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Old 20 Aug 2015, 00:11 (Ref:3567061)   #1
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Round 15: ABC Supply 500, Long Pond, PA. August 22-23, 2015.

Round 15: ABC Supply 500, Long Pond, PA. August 22-23, 2015.

The Pocono 500 started in 1971 as part of the USAC National Championship Trail and part of USAC's "Triple Crown", comprising the Indianapolis 500, Pocono 500, and California 500. After the CART/USAC split, the race became a CART event from 1982 - 1989, after which it was dropped, mainly due to the rough track surface as well as poor safety features, like boiler plate retaining walls and a lack of run off areas and catch fencing.

After a 23-year hiatus, the IZOD IndyCar series successfully revived the race in 2013, as well as the "Triple Crown". It adopted the 1971–80 USAC format, with the Indianapolis 500 in May, the Pocono IndyCar 400 in July and the MAVTV 500 in October at Fontana, replacing Ontario which held the original California 500, as it no longer existed. In 2014 the race returned to it's original distance of 500 miles and is the fastest 500 mile race in Indy car history, with an average speed of 202.402 mph (325.734 km/h) and was the first 500-mile race to be completed in under 2 hours and 30 minutes.

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Triple Crown: Al Unser Sr., 1978.
The driver with the most wins, A.J. Foyt: 1973, 1975, 1979, 1980.
The team with the most wins, Team Penske: 1971, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2014.

The track has a unique layout with three turns, each based on 3 other tracks. Turn One, with 14 degree banking, is based on the now defunct Trenton Speedway. Turn Two, also known as "The Tunnel turn", is like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with 9 degree banking and Turn 3 has 6 degree banking, similar to The Milwaukee Mile.

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Length: 2.5 mi - 4.023 km
Turns: 3
Lap record: July 5th, 2014, Juan Pablo Montoya, 223.871 Mph - 360.285 km/h. Team Penske, Dallara DW12-Chevrolet, Verizon IndyCar Series.

Last year's winner:
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Laps: 200
Distance: 500 mi - 804.672 km
Race Time: 2:28:13
Average Speed: 202.402 - 325.734 km/h

TV Coverage: NBCSN
Green flag, 2:00pm ET.
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Old 20 Aug 2015, 14:51 (Ref:3567248)   #2
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Excellent post #1 again, sir. Completely forgot about the Triple Crown.

I'll have to catch this one on youtube as I'll be traveling this day, but what a great track for OW cars.
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Old 20 Aug 2015, 15:12 (Ref:3567250)   #3
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Excellent post #1 again, sir. Completely forgot about the Triple Crown.

I'll have to catch this one on youtube as I'll be traveling this day, but what a great track for OW cars.
Let's hope there's a good track attendance and TV audience, I would hate to see this one drop off the calendar.

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Old 21 Aug 2015, 12:14 (Ref:3567472)   #4
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I'm concerned this will be a Chevy walkover (or more specifically, Penske\Ganassi walkover). At least Dixon still has a chance at the title if he wins here.
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Old 22 Aug 2015, 18:46 (Ref:3567725)   #5
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Old 22 Aug 2015, 20:39 (Ref:3567747)   #6
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Old 23 Aug 2015, 00:53 (Ref:3567794)   #7
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Grid line up:

1 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet 220.529 Mph
2 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet 220.485 Mph
3 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet 220.398 Mph
4 Josef Newgarden, CFH Racing Dallara/Chevrolet 220.141 Mph
5 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda 220.118 Mph
6 Carlos Munoz, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda 219.831 Mph
7 Justin Wilson, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda 219.685 Mph
8 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda 219.672 Mph
9 Takuma Sato, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda 219.578 Mph
10 Sebastien Bourdais, KVSH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet 219.521 Mph
11 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet 218.969 Mph
12 Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet 218.815 Mph
13 Tristan Vautier, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda 218.596 Mph
14 Jack Hawksworth, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda 218.331 Mph
15 James Jakes, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda 218.246 Mph
16 Gabby Chaves, Bryan Herta Autosport. Dallara/Honda 218.152 Mph
17 Pippa Mann, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda 217.371 Mph
18 Ryan Briscoe Schmidt, Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda 217.241 Mph
19 Juan Pablo Montoya, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet 217.194 Mph
20 Sage Karam, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet 216.400 Mph
21 Ed Carpenter CFH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet 216.315 Mph
22 Marco Andretti, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda 215.101 Mph
23 Charlie Kimball, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet 0.000
24 Stefano Coletti, KV Racing Technology. Dallara/Chevrolet 0.000

Charlie Kimball had a scary accident on Turn 3 but thankfully is unhurt, though both car and indeed the catch fencing are damaged.

Otherwise it's a Penske shut out but Montoya's in 19th and Rahal is Top Honda with 5th.
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Had to slam on the brakes in turn 1 on his first lap, entered too high. Marco and Sage also had similar moments on their qualifying laps (to quote Marco: "I nearly crashed").
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Almost ready for the green. Let's hope it won't get too much of pack racing.
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Unfortunately I'm going to miss most of this but I'll see the start and hopefully catch the end.

The crowd doesn't look, too bad.
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That was a complete mess around they go and they waive it of again. Despite a third dodgy start Newgarden gets the better of Castroneves.
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Damn, Vaultier just screwed up big time with a hopeless dive bomb on Rahal. But considering the way it's going, there's still a pretty decent chance the other title contenders will also be wrecked at some point...
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Yeah, I guess Vautier missed that part in the drivers' meeting the commentators were talking about... where they were told not to interfere with championship contenders if they were out of the hunt.

I'll be interested to hear Justin Wilson's comments on this incident, if any.
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Whoops. TK loses it on his own. Bring out the yellow flags... again.
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I've just got back and I see there's a full course yellow and what looks like a very nasty accident with Karam and Wilson?
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Yeah Karam crashed on his own, Wilson was struck by debris (looked like the nose of karams car) and lazily hit the inside wall, didnt look good at all but im hopeful as the TV coverage showed many replays.
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Wilson hit debris after Sage's crash. Looks like the fender-bodywork hit his head.

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Oh dear. Karam bins it, but Wilson coming a bit behind gets Karam's flying nose cone straight to his head, and then he spears into the wall.

Medical team on the scene immediately. I hope Justin is only concussed at best.

Edit - Helicopter on scene. Even if it's precautionary I fear the worst.
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I've just got back and I see there's a full course yellow and what looks like a very nasty accident with Karam and Wilson?
The nose cone from Karam's car bounced down and hit Wilson square in the head
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Surprised the race hasn't been red flagged, presumably they cant continue without a medical helicopter?
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This looks sad. Still hoping!
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The race will run out under yellow in a few minutes anyway.

The faces in the pits look sombre at best. Hope Wilson isn't too badly hurt, but I suspect otherwise.
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And yet, race control decides to restart the race...********! Also, IndyCar should really do something about the aero for ovals, because it's quite suspicious that there were plenty of accidents at turn 1 today. This race kinda reminds me of the 1992 Indy 500 in terms of the number of accidents...
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Oh, that did not look good at all. I hope that nose cone hit the bodywork near Justin Wilson rather than his helmet...

Re-start with 7 to go. Did Sato jump the start?
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