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Might be because it's the start of the week.

I know they always start neutral but it’s felt like this for a couple years now.

No need to push it to find speed to make the show. More important to work on getting a race setup that is comfortable.

But, as for random practice crashes... Parts failures are always possible. Hinch knows that all too well.

and there's no point of testing no-tow qual runs until Friday anyway - where the only gain is championship points for full timers that make the fast 12

Here's the rain

Track conditions gonna be an adventure the next few days. Green track after this rain and back to warm on Thursday, warm AND windy Friday, warm (with maybe more rain Saturday), and then 20 degrees cooler (ambient) on Sunday. Perhaps that will make the pole session on Sunday more unpredictable since the conditions should be very different than what they’ll run to make the top 9 on Saturday.

Sunday will be a bit of a guessing game as to how much downforce to take off the car with cooler conditions. Could be interesting indeed.

Today ended up being the first complete washout in 6 years.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Saturday looks bad as well.

Cars on track

track inspection just finished up & cars are back on track currently; only noted incident thus far was a weight jacker issue for Herta and RVK running slow next to the wall for a minute on a cool down lap

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helmet dump:

Marcus Ericcson - painted by Corby Concepts / design by Sean Bull - Bell helmet


Conor Daly - painted by Oktane Visual - Bell HP77 helmet

(Instagram tags don't work - video overview linked on the image)

Sage Karam - painted by Oktane Visual - Arai GP-7SRC ABP helmet

(same as Daly - insta video linked on the image)

Callum Illott - painted by Corby Concepts - Bell helmet

prank updates

Jimmie Johnson was really struggling with navigating dirty air on worn tires the last few minutes. He had several big lifts due to understeer, and nearly got the wall off turn 2 one lap. He was doing fine on fresher rubber, but once the grip started going away...

Coming back to this it was five I think. Ferrucci in practice, Palou in quali. Then along with Rahals issue, Wilson and De Silvestro crashed in the pits. Power spun in the pits but didn't hit anything, though it did take him out of contention.

And Grosjean had a big wiggle there.

Big red blob headed in the tracks direction

Grosjean is trying to wreck again...

That was so sketchy.

That was really sketchy

Grosjean really flirting with the edge today.