Posted 1 week ago.
Posted by: Kohl
It’s time again for another season of fantasy racing here at Planet-IRL. Join the growing list of teams that include all of the Planet-IRL staff and teams like Le Seb Racing or “Powered by Toast”.
We will once again be hosting the league on the brand new Indycar.com. Steps to join are below.
1. Click here to go to the fantasy racing page
2. If you aren’t registered on Indycar.com you must do so now (this will help you with several things including the fantasy league and viewing live races)
3. Select the Planet-IRL league by searching for “Planet-IRL”
4. The password is planet-irl (all lowercase)
5. Pick your drivers!
We hope you enjoy the league. Let me know if you have any questions by leaving a comment below or sending an email to Kohl@Planet-IRL.com
Posted 2 months ago.
Posted by: Kohl
This NASCAR fueled rant is brought to you by the Wisconsin State Fair Board.
About a couple of weeks ago, the news broke that the NASCAR Nationwide Series would take their date that was scheduled at the Milwaukee Mile, which thanks to the WI State Fair Board “couldn’t find a suitable promoter” or personally I thought that they wouldn’t cause they would rather see the track rot & give it the Chicago Motor Speedway treatment, but I digress.
There were plenty of tracks that NASCAR could have used in place of The Mile, or even promoted the event themselves, but instead, they moved the event one hour north to the beautiful track known as Road America. You must be joking. First off, in order to have the event on the same weekend, you have to move the June Sprints, the Chicago Region’s big national SCCA race (which ultimately they did) to the weekend after. Second of all, you have to get support series, kind of hard to do at the last minute, but wait, Trans-Am and the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup guys are free. And finally, you have to have corner marshalls.
One big plea NASCAR, don’t be going and ruining a world class track, like you guys did at Sears Point a number of years back. This means no altering The Kink with the SAFER barriers, because of the layout of that corner, it would make it much more dangerous to put more there to lessen the impact (if you feel that you can’t handle The Kink, there is the bend, but you can’t complain that The Kink is too fast of a corner if you use it.).
Remember when you tried to put the Cup series here several years back? Wasn’t your plan to run straight through T5 & cut back in at T13 to make a modified oval? Not a smart idea, but if you guys still want to try it, go ahead, just be prepared to get grilled in the media. Also, if you decide to put grandstands & garages in the track, please do not, it will ruin the place.
One final thought, it is too bad the IRL couldn’t cut a deal like NASCAR did, but one issue, AMA is at RA the weekend we were set to be at The Mile, and that is owned by NASCAR, so in effect, prepare for the NASCAR-ification of a beautiful track. Though I wish they could all just leave our road courses alone and stick to their ovals.
Posted 2 months ago.
Posted by: Kohl
As I promised to our Twitter and Facebook fans I will let you select the next co-host for the Planet-IRL podcast. I’ve asked some previous guests and some new faces to join in.
Whichever guest wins will join me in two weeks as a guest host(s) for the podcast. A special thanks to Roy Hobbson, George Phillips, Bash Beard, Bill Zahren, Lindy Thackston, Shane Rogers, Tony Wittrien, Hugo Scheckter, and Kent Barber for volunteering their time.
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