Moged Wrote:Да уже не помню. Помню что дело было в период заявок и тогда была инфа что кто-то купил прошлогодние Панозы, но из-за изменения двигателя возникли проблемы с шасси.А вот как было на самом деле - Паноз (бывший G-Force) за 05-06 годы выиграл всего три гонки. Он изначально уже был хуже, чем Далара, и уже в 2006 году (когда моторы ещё были 3л) от него отказались почти все. Но никто из руководства ИндиКара не ставил ему ограничений (как ты прочитал), наоборот, разрешили внести модификации.
Техническая конференция ИРЛ февраля 2006 года:
Quote:http://www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=8257
Q. Brian, can you talk about the Panoz chassis. There's a little bit of lean towards not using it that much. Somebody is going to want to use that at Indy. Any problem for those one-off teams?
BRIAN BARNHART: It doesn't appear to at this point in time. Roger and Robert and everybody at Honda is going to continue to follow up with the Panoz/Elan factory and make sure.
At Indianapolis the 225-mile-an-hour track that we run there, cooling is the least issue there. As Les touched on, it's more something of the short ovals and street circuits where you don't get a lot of air moving. You're mainly concerned when you're running behind the pace car at those places. It does not appear at least at this early point, of course we don't have any teams running the Panoz chassis on the full-time circuit anyway, the 19 cars here are all Dallara chassis. There still will be the one-offs at Indianapolis. Several of those teams that have run Panoz chassis in the past have indicated they'll probably bring those cars back again. The Playa Del Racing, Sam Schmidt, Kent Baker (Team Leader Motorsports), Greg Becks of the world have those opportunities. All those cars should perform well at Indianapolis.
Quote:http://www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=8170
Q: I’ve got a question about this chassis thing. You’ve worked a lot with Dallara and everyone right now is running the Dallara chassis, but there’s an awful lot of Panoz chassis lying around and a lot of teams that might just do Indy, might want to run those Panoz chassis because they can probably get them for less money. Is this going to create any kind of a problem for you, any issues?
Roger Griffiths: None whatsoever. Actually, we’re anticipating a number of people will probably run the Panoz chassis. The car is perfectly legal to run throughout the 2007 season, frankly. Teams have chosen themselves to go other routes. But certainly we anticipate a number of Panoz chassis at Indianapolis and we’ve made provision for that by producing a drawing for a smaller capacity fuel tank, etc., to incorporate that into the Panoz chassis so it complies with the 2007 regulation. Won’t present a problem in any way.
Что модифицировали:
http://www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=8887
Так что это событие вообще прошло незамеченным
, потому что Паноз неконкурентноспособный для ИндиКара. Почему - сконцентрировались на ЧампКаре.