What IROC ought to be...

[TxIndyFan]

Since IROC has deteriorated into a stock car series on speedways (NASCAR JR.) and half the field are NASCAR drivers, I suggest a format that would really show who is the "World's Greatest Driver".

I've heard it said that Dale Earnhardt couldn't qualify as WGD because he only drove stockers on ovals, and in a factory car at that. Well, let's see what Michael Schumacher can do in a stocker at Daytona...

So here is my format.

7 races:

3 races is stock cars- at Daytona, a smaller oval (Martinsville or Darlington) and a road course (Sears Point or Watkins Glen?)

4 races in open wheel cars- at Indy, a road course (Cleveland airport, Nurburgring?), a
street course (Long Beach, Monaco?) and a short oval, (Phoenix, Homestead?)

Heck, make it 8 races and put them in Sports Cars on a road course (Sebring?)

Then get Schumacher, Montoya, Andretti, Franchitti, Lazier, Cheever, Gordon,
Stewart, et. al. and have a go....

Then we could award the winner the A. J.
Foyt, Jr. Trophy for World's Greatest Driver

On second thought, to win the Foyt Trophy, a driver would have to win all the above races, plus win in midgets, sprints, and stockers on dirt tracks as well...

[StatMan]

My extensive description of how IROC would run were I in charge:

Since the stock cars most resemble the cars that most of us drive, and since using several different types of cars would drive up costs, I would probably use stockers for IROC.

However, to try and even out the field I would make them more like OW cars. In other words, they would be built lower, lighter, and have more HP and downforce than NASCAR racers.

10 Total Tracks would be raced on, one race at each track.

4 NASCAR tracks:
Daytona (2.5 mile tri-oval)
Atlanta (1.5 mile quad-oval)
Bristol (0.5 mile oval)
Sears Point (road course)

4 OW tracks:
Indianapolis (2.5 mile oval)
Nashville (1.33 mile D-oval)
Cleveland (road course)
Long Beach (street track)

1 race on a 1/4 or 1/2 mile dirt track
1 race on a natural terrain oval

Drivers I would want (20 total): Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Dale Jarrett, Bobby Labonte, Jeff Burton, Mark Martin, Kenny Brack, Helio Castroneves, Gil de Ferran, Michael Andretti, Michael Schumaker, David Coulthard, Juan Pablo Montoya, Mika Hakkinen, Buddy Lazier, Sam Hornish Jr, Scott Sharp, Eddie Cheever, Steve Kinser, Tommi Makinen. I might want Ralf Schumaker instead of Coulthard or Hakkinen.

That makes 6 NASCAR, 4 F1, 4 CART, 4 IRNLS, plus a rally driver and a sprint car driver. The only problem is the F1 guys might not like have to come over here to race so often.

Qualifying-average of the best 2 out of three laps, except on road courses. To save time, at the road/street course drivers would just take two laps and average those 2.

Points system (trying to make it not just like any one series' system).
Pole- 1 point
Leading a lap - 1 point
Lead Most Laps- 2 points
1st...75
2nd...50
3rd...45
4th...40
5th...36
6th...32
7th...28
8th...24
9th...20
10th...16
11th...14
12th...12
13th...10
14th...8
15th...6
16th...5
17th...4
18th...3
19th...2
20th...1

I like the idea of naming the championship trophy after AJ Foyt.

-StatMan

[ July 25, 2001: Message edited by: StatMan ]

[irlgreg]

i like theidea of using cars similar to the ones used in the NASCAR Featherlite Modified series.When those cars run at Martinsville,they make the 'Cup cars look like jalopies.

[NutCase]

TxIndyFan, I think if you named the trophy "The A.J.Foyt Worlds Greatest Driver" trophy A.J. mike take exception to whomever won it at slap them in victory lane!

[TxIndyFan]

Originally posted by NutCase:
<STRONG>TxIndyFan, I think if you named the trophy "The A.J.Foyt Worlds Greatest Driver" trophy A.J. mike take exception to whomever won it at slap them in victory lane! </STRONG>

LOL!

Ease up on that drinkin' hoss, life's to good to miss...

[StatMan]

Originally posted by NutCase:
<STRONG>TxIndyFan, I think if you named the trophy "The A.J.Foyt Worlds Greatest Driver" trophy A.J. mike take exception to whomever won it at slap them in victory lane! </STRONG>

Who is A. J. Mike?

I wonder, though, would he take exception to someone else getting a trophy named after him or would he be glad at the trophy for the World's Greatest Driver being named after him. Probably the latter, especially since it wouldn't make Mario too happy.

-StatMan

[Nashvilleman]

Well, AJ knows he finished ahead of Mario in virtually every IROC race they were both in, including the road races. So he doesn't need another trophy.