Indy 500 weather

Looks like there's a good chance of rain in Indianapolis today. 

From what I'm reading, there will be two waves, with a good chance of getting the race in between them. If there's a delayed start, that will probably ruin Larson's chance of doing the double, though.

I wonder whether management might be a bit more prone to postponing to Monday if Larson has to leave?  If he has to choose, he runs the 600.  Does Indycar gain/lose more by not having Kyle, or by running the race holiday Monday?

Looks like we will finally get a start in about an hour or so.

Streetwiseguy said:

I wonder whether management might be a bit more prone to postponing to Monday if Larson has to leave?  If he has to choose, he runs the 600.  Does Indycar gain/lose more by not having Kyle, or by running the race holiday Monday?

It appears he's staying in Indy for the 500.  He'll have to get a waiver from NASCAR for missing the start of the race there.

They weren't able to make even one lap before there was a crash.  

In reply to stuart in mn :

Yeah, that was "impressive". I feel for Ericsson, didn't even get a chance to complete one lap due to hardly a fault of his own.

I had the impression they had more crashes during practice than the last few years as well, or were they just better publicized?

This is beginning to look like I accidentally tuned into the local demo derby channel...

BoxheadTim said:

This is beginning to look like I accidentally tuned into the local demo derby channel...

This will be a jinx but it seems to have settled down.

Aaaaaaand Herta crashed........

Not sure Honda got the tune right for the cooler temps.

If Dixon wins this thing after that Bob Costas move on Hunter-Reay...

And the Datsun 1200 driver hit the fence.........

That was a master class right there.  

Great finish, would have been happy with either one getting that win.

He needs to say that Harry Hogg gave him a special set of tires, and that he knew he could go around the outside.

Did the censor go on break after the checkered flag?

In reply to racerfink :

Whoops - yeah, Pato was a bit unhappy.

Newgarden dropped three, although the last two you saw rather than heard.

Man, I was pulling so hard for Pato. Heartbreaker for him.

He went half a lap early.  Plus, he was dancing on a razor blade.  Some of his in car stuff was terrifying.

What happened to McLaughlin? Did he lose the race in the pits? 

He had a bad clutch from the first or second pit stop, and it got worse from there.  Made it hard to leave the pits.

I was hoping the IMSA regulars like Legge and Blomqvist would have fared better, but nope.