INDY CAR COMMING TO BOSTON?????

I have now heard it 2x on the news. I am not sure if I am excited or annoyed that they have to run the race in the down town Boston when we have New Hampshire speedway just to the north and Lime Rock to the south and even the new motorsports park that was just completed in Palmer.

My theory is that since Indy Car can not bring in the spectators so they have to run the race in the middle of your city so you have no other choice but to watch is as nothing else is going to get done for at least a week leading up to it. Kind of like having a parade come down your street and you want to go to the store. Makes you a captive audience.

On the other hand I have enjoyed Indy car in the past. I just hope I can still stay home and watch it in TV and not have some sort of local blackout of the broadcast.

This is going to be interesting to watch, considering 99% of roads in the Commonwealth (especially in-town) are riddled with giant potholes. Are they warming up the tires? Nope, they are squiggling around avoiding road craters.

Also, they are doing this down by the recently revitalized waterfront area in Southie. It's really nice down there, so it should be really cool if they can pull it off.

I hope the do it, I like a good street race,

Will it be like when they came back to Detroit a while ago and chunks from the Belle Isle roads started coming up and destroying cars

That was embarrassing.

As an early organizer and planner of the Baltimore race, chicane all the things. In all seriousness though avoid rail tracks.

Gotta admit, they did a good job of keeping it quiet. I never heard a peep about racing in Boston until a few days ago. Since the Baltimore Indycar race was such a success and the roads around Boston are in fantastic shape, this event just can't miss.

SilverFleet wrote: This is going to be interesting to watch, considering 99% of roads in the Commonwealth (especially in-town) are riddled with giant potholes.

They ran a Trans-Am race in downtown Minneapolis for several years back in the 1990s, and part of the deal was the promoters had to help pay for repaving the streets that were used. I would imagine something similar will happen in Boston.

They won't be running it "downtown" - it will be around the convention center by the old port area. So most of the roads there are new and in pretty good condition.

why would they need to fix the roads? just make them drive the race in reverse and the cars won't ever touch the ground.

I wonder how the kept it so quiet.

I think a street course in Boston will be cool, its about time we get some world class events to attend. As for the existing local tracks, the road course at NH would break the cars in a couple of laps and I think they did run the Oval for a while but stopped due to safety reasons. Lime Rock is likely too small and Palmer is not designed for spectators or commercial racing. Supercross is coming to Gillette in the spring and Indy cars on Labor Day, 2016 is going to be a good year.

They spent a gazillion dollars paving the old Armory-Starplex parking lot in DC for an ALMS race. This is in the very center of about the E36 M3tiest part of the city, and was about the only thing that brought revenue to the area in like, forever. The local residents were so upset at not being able to hear the open-air drug markets, crack hookers, drive-by shootings and car jackings for 3 days the complained to a degree the race was never held again.

And the Baltimore GP track was a bad joke of zero-runoff, minimal passing zone course layout. You'd get 4 classes of widely disparate speed trying to run together and a single off would lead to utter chaos as the entire field would be reduced to lining up to squeeze through a car-wide hole.

I'd love to see a successful street race in the US like Long Beach was for so many years. But it seems the events are always planned without the quality of the circuit as a consideration.

(And Palmer, the new track, if a terrifying canyon run lined by walls, berms, escarpments, protuberances, spikes and other assorted close and dangerous things)