IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by mckh » 27 May 2012, 21:12

What a fantastic race, it was definitly wayy more exciting than the earlier monaco gp (which was very good as well). But it just shows the difference.

Mark webber was able to block as much as he want for almost 10 laps. Where in indy the regulation force them to leave a car length in the inside and look what we had. 30+ change for the lead!


Only thing I have to complain is the caution should be handled quickly, also the commercials man... At lap 20 when marco crashed I was SCREAMMING and pulling my hair out because the commercial ....

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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by François » 03 Jun 2012, 19:48

Watching the Detroit buildup now - oh my. Is anyone else finding the layout as terrible as I am?
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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by François » 03 Jun 2012, 20:42

lol it's actually "terrible"... on all accounts. The tarmac's coming apart and cars are crashing. o_o
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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by François » 03 Jun 2012, 21:00

Unbelievable. I'll be surprised if they go racing again, doesn't look like it's something that can be fixed quickly.
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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by phil1993 » 03 Jun 2012, 21:05

I love Hinch's radio; legend.

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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by SpliT » 03 Jun 2012, 21:09

François wrote:Unbelievable. I'll be surprised if they go racing again, doesn't look like it's something that can be fixed quickly.
They want to patch it, gonna take at least 40min.

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Re: IndyCar Series 2012 *Indianapolis 500 | May 27*

Post by François » 04 Jun 2012, 06:36

So apparently the race was eventually restarted and ran to the 60th lap. Dixon wins from a late-charging Franchitti, with Simon Pagenaud in third. :thumbsup:

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Results - 60 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                     Time/Gap
 1.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi DW12-Honda      1h27m39.5053s
 2.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi DW12-Honda          + 1.9628s
 3.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt DW12-Honda          + 2.4773s
 4.  Will Power           Penske DW12-Chevy           + 3.5435s
 5.  Oriol Servia         Panther/DRR DW12-Chevy      + 9.6619s
 6.  Tony Kanaan          KV DW12-Chevy              + 10.1676s
 7.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti DW12-Chevy        + 10.6455s
 8.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi DW12-Honda         + 11.1048s
 9.  Mike Conway          Foyt DW12-Honda            + 11.5315s
10.  Alex Tagliani        Herta DW12-Honda           + 12.5688s
11.  Marco Andretti       Andretti DW12-Chevy        + 24.5855s
12.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter DW12-Chevy       + 26.6600s
13.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM DW12-Lotus             + 28.4369s
14.  JR Hildebrand        Panther DW12-Chevy            + 1 lap
15.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher DW12-Honda             + 1 lap
16.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske DW12-Chevy             + 1 lap
17.  Helio Castroneves    Penske DW12-Chevy             + 1 lap
18.  EJ Viso              KV DW12-Chevy                 + 1 lap
19.  Graham Rahal         Ganassi DW12-Honda           + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Takuma Sato          Rahal DW12-Honda              38 laps
     James Hinchcliffe    Andretti DW12-Chevy           38 laps
     Justin Wilson        Dale Coyne DW12-Honda         28 laps
     James Jakes          Dale Coyne DW12-Honda         26 laps
     Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon DW12-Chevy             24 laps
     Rubens Barrichello   KV DW12-Chevy                 11 laps
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