Lap cars ruin possible duel in final laps of Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville.

After being rained out last night at Nashville, the IRL postponed the show on the Nashville SuperSpeedway until earlier this afternoon. Even with rain threatening, the Firestone Indy 200 went off as scheduled. What a pain in the neck racetrack for these Indy Cars to race on, there’s really only 1 to 1.5 groves on this track and no room to make passes at all, believe when I say I was surprised to see Scott Dixon as one of the only cars that could pass all day long and most of them were three wide down the front or backstraight.

Not to take anything away from the winner Scott Dixon of this race, but the bigger issue of this one was during the final laps of this race, oh, the entire race, there could have been a duel between at least three to five cars for the victory if the lap traffic wasn’t there. Think about it, how many times in past IRL races has this happened, too many.

To me, the IRL needs to add of all things a NASCAR rule being with 10 laps to go, all of the one or more lap down cars move behind the lead lap cars so that the lead cars can race for the victory. I have really never noticed this problem as much I did today.

Again congrats to Scott Dixon on picking up his second straight victory. Looking ahead to next weekend, I will be interested in seeing the first IRL race at Mid-Ohio, the Champ Cars have raced there in the past and did put on a good show, again I will be interested in seeing the pass on this track too.