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Post by Gecko on May 28, 2023 9:12:04 GMT -5
The rain is heavy enough to throw in a bit of chaos for our enjoyment.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 9:15:24 GMT -5
Inters going on, Alonso just got mediums...
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Post by Gecko on May 28, 2023 9:16:22 GMT -5
Alonso gambles by sticking with the mediums. It's looking like the wrong choice with how wet that one bit of track is.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 9:20:19 GMT -5
Magnussen switching to full wets, wondering when the inters get switched
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Post by Gecko on May 28, 2023 9:21:13 GMT -5
Magnussen going from hards to full wets.* I like that the rain turned up early enough to make a difference and didn't wait until the final laps.
*if he can make it back to the pits in one piece.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 9:22:59 GMT -5
Full wets for Perez, Russell gets 5 for unsafe rejoin
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Post by Gecko on May 28, 2023 9:25:52 GMT -5
So, dries don't work, inters are tricky, and wets aren't working either.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 9:52:54 GMT -5
Wire to wire, Verstappen easily wins the Monaco Grand Prix. Alonso 2nd, Ocon 3rd
(Cool autocorrect phone)
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 11:39:32 GMT -5
We're Back Home Again in Indiana for the middle act of today's festivities: The Indianapolis 500
DRIVERS, START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 11:43:32 GMT -5
And Graham Rahal can't get fired up, he's stuck on the grid...
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 11:48:22 GMT -5
THIS IS THE INDIANAPOLIS 500!
GREEN FLAG
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Post by Burst on May 28, 2023 14:19:09 GMT -5
Indycar just got lucky as balls with that tire going over the fence like that. That'll definitely prompt some examination of the wheel tethers because I can't think of the last time a crash essentially ignored them like that.
Lucky that the tire managed to split the two grandstands and just give somebody's car a bad day, because that could've put a pall over things very quickly in what's otherwise been a pretty good race.
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Post by Burst on May 28, 2023 15:38:31 GMT -5
I think I'm just kind of sick of repeat red flags at the end of superspeedway races myself, but at least it actually finished under green. I actually might've preferred to see Ericsson repeat, but Newgarden is okay, I guess. It's always kind of whelming when a Penske driver wins, even in the years they don't look super dominant throughout the month of May.
For as ballsy as Ferrucci was driving today, I'm honestly amazed he didn't cause incidents on-track. I'm still loathe to come around to him as much as they tried to push him on commentary, because I haven't really seen much to show he isn't the same asshole with problematic beliefs that he was before. He's not even like the good kind of a prospective heel driver.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 28, 2023 17:41:51 GMT -5
Well, no one has any excuses to not watch Double or Nothing and/or Battleground now. The Coca-Cola 600 is postponed to 3pm tomorrow.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 28, 2023 20:43:26 GMT -5
so i'm watching the highlights of the 500 ...
LAP 0-90 = nice friendly racing lap 91-102 = HOLD MA BEER
HOLY CRAP there goes the tyre ... that was a CLEAN shear off and a good five feet over the fence, from the spinning rosenqvist, kirkwood had little chance of avoiding that, and thank god it missed the stands ... wonder how far it went ...
better get a bigger fence
but yeah, damn fortunate
and then a crazed o'ward decided to go on a little trip, clipping the grass verge, and straight into ericsson's backleft ... and was earning 20% against the wall!!! he was all over the orange car's ass going into that corner after the restart, and paid the price
oopsy here comes a stricken canapino into the back of him, while pagenaud goes "naw i'm good back here" ... meanwhile mclaughlin is giving them all THE LUIGI STARE!
aww that's nice, a lovely four-car crash to finish with
AND WHAT A COUPLE OF LAPS TO FINISH!!!
heh, six races in are we?
i'll need to see the long beach race, as it's one of my favourite tracks
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Post by ToyfareMark on May 29, 2023 1:44:33 GMT -5
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 29, 2023 14:13:50 GMT -5
21 hours late, time for the final act of the weekend, the Coca-Cola 600.
DRIVERS, START YOUR ENGINE!!!!!
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 29, 2023 14:25:39 GMT -5
BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY LET'S GO RACING BOYS!!!!
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 29, 2023 16:05:19 GMT -5
The rain is back.... cars on pit road, red to follow shortly.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on May 29, 2023 17:28:24 GMT -5
Through the halfway point now, Buescher leads going into the stage 2 pit stops...
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