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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People are saying she's gotta win, ... But rookies don't win at this level.
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I guess I don't really have a number in mind. What I'm looking forward is a lot of excitement, a lot of buzz about the event. ... I think we're looking for a good show and a lot of people to watch it here on Sunday.
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I understand that Buddy and Danica are two of our most popular drivers. I'm sure people want to see them, but they need to have respect for the race team due to the circumstances that happened Sunday morning.
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There have been an enormous number of people given an opportunity that if the IRL did not exist would never have had that shot, ... If you stop to think about what we've been able to accomplish, it's incredibly rare in today's society that an individual has been able to create something that he believes in and has challenged the establishment, and which in a period of time has not only survived but has become the establishment.
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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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We can't get rid of them on the two-day (race weekends), but maybe we can at the three-day shows.
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(People) need to have respect for the race team due to the circumstances.
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Some of the most respected drivers in our sport have had similar situations, and I'm sure it's happened in other formulas as well. It's happened before, and it likely will happen again.
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Looking back on it, I think it was the right decision.
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You lose some date flexibility in this compression. Not everything was able to get accomplished and end up where we wanted to be. Whether it's Fontana, Phoenix or Pikes Peak, if those issues could be addressed, those are markets we would certainly look to make a return to.
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You lose some date flexibility in this compression,
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We have seen an incredibly balanced level of racing the past few years in the IndyCar Series and look forward to even more of that in 2006. Extending our current chassis program with Dallara and Panoz provides our teams maximum value for their investment.
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I don't think we're going to change the technical specifications dramatically. Change costs money. Continuity and stability is one of the best things we can provide. Based on that, I don't think we're going to change the specs dramatically.
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I don't think we're going to change the technical specifications dramatically, ... There won't be radical changes to the technical specs, and that's a tribute to the specs we have now. The reliability and performance we have is outstanding. Change costs money. Continuity and stability is one of the best things we can provide. Based on that, I don't think we're going to change the specs dramatically.