re: 2026 Indycar Season Thread

FYI, most people not watching F1 this year has nothing to do with quality of production nor costs. Its mostly out of principle to put a foot in the sand about all these sports selling to different streamers.

I also won’t watch the 5 races Nascar moved to Prime.

Indycar has a good product right now. Need more races and run later in year. Sports are so gun shy going up vs NFL but many fans of NFL would watch alternate sports if shown. Many are tiring of NFL but have little else to watch.

For me I like Nascar trucks and cup lite - they put on great races. Nascar has really ruined their main series and can gain some back if they make more/quicker changes. The HP increase was a start but not enough. Need more plus skinnier tires and let teams have some wiggle room back to be inventive.

So far no rules breakers in Nascar which means no one is pushing limits. Usually early season finds some.

Indy has a good race car plus great driver personalities. Just need more races so fans can invest and learn sport more. Too many big gaps in schedule to have fan viewer consistency. Imagine college football stopping for 3 weeks in midseason.

I want Indy to succeed because I gave up F1. Just need more races

Mobil 1 is back with another beautiful livery with Graham Rahal this weekend

I am super glad they have kept physical tickets.

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So even though the quality of the broadcast improved significantly you won’t watch on principle?

I wish we would have had Apple earlier when they had better motors

I agree with you about the motors, but ESPN is also a pay for streaming product. I was not happy with the move to Apple, but I had an open mind and the product from them is better. Mainly because they included F1TV and sky sports

With the new regulations the F2 racing is actually better than F1. The F3 race was also fun

Arlington
ET

Today
3-FS2-NXT prac
4:05-FS2-INDYCAR prac
NWS:70s, 0%rain

Sat
9:35-FS1-INDYCAR prac
11:15-FS2-NXT prac
2:35-FS2-INDYCAR qual
4:30-FS2-NXT qual
NWS:80s,0%

Sun
10-FS1-INDYCAR Warmup
11:05-FS1-NXT green 27
12:30-FOX-Prerace
1:17-FOX-INDYCAR green 70
NWS:80s, 5%

The long straight at Arlington is .94 miles long. There should be a decent tow-slipstream to facilitate passing.

I go to Barber every year. Awesome event, can recommend it enough. Feels Like PGA tour event with Indycar.