Running Indianapolis 500 thread

Since this thread is worthless without pictures.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070527/482/75aa23ef899b47289369d55b054596f3

Maybe she'll be able to get a new dress, too.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070510/ids_photos_en/r1474466640.jpg

 

Not much better than sprint cars. Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg last Thursday and Friday featured two pretty good nights of racing.

 

In both of those photos (dated May 10 and 27), she's wearing the exact same dress. Odd.

 

I hadn't noticed that. I prefer her in jeans and t-shirt at UK games.

 

New dress, old dress.. who cares? She'd look good... well, even in no dress...

 

Then again, AGR has won two of the last three Indy 500s, and came within 100 yards of winning three straight.

Kanaan's undoing was his own, because he ran over Jaques Lazier on a restart. Had that not happened, there would've been at least 20 more laps of green (instead of 1/2 more lap of green) and Franchitti & Dixon would've had to pit. That would've created a shootout between TK and Marco (assuming he doesn't pull his bonehead move and run over Dan Wheldon 1/2 lap into a restart) and the Penske cars, with Danica, Wheldon and a few others in the mix.

This was a strange 500. Because of the threat of imminent rain on two occasions, it seemed everybody was in "go" mode from the green flag, which created a lot of impatient drivers and some incredible racing (20+ lead changes in 166 laps, a quarter of which were run under yellow). Michael Andretti said he was a bit frustrated by the lack of patience shown by so many (his son was one of the biggest offenders), which was entertaining for the crowd, but probably a bit unnerving to some of the drivers. Yet, there was very, very little flow because of the number of single-car wrecks from backmarkers.

But, just like last year's race was Dan Wheldon's to lose, and he did (thanks to some bad luck -- a cut tire), this year's was Tony Kanaan's race to lose, and he did, thanks to getting just a bit too aggressive on a restart.

Dario Franchitti drove one of those races where he kept getting to the front and putting himself in a position to contend, and happened to make a lucky call that put him in front at the end of the race. Strategy won him this race, but with the entire field on two different pit strategies, whoever won was going to have to use a little bit of strategy to do it. He's not one of the better-known drivers in IndyCar racing, but he's been pretty consistent since his CART days (he once tied Juan Montoya for the CART title, but lost the tiebreaker).

Lost in a lot of this ... Davey Hamilton, in his first race since nearly losing both legs in 2001, finishes ninth, largely by keeping his nose clean and running the right strategy.

(also, note to ABC the next time Dario wins a race ... Ashley Judd is a LOT more attractive when she's not trying to dissect race strategy ... if Jack Arute's mic could have a well-timed technical problem during the obligatory Ashley interview, it might help the broadcast).

 

Jack Arute needs to go away. Now.
If not now, then... now.
And if not then, then...... now.

 

Speaking of which, I hope the NCAA tournament committee was taking notes. If Kentucky ever wins the NCAAs again, turn on the sprinkler system over the UK section, rather than dropping that stupid confetti.

 

Kanaan got Franchitti and good tonight. At the awards ceremony, with Franchitti wearing a tres expensive suit, Kanaan dumped a cream pie on top of Franchitti's head while the winner was at the mike getting the million dollar plus check.

Ashley didn't look bad either in the audience decked out in a revealing dress that made her look as good dry tonight as she did wet Sunday night.

 

Actually, I thought the rows of three were far better maintained than years' past.

Look back at the late CART years. Back then you'd have the leaders going into Turn 1 when the rest of the field was just entering the frontstretch.