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Racespannermonkey said:
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The general reliability seems poor with 2-3 cars out most races with mechanical DNF's rather than accident or crash damage. Are there many spec parts? I'd imagine there are quite a few to keep costs down? Are Indycar the Series promoters good at allowing changes for reliability reasons?MissChief said:
The general reliability seems poor with 2-3 cars out most races with mechanical DNF's rather than accident or crash damage. Are there many spec parts? I'd imagine there are quite a few to keep costs down? Are Indycar the Series promoters good at allowing changes for reliability reasons?
Car is pretty much spec. Dampers are free, fasteners are free. Chevy had a weird number of engine failures at mid Ohio. Andretti are just a bit rubbish in my opinion. Everyone rates Herta who is clearly very fast for 2/3rd of a race but I’m my opinion with such a mature car to have 2 mechanic DNF over a 17 round championship is unacceptable. Unlike F1 there’s no penalty for changing parts apart from the engine. To be really honest I don’t pay much attention to mechanical DNF of other cars so can’t say I notice a pattern. I certainly still have a European approach to racing.
MissChief said:
The general reliability seems poor with 2-3 cars out most races with mechanical DNF's rather than accident or crash damage. Are there many spec parts? I'd imagine there are quite a few to keep costs down? Are Indycar the Series promoters good at allowing changes for reliability reasons?
Car is pretty much spec. Dampers are free, fasteners are free. Chevy had a weird number of engine failures at mid Ohio. Andretti are just a bit rubbish in my opinion. Everyone rates Herta who is clearly very fast for 2/3rd of a race but I’m my opinion with such a mature car to have 2 mechanic DNF over a 17 round championship is unacceptable. Unlike F1 there’s no penalty for changing parts apart from the engine. To be really honest I don’t pay much attention to mechanical DNF of other cars so can’t say I notice a pattern. I certainly still have a European approach to racing.
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