INDY 500 - what a shame

I was hoping to watch some racing on Sunday after the boring GP.

The indy 500 was a let down, no fault of the drivers and teams though.

Even from the start it just lacked something and then people just crashed.

I gave up when it got stopped the 1st time sounds like it got better after the restart.

Well done to Dario hope its not just the 1 win this year

i enjoyed it alot. loads of battles for the lead tell me last time that happened in f1...october? its unpredictable you always know what happening 'cause of the tv coverage and a british driver who the press arent wanking over won, brilliant stuff i'm going next year.





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> i enjoyed it alot. loads of battles for the lead
> tell me last time that happened in f1...october?

That's kind of redundant, as leading in IRL doesn't mean all that much. It's leading at the right time which matters. Take a Michigan 500 or Daytona 500... you'll get literally hundreds of passes for the lead, but it won't mean much other than the 'leading most laps'. Don't get me wrong, it was a good race, and there was a surprising number of passes given the green conditions of the track, but it doesn't mean what it does in road racing. Not even slightly.

Well done to Francitti though - he was always sitting there just waiting - not the best car, but he did seem to make the best of it.

Every pass for the lead after lap 100 was meaningful.

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i sort of agree with you Gav, instead of doing hundreds of laps, why not just have the 5-lap showdown, that's where the real excitement is? (if we ignore the feat of enginnering of making a car and engine drive for a few hours non-stop, for a second)

it's a bit like bidding on ebay, it doesn't matter if you're the highest bidder when there are still 5 days left, it only counts if you're the highest bidder with 1 second left.

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> i sort of agree with you Gav, instead of doing
> hundreds of laps, why not just have the 5-lap
> showdown, that's where the real excitement is? (if
> we ignore the feat of enginnering of making a car
> and engine drive for a few hours non-stop, for a
> second)

Well no. I mean, I see what you're getting at, but I'm using the old Michigan 500 as an example here, and I could sit and watch those races for days. You're just sitting purely tensed up in near terror. There's cars doing 240mph, and any crash is going to be massive. There's something special about watching races like that, not only knowing the drivers are on the edge, but that the edge is so risky. It's a completely different animal to what we know in Europe. Take a look at this:

woah some bad crashes there.

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wow, that last one, was worst than Greg Moore's (RIP) one

I remember Nigel Mansell was totally exhuasted after the Michigan race in 1993 despite being a relatively fit driver. Part of that was the constant high speed turns and part was the concentration needed to keep the car in check because going off was so incredibly dangerous.

You need to remember though that Nigel Mansell was the biggest drama queen motorsport has ever seen!

Well he certainly was the biggest moaner but his bravery was unquestionable. He drove a good few races in 1993 with a terrible back injury despite being told not to by several doctors.

(link because the youtube thumbnails were broken when posting..might be fixed soon)

Darios horrifying Michigan accident.

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twas a biggy...

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Big one!

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> (link because the youtube thumbnails were broken
> when posting..might be fixed soon)
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> Darios horrifying Michigan accident.


Change uk for www, should work then



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Wheldon should watch where he's going

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Yeah I know, but the youtube thumbnails were broken earlier today. All came up corrupt on other forums and sites for awhile too

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mama mia, that was a bad one. amazing that the car held up and he just got out.

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Well IRL is actually quite safe. It had a horrible safety repuation, simply because the Panoz chassis was so unsafe. Panoz have all but left, moved to Champ Car and look whos got the safety issues now!

Around 215mph take off, so not too much slower landing, completly destroyed the top of the roll hoop (but it actually fuctioned correctly as the crash structure is under the bottom part of the air intake) and ripped away the sides of the car, and he walked away.

This will be Darios last year in IRL, so heres hoping for the championship hes deserved in american open wheel racing.

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Dario saying after he seen the accident hes laying the blame firmly at Dans feet. I'd like to see some other footage other than 1 view, but it'd say 75/25 Dans fault at best from what the current footage shows.

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Wheres He going after this year? Retire?