OT: Racing 2024 (Spoiler Alert)

[DChaps]

Hard to believe it's been 30 years since Senna was killed at Imola. I think I was watching on ESPN, but I don't believe they knew or said anything during the coverage other than the obvious that it was very bad. Internet was still early days. Maybe I had a dial up MindSpring account by then and probably was still on Compuserve and Prodigy, but immediate news and updates were not easy to come by. It wasn't until later in the afternoon watching NASCAR that it was confirmed what I feared. Becoming a racing fan as a kid in the 1970s, chance of death was just part of it, but it had been awhile since I had it hit home like that. I had become complacent about it, thinking the sport was safe now. As I have on several occasions, I contemplated not following the sport anymore. I remember a few weeks later, I noticed a guy in my neighborhood had an official GA vanity license plate that said Senna. Never even knew he was a racing fan let alone following F1. Back then US F1 fans were few and far between, or it least it seemed that way. Given it was the month of May and I was following the Al Unser Jr./Penske dominance of the 1994 Indycar season, I was back to watching racing by Indy qualifying, but what a strange season 1994 F1 was.

PS - Also hard to believe I had not even started a Racing 2024 thread.

[GB_Simo]

Not sure exactly what the correct answer is here, but every year there's the possibility of there being new viewers who hang around after a fantastic 500 to see what this IndyCar business is all about, and races like today's in Detroit cannot be what the series presents them with. I imagine there are political complexities which render any answer other than, "Hey lads, remember not to hit each other, and maybe stay off those fences," a non-starter. Perhaps we try that next year. Maybe they weren't told.

Help me to understand MSR replacing Blomqvist with Castroneves. I sort of, kind of understand benching Tom, but the team spent an entire season watching Helio do absolutely no better with the same machinery - what's likely to have changed now?