If Who's on First, and What's on Second, then who's
the latest "Plug 'N Play" IndyCar Driver getting Kicked Kerbside?
Although I Applaud the fact that we've had
some sort of "Live" Motor Racing to follow the past several weeks
now, especially during this elongated Motor Racing "Off-season." Nonetheless
as a longtime Legally Blind follower of Open Wheel Racing I've got a few
complaints to make over the inaugural IndyCar i Racing Series season.
And Nah, I'm Not even gonna touch the low Hangin'
Fruit of IndyCar's 'Ol Bait 'N Switcheroo regarding that Double Secret Non
IndyCar Dream Track Finale. Which Sorry Folks, but Mother Speedway Ain't my
idea of a Dream Track! Since the Nurburgring, Spa Francorchamps and Suzuka immediately
spring to mind.
Whilst I get how Monza probably has a Negative Connotation
associated with it, albeit Not the Circuit's Fault right now, but Kyle Larsson's...
Yet Gory Hell! At least they could have
chosen either Circuit Gilles Villeneuve or Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez,
Ci!
While it really shouldn't be as Gory Freakin'
Difficult to find out the entire Entry list weekly as it has been for Mwah! As
I'd like All of you to envision closing your eyes and trying to read the
Flippin Miniaturized PDF Format entry list Document... Uhm-Huh, thought so,
Times Up!
As Shame on IndyCar for being LAZY! And Not
being willing to at the very least Post the Results following each week's virtual
race outcome A la regular season results which are Screen Reader friendly; Can
You Hear Me Now, IndyCar?
As Yeah, I've serenaded Y'all relentlessly
how I've reverted back to thou services of 'Ol Lucy', my mature but reliable, (virtual)
albeit Arse-Steamed Screen Reader Cooing in my ears for the unforeseeable
future vs. "Zoey-the-Princess Warrior;"But I most Definitely Digress!
As that's a Nutter' Story for another Day...
Alas, All I can Bloody surmise is that the
PDF File Format Ain't Gory compatible; SIGH! With my Screen Reader since it
won't recognize any of the text. And when I try going several Flipping extra Miles
& try copying it into an MS Word Document from various websites, All it can
read is the Header text:
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INDYCAR iRACING CHALLENGE
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FIRESTONE
175
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VIRTUAL
TWIN RING MOTEGI (OVAL)
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April
18, 2020
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As that's All Lucy will
Freakin' Say; err Read to me Folks; URGH! Which tends to make me think the Gory
rest must be images since my screen reader doesn't read anythingy' else! And
can only read Correctly Formatted OCR, nee Optical Character Recognition Text;
Oh Never Mind!
Hence, I know it Don't matter what a Blind
Open Wheel Racing Fan Thinks, but Seriously? Shouldn't every single IndyCar Fan
be able to consume this information easily? Since I've been having to play Hunt
'N Peck via a myriad 'O Intrawoods websites to try and Decipher which drivers
are competing weekly!
For instance, the Week 4 Twin Ring Motegi
round left me having to simply guess who'd been Squeezed Out, Uhm left off Ye
Merry-go-Round or couldn't find a Cockpit when thoust Musak' ended...
Since various Internetz' sources reported
differing amount 'O Drivers joining the i Racing Circus. Thus beginning with
the total of 31 contestants from Week 3, and the Addition of four New Drivers,
I.e.; Kyle Bush, Helio Castroneves, Takuma Sato and Rinus VeeKay - My
ryth-Muh-tick' sez' that equals 35, albeit it was announced only 33 Drivers would
be competing.
And even when substituting Kyle Busch for
Dale Earnhardt Jr. that only gets us to 34, which is further complicated by the
fact that Rinus VeeKay was the third IndyCar Pilote at ECR, since Boss Fast
Eddie' would be running in the No. 50 car in honour of his son's Baseball jersey
number. Meaning I simply had to Arse-sume that Aussie James Davison of the
Jonathan Byrd's concern got the Heave-Ho, Righto? Since James was one of the
few names not mentioned during the broadcast.
While IndyCar should really be Embarrassed that the
Only Website I could find with Screen reader Friendly information concerning
Thar Mack Daddy-Oh' Virtual Mother Speedway race was a British Independent
Formula 1 website named Race Fans, Bloody Hell IndyCar!
Also, the amount of technical difficulties
with the sound during the broadcasts has been annoying! Although I found it
Uber Funny during the Motegi Pre-amble when right on cue as 'Ol PT', nee Paul
Tracy was talking 'bout how the massive increase of people upon Thee Internetz'
is causing problems for everyone, Tracy's volume was way down and he could barely
be heard initially... Which followed upon the Heels of (Townsend) T-Bell'
guffawing 'bout how he'd been Arm-wrasslin' with his service provider to Bump
Up his Broad band's speed!
And every week when the show's began, the
background noise that emitted from Tracy's initial segments made me envision he
must be sitting outside on his patio in Scottsdale, AZ? As I could never figure
out why his remote location had so much background Whump-Whump' Noise interference.
And that's without even rehashing how Thars'
barely a whisper to be heard regarding the 33 virtually silent Dallara
IndyCar's On-screen!
As I kept thinking I must be watching; Err
listening to a Formula E race? ZOINKS! Uhm, actually think that Formula E emits
more noise from the tyres blisterin' Thar rubber thru Thee Corners along with
the constant whine of Thee E-E-E-lectrics' Motors; Gasp!
As that concludes
our first experiment with IndyCar virtual racing. Although it might be a good
alternative, albeit in a truncated four weeks format during the normally
Obnoxiously L-O-N-G IndyCar Off-season next year during the month of January?
Although Thars' that Rolex 24 race they'd have to work around.
Hmm, may be a Mini
3 Race Series in early December before 'Ol St Nick arrives, comprising of One
Oval and Road Course plus a "Mystery" Bonus track. It's just an Idea
to keep us apeased during the ridiculously L-O-N-G' 328 Days Off-season
Slumber; Oh Never Mind!