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I'd completely forgot about Zonta's accident. I don't remember ever seeing a video of it but they filmed practice, so there should be footage.

Unless the cameraman missed it...

Edit: And as I say that... Cheers

Looks like it's going to rain on sunday

Looks like it's going to rain on sunday

Not meant to be much better for Monday/Tuesday either.

Was it 1997 where the race was started o Monday & finished on Tuesday due to a rain delay?

If Hinchcliffe really is going to be out for awhile, I'd love to see him join the NBCSN booth for the races.

That would be cool, He was great when he was doing the Champcar commentary on the international feed alongside Jeremy Shaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2evmILBMbCk&hd=1

Oh my, Indycar... when did you get such sisies?

Its okay to be concerned because of Helios crash, since the car lifted before he hit the wall.
Its barely okay to be concerned because of Newgardens and Carpenters wrech, since the floors of the cars were exposed to the wind by hitting the wall. Any car would go over at that speed.

To start, the crash has nothing to do with aero kits. Rear blowovers like the one experienced by Castroneves have been happening for decades by cars with large underwings. It happened for the first time in the 1980s when underwings were introduced, and they will continue to happen in any form of motorsports where they’re used in high-speed vehicles.
The reason for the No. 3 lifting and flipping was due to the car’s aerodynamics working in the opposite direction they were designed to function. Castroneves entered Turn 1 on his first flying lap and lost control of the rear of the car. The three-time Indy 500 winner attempted to catch the car by turning into the slide--which initially worked – but it wiggled a second time and quickly swapped ends. The total time from pointing straight prior to the second wiggle and being completely backwards took just 1.08 seconds.

While accelerating forward, an Indy car generates significant amounts of downforce, and in Indy 500 trim, most of it comes from the wing-shaped floor. Chevy (and Honda) use relatively small front wings and tiny rear wings. The long, wide underwing is where most of the car’s downforce is generated, and with air flowing in from the front and out through the back, it functions like an inverted airplane wing and sucks the car to the ground

Turn an Indy car around at 200mph and feed that air backward through the underwing, and it will behave like a normal airplane wing and generate lift. With enough air speed, and pressure build-up in the tunnels--which Castroneves obviously achieved, lift turns into liftoff.

The other accidents are honestly not *that* unusual for the Dallara (which has that flat underbody that seems to get air a bit easier than other designs in the past).

Downforce levels could be played with via the underbody ground effects tunnels and diffuser. This would keep the Dallara's ability to follow closely through the corners without having to have such a large sail under the car.

The cart cars Ran ground effect and Were heavy as fuck. They weren't blowing over at any speeds.

Witness the difference between Kenny brack in Michigan 2000 vs Kenny Brack in Texas 2003.
In 2000 his lola makes wheel to wheel contact with another car, nose gets up in the air then settles back down to the ground.

In 2003 his Irl car makes wheel to wheel contact, nose gets up in the air then keeps on going until it hits the fence.

I remember Jim McKay saying on the rainout in 1986 that there was only supposed to be a 10% chance of rain.

I also remember people being amazed that the 1991 race wasn't rained out, the forecast was so dreadful.

The cart cars Ran ground effect and Were heavy as fuck. They weren't blowing over at any speeds.

Witness the difference between Kenny brack in Michigan 2000 vs Kenny Brack in Texas 2003.
In 2000 his lola makes wheel to wheel contact with another car, nose gets up in the air then settles back down to the ground.

In 2003 his Irl car makes wheel to wheel contact, nose gets up in the air then keeps on going until it hits the fence.

If indycar wanted a temp fix for Sunday then I'm sure a shitload of ballast to weigh the cars down would do the trick.
But then you have no data on whatever is used as ballast will do in a standard wall hit accident.
will it come back and hurt the driver, will it get out and head towards the fans?

That's the predicament indycar is in atm. They can't rush a quick fix for this without causing a myriad of other problems with their sticking plaster solution, whatever that may be.