Well that was weird...missing thread about Indy 500

[Zeke]

OK, someone told the winner well after the conclusion in the thread title. I can see that as a mistake. Can't moderators change titles?

Oh well, I'll start a new thread and you guys can post what you posted, just don't "spoil" the results.

[SCWDP911]

I asked a moderator to delete as I was feeling a little bad about it. I was just excited for Dario and was not thinking. Apologies to all involved.

[gprsh924]

I'll reiterate what I said on the last thread....if you don't want to find out the results of a major sporting event in this day and age, then you have to be very careful about where you go on the internet and how you use it.

I had to watch the USA-Canada hockey game on my dvr because I was at a basketball game during the hockey game. I turned off my cell phone and did not touch my computer until I was finished watching because I knew it would get spoiled for me otherwise.

[Zeke]

And I'll reiterate as well. Putting event results in the title of the thread has been called poor form before here, so I guess we can make that a rule.

[SCWDP911]

Hey guys, Porschephile944 and I have spoken privately and it's all good. It was my bad. I just welcomed some needed relief from family events lately and reacted without thinking about others, especially being on the board we are all on.

Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day (and I will not tell you how that one ends ;-) )

[sammyg2]

I admit I watched the race yesterday. Again. I always say that's the last time but as usual, there was nothing else on. I say that because the indy 500 is all a roll of the dice. It isn't real racing!

All you have to do is stay on the lead lap. You can fall behind as much as you want, just don't get lapped or crash.

Then bam! a caution and you are right behind the leader again.

Go green, fall way back, then 10 minutes later another caution and you are near the lead again.

With a little blind-arsed luck, you can time your pit stops to coincide with the cautions and you can win the race with a mediocre car and driver. They said many times yesterday that the fastest car usually doesn't win.

Why don't they just save us all time and race only the last 5 laps?

Oh, wait, they can't do that. Then everyone would not get to see the crashes. Over, and over, and over. In super-slo motion.
And it would end under yellow. again.

[URY914]

I say what I said last time....

ABC race coverage sucks. Those three guys can take the most exciting race and turn it into a golf match.

[Joeaksa]

We all know who won the race, it was Lewis Hamilton! What other race?

[legion]

I usually put the word "spoiler" in the title of my race-related threads, just to make it extra clear that I will be discussing results.

[SCWDP911]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I admit I watched the race yesterday. Again. I always say that's the last time but as usual, there was nothing else on. I say that because the indy 500 is all a roll of the dice. It isn't real racing!

All you have to do is stay on the lead lap. You can fall behind as much as you want, just don't get lapped or crash.

Then bam! a caution and you are right behind the leader again.

Go green, fall way back, then 10 minutes later another caution and you are near the lead again.

With a little blind-arsed luck, you can time your pit stops to coincide with the cautions and you can win the race with a mediocre car and driver. They said many times yesterday that the fastest car usually doesn't win.

Why don't they just save us all time and race only the last 5 laps?

Oh, wait, they can't do that. Then everyone would not get to see the crashes. Over, and over, and over. In super-slo motion.
And it would end under yellow. again.

I have to disagree here. I'll grant you it might not be as exciting as F1 or motocross/supercross, but it is a totally different style of race (which I know is obvious). But I do not get why so many people diss the INDY. Now, all disclosures aside, I was born a hoosier. Though raised mostly in California, I spent a lot of time out in Indiana, and then my dad retired there allowing me to got to high school there. So I guess I have some INDY pride to defend here.

To say INDY is all about luck is completely shortsighted and bogus. There IS a degree of luck involved, but there is a WHOLE lot of SKILL involved as well... and in many areas - driver skill, pit crew skill, crew chief skill, engineering skill, ninja skill - OK, I digress. INDY has always been in my opinion, more of a game of strategy with some speed mixed in. You would definitely be a LUCKY person to win at INDY with a slow car. If I remember correctly, Dario had the fastest lap times consistently yesterday, as a result, he led for a MAJOR part of the race. If you did not have a car that could at least keep up with his car, you were not going to be in the hunt unless you got very lucky.

OK, INDY pride defense shields back to normal - for now... By the way, and I ask this earnestly: is it not true that (despite all of them being left handed turns) the turns in the INDY race are taken at much higher speeds typically than F1 races. This is due to the sharpness and number of curves and curve types, no? I think it takes a skilled driver to handle the "simple" curves at INDY consistently through a 500 mile race, so kudos to them all.

[Zeke]

I suppose there is no skill when Paul Tracy can't make a car go fast enough to get in the show. NO skill when Bruno Junquiera takes 3 laps and then qualifies a car a 223 MPH. No skill when AJ Foyt IV walks away from the car because it scares him so much that he can't go fast, yet someone else (Lazier?) makes that same car almost fast enough to make it in.

Sam, the only way I get to see your inane posts is when they are quoted. Which, fortunately isn't all that often.

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by milt

I suppose there is no skill when Paul Tracy can't make a car go fast enough to get in the show. NO skill when Bruno Junquiera takes 3 laps and then qualifies a car a 223 MPH. No skill when AJ Foyt IV walks away from the car because it scares him so much that he can't go fast, yet someone else (Lazier?) makes that same car almost fast enough to make it in.

Maybe AJ Foyt IV needs bigger balls. Like the four chicks who drove in this years Indy 500.