The new IndyCar.com springs to life sometime today. And if the temporary landing page is any indication — and I’m fairly certain that it is — then we’re all in for a treat. Blood splatterings, jet fighters, knife-wielding hippos, mosh pits, Rorshach tests (IT LOOKS JUST LIKE MOTHRA!!), swank condominiums, futuristic Zeppelin airships … it’s all there. It’s a magical time to be alive.
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By cappy, March 1, 2010 @ 9:35 am
That’s not a Zeppelin. It’s a dolphin. I think. Either way though, I too am excited.
By Carrie, March 1, 2010 @ 10:04 am
It’s fate that I’m wearing my #37 Izod/RHR polo today! I just hope that new site works with my office’s piddling out of date version of IE.
By DZ, March 1, 2010 @ 10:13 am
(echoes of Indy 500 Hulman starting calls past…)
Ladieeees and Gentlemen, Start your ENginnnes!
By Don Crossman, March 1, 2010 @ 10:41 am
I just hope it has some actual information on it. As opposed to PR Dept sanitized pablum.
By Roy Hobbson, March 1, 2010 @ 11:07 am
The new 404 Error page??? Yeah – it too is righteous:
(Take THAT, Hideki!!!!!!!!!!)
We’re off to a bitching-ly good start, I think.
By Christopher Leone, March 1, 2010 @ 12:07 pm
As long as there’s no more of that god-awful auto-playing flash video that crashes my computer all the time.
By The Speedgeek, March 1, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
Oh. My God. That 404 page is freaking real. This portends well for the 2010 season. Very well. I’m heading to Vegas and putting $500 on Justin Wilson for the title right now.
By Bickelmom, March 1, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
I don’t think it is a Zeppelin or a dolphin, it is a banana.
By Mike Wendler, March 1, 2010 @ 1:16 pm
It can’t be worse than the last one, the navigation was terrible. Indycar needs a face lift and it looks like they hired professional web designers this time instead of college kids. Let’s get a look at the whole thing before we start complaining.
By Roy Hobbson, March 1, 2010 @ 1:20 pm
Mike – I don’t think anyone’s complaining. (Yet.) I’ve seen various screengrabs & the like, and I’m telling you, it looks awesome. This is a banner day for IndyCar.
Perhaps my excitement for the unveiling was misinterpreted. Or it was interpreted correctly but written poorly. Either one. Although I’m guessing the latter.
By Hamilton Fish, March 1, 2010 @ 1:31 pm
Do any of you people really think the main page is going to be anything other than some clusterf&$k resembling the Albany Times Union’s classified? The graphics look pretty solid, but I have no doubt they’ll manage to f#@k this up in some manner. Hobbson is that screen grab Dresden? I mean really what’s missing there? Why not have a lemur shooting heroin while Linda Ronstadt massages him?
By Jason McVeigh, March 1, 2010 @ 1:58 pm
Its not a zeppelin, dolphin or banana, its a giant F.U. To lesser websites, take that N..car.com!
By Larry Phelps, March 1, 2010 @ 2:23 pm
IZOD brought to you by IndyCar Series.
By Christopher Leone, March 1, 2010 @ 3:11 pm
Upon further inspection, I’ve gotta say, props to the graphic designers for making an eight-year-old car looks new and shiny… along with everything else on the page. I have been won over.
This is either going to be the greatest website ever, or a technological disaster that crashes everybody’s computers… because it is so awesome.
By Shane from .au, March 1, 2010 @ 6:09 pm
RT @Shagers: @IndyCarNation I’d join downforce if the new website shows Security Chief Charles when you get your password wrong.
By lazlo, March 1, 2010 @ 9:49 pm
excellent upgrade – props to all of those involved.
By Nathan, March 1, 2010 @ 10:14 pm
The 404 error page alone is awesome.
What next? The “connection timed out” page is a shot of Milka’s car?
By Tom G., March 2, 2010 @ 11:26 am
A direct link to Pressdog on the Indycar.com site??? They do love 40 year olds with Computers after all!!
(insert sound of mind being blown)
By DZ, March 2, 2010 @ 12:06 pm
Man, the site is looking good! Love the ‘Indy Is On…’ section.
Only thing I’d add is a direct link somewhere high on the home page to the live timing and scoring/live video. Burying it in the multimedia menu is not helpful.
All things considered, looks great. Let’s start some engines!!
By DZ, March 2, 2010 @ 12:08 pm
PS Anyone here (beside myself) think Roy should start a Pagoda-ers-only Peak fantasy league in the IndyCar Nation?
By Christopher Leone, March 2, 2010 @ 4:52 pm
DZ: seconded. Although I don’t know if my 4 or 5 comments in the past few days would qualify me.
By Neon18, March 2, 2010 @ 10:29 pm
what happened to the beautiful people singing “everything is gonna be alright?”
Apparently Izod has their new commercials in seclusion….we hope they are at least suitable for Macy’s.
By Coz, March 3, 2010 @ 11:37 am
What!? No Nabors or Flo? This is an outrage!
By Ernest Miller, March 4, 2010 @ 1:17 am
Is Pagoda Canadian? His ramblings make little sense and why he is given so much space on the web site is beyond me. There must be a better use of this bandwidth. Regards, Ernest
By Christopher Leone, March 4, 2010 @ 1:29 am
Checked the IndyCar website again.
Still says “Pagdoa.”
It does look pretty bad on the part of whoever designed that section of the webpage. On the bright side, it does remind people of Pagdoa, the great ancient Aztec warrior bear. You know him as that sweet-ass bear from the YouTube video who used a jet fighter to carpet-bomb various midwestern colleges to the tune of Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.”
Unfortunately, financial times have been tough on Pagdoa, as he lost his government advisory job when the Aztec empire crumbled nearly 500 years ago. Forced to accept the only work he could find, as the mascot for a college hockey team in Alaska, Pagdoa now spends most of his sad existence wondering what might have been had he not sold out Moctezuma to the Spanish in the early 1500s.