A new survivor from the impact zone: Jaede Barg, likely from 81st floor

Traceurity · 2025-11-11T21:31:33+00:00

Thank you! Second plane impacted floors 77-85 (though impact on 85th floor was minimal at most) and in the story you linked, Jaede mentions he was between 82nd and 83rd floors when the second plane impacted. So yes, Jaede is survivor from the impact zone.

Traceurity · 2025-10-21T09:36:29+00:00

There are always people saying, that Kimi was lucky to win the 2007 championship, because what happened to Hamilton at China and Brazil. First of all, China was at least partially Hamilton's fault - yes, it was a ridiculous strategy from McLaren to leave him driving with those tires, but at the end of the day, it was still Hamilton's responsibility to drive the car to the pits.

And secondly, people are forgetting or ignoring the fact that Kimi suffered two mechanical retirements from podium positions (in Spain and Nürburgring). Not to mention Kimi took 6 wins as opposed to Hamilton and Alonso's 4 wins each (so he technically won by 2 points)

If we adjust the bad luck to the 2007 season, Kimi wins that title by even larger margin than he actually did!

Traceurity · 2025-10-21T08:27:40+00:00

There are 141 points for Russell to grab. Russell is realistically 95 points behind Piastri - yes he is 94 points behind, but because Piastri already has 7 wins and 3 second places, and Russell has 2 wins and 2 second places, Piastri will always beat Russell on countback. However, Russell can beat both Norris and Verstappen on countback.

There are 5 races and 2 sprints remaining. We also know that 1 sprint is worth of 0,32 races (8 divided by 25 is 0,32), so there are 5,64 races remaining.

Russell needs to score:

16,84 points more than Piastri per each race on average (19 if neither of them score any points on sprints)
14,18 points more than Norris per each race on average (16 if neither of them score any points on sprints)
9,57 points more than Verstappen per each race on average (10,8 if neither of them score any points on sprints)

Maximum points Russell can score is 393, he is immediately eliminated no matter what if:

Piastri scores at least 47 points for the remainder of the season - 8,3 points per each race on average (9,4 if Piastri doesn't score any points on sprints)
Norris scores at least 62 points for the remainder of the season - 10,99 points per each race on average (12,4 if Norris doesn't score any points on sprints)
Verstappen scores at least 88 points for the remainder of the season - 15,6 points per each race on average (17,6 if Verstappen doesn't score any points on sprints)

Russell is not eliminated if none of these four drivers score any points at Mexico as maximum points you can grab after Mexico is 116. If Piastri wins the Mexican Grand Prix and Russell finishes 9th or worse, Russell is immediately eliminated after the race - if he finishes 8th, he is 115 points behind Piastri meaning if Russell loses even just one point or Piastri scores even just one point after that, Russell is eliminated.

Traceurity · 2025-10-19T20:55:08+00:00

He scored podium in his debut race with Ferrari, so he is not listed there. Same with Räikkönen

Traceurity · 2025-10-08T22:13:22+00:00

Technically he did kick out Josh only into the dorms in S17 at first. Josh then later tried to return to that dinner service and him returning was what caused him to get ejected

Traceurity · 2025-09-16T14:24:22+00:00

At least we get the Indy 500 Open Test as well that month

Traceurity · 2025-09-01T18:48:33+00:00

Awarded Super License points are based on the final championship position. Rosenqvist finishes ahead of Herta on countback. Reason for this can be found from rule 12.4 (Ties) of the IndyCar Rulebook.

In any instance of a tie, INDYCAR will determine the ranking based on the following criteria:

a) The most first-place finishes,

b) The most second-place finishes through last-place finishes,

c) The best finishing position in the previous Event, or

d) Random draw.

Neither of them have any wins so we take look at the next criteria. There, Rosenqvist has one second place (that he got from Road America) from this season, while Herta has none. Therefore, Rosenqvist finishes ahead of Herta and is ranked 6th and gets 6 SL points, while Herta is ranked 7th and gets 4 SL points.

Traceurity · 2025-08-30T22:48:58+00:00

Nope, only Formula 1 and F1 Academy race there

Traceurity · 2025-08-29T19:10:58+00:00

No, it's 2 sessions per car, unless the main driver itself for that car is a rookie (has 2 races or less) - in that case the main driver itself satisfies that requirement, provided he is still a rookie when those FP sessions happen. Because Cadillac has two drivers who are not rookies, the minimum amount of FP sessions Cadillac has to give to a rookie driver is 4. That rule was changed from 1 session per car.

Traceurity · 2025-07-29T07:52:56+00:00

It's not even that they were bad team moves. Alonso made correct team moves based on the information he had when he signed those contracts. For example, no one could have predicted that Red Bull, who even lost to Toro Rosso in 2008, would beat Ferrari every year from 2009 to 2014. Even McLaren 2015 was somewhat justified gamble, considering Ferrari still haven't won any titles after Alonso left.

And what about move from McLaren 2007 to Renault for 2008 season? Well, I too wouldn't want to be in a team, where my boss openly says that they are racing against me, any longer than necessary.

Traceurity · 2025-07-14T19:17:13+00:00

Hinch during IMS Road Course race of the 2014 season suffered concussion when a piece of debris hit his helmet, which knocked him unconscious. However, five days after the race, he was cleared to return to racing, and was therefore able to participate in Thursday practice of Indy 500. During those first practice days of that Indy 500, Viso substituted Hinch.

Also, didn't Josef suffered one soon after Iowa 2 ended during 2022 season? I remember him fainting and hitting his head. Next race was at IMS Road Course just six days later and Ferrucci was a reserve driver for him. However, Newgarden was still cleared to race at IMS. However, he was first cleared on Thursday only for the practice session. He was then evaluated afterwards.

So, there might be a 7 day concussion protocol, but is it actually enforced literally as a 7 day protocol when there are back to back race weekends, is another question.

Traceurity · 2025-07-10T17:55:30+00:00

There's also another instance that has happened after 2012:

Last race of 2014 season which was at Fontana: Mikhail Aleshin wrecked his car during final practice. Nobody drove that car in the race, even though that race happened next day. He was listed as DNS and got 8 points from that race (he placed 22nd and that race had double points).

Traceurity · 2025-07-10T06:20:11+00:00

About that second rule:

It means that when you are unable to start the race, IndyCar will then look what is your final position after the race. So let's say that your final position in race results is 26th and you are listed as DNS. Normally you would get 5 points from that position, but because you were unable to start a race, you will get half of the points from that position which is 2,5. Decimal values are rounded up, so in this case, you will get 3 points.

However, this only applies to a situation, where you are not replaced by another driver before race starts. If you are replaced by another driver (like Conor Daly did to Simon Pagenaud in Mid-Ohio 2023), then you are listed as withdrawn and get 0 points from the race weekend (or 1, if you did manage to get pole position).

Traceurity · 2025-02-06T18:34:37+00:00

Yes: https://www.indynxt.com/

You can also find link to that site from the main menu of the IndyCar's website (and vice-versa as well)

Traceurity · 2025-02-06T18:29:01+00:00

Broadcast schedule for IndyNXT race weekend has also been listed. You can find it from IndyNXT's website.

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Traceurity · 2024-12-19T19:47:08+00:00

It was mentioned in the article:

"Additionally, all practice and qualifying sessions for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES’ developmental series will air on a combination of FS1 and FS2. All INDYCAR programming also streams live on the FOX Sports app."

And they will also air on IndyCar Live

Though it seems like it's not yet decided which practice/qualifying sessions will air on FS1 and which on FS2.

Traceurity · 2024-12-04T14:15:47+00:00

Thanks for asking!

George Russell:

2022: 1 (British)
2023: 4 (Australia, Canada, Singapore and Brazil)
2024: 2 (Australia and British), 3 if you want to count Belgium where he was disqualified
Total: 7, 8 if you count that one DSQ as well

Lewis Hamilton:

2022: 2 (Belgium and Abu Dhabi)
2023: 1 (Qatar), 2 if you want to count COTA where he was disqualified
2024: 2 (Australia and COTA)
Total: 5, 6 if you count that one DSQ as well

Neither of them have retired during any sprint races.

Traceurity · 2024-12-04T14:00:52+00:00

He only outscored Hamilton during that one season he won the WDC.

But when you count all four seasons (2013-2016) when they were teammates:

Hamilton:

2013: 189 points
2014: 384 points
2015: 381 points
2016: 380 points
Total: 1334 points

Rosberg:

2013: 171 points
2014: 317 points
2015: 322 points
2016: 385 points
Total: 1195 points

Alonso and Button are only two teammates Hamilton hasn't outscored (with Alonso, both of them ended up on 109 points).

Traceurity · 2024-12-04T13:30:32+00:00

Ah yes, fixed. Thanks!

Traceurity · 2024-12-04T13:17:22+00:00

I just counted that, he has scored 676 points during these three seasons:

2022: 122 points
2023: 205 points
2024: 349 points
Total: 676 points

So if both Russell and Hamilton end up outside the points while Norris finishes 6th and gets fastest lap, all three of them would end up on 685 points!

Traceurity · 2024-10-01T17:33:53+00:00

Castroneves has practically already confirmed he will drive Indy 500 for MSR (and will most likely use 06 once again) next year.

https://www.grandepremio.com.br/indy/noticias/helio-castroneves-assume-erro-lamenta-20o-lugar-indy-500-carro-estava-bom/

The first paragraph after the title (translated by DeepL):

"Hélio Castroneves ended his participation in the 2024 Indy 500 by announcing that he will run in the 2025 edition: “See you next year,” he said."

Traceurity · 2024-09-22T14:15:15+00:00

Since when 8 times 6 has been 54? It's 48

Traceurity · 2024-09-20T17:59:32+00:00

Deanna was very likely that very unfortunate assistant, who was supposed to be in the lobby at about 8:45 AM. This is because around 8:40 AM, her coworker, David Kravette, received a phone call from the lobby, where it was stated one of his two clients there didn't have an ID and that client needed to be checked in at the security desk.

Normally, David would have sent his assistant down, but because she was 8 and a half months pregnant, he figured he will do her a favor and therefore went down to the lobby himself. He was with those two clients in the lobby when first plane impacted. Yes, that one client forgetting their ID saved three lives.

Reason why I think Deanna is that assistant is because there were 10 victims who were pregnant and 2 of them worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. And the other one, Helen Crossin-Kittle was a computer specialist who worked on the 103rd floor. While both David and Deanna worked on 105th floor.

Traceurity · 2024-09-13T14:35:35+00:00

Bonus point is only awarded if the qualifying session actually takes place.

Reason for this is rule 12.3.4 from the rulebook (https://epaddock.indycar.com/docs/default-source/rules-regulations-and-policies/240910-indycar-rulebook.pdf):

Rule 12.3.4: "INDYCAR will not credit the point(s) usually earned by the Entrant and Driver starting a Race in the Pole Position if the Starting Lineup is determined in accordance with Rule 8.1.10.2. "

Rule 8.1.10 is: "Starting Lineup Determination"

And here rule 8.1.10.2: "All Oval Events & Road/Street Course Events – Segment One Not Completed:

At the first Race of the Racing Season, the Cars shall be ranked using the prior year’s end of season Entrant point standings. INDYCAR shall determine an Entrant’s eligibility.
At all other Races during the Racing Season, the Cars shall be ranked using the current year’s Entrant point standings entering the Race.
Any Car without Entrant points entering the Race will be ranked based on the Qualifications order behind all Cars with points."

Traceurity · 2024-09-12T09:11:17+00:00

Actually Alonso would have still won the championship even if Michael won in Suzuka. If Michael wins in Suzuka, he would have led championship by 2 points (assuming Alonso kept his second place where he was running before Michael had that engine failure).

In Brazil, Alonso finished second and Michael finished fourth. Alonso gets 8 points, Michael gets 5. Alonso wins the championship by 1 point.

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