All-purpose open-wheel (F1, IRL) racing thread

And Jimmie leads one lap during the pit sequence, comes back out and bins it. What's that the Irish say about "May you be in heaven half an hour..."?

 

Ugh. Red flag.

 

I'm sure all the people who finished behind Dario Franchitti during his three Indy 500's won under caution feel about this decision.

 

The Swervin' Swede!

 

Scott Dixon unbelievably gives the race away. I understand the need for a great in-lap, but you cannot speed on pit road under green. Killer.

 

Every time I paused TuneIn trying to sync the radio call with TV, it decided to buffer and return to live mode, which was 30 seconds ahead of NBC.

 

And timing and scoring was about a minute ahead of my radio stream. Spent most of the day saying, "Yellow!" and then having to wait for radio and TV to catch up.

 

My wife, who watches approximately 1/2 of one IndyCar race with me each season, asked this afternoon from the other room: "What's with the annoying guy with the Australian accent?"

 

Try adding that to rowing, canoeing or luge/bobsled/skeleton. Those are Diffey's Olympic assignments.

Then again, CBS gave the sliding assignment at Nagano in 1998 to an up and coming young Black guy from Detroit named Gus Johnson. I still wish I could find tapes of that.