The Indy Racing League is officially going in reverse.
For the first time since the IRL was formed in 1996,
the open-wheel series has added a reverse gear to its cars. The hope is the gear will be especially useful for teams spinning
out or otherwise venturing off course during the series’ nine street and road courses.
The technology to
allow the reverse gear will be provided by IRL’s promotional partner Xtrac, and is designed to allow
teams that encounter off-course troubles to rejoin the race faster than they would otherwise. IRL officials said the ability
of cars to go backwards should also take some pressure off tracks’ safety crews. The reverse gear will debut March 14
at the race in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The kit, which series officials first considered making optional, then mandated,
is inexpensive and easy to install, said Kevin Blanch, IRL technical director. Cars will continue to be outfitted with six
forward gears, and the reverse gear will not be in place for oval races.
Most teams already have separate gear
boxes for road and oval courses, so swapping them out shouldn’t be a big deal.
“We’ve been making
updates every year—changing gear size, adding the paddle shift system—and it just happened to be the right time
to put the gear in the car,” Blanch said. “It doesn’t make any of the parts obsolete; you just add the new
kit. It’s on the drop gear side, so when the crew is making gear changes it doesn’t interfere. It just stays in
the car the whole time.
“We thought about making it optional, but it needs to be a mandatory item because
a lot of times you’ll get a couple of cars in a runoff. If the second car in didn’t have reverse and couldn’t
back up, that’s not very fair to the other guy who spent the money to put the reverse in the car. That driver will be
able to help himself.”
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I am not really sure what took them this long to outfit cars in this way. I guess with the larger number of road courses, they finally decided it made sense.
I guess this means, contrary to the hater prognosticators on here, there will be a 2010 IRL season. That is going to p!ss them off.
Ok, let the inane hater comments begin.
As for the story, TOney GEorges' IRL started in reverse and has been in reverse for 14 years. It only has reverse. Nothing it has done has bettered the sport. The two weekends of Mindy; that's all you need to know. Speedway, Indiana's town calendar has 45 days in April thanks to indyman's and TOneys' hard work at destroying a tradition.
It's in your head.
As for the rest of you diddlefusses, we're still left with the remainder of those involved trying to fix what Tony regrettably messed up. Give 'em a chance and let it go at that.
Oh, and TRUTH(right), you can take your rapper crap to the pound.
Woof, woof..........
Why, oh why, did they not call this new gear 'ReVersus'?!?!?
:lol:
Kevin Blanch is as dumb as Anton, how do you think he got that gig?
Comedy gold.
code = hgmd6
Ooops.
The IRL: Easier to make fun of every single day.
Things that make ya go HMMMM? Could this be even MORE foreign street racing in the very near future for the IRL? Maybe Cotman is getting ready for the break-away series. Great day to be a hater and enabler! :D
"Tom Anderson spent the past two seasons running Gil de Ferranâ??s ALMS team but had to go job hunting when the 2003 IRL 500 winner was unable to find funding for the 2010 IndyCar season.
â??Itâ??s a shame, Gil really beat the bushes trying to find a sponsor and keep that team going,â?? said Anderson. â??Sadly, right now itâ??s in mothballs.â??
Do the math. Case o buds @ Betty's Likkers, $17.99. 24 Levy Buds ($7 x 24) = $168, = everybody stays home.
dumbclucks.