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[Dylan]

Pagenuad crashes into the garden around the fountain! What in the world?

 

[r_outsider]

And Pagenaud goes gardening! Holy chaos!

 

[Tornado]

Even ignoring how Pagenaud thought that the best solution to turning his car around was to drive into the fountain...



How did he think he was going to make that pass work in the first place?

 

[Dylan]

Jimmie noooo

 

[r_outsider]

Jimmie noooo

I kinda think there was a little help there. Maybe, maybe not, but it sort of looked like it.

 

[Dylan]

Sato crashes and we’ll end under yellow. Newgarden wins followed by Grosjean.

 

[r_outsider]

Helluva drive by JNew, he won that one the hard way.

 

[Northstar]

If I’m counting right, there was 7 teams represented in the top 10, that’s crazy. One of those was Kirkwood which I’m very happy to see.

It’s hard to believe there’s only 1 race left until Indy starts.

 

[Northstar]

Paretta Autosport will forgo the 500 and instead run some road and street course races with De Silvestro later in the year. Considering there hasn't been much said about this effort since last year's 500 I view this as a good sign.

Paretta Autosport shifting to road racing program

Paretta Autosport is expected to announce plans next week that will bring a shift from competing in May’s Indianapolis 500 to entering a handful of road course events later in the season. RACER has…

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Also, Juncos-Hollinger seems willing to field a second effort if needed in order to get a full 33 car field.

Juncos Hollinger in play for 33rd Indianapolis 500 entry

Ricardo Juncos and Brad Hollinger are willing to have their Chevy-powered NTT IndyCar Series team prepare a second car for the Indianapolis 500 and answer the question of where the 106th running of…

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[Dylan]

Qualifying format for this years Indianapolis 500:

 

[Northstar]

Qualifying format for this years Indianapolis 500:
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While the (seemingly likely) lack of any bumping dampens things a little, I've always enjoyed the unique format of the 500.

Paretta Autosport will forgo the 500 and instead run some road and street course races with De Silvestro later in the year. Considering there hasn't been much said about this effort since last year's 500 I view this as a good sign.

Paretta Autosport shifting to road racing program

Paretta Autosport is expected to announce plans next week that will bring a shift from competing in May’s Indianapolis 500 to entering a handful of road course events later in the season. RACER has…

racer.com

As an update to this they have partnered with ECR for at least 3 races starting at Road America.

Paretta Autosport joins forces with Ed Carpenter Racing

Beth Paretta and Ed Carpenter have joined forces to bring Paretta Autosport and Ed Carpenter Racing together for a three-race NTT IndyCar Series program. At the heart of the technical alliance is a…

racer.com

 

[Northstar]

The Good: Pato wins!

The Bad: Grosjean is still Grosjean

The Ugly: Peacock's IndyCar coverage is getting worse every week...

 

[Tornado]

Rahal let Grosjean by because Rahal was beginning to believe that Grosjean thought he was a wall.

 

[Dylan]

Sage Karam is running in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Pocono Raceway later this year. For those who don’t remember, it was debris from his car that Justin Wilson hit at Pocono in 2015. Karam hasn’t raced at Pocono since.
Jeff Gluck has written an amazing peice about Karam, and I highly recommend giving it a read.

Do note that the article is behind a paywall.

Driven by remorse, Sage Karam eyes return to Pocono

The track is a final hurdle in a journey that dragged Sage Karam into depression and exposed some of the worst sides of humanity.

theathletic.com

 

[Dylan]

Race has been moved up today.

 

[Dolph Drago]

It hasn't rained in over a week here, so naturally it would come on race day. Of course, this could be avoided if they scheduled the race for a more reasonable time to begin with, like 1pm or something.

 

[AudiMan2011]

Weather closed in fast. Grid walk cancelled and Indy Lights second race under significant delay.





UPDATE: Engines to fire at 3:40pm ET. Green at 3:46pm.

 

[Dylan]

This is gonna be the first real test for the aero screens in wet conditions.

 

[Dennisch]

Herta confusing Indy with D1

 

[IforceV8]

 

[Tornado]

Go Sato!

 

[Dennisch]

These are the circumstances every racing series needs. The uncertainty of wet or dry makes it so much better.

 

[Dylan]

Colton Herta wins.

What an absolute farce by race control. There is no reason the caution periods should be as long as they were for the single car spins. You open pits, do the wave arounds and go back to green. Not trundle around for an extra 5-8 laps.

 

[Dolph Drago]

Long cautions aside, that was a fun race to watch with all the uncertainty of which tire to be on. And one awesome drift by Herta.

 

[r_outsider]

Long cautions aside, that was a fun race to watch with all the uncertainty of which tire to be on. And one awesome drift by Herta.

That was one helluva save. Surprised his dad has any hair left at all. And it was super fun to watch.

 

[DG_Silva]

Great race, but some increasingly shoddy racing - I think they swapped the drivers for Forza lobby griefers.... I will agree about the length of the yellows though, far too long.

Did anyone catch Lungaard smacking into the back of Ilott at the end of the race? I didn't see it, but Autosport reported it.

 

[Dylan]

Did anyone catch Lungaard smacking into the back of Ilott at the end of the race? I didn't see it, but Autosport reported it.

David Land mentioned it as well in his video. But I don’t think the broadcast caught it/mentioned it.

 

[jake2013guy]

For the people that want to watch the Saturday session on Sky...

 

[IforceV8]

Heavy rain and T-storms are in the forecast from about 1pm local time on so there will be no time wasted getting a time in today. Sunday's forecast looks dry but 15 deg cooler than it is now.

 

[Northstar]

Dixon is on pole after an absolute monster of a qualifying run (apparently second fastest of all time).

The race should be good with lots of good teams starting further back in the field after not getting a second chance in qualifying.