The Indy 500 (practice and Qual thread)

[Tim Northcutt]

Originally Posted by JohnSSC

Buddy just drives a beautiful line around Indy...

And yeah, it was cool to see the teams literally wrenching the cars on their way to tech to try and find that extra mile-an-hour!

Didn't know what to do as my Penguins were playing trying to move on to the Stanley Cup Finals and then you have five or six guys trying to bump into the field at Indy...life is good! Just kept the remote busy...

I wrote about Buddy's classic racing line (The groove) in my pre-Pole Day column a couple of weeks ago, and in my column that will be up later today, also talked about the particulars of his run.

They dialed out 2 degrees of rear wing to get a negative setting on teh rear downforce...in that kind of wind, it was a real roll of the dice, but with a veteran like Buddy behind the wheel, that's how you make the show by an eyelash at Indy.