108th Indianapolis 500

amq55 · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:45 am

What a move by Newgarden!

Vassago · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:45 am

KO punch from Newgarden! Man-o-mano!

EAS · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:46 am

Beautiful racing

Juihi · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:46 am

Taste 500. 10/10

amq55 · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:46 am

Yeah, Pato should've waited for turn 3, he became a sitting duck (no pun intended)

Gaara · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:46 am

And into the crowd again

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:46 am

great pass, a kind of racecraft we could only see by Unsers and Andrettis

RtN · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:46 am

Excellent finish. Beppe earned it.

Vassago · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:47 am

Overall one of the best 500s in XXI century at least.

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:47 am

Amazing race. Started like amateur hour, then they delivered :flag:

Congrats to the winner anyways. Gutted for Pato, but Newgarden earned it fair and square

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:47 am

Man, what a great race

No early/mid race "lull", no debate for days afterwards about finishing under yellow vs a late red flag, no horrible crash where we're worried about a driver's condition after a huge flight/hard impact

Just out and out balls to the wall racing from start to finish

Honestly the best 500 I've ever seen.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:48 am

when he entered on the outside I thought he was flying to close to the sun, but actually he went to heaven

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:49 am

amq55 wrote:

Yeah, Pato should've waited for turn 3, he became a sitting duck (no pun intended)

That deliberate lift in the penultimate lap is maybe where he should've gone for it, because it would've cycled him into chasing before T3. But who knows

Chris A · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:52 am

Absolutely gutted for Pato, but what a battle. They all ran hard and clean on that last stint.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:52 am

What a race! What a finish!

Nice, we made it to page 33. A fitting number for Indy.

Vassago · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:53 am

Coldtyre wrote:

amq55 wrote:

Yeah, Pato should've waited for turn 3, he became a sitting duck (no pun intended)

That deliberate lift in the penultimate lap is maybe where he should've gone for it, because it would've cycled him into chasing before T3. But who knows

Actually that was like the standard strategy for recent years. It usually took two laps to get back into that slingshot again. But this year it was possible within one lap plus all the moves on the outside so Newgarden still had time into T3.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 12:53 am

Idea (of stupidity)

Switch the start times of the 600 and the 500, let NASCAR get their race out of the way then take the later start time for the cooler, better racing for Indycar

Maybe you'd even get an F1 driver flying over for the "other double" too, bonus

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 1:01 am

Pato had a good 5 second pause to think about what word to say in his post race interview, then just dropped the F-bomb anyway :lol:

Dude's distraught

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 1:04 am

I'm kinda sad because this is the only race this year with those cars doing 500 miles

Schumifan · PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2024 1:04 am

codename_47 wrote:

Idea (of stupidity)

Switch the start times of the 600 and the 500, let NASCAR get their race out of the way then take the later start time for the cooler, better racing for Indycar

Maybe you'd even get an F1 driver flying over for the "other double" too, bonus

I've always kind of liked the come down of the 600, good way of getting to sleep after the adrenaline of the 500

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