Indy 500 2014

[flynfrog]

Doing the pre race right now.

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Starting grid[edit]
(R) = Indianapolis 500 rookie; (W) = Former Indianapolis 500 winner

Row	Inside	Middle	Outside
1	20	United States Ed Carpenter	27	Canada James Hinchcliffe	12	Australia Will Power
2	3	Brazil Hélio Castroneves (W)	77	France Simon Pagenaud	25	United States Marco Andretti
3	34	Colombia Carlos Muñoz	67	United States Josef Newgarden	21	United States J.R. Hildebrand
4	2	Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya (W)	9	New Zealand Scott Dixon (W)	26	United States Kurt Busch (R)
5	98	United Kingdom Jack Hawksworth (R)	19	United Kingdom Justin Wilson	7	Russia Mikhail Aleshin (R)
6	10	Brazil Tony Kanaan (W)	11	France Sebastien Bourdais	16	Spain Oriol Servià
7	28	United States Ryan Hunter-Reay	15	United States Graham Rahal	18	Colombia Carlos Huertas (R)
8	63	United Kingdom Pippa Mann	14	Japan Takuma Sato	68	Canada Alex Tagliani
9	6	United States Townsend Bell	83	United States Charlie Kimball	5	Canada Jacques Villeneuve (W)
10	33	Australia James Davison (R)	41	United Kingdom Martin Plowman (R)	8	Australia Ryan Briscoe
11	22	United States Sage Karam (R)	17	Colombia Sebastián Saavedra	91	United States Buddy Lazier (W)

Some Higlights

Kurt Bush attempting the double duty of the Indy 500 and the Coca Cola 600

JPM back after a 14 ish year break

JV takes another swing at it.

FIrst year to have a F1, Indy, and Nascar champ on the grid at the same time.

[Sombrero]

Good race... Great fast cars !

[flynfrog]

looks like they will set a speed record for the first 100 laps.

Still 30 mph slower than the PC23 with the 500i

[flynfrog]

JPM Leads the Half way

Edit nope pits on lap 99

[ChrisF1]

I love Indy on the road courses, but jesus christ - this is so boring. Wake me up on lap 190 please!

[flynfrog]

Its starting to look like its Helios race to lose. Very impressive showing from Ed Carpenter.

[Sombrero]

Fastest race ever ?

[flynfrog]

I think its well on track for that.


JPM speeding on pit lane with a few lap fuel advantage tough break.

[johnsonwax]

A yellow will repair that (one for debris, not crash - Indy crashes are terrifying.)

[flynfrog]

speaking of the yellow.....

[johnsonwax]

And Charlie is a bit of family friend - we know his dad Gordon, knew Charlie as a little kid when he still had a british accent. No, we didn't arrange that.

Glad it was a gentle crash.

[flynfrog]

how many laps are they going on fuel I haven't been paying that much attention

[johnsonwax]

Montoya was doing 33, which was the most. 30 seems a bit more typical, or a bit less even.

Looks like we saved all the crashes for the end.

[flynfrog]

Ed Carpenter is out.
3 wide probably not a great idea

[johnsonwax]

I have to say, Kurt Busch is doing very well for a NASCAR driver. I thought for sure he'd be in the wall or lapped. I wonder if he's still up to do the race tonight.