Can you Hear me now Fox and IndyCar Radio? As I
just remembered that ‘Ol Internet Error
code 404…
Jumping ahead of myself here. But as David Land
recently used the word “Optics” in His discussion regarding the Thermal Club
IndyCar race. I’d have to say that MotoGP has a Ginormous optics issue
Stateside!
As seriously, the lone United States Grand Prix
isn’t even aired live, WTF! And dually treated like the proverbial Red Headed Step
Seester’ by being aired at 6:30PM Pacific on FS1. Although that’s only if the
NASCAR race at Martinsville doesn’t run long, or the NHRA experience any
problems…
As how many people will either know about where
the MotoGP race is being broadcasted or care about tuning in?
“It’s
A Shame, such A Shame
No
one was able to ease the pain
A
Red-Headed Wild Flower
Growing
in the wrong garden”
Sing it Little River Band…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAe7ARwDYzU
Yet this No Fenders post is supposed to be
about the Thermal Club IndyCar race, along with the Chinese Grand Prix Formula
1 held in Shanghai, which for Mwah, were both fairly processional races. Whilst
I’ll leave the debate over whether or not IndyCar should return to the Thermal
Club for others to pontificate over.
Surely Y’all have read, heard or witnessed
FOX’s “Brownout” during the Thermal Club IndyCar race. Which according to the
IndyStar’s Nathan Browne lasted for 20 mins from approximately lap 28 to 42,
when a circuit breaker “tripped” itself in one of the two IMS Productions
Broadcast Trucks. As the root cause seems to have been the Heat, with the Fahrenheit
nudging up against 90 degrees ambient.
Yet one must say it’s a sad state of affairs
when your default is to switch to the NASCAR race in progress whilst trying to
fix this failure…
Being ensconced once again on the tranquil
Vashon Island for the St Pete IndyCar season opener. I grew very annoyed with
the multiple Dumping's the IndyCar Radio Broadcast had during the race. Even
totally losing the broadcast twice, for which I just had to wonder if it was
our internet service on Ye Island? Although as far as I know, no Washington
Sate ferry’s have “accidently” cut any telecommunications cables from the
Mainland, but I digress…
Yet the Thermal Club’s IndyCar Radio broadcast
mimicked St Pete’s, Urgh! As perhaps the new IMS Production trucks have a new
Bark ‘O Meter installed? Since it seems that whenever Mark Gravelly’ James goes
into full-stop manufactured frothing, Screaming excitement, the Intrawoods’
drops the broadcast! Thus again, the programme went “Dark” on the opening lap
of the race, as I frantically refreshed the page to try finding out what I’d
missed? When apparently Sparky’, aka Devlin DeFrancesco tried His Bestest Paul
Tracy Chrome Horn treatment on ScottyMac’, ergo Scott McLaughlin. With Sparky’
chirping at McLaughlin after the race…
Then again, the Internets’ feed Dumped when
James went into a lather over Alex Palou chasing down the race’s leader Pato
O’Ward, WTF! Actually it was All of the excitement over Palou going
wheel-to-wheel with Christian Lundgaard which I had to frantically refresh. And
then again at the finish of the race!
Hmm, perhaps the
new, waxed string used for IndyCar Radio events melted in the Coachella Valley Heat,
Eh?
And this doesn’t include when the broadcast was
dropped momentarily before resuming broadcasting. With James noting how they’d
lost timing and scoring during the race, presumably when FOX had gone Dark for
those twenty minutes.
Although there was less dropping of the
broadcast for this second race of the season. Nonetheless, when Dumping at the
race’s crucial points, it just makes the whole event feel overly disjointed and
somewhat hard to enjoy! Since after all I’d Arse-sume that most of us loyal,
diehard racing Aficionados tune-in for entertainments sake, Eh? And I’d guess
that the touted Youth Generation Demographic IndyCar is so desperately chasing
doesn’t put up with such continuing nonsense!
Meanwhile,you’d have to say that the Chinese
Grand Prix was even duller than the IndyCar race, for which I was happy with
the outcome of Oscar Piastri, my Numero doce F1 driver leading wire-to-wire. As
the only real excitement during the Sunday morning’s 9AM Pacific replay,Err
Encore presentation with copious amounts of the Mothers shoe Polish lady Nicole
Briscoe’s insessant interuptions was the Ferrari Boyz’ playing Argie-Bargie. As
what front wing endplate Ma? As Leclerc is Faster than you Louis, please confirm…
Nope, the real Shanghai fireworks occurred some
three hours after the race, when both Suderiea cars were DQ’ed, the first time
in Ferrari’s 75yr history to have both racecars disqualified from an event!
Although Pierre Gasly’s Alpine was also disqualified.
Both Gasly and Leclerc’s cars were disqualified
due to being underneath the minimum weight, presumably due to running
ultra-long stints on the Hard Pirelli tyre compound, having both been one kilo
underweight, i.e.; 2.2lbs.
As recall that George Russell was stripped of
His victory at Spa-Francorchamps last year when suffering a similar fate,
having run an extra-long stint on the hard rubber compound, albeit several
other drivers at Shanghai also ran long stints to no detriment. Meaning that
Ferrari and Alpine simply cut the margins too close.
Hamilton’s Ferrari SF25 was disqualified for
excessive plank wear, with the minimum allowance being 9mm after race’s end.
WithLouis’s Ferrari measuring 8.6mm on both the RHS and Centerline, and 8.5mm
on the LHS, or visa-versa, since I don’t remember now. Other than the
“Jabarock” glass infused “plank” to prevent teams from running their chassis
too low was worn below the minimum ground clearance, and so it goes…
And that’s before we even get to Red Bull’s latest round of Driver Whackamole! Whilst hopefully IndyCar can sort out it’s media transmissions issues before Long Beach, which presumably will be another Hot race?
