IRL and F1 car on track together

[dreamracer]

At the Toyoya Motorsports Festival:

[Defender]

Cool. Wonder whether Christiano had anything dumb to say? It would have been even cooler if they had swapped seats for a few.

[indyracefan]

...what do you suppose Cristiano is thinking??

"man, I just can't shake these IRL guys.....they shadowed me in CART and now in F1 too."

[Roadrage]

Originally posted by Defender
Cool. Wonder whether Christiano had anything dumb to say?

I'm sure he did when he opened his mouth.

[BSJracing]

What, no comment about the dallara on a road course?

[indyracer56]

There you go.....an IRL spec car on a road course.

[dreamracer]

Originally posted by indyracer56
There you go.....an IRL spec car on a road course.

With Tire warmers to boot....

I guess it was pretty chilly.

[sabin_24]

Noticed the tire warmers on Takagi's car in that second pic. Wasn't the IRL supposed to buy those for teams last year?

[OWFANatic]

I would love to see the comparable lap times. Wonder how may laps were done with both cars on the track at the same time (and consequently how many times Tora was passed)

[sabin_24]

I bet they didn't open 'em up. Prolly just paraded them around.

[OWFANatic]

Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese...can anyone else? It looks as though the Toyota Motor Sports Festival @ Suzuka had a significant number of events.

http://www.tmsf-2003.com/

[Ted]

Hopefully if and when the IRL goes road racing they will address the massive differences in speed that currently exist between an IRL machine and F1 car on a road course. Currently a CART machine looks ponderous at Montreal compared to any F1 car.

And I'm not talking about spending tons of money here either. With a different set of rules on could easilly build a car that could be quicker than an F1 car for a tenth of what they spend.

In the meantime perhaps they could raise the rev limit and drop some weight. They will need to do something otherwise they really will look like slugs.

Another question woud be whether or not they intend to mandate wing angles on road courses.

[Grinder-Tank]

Damatta:"This is an example of a car from a contrived racing series as compared to the real thing. We see two cars on the track, one depicting an unprofessional series and one from the real thing. The demostration was obvioulsy put together by Toyota to show both ends of the spectrum, the high and the low."

My friend who lives in Italy drove by the Dallara plant the other day and it was boarded up. He then flew to this demonstration and over heard DaMatta in the pit area.

[dreamracer]

Originally posted by Doc Austin
Wasn't tora already in F-1 a few years ago?

Yup. He was Ken Tyrrell's driver.

(Sorry I've been absent Doc, been buying a house and it's been dominating my free time)

[IndyJim]

Pretty cool pictures, thanks for the link!

As much as DaMatta suffers from the same foot in mouth disease that grips the now unemployed Jacques Villenueave, he did a pretty good job in his first year of F1.

Tora has not done to badly the last few years either. He impressed me at MIS the last year CART ran there.