97th Indianapolis 500 - May 26th 2013

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It's over. Dario never had a good car today, but to see him bin it at the last second was not the way he wanted to finish. But Tony Kannan finally, FINALLY gets it!
 
He certainly seems like a genuinely nice guy. Again, well done to him.

Todays race was so good. There were so many lead changes and changes of position throughout the entire field. Not too many cautions either which was much better to watch. The atmosphere at Indy seemed so great, so much cheering from the crowd and a lot of respect from all the teams and fans. Fantastic.

Tony Kanaan :cheers:
 
I'd love to see Dario's telemetry and in-car camera before he crashed. No checkered flag (green) finish? That's a bit of a rip off for a whole month of preparation and build up. Both of this yellows ruined the finish of the race.
 
Big congratulations to TK. Very emotional win.

Also a very exciting race. So many lead changes. So many leaders. So many cars that had a shot at the win.

Too bad it ended under caution. A green-white-checker rule would be good.
 
I've watched Indy for a long time (almost 17-18 years), and this has to be my favorite Win with Wheldon's last 500 win being a close second. Just a great race and I'm now hoping that the final big race today for me will go as good as this one and the Monaco GP.
 
This race was too good to end under caution. I think GWC would be great even if it was used just for the 500. I guess I'm too used to NASCAR.

Congrats to TK.
 
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As much as I don't like the Indycar format and the fact that since 1996, the 500 doesn't mean much anymore (for various reasons into which I won't go), I'm really happy to see Tony win this.
 
They still haven't shown the replay of Dario's sacrifice, I mean "crash".

Great race until the first yellow to scrub the finish.
 
Eh, looked like a general screwup to me. There's no grip outside that groove, and he just understeered into the wall. Not much to say about it, really.
 
I really think Dario sacrificed himself. People were able to hold on the outside of the track but he was one of the few that could not.
 
iMikeTheKing
I really think Dario sacrificed himself. People were able to hold on the outside of the track but he was one of the few that could not.
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People also spun on the outside of the track. The Ganassi cars have been horrible the whole day.

DaveTheStalker
Knowing there was not going to be a free-white-checkered, looks viable to me.
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So based on the lack of NASCAR's greatest gimmick, he just purposely bought that out so Tony Could win. I'm sorry, but this just reeks of ludicrous Conspiracy.
 
I've can't remember hearing such delusional rubbish on this site before.

It is ridiculous to even suggest that a driver would deliberately crash his own car at 200 mph on a superspeedway

These are Indycars people, not stock cars that can take a hit like that.
 
iMikeTheKing
I really think Dario sacrificed himself. People were able to hold on the outside of the track but he was one of the few that could not.
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one of the few? Hinchcliffe nearly destroyed himself, Sato got too high and nearly ended his day, and Rahal lost it too. Dixon clearly had under steer problems and if you guys claiming "setup" can't see that. I think the fast pace world of golf is calling to you. :dopey:
 
RACECAR
People also spun on the outside of the track. The Ganassi cars have been horrible the whole day.
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I'm sure we have all over cooked it into the wall because we over drive the front tires. We are just stupid gamers, he is a highly paid professional. A puncture would've been acceptable. He did NOT have a puncture though.

Dario resumed the caution.

How many guys took a header into the wall from under steer?

Rahal losing it for no real good reason killed the momentum for a great finish.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
one of the few? Hinchcliffe nearly destroyed himself, Sato got too high and nearly ended his day, and Rahal lost it too. Dixon clearly had under steer problems and if you guys claiming "setup" can't see that. I think the fast pace world of golf is calling to you. :dopey:
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Townsend Bell also had a similar issue.

DaveTheStalker
I'm sure we have all over cooked it into the wall because we over drive the front tires. We are just stupid gamers, he is a highly paid professional. A puncture would've been acceptable. He did NOT have a puncture though.

Dario resumed the caution.

How many guys took a header into the wall from under steer?
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What the hell does "We" and "Stupid gamers" have to do with this? You should know better then me that Even highly paid professionals make mistakes, they aren't perfect. As for understeer, Scott Dixon also had understeer (ironically, his teammate). Just stop with this nonsense, you seem like you just hate either the guy that won or the guy that crashed and bought out the yellow.
 
DaveTheStalker
For TK, who else would he take a dive for.
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You wanna talk setups, we can play that low-down game, how about the pathetic race from the driver in your avatar, who actually had help from a clear dive. You know 2008 Richmond race where Hamlin stayed out on purpose though he could have come in and then sat his car on the track so the caution came out, to help Busch get a chance at wrecking Junior for the win.

I'm sure you'll say differently though. Even though one is clearly the case and what you are suggesting is a flat out joke.
 
I guess you guys did not read what I said because some guys were able to hold on on the outside. After re-watching the replay, maybe something broke because i don't see how he went to the bottom to the wall. It had to be something with the steering.
 
iMikeTheKing
I guess you guys did not read what I said because some guys were able to hold on on the outside. After re-watching the replay, maybe something broke because i don't see how he went to the bottom to the wall. It had to be something with the steering.
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Guess you didn't read either, cause we did. We just decided to show you the word 'some' doesn't mean minimal like you think. As for the steering issue it is called

Under Steer

You might wanna repeat it, relish it and then research it.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
You wanna talk setups, we can play that low-down game, how about the pathetic race from the driver in your avatar, who actually had help from a clear dive. You know 2008 Richmond race where Hamlin stayed out on purpose though he could have come in and then sat his car on the track so the caution came out, to help Busch get a chance at wrecking Junior for the win.

I'm sure you'll say differently though. Even though one is clearly the case and what you are suggesting is a flat out joke.
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Indy not have a green-white-checkered rule is a flat out joke.

How many guys hit the wall from under steer?!?!?!!
 
You would have to be absolutely bonkers straitjacket mad to even imagine someone would crash on purpose at Indy, one of the fastest and most dangerous place anywhere on this planet.
 

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