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trj911 and others who attended,

Did people in the stands know what was going on? On Speed channel, they showed fans turning their thumbs down and one of the race cars drove over a water bottle thrown out on the course. What was it like there?

Besides it being Father's Day, I was really looking forward to the race. I don't know too much about F1 and was hoping to use it as a springboard to learn more since it was on at a good time instead of the middle of the night since most races are in Europe (I guess the fans in Europe then didn't miss anything, unless they stayed up to watch!).

Wow, it is hard for me to believe that a big company like Michelin wasn't prepared. It's not as if they never had their tires race at Indy before. The course I know is laid out different than for the Indy 500, but still with a big market like the US, I would have felt that anyone involved at any level would have been prepared better.

I'm interested in hearing from an engineering/techincal standpoint on what was different in these tires that was bad.