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The trouble in following the 6 hours Imola on a holiday weekend is the cooking interferes with the process. So Ferrari were absolutely killing it in the first half, with 50 winning the hyperpole, disqualified, and then running from 18th to 3rd... and then disappearing. Penske managed to get into the lead, but the Ferrari (51) was just too much and eventually got the lead back.

The last 20 minutes showed a bunch of cars that needed splashes. The 83 Ferrari desperately hoped for a yellow as if waited to near the last second to pit while it inherited the lead from the 50. Alas, no yellow, and Ferrari wins with BMW and Alpine finishing on the podium.

Max's commercial free coverage is quite sweet.

 

[Foxbat]

I finally figured out why I have trouble rooting for Max Verstappen:

 

[dfergie]

Indy open testing.

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/PUaSGk-iaHI?si=C2v3IgIGh_Qto2Dj

 

[Yespage]

Results from yesterday. Got to listen to this while at work, which was nice.

Veekay only did 37 laps for the third session. He and Abel were at the bottom, both Dale Coyne. I'm uncertain what Coyne will be trying here. Obviously the most important thing you need in the Indy 500 is an engine that finishes the 500 miles. Qualifying up top is great, but as the Menards will tell you from the IRL days, being up qualifying top row means less than finishing top 5 or 10. Veekay did a test with Coyne a while ago before signing at Indy and was one of the top. So not a time to panic yet.

Dixon, Sato, Newgarden were top three (not in that order), Palou was sixth. Of course, this means nothing other than INDY CARS ARE AT IMS!!!! *balloons*

Boost day today.

 

[dfergie]

Day 2

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/q9o0hK-MsSo?si=WOXJBfKWd3SC6It-

 

[Yespage]

Veekay had a positive day, even though both Dale Coyne cars ran out of gas that day. NOT COOL! But what is cool is the live streaming coverage which was just about ad-free. Thanks Roger!

This is the only place Veekay has an Indycar win, so he knows how to race the road course, which is coming up in a couple weeks.

Talladega has been generally uneventful, except when the second place car took out the first place car (Bell and Buescher... I don't know who was which). Some hairy four column racing, but, they've held it together. With 33 laps remaining, probably about 20ish laps from a major incident. Larson just looks like he is waiting to pounce.

I like Max's in-car / radio coverage, but I hate how it is only that. There is no ability to scroll to the live coverage to see a replay / coverage. I noticed it was yellow, and saw Blaney was on the grass. No idea what happened.

 

[Yespage]

They forgot to NASCAR at the end, and had a good clean finish. Preece edged out in the end, he wasn't happy. But it was clean, so deal with it man. I don't watch many NASCAR races and this stage thing is dumber than most people complain about it being... and they hate it.

Larson seemed like a snake. Disappearing until when it mattered. Then mattering. I think he finished third.