Comments on: IndyCar moves final race from Nashville street track to oval | IndyCar https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/ Formula 1, IndyCar, WEC, Formula E and more independent motorsport coverage Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:49:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark in Florida https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969695 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:49:30 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969695 In reply to Coventry Climax.

I absolutely agree, many Europeans contributed to Americas success. My point is that the math system doesn't matter. There is no superiority from one to another. Its how you use it.

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By: Coventry Climax https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969648 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:25:44 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969648 In reply to Mark in Florida.

PS 1: math and measuring are two completely different concepts
PS 2: I'd be very surprised if NASA doesn't currently use ISO units for their measuring. What their spokespersons communicate to the American press may be a different matter.

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By: Coventry Climax https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969645 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:17:55 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969645 In reply to Mark in Florida.

You'd be amazed at the amount of 'famous american' bridges and other constructions and landmarks actually designed and built by europeans. Even more recently, after Katrina, the Dutch were asked for help because of their expertise with keeping water out. That's all fine, no need for the Dutch or other europeans to feel superior, just as there's no reason to feel superior for any other nation. In the end, we'll have to do it all together. Unfortunately, that realisation seems to be further away than ever before, but that's another matter.
The europeans used silly, archaic and non-metric systems as well, until not that long ago even. Things change though, and some changes, even though small, are for the better. The ISO, International(!) Standards Organisation's set of units is one of them. Let's face it, even the word itself, Imperial, sounds rather prehistoric.

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By: Asd https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969580 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:36:01 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969580 In reply to Coventry Climax.

I'm a European IndyCar fan and the "2.09-kilometre" only confused me.
I know what a 2-mile oval looks like and I know what a 1-mile oval looks like.
A 2km oval? I have no idea what that looks like.

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By: Mark in Florida https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969573 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:55:00 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969573 @Coventry Climax. Well the USA did manage to reach the moon a couple of times and maybe build a skyscraper or two in New York using donkey fart math. I don't know it seems to work. Also I'm glad the race was changed. The Crashville race was terrible in my opinion.

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By: MichaelN https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969567 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:21:47 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969567 In reply to UNeedAFinn2Win.

While the metric system is obviously far superior to the silliness that is converting the myriad of medieval conventions that make up the so-called imperial system of units, the base for these units isn't necessarily that much more sensible (although certainly more complex to determine and -at least supposedly- universal).

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By: MichaelN https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969565 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:07:35 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969565 In reply to Coventry Climax.

A rare case of someone using the proper 1 1⁄3 mile figure, nice!

A lot of Brits and Americans try to sneak in some metric tomfoolery by talking about 1.333 miles as though a mile was made up of 1000 yards. It seems only fair that the people determined to use these non-standard units do so properly, with yards and feet.

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By: Stephen H https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969555 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:41:30 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969555 Good, that street track was blimmin' awful with crash-fest, caution-filled races. Good to see more of balance between street-road-ovals on the Indycar Schedule.

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By: Coventry Climax https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969544 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:29:47 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969544 In reply to UNeedAFinn2Win.

Well, I'm of the exact same opinion, love your analogies.
Anyone ever looked up how the Fahrenheit scale came about? Impossible to repeat experiment, using brine of unspecified composition? Sounds like amateurism to me. And a very big avant-la-lettre advertising mouth to get it used so widespread.

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By: UNeedAFinn2Win https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969514 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:11:14 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969514 In reply to UNeedAFinn2Win.

obv a reply to pastaman and coventry…

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By: UNeedAFinn2Win https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969513 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:10:13 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969513 Its baffling to me why some still measure a long distance by how long a donkey can haul goods before it has to fart, weight by how big is a healthy number 2, small distance by the circumference of Emperor Nero's…..krhm…appendage


…well, you explain it then

1/10/100/1000… ad infinitum

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By: Coventry Climax https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969506 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:38:09 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969506 In reply to pastaman.

According to Wikipedia, it is 1 1⁄3 miles (2.145 km) long.

I alway chuckle when people use miles, PSI, Fahrenheit and other non-ISO units, or use reverse numbers to indicate wire thickness instead of just using it's measured diameter.

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By: pastaman https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969459 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:34:22 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969459 Made me chuckle to see the distance given in km

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By: Euro Brun https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/indycar-moves-final-race-from-nashville-street-track-to-oval/#comment-4969451 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:57:00 +0000 https://www.racefans.net/?p=526715#comment-4969451 At least they've made this change before the season began, and not too late in the year to make a change impossible or to affect the championship.
Slightly unbalanced season now with 6 ovals in the last of 8 races. Newgarden has to be rubbing his hands at this news.

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