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600 miles in 2 hours.
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At least Rossi didn't try to throw it away forcing the pass late.
And seems like Power mellowed at the care center with a rational reasonable response there. |
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Dixie wins again. Congrats.
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I was surprised the spotter can't kill other chatter to give on track info, especially at a track like Texas. But was a decent response from a guy who I thought was going to rip into that inexperienced kid screwing up his day.
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I was curious as to what the penalty was for and couldn't think of anything but the blocking that was being cracked down on, until Robin Miller mentioned in the post race interview. De Melo had a clean run on Power, overzealous or not, and Power didn't see him. I still think it's a racing incident but Power is the one with the penalty.
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Was fined for avoidable contact. Seems like they couldn't get him the message in the car there was a car outside and he ran up like the lane was open. Seems like he feels it was NOT Zach's fault and a racing deal. But directly absolved the guy outside of any blame. I was completely surprised by his calm, that happens response and he didn't even flinch when Robin told him about the penalty handed down.
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It's 600 somethings but it's 248 laps at 1.44 miles and 2.32km so that's 357 miles and 575k so something is missing I think? The track limits for Indy shortens the given 1.5 miles for Nascar but that's still not 600k either so Texans may not know math.
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I didn't see the complete interview with Power, as I lost the feed but if he's ok with the incident, then so be it.
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It's 248 laps, with a distance of 372 Miles or 598.676 Kms; that's near enough 600.
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My math was waaaaaay off! Been a long 3 weeks and I was told there'd been no math!!
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That was Dixon's 43rd IndyCar win, which now puts him third in the all time winners list. Despite the Penske/Chevrolet 1 2 3 grid shout out, Honda dominated, though Pagenaud came second after defending against Rossi. It does look like they have finally got the downforce balance right, regarding speedways. There was a bit of classic IRL oval pack racing but also some classic CART oval racing. 1 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Honda. 248. 2h00m53.2155s 2 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 248. 4.2943s 3 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 248. 4.5670s 4 James Hinchcliffe, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 248. 5.0869s 5 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 248. 6.7301s 6 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 248. 7.2744s 7 Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 248. 8.3457s 8 Sebastien Bourdais, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 248. 9.4523s 9 Ed Jones, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Honda. 248. 25.0938s 10 Charlie Kimball, Carlin. Dallara/Chevrolet. 247. 1 Lap 11 Spencer Pigot, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 247. 1 Lap 12 Max Chilton, Carlin, Dallara/Chevrolet. 247. 1 Lap 13 Josef Newgarden, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 244. 4 Laps 14 Marco Andretti, Andretti Herta. Dallara/Honda. 244. 4 Laps 15 Gabby Chaves, Harding Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet/. 240. 8 Laps 16 Zach Veach, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 238. 10 Laps 17 Zachary Claman De Melo, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 205. Contact 18 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 204. Contact with De Melo 19 Robert Wickens, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 173. Contact with Wickens 20 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 173. Contact with Carpenter. 21 Tony Kanaan, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Chevrolet. 31. Contact 22 Matheus Leist, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Chevrolet. 5. Fire |
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Congrats to Dixie!!
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It was quite boring to me. Again, cars were too spaced out.
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That's it about Texas; its considered either ho hum or batshit scary crazy.
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Yeah, nothing against the race. I don't want to take the thread down that road again, but I'm just not a fan of the circuit.
And getting rid of the pack racing and keeping all the cars on the ground has worked out beautifully so far. |
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