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Near enough everyone at the sharp end needs a splash, so yellow or not it's going to come down to the pit crews at the last stop.
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I'm surprised nobody else tried to go to the end.
Someone like Dixon maybe. EDIT: OK there are a few like Kimball and Power |
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I have no idea what happened.
Congrats to Rossi. Even after Andretti's top 2 cars took each other out, the other 2 got 1st and 2nd. Sucks for Hinch but he had a great day too. |
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Rossi? Who'd have thunk it?
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Bourdais is the guy who should really be kicking himself/his strategist, he pitted 2 laps after Rossi and was with him in the closing laps but had to splash with two laps left.
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How long did it take them to report that! Seriously, it was becoming this big, weird mystery why he was not surging back toward the front, and it took them that long to find out and report it?
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I assume with everything else going on the ball was dropped with regards to Pagenaud's problems. It didn't help that because he dropped back so quickly he didn't get much onboard time which would have helped the commentators/audience discern the problem. Eventually NBC (I think) actually spoke to his crew and found out what was going on.
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That's the beauty of a fuel mileage finish, you don't know who has
what till they start pealing off to the pits. Then low and behold , here comes a rookie American to present himself and grab the spoils. That is Bryan Herta and crew coaching Rossi to the win. Absolutely brilliant. After the race Eddie Cheever made the comment that Rossi just wrote his ticket back into F1. I thought about Jacques Villeneuve winning the 1995 Indy 500 then was F1 champion by 1997. Hmmmm. Not exactly apples to apples, just the same ball park. Great race for the 100th! |
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I wish I could see the last couple of laps again, along with the bubble head's commentary, because I think if Rossi had a bit more fuel and wasn't so far off the power, they would not even have noticed him crossing the finish line. Sure, I am exaggerating a bit there, but... |
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That's pretty much the fairy tale result. An American, rookie driver, wins the 100th running of the Indy 500 in a merged team.
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It was ABC/ESPN. They just seemed to be looking at the pictures without any other information and were generally none the wiser than the audience. I don't think they interviewed any team boss during the racing? They seemed to be more chaotic this year than they usually are. Mind you, I did like the pre-race stuff particularly the conversation Bestwick had with Foyt, Mears and Unser. They did that well.
Not saying NBCSN are master broadcasters by any stretch - but you are guaranteed to get some entertainment with Paul Tracy on the rota. I enjoyed it in any event. Second half in particular. It really seems to be the year in sport where rank outsiders noone thought of are winning the big titles/events. |
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My bad. ABC. They all seem interchangeable these days.
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Great, great race. I love when they let the green run play out—all the strategies, the different approaches, the different emotions. No "race management" to throw a yellow and set up a "close finish." Just let it happen naturally, and boy, am I happy for Alexander Rossi. A very cool winner. You know, Rossi dominated Formula BMW USA. He was so fast, so aggressive, so ruthless—a Montoya/Schumacher hybrid. He then took it to the world in the World Final. His potential seemed endless. But he disappointed a lot on the ladder. He'd pace pre-season tests. He'd win the opening race of the season. He'd be the favored driver in the favored teams, and somehow, he'd always come up short of titles. Soon, he'd had so much experience in the FR3.5/GP2 level that he was bound to take the crown, but he just couldn't. He was lucky enough to be in F1, and to his credit, was the best of the three to drive a Manor last year. Still, when he was getting a seat fit at Dale Coyne Racing back in 2014, ahead of the 2015 season, I think it was easy to give up on a prospect who once seemed to be a bright spot in a long run of disappointments for American hopes in F1. Instead, the failures, I think, have made Rossi better. He's humbler now than he ever was. He's grateful for opportunities. He's listening. He's playing the team game. He was fast all month, masterful in the execution today, and gracious in victory. The path his climb took has left him 24, still so, so, so young, and yet 24 with some six or seven years experience in proper formula cars. You won't find many his age with as many miles logged. I don't know where Rossi's career goes from here. I doubt he does, either. But I wouldn't dare make a prediction. The route he's taken has gone a little bit of everywhere, from BMW's good graces to replacing Chilton only to be replaced by Chilton after free practice to a last-minute IndyCar run to winning the most important Indy 500 of most of our lifetimes. I'm excited to see the next stop of someone who, at least for today, is unstoppable. |
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I did and the atmosphere was amazing, especially the start, with all the cars in formation and then as you wait for the cars to scream by, as they complete not just the first lap but the next two or three.
The only thing that detracted was where I was sitting. I wasn't up high enough to really get a good look at the pit action and the view of that section of track wasn't brilliant. The cars suddenly come upon that section and then they are gone, so you don't see a driver start to set themselves up to make a move on another driver, before they approach Turn 1. However, just being there and seeing history being made was enough. |
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Despite some Honda teams complaining about the domed-skids, it was a Honda powered 1-2 and it was Honda powered cars that dominated much of the race. Looks like all bodes well, especially for future super speedway races. 1 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Herta. Dallara/Honda. 3h00m02.0872s 2 Carlos Munoz, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 4.4975s 3 Josef Newgarden, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 4.9304s 4 Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 10.4963s 5 Charlie Kimball, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 10.5218s 6 J.R. Hildebrand, Ed Carpenter Racing Dallara/Chevrolet. 11.3459s 7 James Hinchcliffe, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 12.7744s 8 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 15.1607s 9 Sebastien Bourdais, KVSH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 21.0613s 10 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 21.5171s 11 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 22.1015s 12 Oriol Servia Schmidt, Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 23.8140s 13 Marco Andretti, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 24.9700s 14 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 28.2494s 15 Max Chilton, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 28.7589s 16 Jack Hawksworth, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. 32.1748s 17 Alex Tagliani, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. 32.1993s 18 Pippa Mann, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 1 Lap 19 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 1 Lap 20 Gabby Chaves, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 1 Lap 21 Townsend Bell, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 1 Lap 22 Matthew Brabham, Team Murray. Dallara/Chevrolet. 1 Lap 23 Bryan Clauson, Jonathan Byrd's Racing. Dallara/Honda. 2 Laps 24 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 2 Laps 25 Spencer Pigot, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 5 Laps 26 Takuma Sato, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. Contact 27 Mikhail Aleshin, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. Contact 28 Stefan Wilson, KVSH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Electrical 29 Conor Daly, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. Contact 30 Buddy Lazier, Lazier Burns Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Mechanical 31 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Mechanical 32 Sage Karam, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact 33 Juan Pablo Montoya, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact |
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