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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The key is we are going to have a very open-minded relationship with Honda over the next several years to take a different approach on how the series is grown,
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The idea for this act originated from an act I did while traveling with the circus group Electric Blue Monkey Theater. We traveled all over the U.S. in a bus that ran on vegetable oil.
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The economy plays into that and the cost of racing plays into that, and we are doing everything we can to control spiraling costs.
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It was a tough day in a lot of respects, including the decision to move forward. Looking back on it, I think it was the right decision.
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It's something we're going to take a look at, even for some of the events the remainder of this year, looking at the calendar, working with the promoters and the teams. It's a lot easier to do at the three-day shows. Two-day shows, it's more difficult to give them enough track time to work on it. But the three-day shows we'll definitely put an eyeball on them and see what we can do.
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Regardless of the number of participants we have on May 30, and I'm confident it will be 33, we will have again for at least the second year in a row, one of the deepest and most competitive fields in the history of the Indianapolis 500 with more cars, more teams and more drivers capable of winning than this place has had in past history.
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We're creating a number of opportunities both for American and international drivers. That's all we've ever said from day one. There aren't any guarantees. All we can do is provide that opportunity.
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We couldn't be happier with Honda's announcement today. They have been a true partner with the IndyCar Series since joining the league in 2003 and I look forward to teaming up with Honda in continuing the league's growth both on and off the race track.
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I think it would be in our best interesting to have only one rebuild at that point to ensure equal performance or equipment,
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Very much so because this year should have been the second year of a car-engine formula, and instead we are using the same car and had to do more of an update kit because we did 75 percent road course preparation, ... With the engine change from 3.5 liters to 3.0, it's made it more difficult as well from an equipment standpoint to increase the number of participants.
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Based on that alone I feel a whole lot better about our ability to get at least 33 (cars) in the month of May, better than I've felt the past two or three years.