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Bottom post of the previous page:

Rinus Veekay picked up a clavicle injury (broken collarbone most likely) while cycling around and his status for Elkhart Lake is uncertain.

https://apnews.com/article/auto-racing- ... 2cbd8d9be5
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Vassago wrote: 2 years ago Cody Ware will make his ICS debut at Road America:

https://www.racefans.net/2021/06/15/nas ... s-weekend/

I wonder who triggers a caution first? Johnson or Ware? :tongue:
Good luck to him.

Who knows, maybe it'll be a 50/50 racing incident between them? :P
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Whoa! Talk about coming out of nowhere. And I thought nothing beats the randomness of Cody Ware's debut this season!
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Nice. Good luck to him.
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Vassago wrote: 2 years ago Whoa! Talk about coming out of nowhere. And I thought nothing beats the randomness of Cody Ware's debut this season!
This like Pietro Fittipaldi driving F1 levels of straight out of left field.
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https://racer.com/2021/06/28/andretti-a ... d-of-2022/
Andretti Autosport driver shake-up likely ahead of 2022

Michael Andretti does not expect all of Andretti Autosport’s current full-time driver lineup to return when the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series season gets under way. From the four-car roster, Colton Herta holds seventh in the championship with one win, Alexander Rossi sits 13th, Ryan Hunter-Reay is 15th, and James Hinchcliffe holds 20th, with Herta serving as the lone Andretti driver to stand on the podium after nine races.

Of the foursome, only Herta and Rossi are known to have multi-year contracts in place that will keep them in place with the team after 2021.
Herta 100% to keep (if they can).

Rossi has been... ehh... He hasn't shown the speed he had two years ago. But at the same time, he's also been so, so, soooo unlucky. He should be in the top 6-8 on merit, even if he wouldn't be banging on the leader's door. I'd still keep him unless he's on huge money.

But after that... RHR has been ordinary for a while now, and Hinch was never ultra, top-tier fast - but he's been crap this year and almost makes Marco look ok. No real excuses for either of them.
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SPAM looking to have three cars next year:

https://racer.com/2021/06/29/arrow-mcla ... r-in-2022/
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Race starts at 12 PM ET Sunday, for those interested.
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IndyCar eyeing additional ovals for 2022

The NTT IndyCar Series is expected to hold a similar number of races next season, with the possible expansion out to 18 rounds. In recent years, 17 rounds have been the norm, with COVID-related adjustments to 14 in 2020 and 16 in 2021 serving as the only outliers.

With a stated interest in improving IndyCar’s reduced oval presence, which accounts for only four races this year at three tracks, series owner Roger Penske has his team have been working on tilting the balance ever so slightly away from a heavy rotation of road and street courses by adding to the calendar.
https://racer.com/2021/07/05/indycar-ey ... -for-2022/

Would love about a third of the schedule to be ovals - but a variety of them. A couple of super speedways (Indy and Pocono?). A cookie-cutter 1.5m (Texas without the goddamn traction compound). A flat oval (Milwaukee!!!!). Another bullring or two with some banking (Iowa, something else).

That would be sweet.
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What's the exact status of Milwaukee? There isn't any housing development in motion right now or similar crap that has killed off so many US tracks before?
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Vassago wrote: 2 years ago What's the exact status of Milwaukee? There isn't any housing development in motion right now or similar crap that has killed off so many US tracks before?
I'm sure there are all sorts of development plans that people have to use the land.

But the track is still active. It's hosted ARCA trucks this year.
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Yes, it seems like Iowa might the one that ends up demolished.
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WOO-FREAKING-HOO!
IndyCar has completed a multi-year deal with Road America that will keep the iconic road course on the schedule for the foreseeable future.
https://racer.com/2021/07/06/indycar-ex ... rica-deal/
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More talk from Penske of a third manufacturer, but no actual news.

Penske remains optimistic about third IndyCar manufacturer

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Vassago wrote: 2 years ago What's the exact status of Milwaukee? There isn't any housing development in motion right now or similar crap that has killed off so many US tracks before?
Well, the Milwaukee Mile is protected. It is located at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, owned by the State of Wisconsin and operated by the Wisconsin State Fair Park. It has been in operation since 1903 making it, I believe, the oldest operating race and race course on the planet. Before that, it used to race horses. It has not hosted Indy car since 2015, which is a shame. They should definitely return. I gather the issue was low attendance.
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