IndyCar 2013: Round 17 Houston Race 1 [Full]

For those who hated this race. I LOVE this track. Motorsports have gotten a little sterile to me. While I still really like F1. The tracks the FIA homogenates always turn into some kind of super clean super smooth tilkedome with massive runoffs.

IndyCar's Houston is such a rough and tumble track that I don't even really care if there wasn't a whole lot of passing. The cars just jump and struggle on this track so much that it's just fun to see these guys wheel it as fast as they can and they get so ragged.

That's why I love IndyCar over any other open wheel series. The tracks, while occasionally can be unprofessional (Baltimore's issues... and Houston's T1 issues earlier this weekend), can be such a rugged bullring. On top of it, the way the IndyCars generate downforce doesn't generate the massively turbulent air that F1 and GP2 cars dump out. And it just makes the racing all the better on a track that, in every right, shouldn't provide racing as good as we saw this round. (Watch the 2006 ChampCar Houston race on youtube if you don't believe me)

Enjoy this race guys. Nice to see some old ChampCar tracks getting some new IndyCar time just to see how far IndyCar really has come since the reunification.