Motorsports (NASCAR, F1, etc) Discussion Thread • Page 92

They are expecting a massive crowd for the Saturday day of the Texas f1 race since Eminem is playing. Saw something on espn saying they are expecting 130-150k for the sprint race and 100k for the concert

 

Indy car is getting a Texas street course race in Arlington in 2026

Unique Partnership Presents INDYCAR Grand Prix of Arlington

 

Track layout for the Dallas Indy car race

 

Toyota is returning to f1 on a deal with haas

Haas F1 enters technical partnership with Toyota

 

Toyota is now back in F1 without having to run their own team or develop their own engine - #winning

 

Unreal drive by Max today , Brazil needs to be back as the season finale.

 

Doriane Pin is lethal on the track, in anything she's in; she probably has the best chance as a female in getting to F1

 

GM must be doing pretty well as a brand, as the amount of money it will take to run this project is astronomical. They must be banking on attracting some serious brand power to offset the total cost

 

GM is looking at like $15 billion in profit in 2024 I think they’re probably fine

 

Dang, didn’t know they were doing that well

 

Yeah they had a big Q3 almost exactly 1 year after telling workers they didn’t have money for raises lol

 

The fact they binned Andretti off in amongst all this is really annoying.

I wonder if Alpine/Renault ending their engine programme might have sweetened the GM deal a bit too.

 

I think Michael Andretti will still be involved with the program, but just in a reduced capacity. And yeah I think with Renault turning into cowards and ditching their engine program probably drove the FIA to look more fondly into having GM join.

 

Michael is not involved. Mario is on the teams board as a director.

 

I read something which suggested that this GM bid is somewhat separate to some of what Andretti had been setting up. So, they (Andretti) have been creating a factory somewhere near Silverstone, but GM aren't particularly involved with that. The assumption is that GM will maybe try to take that over, but really that was the basis of the Andretti bid (which was rejected), so the whole thing is really confusing and messy.

It looks like we could have a situation where a team which was rejected (pretty unfairly) ends up running the racing operation for the next successful bidder.

Some absolutely classic F1 nonsense.

 

Can't wait to watch this thing in WEC and IMSA next year; both keep cementing their status as the best racing on the planet