101st Indianapolis 500

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Red flag at lap 55 for an absolutely spectacular crash with Jay Howard hitting the outside wall and moving across the track and Scott Dixon going airborne and hitting the inside catch fence. Thankfully they both walked away. The Holmatro Safety Team was moving from their locations during the accident.

Fernando Alonso is leading and has been showing amazing speed and car control.

Mr Nice · May 28, 2017

Luckily he walked away from crash.

Good race up until race red flagged.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

I think it has been an absolutely fantastic race so far. I have the IMS radio feed on my laptop and it is maybe 30 seconds ahead. They called it and then said the drivers were moving before TV displayed the yellow.

The camera footage on Helio's roll hoop showing him drive under Scott's car was amazing.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Conor Daly crashed out after trying to make a pass on the outside on Charlie Kimball. He is walking to the safety vehicle. Miss what happened to Jack Harvey's car.

Bottom_Feeder · May 28, 2017

Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
The camera footage on Helio's roll hoop showing him drive under Scott's car was amazing.

Is there a forward-facing view on his car? That angle must be nuts.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
The camera footage on Helio's roll hoop showing him drive under Scott's car was amazing.

Is there a forward-facing view on his car? That angle must be nuts.

It is a 360 camera so they had it pointed to the rear at the time of the accident. There was one on Scott Dixon's car that was facing forward.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Buddy Lazier crashed. Lucky break for Helio's fuel strategy and for James Davison who had a broken wing and was being black flagged.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Lap 138 and Hunter-Reay went kablamo. First Honda engine failure today after losing a number in practice and qualifying. Sounded like when Hinchcliffe's let go on Carb Day.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

They were just 5 wide on the back stretch going into turn 3 and all made it through. I saw them do that at Fontana where there actually is room for it and it was scary then.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Charlie Kimball just lost an engine on lap 167, second Honda failure.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

And Alonso's engine let go on lap 179, third Honda failure. He did an absolutely spectacular job, hats off to him.

ebr1190rx · May 28, 2017

Lol mclaren honda blows up again... poor Alonso...

Finn · May 28, 2017

Alonso blows up them Honda motors where ever he goes.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

And the "big one" Hinch, Servia, Davison, Power, and Newgarden involved. Newgarden might be able to continue, not sure. This will be an absolute shootout when it goes green again.

DeepFriar · May 28, 2017

Well, with Alonso out my wife has stopped watching the race. She likes the swarthy Mediterranean types, muy especially Fur-nonnndo (inflection mine). Too bad I'm half Irish and half German.

My Grandmother said our only two defining characteristics with this mix is that every 20 years or so we all get drunk at a wake and decide to take over Ze Vorld! Grandma was feisty.

bdcardinal · May 28, 2017

Takuma Sato does a great job passing and holding off Castroneves for the win. The F1 driver that no-one was betting on pulled off the win. Great race, absolutely great race.

robertcope · May 28, 2017

Alanso should have used Red Line oil!

DeepFriar · May 28, 2017

Originally Posted By: robertcope
Alanso should have used Red Line oil!

LOL

Brad_C · May 28, 2017

Originally Posted By: DeepFriar
Well, with Alonso out my wife has stopped watching the race. She likes the swarthy Mediterranean types, muy especially Fur-nonnndo (inflection mine). Too bad I'm half Irish and half German.

My wife likes him because she reckons he looks like Super-Mario. I cannot believe he was let down *again* by a Honda.

Bottom_Feeder · May 28, 2017

Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
The camera footage on Helio's roll hoop showing him drive under Scott's car was amazing.

Is there a forward-facing view on his car? That angle must be nuts.

It is a 360 camera so they had it pointed to the rear at the time of the accident. There was one on Scott Dixon's car that was facing forward.

Oh, that's right. Good point.

Didn't he have a camera pod above his right-rear wheel that was facing forward or was that something else?

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