87 here to humid to work on cars outdoors. Garage with AC is nice.

 

Track is being dried and cars must be in tech at 3:15 for a 4pm qualifying session. One pass per car.

 

Gonna be close. The line of storms down near Jasper are moving almost due north. Rough estimate would put them into Indy in 3 to 3.5 hours. Warm front looks about 30ish miles south of the speedway. Front is prob pretty close to Bloomington.

 

Even for Mr Newgarden. There are spare tubs around the garages, but even a fully built out one would have a dummy engine and both cars would have to be split so the engine could be moved over. Spare engines aren't even assigned by IndyCar until they are necessary, so no team has an opportunity to just hop into another car and go after a crash or blowup.

That being said, the top level teams are badass at engine changes. Dixon blew one up last year and the car was back in the qual line in less than an hour.

 

So did they change the rules to try and help with costs? Since teams don't have to have 6 or 8 fully built cars now. Is the T position on the Q list just basically a blank spot or can the driver still go during the T slot position? Fred would roll 8 if T car slot counts or 15 if the T car slots don't mean anything.

 

88 in Vegas and less humid.

 

Is 91 now. Interestingly the humidity dropped from 50% to 32% in that time span. Dry air aloft being mixed to the surface. Is why we have no storms on sea breeze right now, which is just about on top of us.

 

83 here with no humidity. literally dying.

 

48*
97% humidity.
Raining off/on throughout the day.

EAD bois.

 

Sea breeze went through and the temp went from 91 to 90 and in 3 minutes the dewpoint went from 57 to 71!

 

LOL

I can post a pic for you if you'd like to see what nice weather looks like

 

Was 75*, sunny and low humidity a few days ago.

 

 

fawk. thought he was ded

 

Dang. Glad he's not ded.

 

He tried to catch the back end. 99% of the time at Indy it doesn't end well. I hope he can still make the 500

He hit the SAFER Barrier which def helped him.

 

I wonder if the right rear winglet would've been enough to keep him planted if they didn't try a staggered aero setup. Someone thought it must've been worth the drag reduction. Not sure if Bourdais' engineer Craig Hampson is back at work as he was sick the other day.

 

Sebastian is awake and alert but likely has multiple pelvis fractures and a hip fracture. Safe to say that tub is done and he's out for the foreseeable future. That was a hell of a hit though.

The teams generally don't have the budget for a fully built spare, the manufacturer ls don't have the resources to build that may spare engines, and the cost control wouldn't allow it anyway. You'd probably be surprised at how shoestring the whole operation is, each team is probably an order of magnitude off of an equivalent Cup team.

The T car position, as far as I know, is strictly an Indy-only ceremonial thing at this point. They don't do it (or the drawing) at any of the other speedway events.

 

That really sucks about Sebastian but at least he is alive. I was hoping he'd be ok to race in the 500. He may not race for months. It was a really hard hit. I knew it was gonna be bad from the descriptions and I still wasn't prepared enough.

Open wheeled racing in the states has always been like that as far as funding goes. Only a few name brand teams weren't on shoestring budgets. Penske and Ganassi come to mind. Newman-Haas too, though they weren't really to the level of the first 2

 

So Bourdais is out for the season. Hope he has a quick, issue free recovery.

118G hit

 

 

Yeesh. Dem laps was smooth.

 

Merc won't be liking this lol



Just saw an even higher res version was posted on F1T lol

 

sorcery.

Watched MotoGP at Le Mans today. last lap got me

 

i like brawn's idea of open inspections. i'm here for the tech more than for the drivers