March 25, 20187 yr Don’t have another race till April 7 but just wanted to get the thread up and going here. Don’t think I posted this in the other thread but Conor Daly finally got a ride for the Indy 500. Dale Coyne Racing in the US Air Force machine.
April 4, 20187 yr Author Fucking finally it's race week again. Time for the Phoenix Grand Prix! Check out this article my buddy wrote for the Indy Car blog about the history of racing/drivers and Phoenix. Pretty cool... https://www.indycar.com/News/2018/04/04-03-Voices-Query
April 5, 20187 yr Yeah, glad to see Indy back on the schedule this weekend. Weather looks terrible here, so Indy Saturday night and F1 Sunday morning it is.
April 16, 20187 yr Author Great win for Rossi yesterday at Long Beach. The kid has 3 wins in his career... Indy, Watkins Glen, and Long Beach. That's one hell of a trifecta in the Indycar world/history.
April 16, 20187 yr On 3/25/2018 at 1:30 PM, Anton Chigurh said: I guess he didn’t have any luck with Lindsey Vonn. Judging from the crazy eyes on that amazon, he got lucky if it didn't work out.
April 17, 20187 yr Author Listened to the radio broadcast and Jake Query loved that pass. Really was something of a beauty. Place where it’s tough to go two-wide and he makes that insane pass going three-wide.
April 30, 20187 yr Author It's May tomorrow! The terrible winter weather is gone (but barely) and the track is going to be running for the entire month leading up to the 500 mile race. And there are limited cars out on the track testing! Best month of the year. https://www.facebook.com/indycar/?hc_ref=ARRU5J8bUl-OK0knqnZDaN4gVGPwwqHTL1u7Qzxk2k302RtVlN--gFSQp1kC9IdKvb4
April 30, 20187 yr Author Marco and Rossi have switched numbers 98/27. Cars are pushing 224 already and it's not even noon. Danica is there (doing a rookie refresher right now) and will be out on track this afternoon.
April 30, 20187 yr Author morning session was great. 21 cars went out. 18 of them got above 220mph. helio ran some laps... he's back in the yellow submarine backed by penzoil! afternoon session about to get rolling in the next 45 mins. Edited April 30, 20187 yr by BlueGreySky
April 30, 20187 yr Author edit - danica won't run till tomorrow. later today newgarden will be testing a wind screen (the same one dixon was testing earlier in the spring) tomorrow the cars will be running 10-1 and 2-5.
April 30, 20187 yr I'm not a fan of the fenders but Indycar has done a good thing by removing the air intake behind the drivers head. These cars look much better than the last few years. I'm hoping Helio can get #4 this year and ride off into the sunset. Keep the post coming BGS.
April 30, 20187 yr Author The new design is really great, imo. They changed some of the aero-package and now there are less fins and other parts on the car. Rather, they added some components on the undercarriage of the car to increase downforce. The car creates less dirty air as a result and allows for cars to presumably draft at closer distances because of that.
April 30, 20187 yr I watched the last couple hours of practice on Youtube and it looked like they were handling rather well in traffic. It made me miss being there over Memorial weekend. I'm going to have to look into tickets for this year.
April 30, 20187 yr Author I'll be at the Grand Prix, Fast Friday, Bump Day (38 entries so far, so we get a REAL bump day!). Only the second race I'll miss as I'll be out of the country for work (first one was the day my eldest son was born).
May 1, 20187 yr Author Happy May 1st! Track is live and a few cars are out running. Rookies, I believe. Got the stream on in the background silenced right now as I'm on a conference call. Edited May 1, 20187 yr by BlueGreySky
May 1, 20187 yr Author Don't hate it. Morning session was pretty meh with rookies out there. Veterans who aren't full time Indycar drivers coming up at 2pm eastern. (includes Danica - eyeroll)
May 1, 20187 yr Author Danica out there turning laps. My volume is off because I've been in on a few work calls, so not sure what they're saying about how she's doing.
May 3, 20187 yr Month of May, Indianapolis, Emmylou. This belongs here. @BlueGreySky is there a Youtube Indy channel schedule for the rest of the month posted somewhere?
May 4, 20187 yr Pietro Fittipaldi hit the tire barriers at Eau Rouge this morning and has broken both legs.
May 4, 20187 yr Author Dammit. I was very much looking forward to him going through quals at Indy and potentially making the race.
May 4, 20187 yr Author Bump Day is baaaaaack! 2018 ENTRY BREAKDOWN Winners (6): Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Tony Kanaan, Alexander Rossi, Takuma Sato Rookies (4): Pietro Fittipaldi, Kyle Kaiser, Matheus Leist, Robert Wickens American drivers (14): Marco Andretti, Ed Carpenter, Conor Daly, JR Hildebrand, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Kyle Kaiser, Sage Karam, Charlie Kimball, Josef Newgarden, Danica Patrick, Spencer Pigot, Graham Rahal, Alexander Rossi, Zach Veach International drivers (21): Max Chilton, Jack Harvey, Jay Howard, Pippa Mann, Stefan Wilson – England; Helio Castroneves, Pietro Fittipaldi, Tony Kanaan, Matheus Leist – Brazil; James Davison, Will Power – Australia; James Hinchcliffe, Robert Wickens, Canada; Gabby Chaves, Carlos Munoz – Colombia; Sebastien Bourdais, Simon Pagenaud – France; Takuma Sato – Japan; Oriol Servia – Spain; Scott Dixon – New Zealand; Ed Jones – United Arab Emirates Engines (35): Honda 19, Chevrolet 16 https://www.indycar.com/News/2018/05/05-04-Indy-500-Entry-List
May 11, 20187 yr Author Indycar is live on FB for practice and qual for the Grand Prix. Headed out to the track later for the afternoon. Will be back again next Friday for Fast Friday.
May 14, 20187 yr Author The Grand Prix is over and done. Didn't go this year because my son's team had a baseball DH. The two F-16s that did the flyover buzzed our fields on the north side of town as they prepared to fly over the speedway at the national anthem. It was fucking awesome - lowest I've ever experienced jets like that. Everyone including the umps and coaches just stopped and watched for a few seconds. When they turn on those afterburners, holy shit. Will Power continues his success at the Grand Prix. Hopefully he continues to suck ass at the 500. I don't dislike him as much as I used to. He's less of a dick than he used to be, self-admittedly, because of becoming a dad. Rossi continuing to look strong at all races this year. He's in my top 3 this year for sure. The track was closed yesterday for Mother's Day and closed today to finish converting everything back to oval settings. Thor, Hemsworth, will be waiving the green flag as the 33 come around turn 4. Not sure if the national anthem, pace car, and "back home again" have been announced who's doing those yet. Will be out at the track at the end of this week for Fast Friday. May in Indy officially getting into high gear!
May 14, 20187 yr indy GP was almost as processional as the spanish GP (and of course abcspn was in commercial during the pass for the lead). not as fun as either st. pete or long beach.
May 19, 20187 yr Author Gotdamn. Hinch doesn’t make the big show. Pissed that Mann got the last run of the day. It was quite clear her car didn’t have it. I don’t understand on weather days like today why the speedway doesn’t add an hour or two on for quals keeping the track open till 7 or 8. There wasn’t even a full hour of bumping. I wonder if Wickens or Howard will be asked to give up their ride for Hinch?
May 19, 20187 yr Author Oh, or it might be that Schmidt buys a ride from Foyt or someone else (Foyt has sold before, back in 2011).
May 20, 20187 yr Author From another site and discussion about today's events... My dad was in the garages when the team got back. He got a first hand view of a very excited Hinch crew member yelling at a Firestone rep and then shaking the tire at fault. There was a clear rattle during that. The tire was taken apart by Firestone and the offending part was placed in a bag and taken away. My dad tried to figure out what it was but neither the Hinch guys nor the Firestone people would say what it was. Hope it isn’t this way, but the tone and word choice of the Hinch crew makes it sound like Firestone might have dropped the ball on this one.
May 22, 20187 yr Damn shame about Hinch. Given the exposure he's getting in national advertising for Honda, IndyCar would probably be well-served by just starting all 35. You need the face of your series actually in the race.
May 27, 20187 yr 5 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said: Fellas, we are green! Just tuned in, have I missed anything?
May 27, 20187 yr Annoyed by family obligations that will force me to watch on DVR later this afternoon, the Coca-Cola 600 after that, and to avoid spoilers for both all day long.
May 27, 20187 yr This is the first race I've watched in a long time, are all of the networks doing the commercials in a window like ABC is doing today? I like it.
May 27, 20187 yr watching on dvr: how the fuck was davison not black flagged by race control to fix his obviously non-working car? dude was 10 mph slower than everyone else and in the racing line. i saw that wreck coming 30 laps ago Edited May 27, 20187 yr by elfenix
May 27, 20187 yr 11 laps to go, 19 cars on the lead lap and a restart coming up. Fuuuuckk. Kanaan just had to spin out there.
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