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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We would like to renew that as well for a multi-year commitment and keep going back there. We've met with all of our promoters and talked dates and length of terms with them and they are very excited about it as well. We look forward to it being a mainstay of their schedule for a long time to come.
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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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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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Our entry blank says 33, and if we get to that number and nobody gets bumped like last year, so be it,
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At this point in time, we don't have any manufacturers who have accepted the challenge of taking on Honda.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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.
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I'd be hard-pressed to say there will be a significant difference in any area of the engine for 2007.