96th Indianapolis 500

Milan655 wrote:

Alta wrote:

pennst24 wrote:
The biggest crime of the split is that guys like Moore, Zanardi, Blundell, etc never got to run at the Speedway. That's criminal!

Died.
Lost Legs.
Retired.

That's most likely why they didn't run

Yet Zanardi continues in WTCC. He's a hero for most people, just for courage.

That's bull, how can you disqualify someone for not having a weight on a mirror?

Probably has a bit of a fear of coming back to racing Open-wheel though or something like that.

Silly rules are silly. Should've just had an on-board camera.

Alta wrote:

Milan655 wrote:

Alta wrote:

pennst24 wrote:
The biggest crime of the split is that guys like Moore, Zanardi, Blundell, etc never got to run at the Speedway. That's criminal!

Died.
Lost Legs.
Retired.

That's most likely why they didn't run

Yet Zanardi continues in WTCC. He's a hero for most people, just for courage.

That's bull, how can you disqualify someone for not having a weight on a mirror?

Probably has a bit of a fear of coming back to racing Open-wheel though or something like that.

Silly rules are silly. Should've just had an on-board camera.

Yes, that has happened to many, today you see Felipe Massa having fear.

Alta,

Moore, Zanardi, and Blundell all raced in CART when the IRL occupied the 500. If it wasn't for the IRL, those guys would have raced for sure at Indy.

and we have another slowtus on track

from the official Indycar Twitter


IndyCarPR #PoleDay Update: @IndyCar officials have disqualified 14 @MikeConwayIndy for failing to meet the minimum weight. His time is disallowed

Less than 30 minutes remain in session 1. Ed Carpenter has Just Crashed on his Qualification Attempt.

Don't know if anyone is watching live timing and scoring on indycar.com, but they have video over there and Ed Carpenter had a really bad wreck. The car spun off of turn 2, then went onto its side with the top part of the car hitting the wall. He is okay though.

flyingturns89 wrote:Don't know if anyone is watching live timing and scoring on indycar.com, but they have video over there and Ed Carpenter had a really bad wreck. The car spun off of turn 2, then went onto its side with the top part of the car hitting the wall. He is okay though.

It was really scary.

Ed's had a rough month. He can't seem to find a handle on his car. (Carp's my favorite driver btw.)

JMac525 wrote:

flyingturns89 wrote:Don't know if anyone is watching live timing and scoring on indycar.com, but they have video over there and Ed Carpenter had a really bad wreck. The car spun off of turn 2, then went onto its side with the top part of the car hitting the wall. He is okay though.

It was really scary.

Ed's had a rough season. He can't seem to find a handle on his car. (Carp's my favorite driver btw.)

Fixed. Also, Saavedra made a run and missed after a mistake, Conway bumped Bourdais, and now Jakes bumps Conway and almost beat Franchitti. Katherine Legge's team won rejects of the day so far. Legge was on a qualifying run, but since her pit crew were not at the pit wall where they are supposed to be, she got disallowed. Each team needs at least one pit crew member to be in that gap in the outside pit wall to give instructions on when to start the qualifying run. Since they had no one, the run was disallowed.

pennst24 wrote:Alta,

Moore, Zanardi, and Blundell all raced in CART when the IRL occupied the 500. If it wasn't for the IRL, those guys would have raced for sure at Indy.

More of less explaining why they can't run today.

Carpenter's smash looks a lot similar to Rick Mears wreck in the 90's. Shows you how far saftey has came as he's okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR0fN29RG3E&feature=player_embedded

And Ryan Briscoe has Won Pole For the Indianapolis 500!

Briscoe on pole. He'll be midpack by Lap 10.

crl wrote:Briscoe on pole. He'll be midpack by Lap 10.

This.

Rumor has it that There is another car/engine ready to go for someone if they can get the money. There are still 2 more packages being thrown together for tomorrow to bump out a Lotus, depending on if anyone blows a Chevy motor between then.

Pippa Mann tried to get a deal together, but it fell through.

The #21 car for Ed Carpenter has not run a lap yet this month. I'm guessing that was the car Pippa tried to get.

Jay Howard's money is probably a bit more attractive than Pippa's...

Cynon wrote:The #21 car for Ed Carpenter has not run a lap yet this month. I'm guessing that was the car Pippa tried to get.

Jay Howard's money is probably a bit more attractive than Pippa's...

Which is probably the only thing more attractive than Pippa.

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Next Weeks race is gonna be awesome. too bad no bumping could take place, but im not sure that i would be ok with alesi missing the race.

AntmanB wrote:Next Weeks race is gonna be awesome. too bad no bumping could take place, but im not sure that i would be ok with alesi missing the race.

In that Lololotus, he'll be lapped by lap 10

BREAKING NEWS: Over $200,000 in fines have been assessed to at least 11 teams for rules infractions. Currently working on a full list of penalties and reasons. but this apparently was announced about 90 minutes ago.

FULL LIST
11 teams were assessed penalties for problems with the brakes in pre-qualifying inspection. Each were fined $15,000. They are:

Penske Racing Car #2
Panther Racing Car #4
KV Racing Technology Car #5
KV Racing Technology Car #8
Chip Ganassi Racing Car #9
Penske Racing Car #12
Dale Coyne Racing #18
Andretti Autosport Car #25
Andretti Autosport Car #26
Andretti Autosport Car #28
Fan Force United Car #64

In addition, another $50,000 fine was given to the #64 team, the #27 and #28 teams each received an additional $20,000 for a couple different problems, and the #14 and #26 teams each got another $10,000 fine. All of these penalties were for reasons listed as rules in the rule book, but is not known what these rules actually are.

Here's the link for confirmation. http://www.indycar.com/en/News/2012/05-May/5-20-Teams-incur-fines-for-technical-infractions

All I could say is...

I wonder what the grid penalties will be for the Indy 500.

well the 64 is already starting last................

btw , flying turns said Bump Day would end in Record Time. I think it did.

Starting Grid

Here's the starting grid for the 2012 Indy 500.

1. (2)Ryan Briscoe, 4 Lap Average: 226.484

2. (27)James Hinchcliffe, 4 Lap Average: 226.481

3. (28)Ryan Hunter-Reay, 4 Lap Average: 226.240

4. (26)Marco Andretti, 4 Lap Average: 225.456

5. (12)Will Power, 4 Lap Average: 225.422

6. (3)Helio Castroneves, 4 Lap Average: 225.172

7. (67)Josef Newgarden, 4 Lap Average: 224.037

8. (11)Tony Kanaan, 4 Lap Average: 224.751

9. (5)EJ Viso, 4 Lap Average: 224.422

10. (8)Rubens Barrichello, 4 Lap Average: 224.264

11. (98)Alex Tagliani, 4 Lap Average: 224.000

12. (38)Graham Rahal, 4 Lap Average: 223.959

13. (25)Ana Beatriz, 4 Lap Average: 223.920

14. (83)Charlie Kimball, 4 Lap Average: 223.868 - In Case you dont know,he Crashed in Practice Today.

15. (9)Scott Dixon, 4 Lap Average: 223.684

16. (50)Dario Franchitti, 4 Lap Average: 223.582

17. (19)James Jakes, 4 Lap Average: 223.482

18. (4)JR Hildebrand, 4 Lap Average: 223.422

19. (15)Takuma Sato, 4 Lap Average: 223.392

20. (99)Townsend Bell, 4 Lap Average: 223.134

21. (18)Justin Wilson, 4 Lap Average: 222.929

22. (30)Michel Jourdain, 4 Lap Average: 222.893

23. (77)Simon Pagenaud, 4 Lap Average: 222.891

24. (17)Sebastian Saavedra, 4 Lap Average: 222.811

25. (7)Sebastien Bourdais, 4 Lap Average: 223.760

26. (41)Wade Cunningham, 4 Lap Average: 223.258

27. (22)Oriol Servia, 4 Lap Average: 222.393

28. (20)Ed Carpenter, 4 Lap Average: 222.324

29. (14)Mike Conway, 4 Lap Average: 222.319

30. (6)Katherine Legge, 4 Lap Average: 221.624

31. (39)Bryan Clauson, 4 Lap Average: 214.455

32. (78)Simona de Silvestro, 4 Lap Average: 214.393

33. (64)Jean Alesi, 4 Lap Average: 210.094

Brakes at Indy...Only when your pitting or dodging a wreck.

Looking forward to it as always.

The mayor, P2!

This is as Close as i can find to the Freedom 100 entry List.

#2 Gustavo Yacaman (Team Moore Racing)
#3 Victor Carbone (Sam Schmidt Motorsports)
#4 Jorge Goncalvez (Belardi Auto Racing)
#5 TBA (Andretti Autosport)
#7 Oliver Webb (Sam Schmidt Motorsports)
#8 Alex Jones (Brooks Associates Racing)
#9 Alon Day (Belardi Auto Racing)
#11 Esteban Guerrerri (Sam Schmidt Motorsports)
#12 TBA (Brooks Associates Racing)
#16 Peter Dempsey (Younessi Racing)
#17 TBA (Team E Racing)
#19 Mike Larrison (Belardi Auto Racing)
#20 Daryl Willis (R) (Hillenburg Motorsports)
#22 David Ostella (Team Moore Racing)
#24 Armaan Ebrahim (R) (Fan Force United)
#25 Emerson Newton-John (Fan Force United)
#26 Carlos Munoz (R) (Andretti Autosport)
#27 Sebastian Saavadra (AFS Racing)
#28 Anders Krohn (Bryan Herta Autosport)
#29 Duarte Ferreira / Troy Castaneda / Nick Andries (Bryan Herta Autosport)
#40 TBA (Goree MultiSports)
#76 Juan Pablo Garcia (Jeffrey Mark Motorsport)
#77 Tristan Vautier (Sam Schmidt Motorsports)
#86 JV Horto (R) (Juncos Racing)
#87 Chase Austin (Juncos Racing)

Saavedra doing double duty i see. Since he hasn't shown his worth yet I'm not to bothered by it.

Jean Alesi is so goddamn slow, he's gonna get lapped every 10 laps lol.

bartman97 wrote:Jean Alesi is so goddamn slow, he's gonna get lapped every 10 laps lol.

At least every 10 laps, but we can pin most of that on the Lololotus

I tell you, I'm really enjoying all the "Classic Indy 500s" that ESPN classic has been playing this week.

Crazy Lights race for the most part. They were trying to wreck that whole race with all that pinching.

Good win Guerrieri (Mr. My name doesn't sound like an ice cream flavor)

Alta wrote:Crazy Lights race for the most part. They were trying to wreck that whole race with all that pinching.

Good win Guerrieri (Mr. My name doesn't sound like an ice cream flavor)

I was on the edge of my seat every lap. Crazy stuff. Too bad they had to end it under yellow though.

James Hinchcliffe trolling...LIKE A BOSS!

RealRacer4 wrote:

James Hinchcliffe trolling...LIKE A BOSS!

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Forget the home page, I want the man for President.

Sparkz47 wrote:

RealRacer4 wrote:

James Hinchcliffe trolling...LIKE A BOSS!

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Forget the home page, I want the man for President.

He's Canadian. POINT INVALID.

pennst24 wrote:

Sparkz47 wrote:

RealRacer4 wrote:

James Hinchcliffe trolling...LIKE A BOSS!

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Forget the home page, I want the man for President.

He's Canadian. POINT INVALID.

Oh, you thought I meant the United States? I'm sorry, I should have clarified: President of the Earth.

pennst24 wrote:

Sparkz47 wrote:

RealRacer4 wrote:

James Hinchcliffe trolling...LIKE A BOSS!

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Forget the home page, I want the man for President.

He's Canadian. POINT INVALID.

and your point?

Forecast calls for 95 degree temperatures for the Indy 500. This could play an interesting role in the race.

I've got a bad feeling about this...

Already saying prayers for whoever gets hurt in this race.

flyingturns89 wrote:Already saying prayers for whoever gets hurt in this race.

Yes cause a Las Vegas is totally happening again. ALL OVALS ARE SCARY!!!111

actually, he isn't far off the truth. at 220 mph there are a lot of ways to get hurt at Indy. I'm usually quite nervous during the 500 hoping everyone will get out ok. Even just a few years ago, hitting the wall in the corners meant a concussion by default

Mystrsyko wrote:actually, he isn't far off the truth. at 220 mph there are a lot of ways to get hurt at Indy. I'm usually quite nervous during the 500 hoping everyone will get out ok. Even just a few years ago, hitting the wall in the corners meant a concussion by default

I mean yes this always the possibility but i think everyone's overreacting a little bit. Unlike Vegas...Indy's much wider and has room to spread out.

We've had 3 hard hits this month and everyone's got out fine. The new car has been gaining it's stripes so far this month.

Alta wrote:

Mystrsyko wrote:actually, he isn't far off the truth. at 220 mph there are a lot of ways to get hurt at Indy. I'm usually quite nervous during the 500 hoping everyone will get out ok. Even just a few years ago, hitting the wall in the corners meant a concussion by default

I mean yes this always the possibility but i think everyone's overreacting a little bit. Unlike Vegas...Indy's much wider and has room to spread out.

We've had 3 hard hits this month and everyone's got out fine. The new car has been gaining it's stripes so far this month.

Look at Thursday's FIL race (can't watch in Canada) but by looking at the highlights after the three car wreck, if anyone gets hurt in today's race, I'd be very surprised.

No need to watch the race, we now know who has won.

Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:No need to watch the race, we now know who has won.

funny

Pretty bummed Jim Nabors couldnt make it this year

lol Guy Ferry getting booed

For those that can't get the Indy 500 on TV: http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/53386/2/indycar---indianapolis-500--live-stream-online.html

Im calling it now, Mayor Hinch is gonna win the 500.