Brian Barnhart
Brian Barnhart
Brian Barnhart is the President of Race Operations of IndyCar. Having previously served as director of race operations for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IRL, he is charged with primarily the safety and competition of the racing. Brian's most well-known on-camera role has been giving final instructions to every Indianapolis 500 qualifying attemptee before their run. He was also the president of the league from 2005 to early 2007...
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That's kind of what we've been saying all summer. I'd be hard-pressed to say there will be a significant difference in any area of the engine for 2007.
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As difficult as we struggle to put a lot of cars on the race track, the ones that we do have are first-rate, high-quality teams and our product works well for a very entertaining race as well as a reliable and safe race.
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This event is what it is and continues to be because as this week plays out and guys getting primary cars in is and continues to be because how this week plays out and guys getting primary cars in will lead into what happens in the second week. That's no different than what we've done and has historically not changed.
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We have revised our testing policy from earlier in the off-season based on the commitment from Honda to serve as the league's single-engine supplier. This testing format brings more efficiency to the teams, Honda and the league as we ready ourselves for the 2006 season, the league's first featuring its compacted schedule.
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Paul Dana succumbed to his injuries shortly before Noon.
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I'm confident that we will be back in this market in 2007. We want to keep an open mind and an open dialogue and do what we can to get back in this market in 2007. -- there are hurdles to overcome.
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If there is no competition in 2007, there are some short term benefits to that as well,
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I didn't think anybody really cared anymore since this event wasn't as big as it used to be,
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If Danica and Buddy run, which Bobby Rahal told me they would, then we'll have 18, and I consider that a full field.
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I do wish people would step back and look at it with a little bit more of a perspective and be a little more fair of a situation,
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That is why they need to look at the big picture. To see how this first week plays out will dictate the combinations for the second week.
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The review process is an on-going process, and we continue our review.
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It's an important market to us; it's a great racetrack. When you make a change as dramatic as we made to condense the time frame in which we're going to run our events, it becomes a difficult thing from a flexibility standpoint.
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It's really unfortunate that Fontana was not listed on the 2006 calendar,