re: 2022 IndyCar Season Thread - Last Race: Laguna Seca 9/11 3:00 PM ET (NBC)

Posted by fightin tigers

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 2:59 pm to Roll Tide Ravens

And kissing the bricks

Posted by Roll Tide Ravens

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 3:23 pm to fightin tigers

quote:
And kissing the bricks

Absolutely.

Posted by SteelerBravesDawg

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 3:33 pm to Roll Tide Ravens

Love me some Angle.

Posted by Twenty 49

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 7:05 pm to SteelerBravesDawg

I still have a habit of always wondering what Robin Miller will have to say about race strategy and incidents.

Speeding on pit road is fairly common in NASCAR, but you very rarely see it in IndyCar. They usually have that down to a science. I look forward to Dixon’s explanation for what happened.

Posted by XenScott

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:29 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

quote:
Those are some big lips.

Soup coolers

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/30/22 at 12:09 am to XenScott

Race 6 - Indy 500

Official results and points

2022 Indy 500 Results - 200 laps

P01 Marcus Ericsson (#8 Ganassi / Honda)
P02 Pato O'Ward (#5 McLaren / Chevy)
P03 Tony Kanaan (#1 Ganassi / Honda)
P04 Felix Rosenqvist (#7 McLaren / Chevy)
P05 Alexander Rossi (#27 Andretti / Honda)
P06 Conor Daly (#20 Carpenter / Chevy)
P07 Hélio Castroneves (#06 Meyer Shank / Honda)
P08 Simon Pagenaud (#60 Meyer Shank / Honda)
P09 Alex Palou (#10 Ganassi / Honda)
P10 Santino Ferrucci (#23 Dreyer & Reinbold / Chevy)
P11 Juan Pablo Montoya (#6 McLaren / Chevy)
P12 JR Hildebrand (#11 AJ Foyt / Chevy)
P13 Josef Newgarden (#2 Penske / Chevy)
P14 Graham Rahal (#15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda)
P15 Will Power (#12 Penske / Chevy)
P16 David Malukas [R] (#18 Coyne / Honda)
P17 Kyle Kirkwood [R] (#14 AJ Foyt / Chevy)
P18 Christian Lundgaard [R] (#30 Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda)
P19 Ed Carpenter (#33 Carpenter / Chevy)
P20 Devlin DeFrancesco [R] (#29 Andretti / Honda)
P21 Scott Dixon (#9 Ganassi / Honda)
P22 Marco Andretti (#98 Andretti / Honda)
P23 Sage Karam (#24 Dreyer & Reinbold / Chevy) - 199 laps Crash
P24 Jack Harvey (#45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) - 199 laps Running
P25 Takuma Sato (#51 Coyne / Honda) - 199 laps Running
P26 Stefan Wilson (#25 DragonSpeed / Chevy) - 198 laps Running
P27 Dalton Kellett (#4 AJ Foyt / Chevy) - 198 laps Running
P28 Jimmie Johnson [R] (#48 Ganassi / Honda) - 193 laps Crash
P29 Scott McLaughlin (#3 Penske / Chevy) - 150 laps Crash
P30 Colton Herta (#26 Andretti / Honda) - 129 laps Mechanical
P31 Romain Grosjean [R] (#28 Andretti / Honda) - 105 laps Crash
P32 Callum Ilott [R] (#77 Juncos Hollinger / Chevy) - 68 laps Crash
P33 Rinus VeeKay (#21 Carpenter / Chevy) - 38 laps Crash

Six cars had single-car crashes. Three out of the seven Indy 500 rookies crashed. David Malukas was the top rookie finisher in P16.

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/30/22 at 12:09 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Championship After 6 Races
(+/- number of positions gained or lost)

P01 Marcus Ericsson (Ganassi / Honda) 226 pts (+7)
P02 Pato O'Ward (McLaren / Chevy) 213 pts (+5)
P03 Alex Palou (Ganassi / Honda) 212 pts (-1)
P04 Will Power (Penske / Chevy) 202 pts (-3)
P05 Josef Newgarden (Penske / Chevy) 174 pts (-1)
P06 Scott Dixon (Ganassi / Honda) 166 pts (-1)
P07 Scott McLaughlin (Penske / Chevy) 162 pts (-4)
P08 Simon Pagenaud (Meyer Shank / Honda) 157 pts (+3)
P09 Felix Rosenqvist (McLaren / Chevy) 154 pts (+5)
P10 Colton Herta (Andretti / Honda) 142 pts (-4)
P11 Alexander Rossi (Andretti / Honda) 141 pts (+4)
P12 Conor Daly (Carpenter / Chevy) 137 pts (+4)
P13 Rinus VeeKay (Carpenter / Chevy) 134 pts (-3)
P14 Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) 130 pts (-2)
P15 Romain Grosjean (Andretti / Honda) 128 pts (-6)
P16 Hélio Castroneves (Meyer Shank / Honda) 123 pts (+2)
P17 Christian Lundgaard [R] (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) 103 pts (+0)
P18 Takuma Sato (Coyne / Honda) 100 pts (-5)
P19 David Malukas [R] (Coyne / Honda) 90 pts (+0)
P20 Tony Kanaan (Ganassi / Honda) 78 pts
P21 Kyle Kirkwood (Foyt / Chevy) 77 pts
P22 Jack Harvey (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) 73 pts (-1)
P23 Jimmie Johnson (Ganassi / Honda) 71 pts (-1)
P24 Callum Ilott [R] (Juncos Hollinger / Chevy) 71 pts (-4)

(Partial list - 34 drivers have scored points)

The Indy 500 is a double-points race, so it had the potential for huge swings in the championship, and that's exactly what happened. Winner Marcus Ericsson shot up 7 spots in the standings to become the championship leader. McLaren teammates Pato O'Ward and Felix Rosenqvist both shot up 5 spots in the championship. Biggest losers include Romain Grosjean, who crashed about halfway through the race and dropped 6 spots, and Takuma Sato, who gave up a potential top 12 finish for a long-shot fuel economy gambit that didn't work, resulting in a P25 finish and dropping 5 spots in the standings.

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/30/22 at 12:22 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82

quote:
Those are some big lips.

For those who might have seen this comment but didn't know what I was referring to, it was the "Indy 500 Festival Queen" who gave the winner a kiss:

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Posted by MikeHoncho47

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Posted on 6/1/22 at 9:16 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82

News breaking that Rossi has been confirmed out and Kyle Kirkwood is in with Andretti.

Posted by tccdc

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Posted on 6/1/22 at 9:18 am to MikeHoncho47

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News breaking that Rossi has been confirmed out and Kyle Kirkwood is in with Andretti.

Wow...from the next rising star to out...

Also..great job by Indy on Ericsson in NY from stock exchange to throwing out the first pitch at the Yankees game

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 6/1/22 at 3:30 pm to tccdc

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Wow...from the next rising star to out...

Rossi is expected to sign with McLaren as the 3rd full-time driver so he's doing fine, and the pressure will be on him to produce there, too. But I don't think he can keep up with Pato.

Callum Ilott broke his hand in his Indy crash and has been ruled out at Detroit. Santino Ferrucci has been signed to replace him at Belle Isle.

Posted by FightinTigersDammit

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Posted on 6/1/22 at 5:35 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Finish fifth at Indy and get fired
Wow

Posted by XenScott

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Posted on 6/1/22 at 9:04 pm to FightinTigersDammit

This has been brewing for a while. I think Rossi has been looking for an out so it may have been mutual.

Posted by MikeHoncho47

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Posted on 6/2/22 at 10:39 am to XenScott

And like clockwork. Rossi to Arrow McLaren

Posted by tccdc

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Posted on 6/2/22 at 11:25 am to MikeHoncho47

LINK

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4.8 million for Indy 500...surprised so low...

Posted by MountainTiger

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Posted on 6/2/22 at 7:12 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

quote:
For those who might have seen this comment but didn't know what I was referring to, it was the "Indy 500 Festival Queen" who gave the winner a kiss:

Thanks, I was confused so this clears it up.

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 6/4/22 at 12:26 pm to MountainTiger

Romain Grosjean with a big crash in the Fast 12 round of qualifying at Belle Isle. Grosjean doing Grosjean things the last two weeks.

The big surprise so far: Both of Dale Coyne's drivers Takuma Sato and David Malukas are in the Fast 6 for the first time this year.

This post was edited on 6/4/22 at 12:28 pm

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 6/4/22 at 12:51 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Josef Newgarden on pole.

Shockingly, Sato is starting on the front row. The last couple of years, Sato has been consistently slow in qualifying on road/street courses. I just figured he was getting old. But seeing how poorly RLL is doing this year, I wonder if he was just on the wrong team. And maybe RLL is missing his technical feedback this year?

Aside from Coyne, Meyer Shank did a great job with both Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud making the Fast 6.