Re: Indy MGP (spoiler, for those who care)


"Mark N" <menusbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Howard Kveck wrote:
I've never seen a race conducted under such horrible weather conditions
as this.
Wow. It wasn't just the rain - there were leaves and trash blowing all
over the
place. I hope this is an anomaly for this year. I think it was a good
call to end it
when they did.

The wind was blowing VERY hard from where I sat, at the top of the
turn four (oval) stands, but I didn't see anything get on the track
there and I don't know how hard ot was blowing at track level, and it
wasn't raining hard, although it started to drizzle over the last six
or so before they called it. It was definitely getting dark in that
midwestern storm kind of way.

This was not a midwestern storn. A midwestern storm would have blown over in
about 15 minutes.

I was watching the weather radar all morning and during the race. You could
see the storm was moving very quickly.

NWS wind info:

Noon: 22 mph out of the south with gusts to 31
1 pm: 16 mph SE gusts to 31
2 pm: 22 S / gusts 28
3pm: 25 SW / gusts 41
4pm: 33 NW / gusts 59
5pm: 26 W / gusts 37

About 70 miles south of Indy there was a wind speed recorded at 81


What I didn't agree with was calling the 250 race so quickly. It
wassupposed to go off at 4:15 and the weather was much better by 4:30,
much brighter, no more rain, wind reduced to a breeze. Hate to put it
in those terms, but the (old) AMA would've gotten it in. The called it
pretty quickly, because I couls see the cornerworkers packing it in
long before they announced it.

I suspect that a big part of the reason that they cancelled the 250 race was
because they missed their live TV broadcast window.


As for the race, it was pretty damn good. Rossi worked on Hayden for a
long time,
made some moves and got repassed but eventually made it stick. It did
look like
Hayden had a good speed advantage at the end of the front straight but
Rossi got next
to him going up the straight and dove in past him for the lead.

Rossi's pass for the lead was at the end of the infield straight, not
the front straight. Nick hung for quitw a while after that, but then
you could see he just wasn't getting any grip on the left side, he
just wasn't driving off the corners as hard. The track was very mixed
most of the race, some spots with standing or running water but a lot
of it damp but not really wet, it hadn't really rained in some time.
It seemed likely that tire wear would be impacted, and Nick's soft
choice bit him in the end. But Rossi was pretty clearly the fastest
guy on thw track, although it took him some time to get by both
Lorenzo and Hayden.


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