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Related: About this forumAnyone watching the Indy 500?
140 laps without a single caution. Since then? Better than a NASCAR race pre-Car of Tomorrow! And now, a red flag!!!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Last edited Sun May 25, 2014, 05:10 PM - Edit history (1)
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)He's lived on Black Point, out past Waikiki, for decades.
Best. Indy. In Years!!! What a pass!!
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Jim is originally from Alabama and moved away after graduating from college. Andy Griffith discovered him doing comedy in Los Angeles, and the rest is history.
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)Still exciting to watch, even with crappy coverage.
They show every pass from the in-car camera. Impossible to tell anything about the pass from that angle, because you cannot see where they are on the track. Was it an easy pass or did he really have to work to do it? How deep into the corner did he go making that pass? How much room did the passee actually give to the passing car? You can't tell with the view thay give you.
At one point they showed Marco starting to pass Helio from the in-car camera. He had to abort the pass and fall back. Why? Where was he on the track that made him abort the pass? You could not tell from the in-car camera why the passing attempt failed.
At the three car wreck they first said it "wasn't anybody's fault" which was just plain ridiculous on the face of it. Three wide was stupid and of course it was somebody's fault. I was pretty sure it was Hinchecliffe who caused it by diving inside and creating the three wide, but the announcers were saying that it was caused by Townsend Bell. Later they interviewed Ed Carpenter, who said, "I think Bell and I would have been okay, but then Hinch dived inside and made it three wide and caused the wreck," confirming what I had figured but which the announcers had failed to notice.
They should have television people working the race who know at least a little bit about racing.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)pit road reporter Dr Jerry Punch have been announcing racing at various levels for over 30 years. Dr Punch once saved the life of driver Rusty Wallace after a bad crash in Bristol. The accident happened not far from where Dr Punch was doing some pit road coverage.
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)Jerry Punch is good. They should use him more and, yes, he knows racing in more than one form. Allen Bestwick can be good at times, but he suffers when he is in bad company. He tends to "go with the flow" and when he is surrounded by idiots he tends to turn into in idiot.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)At least Bestwick isn't surrounded by the Motor Mouth Waltrip brothers and Dufus McReynolds (Fox). I feel sorry for Mike Joy sometimes.
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)Hunter Reay and Castroneves dueled neck and neck for the last four laps. I guess it was the second closest finish in Indy history. I loved it and doubt that Nascar can come anywhere near the excitement this one generated.
Moses2SandyKoufax
(1,290 posts)where little Al nudged out Scott Goodyear...
edit: that was also the race in which Michael Andretti led like 160 laps.
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)They could have a dozen or more cars that could be covered by a queen-size blanket. Closest finish there is .008 seconds. Took more than twenty minutes of studying cameras at the finish line to confirm.
Like Indianapolis, in it's heyday, the leader at the white flag would be doomed and would get passed by a "slingshot" pass on the last lap. It would actually get rather humorous as the end of the race neared and nobody wanted to be leading -- the pace would get slower and slower.