I think they did touch but they are not showing any replays from different angles. Normally they are all over that. Kai
No way. Franchitti would have been in the wall. Sato went low on the line and spun on his own or got in the turbulence.
Too often it's like a basket ball game where you can turn it on the last 5 minutes and see the real excitement. Franchitti honestly gave Sato a gift and moved way off the racing line for him. In the end, it won him the race. I suppose that's experience.
Congrats to Dario... He comes around our C&C here in Nash every so often, and he's a cool guy. Fun to have some kind of local connection to Indy.
Man, Chip is on a roll these day. Im sure Rodger is going to be giving his guys a pep talk tomorrow. Dario drove an unbelievable race today.
Ahh Sato, ever the hothead. If he had a cooler head, he could have done more in F1. It's the kind of thing that will hold you back in any motorsport.
Every year I am glued to the TV for Monaco, then drift in and out of the den while Indy is on to get a snack, check email, etc. If it had rained on her dress, I would have made sure to be watching at that time.
Ah... Sato's interview today was really a bit of low class. If you look at the replay, Franchitti is way off the racing line in the corner. Any more and he'd have been in the wall. Sato spun. He didn't have to. He certainly didn't have to blame others for his mistake.
Is it the 500 because of the 500 commercials? I think there was a race taking place too, mostly under yellow flags. Indy is a joke! there were some spins that brought 6-7 laps under yellow. I saw the the offending car back on the pits, yet they kept running under yellow for 5 more laps. Any amateur club race has more credibility than anything that Indycar does.
Hello, normally I dont care to see when they show the wives, but I thought Ashley Judd really knew what was going on and had a firm grasp of the history of the sport in her first post race interview. She showed some real class!.
Indycar has some odd anti-blocking rules. Taco has to learn that they never seem to apply on the last lap. What's Japanese for "Red Mist"? It took 50 years ... and a real butchering of F1 by Mad Max in his final year ... plus a bunch of remote Tilke tracks. But I finally "get" oval racing. Think about a quick run on a street course or performance rally on asphalt. Think about setting up to take a fast corner at "11/10ths". When you turn in and hit the apex just right, and manage to just zoom through a "perfect" corner, it feels right, and slingshots you back out on the straight. Think about pulling off a "fast in" *and* "fast out". Now think about doing that four times a lap. Once you get a feel for the dynamics, I don't know how people could say this was a boring race. Especially after the Monaco parade. You have to watch the banners, because there's too many cars on track to show all the passing going on. I really enjoyed this race. Especially watching Taco slice through the field for most of the race. Not many cautions for 30+ cars going 500 miles at the limits of grip. Where the heck did Briscoe come from, right at those last five laps? He must of had a heck of a restart, on those cautions after the last fuel stops. So what was the final total? A new record of 36 or was it 37 ... or 36 and a half ... passes for the lead. Even Rubeno got a couple of laps up front. Without having to play "DRS" games to give the car in back an artificial edge. Commercials? Speed doesn't have "side by side" during their ads. And they seem to always go to commercial just in time for the pit stops --- which is where most of the action happen, in F1. This was a bit sloppy, by Indycar standards. NBC Sports Channel (Versus) is usually back from commercial before they go back to green, not just after it happened.
Saw it live from the Pagoda. I was with race officials. They hadn't seen any replay at the time but they did not blame Dario, their opinion after watching it live was that Sato dove down low. For what it's worth. It seemed like everyone there wanted TK to win at the end. Of course they were rooting for Ed Carpenter until he crashed. Ill post some more pictures / videos for you guys in the next few days. I just got back to the hotel and I am sun burnt to hell...
I think they need to lower the volume on Marco's radio transmissions. He's quite a fine whine, worse than Wolowitz's mother . Same with Graham ("my fuel gauge is on, they're all going by me, I can't stay with them, what's going on ?...."), until the crew chief advises..." umm, it's okay, there's 174 laps left, ok ??? there's plenty of things we can do until then". Hoo boy. AJ they ain't.
I had a great time there over the last couple of days. Most of what I learned won't be repeated online.
Tilke has actually designed some good tracks. The parts that suck the most are the parking lot run off area's, for improved safety. Last year there where more normal passes than DRS assisted ones. In Ovals the driver has to make 4 identical corners perfect, in F1 it's 15+ completely different ones. F1 is not like the early to late 2000s anymore when rarely a pass happens on track and only in the pit.
Tilke has actually designed some good tracks. The parts that suck the most are the parking lot run off area's, for improved safety. Last year there where more normal passes than DRS assisted ones. In Ovals the driver has to make 4 identical corners perfect, in F1 it's 15+ completely different ones. F1 is not like the early to late 2000s anymore when rarely a pass happens on track and only in the pit.
I want to hear you after your favorite driver, coming in Second, says this to explain why he didn't pass the leader when given several easy opportunities. "It is not about the number of passes. It is NOT about quantity. I wanted to be First, but I wanted the 'Style Points' too. The quality of the pass is just as important as he Win." Too silly for words.
I was thinking the same thing! That must be her lucky dress for the 500. I guess I am happy for Dario but I was rooting for Sato.
Definitely agree with previous post....Sato was due success, but DF sealed the deal. Mrs Franchitti sometimes "hams it up" unecessarily, but to her credit she's very supportive, and both know much about the history of the sport, either side of the "pond". Ed
