or south america,return to brazil or in a time when no one wants Russia,go to sochi ,its such a great indycar track
I started watching F1 in 2019 but quickly switched to watching and enjoying Indycar much more because F1 was way too predictable. 2019 and 2020 F1 seasons were over before they even started and it’s looking like that is still the case.
I saw a clip from a local News Report and they basically implied this test was all in preparation and part of the countdown to the 500.
The innovation part of F1 being under estimated as its biggest attraction is what really anoys me when I hear some talking heads say fans dont know the difference between cars. They do and its good that you recognise that as the flaw in Indycar theres no what will they run excitement comming into May anymore. The cars arent 'specials' anymore
Really think the series should go to Australia right now.
Racing is growing in popularity, getting a start before Nascar and F1 would be helpful, and the biggest stars of the series are from down there.
It is an international sport lineup-wise, but only runs in North America. Makes no sense
Indycars used to race at the Aussie Gold Coast--Surfers Paradise, and Motegi before the oval was destroyed by the huge earthquake that also caused the Fukushima disaster. Would love to see them go back there--maybe New Zealand too.
Mexico or Argentina and then probably a grade 2 circuit in Europe is next. Australia is by far a bigger proposition for logistics than some other international options.
@@sams-pg7hj yeah, but being the first race would help alleviate that. Like 2 weeks in Australia and then March race at St Petersburg.
That said it isn't like Australia is a huge market, it could completely bomb and not be worth the exposure.
But upside is we are racing ahead of other series and more interesting race venues
@@Rearmostbean I would love a return to many places around the world but I think realistically, Mexico or Argentina will be our first return to more international racing along with new domestic tracks like I think Milwaukee has a huge likelihood of returning in '24 along with other possibilities in the coming season
Yea we've been thinking that for over a decade now. I don't think it's going to happen.
The teams are far more interested in making a profit rather than taking a risk and expanding the sport.
F1 is popular across the world bc it's talked about on TV and media all across the world.
That's the driving force behind it, nobody cares if it's not put in front of them everywhere they go, and buying news articles and TV segments is expensive.
I would love to see an broadcast where they tear down and rebuild a wrecked car, say McLaughlin’s from the 2022 500. Every step from receiving the car in Gasoline Alley, prepping it for the transporter, unload at the shop and all that involved making it race-ready again
Off the Subject but Curious of your Thoughts on this David. The 2007 Panoz DP-07. Has Many of the Lap Records on most of the Indy Car Tracks. Road America,Laguna Seca, Long Beach, Houston, Cleveland Etc.
None of them are Recognized. The reason I bring this up is because the Curent Indy Car is Slower than the ChampCars from 16 yrs ago. This is Part of the Problem
UK fan here, problem for me is the car looks like gash. The aero screen doesn't look good. F1 cars look better, NASCAR cars now better, based on road cars, bigger wheels. Think it makes a difference.
One Nation sport, need Mexico and Brazil at least and about 20 min races, atm it's an under series by comparison, but has huge potential. Next car chassis needs to be variable in some ways imo, like the front nose and wing sidepods or somethings that make the look of the cars different.
Will pose a challenge to the teams for the best aero at a particular track as well as appearance variation.
Expand it to 22 races
Is it May yet?
The half hour of we love America before Indy and nascar races are a bit much.
On top of your well made points; an annual video game is a must, I know one is in the works but it's been almost 20 years FFS. Also the season needs to be longer, 20 races would be the sweet spot and get rid of one of the Indianapolis Road Courses so we've got 4 more slots to add in total. Make 2 of those ovals to try and tempt some of the older fans/stock car fans who prefer oval racing to the sport. Merchandise? I go on the official store and the options are so sparse compared to F1.. doesn't help I live in the UK and shipping is about $40. Also I know this is reverting back to the point about the schedule but imagine a double header weekend at COTA with F1, I know there would be some logistics to sort out but I think it would do wonders for the series. I see soo much potential in IndyCar and we get every qualifying session and race broadcast over here in the UK on our Sky Sports F1 channel now.. people just need some encouragement to tune in.
Compliment of the editing! Love the soundtracks you have for videos. It adds a level of professionalism I feel is missing in North American motorsport
I’d love to see the old travel to Surfers Paradise and Toronto exc. bring back Milwaukee mile! And turn the power back up so there is excitement🏁
Toronto doesn't want indycar lol
I agree David social media the way to reach young people. I cannot say Liberty pr program better than RP. Netflix did an awesome job with their F1 program.
They could use a few more races IMO
To add onto the new car point, if they can do something to get a better engine sound they should. I know it's dumb, but man some of those older engines in both Indycar and F1 are like a siren's song, you are drawn to them and want to be at the track to hear them. I haven't felt that in a long time in pretty much any racing series.
Indy needs a new chassis, body, bring the 2.4 engine out in the next 2 years, need a few more races and better soical media . On the races they need 1 more in Canada, 1 in Mexico, get rid of 1 of the indy road course races and go somewhere eles they need to try to team up with f1 at Cota and/or Las Vegas to draw more fans in. I would love to see practice streamed of youtube
Hey David, be that guy! Take it to the next level!!
Before they start going to other countries, there are other parts of the US where they don’t even race anymore that they should work on instead of tripling down on the Midwest and southwest.
Like the Pacific Northwest even though there is a race in Portland. I remember the CART days as a small child in which they went to both Portland and the street circuit up in Vancouver & going to both races each year from 1997-2000. Those were awesome experiences & adding Vancouver back onto the schedule would certainly grow Indycar's fan base in Canada as well as bring in large crowds from the Seattle area (where I live). This is because Pacific Raceways is mainly built for the NHRA & the road course that is attached to the drag strip is far from the standards needed to host an Indycar race. Indycar also needs to put a few more races in the Southeast such as Atlanta at Road Atlanta (Atlanta Motor Speedway is too dangerous for Indycars) or even try to do a race at a small oval like North Wilkesboro or Richmond.
@@chrisguardiano6143 I’m in Richmond. Was planning to go in 2020 before it was cancelled. I went to most of the races in the IRL days and was thrilled that it was coming back. I don’t mind traveling a bit, but the closest track on the schedule to a lot of the eastern US is Mid-Ohio. The whole eastern seaboard is shut out. Anywhere would be nice. Richmond, Charlotte roval, NWBS, Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen, whatever. Shutting out a big part of the country isn’t it for growth.
If Indycar is going to grow in United States (as it should as a North American Series) and if F1 wants to be successful in North America then Indycar seriously needs to be sanctioned by someone else than FIA. I never understood that strange arrangement anyways. Side note: Penske needs to get OUT of the racing team business (give it to Cindric or something like that) and instead focus on promoting the series better.
David is right. It's time for Indycars to come up with new car designs, & maybe go with hybrid engines.
nice "softball" from Kyle lol
Honestly if Kyle doesn't use that segment each week to get me in as much trouble as possible, he's not doing his job! lol
I think race strategists need to be better prepared for the curve balls thrown at them. I was a Colton Herta fan last year, his own team sabotage him more than once last year.
Jay Frye are you listening. Basically you need better marketing for IndyCar!
Dang I hadn't heard about Power's accident till now. I've been hoping the switch to a new car soon. It would be nice if they didn't all have the same aero kit but that's not too big of a deal.
F1 is popular for one major reason... teams. They have a constructor's championship and this the focal point of the series despite the fact that the drivers are idolized. The fact that it's a team sport is reason why F1 feels like year round sport.
The solution to Indycar's lack of popularity is really simple. Indycar needs a team championship, which basically would require each team to have the same amount of cars per team. I think with 10 full time teams they can mandate 3 cars per team. This would make it 30 cars on grid all season long. Implementing a team championship would raise the awareness and interest in the teams. It would bring more casual fans to series who just want to watch one team beat another. Indycar has some prestigious teams, but apparently nobody seems to know who they are or have any interest in them. A team championship would give the team purpose and dramatically change the way the series is marketed.
Quit having generic spec chassis and engines. Its way more interesting when you let the teams create and develop their own race cars like they did in the 70's and 80's.
Then a cost cap needs to be implemented. Because the spec cars exist to keep costs down.
They need to make the product (races) more readily available with fewer roadblocks to turn away fans and potential fans. So far as I know, most races are now on Peacock, not only behind a paywall, but only available in the US. I'm in Canada and, in recent years, even the Indy 500 is behind a paywall on a subscription sports network that has little other content to interest a racing fan. I know all these roadblocks _can_ be circumvented, but how many will bother if F1, NASCAR, etc are more readily available? Indy car have been chasing short term cash, with exclusive TV, video game deals, and the private practice session in Thermal, but in so doing they are driving away fans and thus undermining the value of Indy car to the TV networks, video game companies, and sponsors.
New fans don't know that there hasn't been a new car in a while, they are new. Only diehards care about the car and DTS F1 fans don't know anything about the cars, they can identify the liveries, but they don't know or care that each team builds a new car each season, they want to know if Gunther is yelling at his drivers.
You might want to move the podcast clips to a second channel. I dont want to get notifications for stuff I have already watched. It might mess up your algorithm from people not watching podcasts clips a second time
i think indycar could also go to new tracks and markets or go back to old tracks. theres no reason why theres 2 races at indianapolis road course when they could go michigan or pocono again, they could go to circuit giles villeneuve or mosport. having a 12 year old car on the same 15 tracks or so every year gets old.
Maybe hold the season during the off time of F1? People crave Motorsports during the winter season. Also simplify the point system a little bit. I began liking Motorsports through F1 but i love Indycar more now after understanding and watching it. I think it’s more raw and competitive. Your videos have been a huge contributor to that, so thank you for your content!
definitely cannot do the season in the winter, you lose all but like 3 tracks to winter weather
I thought “year-round sport” meant racing like NASCAR races, so that begs the question, what do you think of the way NASCAR has their season. As an outsider looking in, it’s too long
As an european, really i get why indycar does some things,it should be indycar not trying to be f1,but yeah they can improve on many things even though i prefer indycar nowdays,i think they can improve some track selection firstly,second they can really capitalize on having a more competitive sport and more old school sport,i think that refueling is amazing for open wheel racing
David, good points, and I think these things all contribute to the problem as a whole, but do you think Indycar needs a change in Leadership? It feels like Indycar needs a passionate visionary (preferably with some money) from the outside to come along, buy the series, and think big, think outside the box.
Many of the same egos that were around during the split are still steering the ship.
Concerning social media, we can said the Indycar must increase his presence but what about the team and the pilot ?
They have two show to the public what happen in there team between races, the have to communicate. How many teams have an Instagram our UA-cam channel ? Pilot generally post some personal information but not too much content concernant the Indycar series.
After Indycar have to put on track a new open wheel car, faster ..... If you are an F1 fan, it is difficult to understand that Indycar is a top series even if the car are 10s slower than a F1 on COTA Track ! New indycar driver coming from Indylights or F2 said that Indycar is not sot different than they have drive before. Superformula car in Japan are faster than indycar on road circuit .... Remembered the CART years in 90s and 2000s, the car was huge in term of performance (not faster than an F1 on road course but maybe 5s off only).
I've been saying for years bring jan beekhuis his tech talks were so good. Jan beekhuis used to do indycar tech talks. 2020 came along and they were doing these wheres rut segments and jan beekhuis. Also nbc needs to visit Australia and check out supercar broadcast because they have exciting engaging broadcast you have awesome commentary team. You have pit reporters and then before race you have strategy that goes over strategy really cool. Then there is camera shots you have low to ground and wall mounted cameras that show the speed of cars passing that add to the excitement but seriously tv broadcast needs work. These goofy where rut segments you have commentators bashing sport on tv. Last year you had steve letarte on air saying indycar should have no practise like nascar.
20 races. Include Mexico and S.America. 8 month calendar. Minimum 5 ovals. Pump social media content.
Indycar be good to him and Indycar have a new engine and car next years.
I think they seriously need to bring in a competitor to Dallara again. Same Safety Cell and general size but with some different ideas between the Dallara and whoever else they get involved. The cars would be mechanically the same as suspension and powertrain should be the same basic package but when you look back on when CART was top level and rivaling F1, you had at least 2 different cars and possibly 3 fighting for supremacy. then obviously something else happened that killed it but that's beside the point. if you ask me, I only care about Indycar when they drive down I-80 to get to Newton. Plus I did have the thought of having Indycar do a "Knoxville Prelude to the Nationals" or something of that nature because quite honestly Dirt Racing is probably taking the US back over as far as racing in general is concerned. I know more people who watch and enjoy dirt oval racing than either NASCAR or Indycar.
Heard nothing but fax here
Social media don't make F1 famous!! Is the people and investors all included made it cause Indy is famous is the lack of commitment to expand it to another level with more investors, new countries were they hasn't been seen yet like Japan, Mexico, Brazil ect ect, new engines with more power to reach higher speeds!! And nooo!!, big teams like Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes Benz were there like 400 employees!! Indy only needs bit of a push but not social media!! F1 has been famous since the debut.
Get another chassis manufacturer!! The golden days of CART had Reynard, Swift, Lola, Eagle ect... chassis. I know they made a spec chassis to keep costs down with the loss of tobacco $$$, but IMSA is doing a great job at bringing multiple chassis manufacturers and OEM engine suppliers. I love the old CART days but IMSA to me is more exciting this year.
The swift was an also ran. Never truly competitive. Same w the eagle. The lola had good and bad years. There isn’t enough sponsorship to afford new chassis every year. Do some fact checking.
@@grooviefan fact checking? I don't need to check, I watched every race every season in the CART era. Did I say the Swift or Dan Gurney's Eagle were successful? It was just nice to have some variety. It was nice to have Honda, Toyota, Ford and Mercedes Benz engines. It was nice to have the Firestone and Goodyear tire battle. Just because the Honda/Reynard/Firestone was the package to beat doesn't mean that it wasn't good to have the others competing. I know there isn't the same amount of sponsorship money out there now, but I think IMSA is showing how to attract multiple manufacturers while also keeping the cost of entry relatively low. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to have a few different options in the field than just a choice of 2 engines differentiating the cars.
@@drock6627 G-Force went out of biz due to not being a competitive chassis. Panoz is gone. Reynard is gone. Lola is history. Who is going to b the other chassis mfg ??
They need a rebrand from a millennial/zoomer graphic design team. And they need a DTS-type show with social media presence.
Indycar 100,000,000,000% needs a new car, since the DW12/IR18 has been around with the only changes being a few aero changes and the aeroscreen... Indycar also NEEDS to promote every race on the schedule outside of the Indianapolis 500, I mean in terms of that, just look at NASCAR: last night they had the Busch Light Clash at the LA Coliseum mentioned numerous times during WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox, hell, they even did a segment where Rey Mysterio and The New Day were hanging out with Michael Waltrip and Clint Bowyer only for The Judgement Day and Ross Chastain to show up leading to a race around the track between Rey Mysterio and his son Dominik Mysterio because Rey is feuding with his son with the segment ending with Rey winning the race and Dominik throwing his helmet at his father and Clint Bowyer leading everyone to be separated by track workers from Auto Club Speedway... You don't see Indycar allowing something like that
Indycar is an American sport and needs American sportscasters and not an Englishman calling the shots on TV. For F1, that's great, but for Indycar, not so much. Does this bother anybody else, just saying.
Yes, the series needs to be longer because they lose the momentum the series generates. Even the drivers want to be in the car longer and not layoff for 5 months.
No idea who you are talking about, an Englishman calling IndyCar races on NBC/Peacock?
Chassis, aero kit, engines and tires have become stagnant, there is literally nothing to talk about during the off season or the long pauses between races to start the season. Teams and driver lineups are mostly finalized by the end of the current season, yet again, nothing to talk about. Six months from the end of the 2022 season to the start of the 2023 season and then another month between races, that's a lot of filler time when the only thing to really talk about is if more than 33 teams will show up for the 500 and make qualifying worth paying attention to.
Hard to build a social media juggernaut with that much dead time and nothing to talk about.
I funny follow NASCAR at all. What comes up in my Google feed? NASCAR. I follow F1 and Indycar. I get F1. No Indycar. Zero. Their website is a joke. They're was at least one Saturday night race last year that I didn't know about until Sunday. There's zero promotion and no media presence.
The big problem with Indycar is they are domestic they likes to stay home. While Formula 1 is international likes to travel the world. But still the biggest problem of all is...MONEY and is Indycar willing to spend it. Some people are happy driving there Cadillac...while some others people are happy driving there Ferrari...You pick.
honestly, the IR-18 may be a nice ish looking car, but at the end of the day, it's still an 11 year old car underneath. (no, the lola is not the best looking Indycar ever made, that would be the dallara ir-05. i could never get tired of those beauties, even though they were used for 9 years. true golden era of Indycar, those cars were.) as much as the IR-18s have grown on me, we desperately need a new car. and hopefully, if we do get a new car, it can look as good as the IR-05s did.
You may be the only person on the planet with that opinion 😂😂 And I respect your opinion althought I vehemently disagree
@@simrigpc27b12 hell, the lola's weren't even Indycars, they were champ cars. things looked especially awful on the superspeedway wings.
@@DW98rosy To be transparent, I wasn't referring to the Lola David was talking about. Anytime I hear "Lola" and "Indycar" in the same mention, I automatically go to the 90's 😄
@@simrigpc27b12 oh, those. the early 90s CART stuff did actually look pretty good.
What did Champ/CART do to Rival F1 in the 90s?... Fast and Bad Ass V8 Turbo open wheel cars with Multiple Manufactures with Multiple Chassis , Multiple Tire Manufactures, Unique Tracks and an actually World Series of Racing on multiple track Layouts
Go back to Surfers Paradise , Montreal, Mexico, South America
Great Racing exist now. But the Cars are 10 yr old chassis , Boring and it's a Spec Series. It's all about the cars the Drivers and the Tracks.
So what is missing from the 1990s when IndyCar rivalled F1? Major sponsorship and engine manufacturers willing to lay down money to cover the travel costs. Think back then of the sponsors… Texaco gasoline, Kmart, Marlboro, Players cigarettes, Valvoline, Miller, Budweiser, Target, etc. Billion dollar companies in which half are out of business or cannot sponsor sport teams any more. Engine manufacturers like Toyota, Ford, Chevy, Honda, and even Mercedes.
Kyles hat is the shxt🤘🏎️🏁🇺🇸
I would watch indycar if every car was a Mcmurtry Spierling
Roger Penske owns and run IndyCar, but doesn't seem he can promote it as far as on social media and TV. He should find investors who can invest and get people who can properly promote the series because promotion of IndyCar has been non existent. Slow in modernizing, development and innovation seems like IndyCar is the "3rd world" of racing compared to other top racing series. New livery each season is the best IndyCar can do?
Sure there's nothing interesting technically about this vintage racing series.
Indycar is Great !
*Kyle surprise segment*
David, why aren’t you married yet?
*grandma comes knocking down the door*
I like both but Indy for me it's better do to is only driver and the car!! No technical support in the race the driver use his habilities to win not getting help from another computer to see how your car is doing!!
Indycar is simply never going to rival F1. Indycar is basically a a rich guy kit car racing class. F1 cars are the most Innovated Racecar on the planet. They are not the same thing.Not even close.
Hate to say it, but the purchase of Indy by RP may turn out to be worse than The Split.
Well, whatever. Auto racing was a XX century thing anyway. Proper auto racing.
That's a good one. Everyone expected a great saviour that will lead the series into the new golden era. But instead we got a complete lack of vision alongside with "one step forward, two steps back" leadership style.
@@nicksaturn2897 ill take stability and stagnation over overgrowth and collapse any day
@@sams-pg7hj there's no such thing as 'stability'. If there's no progress, regress takes place. Just look where so called stability took IndyCar. 12 year old ugly cars, 7 months of silence each year, no manufacturers interested to join the series. And what's more horrifying is that there's no intention to change anything from Penske Entertainment.
@@nicksaturn2897 The series is growing and tons of interest from outside drivers, high crowds, new events, new ideas for events. things are definitely moving in the right direction
@@sams-pg7hj I really hope it's a sarcasm. The only reason outside drivers look at IndyCar is because F1 has no enough seats to meet the demand while, formally, Indy is the next in line. New events? The series has a bright Mexican star in O'Ward for 3 years now and there's still no talks about a race in Mexico. And it's even not breaks a small North American series conception that Penske and Miles so fond of.
Yeah the content Indycar puts out is bland. Nothing is interesting to read about consistently day-in-day-out. In F1, I always find something interesting to watch, read, learn, etc. It's a never-ending dance that F1 and related media put out every day
IndyCar is kinda disrespecting themselves by not doing international races… It’s the 2nd highest ranked open-wheel series in the world, yet they’re still living off the crumbs of an American motorsport audience that’s mostly oval-racing obsessed, when they could be globalizing their product/brand.
And how does a spec-racing series have a 5-6 month offseason??
That goes back to the 'American-based' thinking of… "We don’t want to compete with the NFL during the fall."
That’s not good enough from a business leadership perspective. The vision is clearly lacking… You’re not giving the American fanbase the big-fast oval races they want, and you not giving international fanbase’s any races at all. Therefore, you’re stagnant!!
Do you know the expenses of flying multiple cars, crew, and staff across the world for each team? Without major sponsorship?
@@scottbarbour9745 Penske, Ganassi, Rahal, Andretti & Shank all wanna go to Le Mans with their very expensive brand new LMDh cars… It’s not about money, it’s about desire. Indycar’s budget isn’t going to 'magically' spike someday.
10 months on, 2 months off; that’s the winning formula.
The series can’t get proper show times w football. Basketball and baseball which is why the series is the length it is.
I was thinking what if indycar went international like racing at Monza or spa. Would that make indycar not better than F1, but have like more popularity as F1? If there's a way anyone can answer that lemme know.
I’m guessing you are pretty young, everything you said happened in the 1990s and led to the dissolving of the sport due to the enormous travel costs. IndyCar raced in Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Europe, Australia and Canada
@@scottbarbour9745 but what if they tried to do it again in the future is what I'm saying?
What does indycar need to do to rival F1 in the US.........
Take a 30 yr step backwards would be a great start.
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You mean become an historic series? Not sure that would win many new fans or sponsors.
F1 is cool because it is on the cutting edge of development, a driver can when because his engineers gave him a better car. IndyCar would be way cooler if it took the best developments of F1 and put them in all the cars for all the quality IndyCar drivers to have a fair competition.
How though
@@fqeagles21 Basically what I'm trying to say is right now IndyCar needs to be the 2020 Mercedes. Obviously with the cooperation of Formula One and Mercedes (or whoever ends up developing the all time F1 car)
Indycar doesn't need to do anything to rival Formula 1. Formula 1 has lost credibility and is no longer the pinnacle of motorsport.
F1 should be looking at what it can emulate from Indycar.