Alonso Missing Monaco to do Indy 500

Alonso Missing Monaco to do Indy 500

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FourWheelDrift

88,718 posts

286 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Trabi601 said:
Will they really take the rear wheel guards away?

Thought they were introduced to stop cars getting snagged in each other's wheels and being launched into barriers and catch fences?
Rear wheel guards, just big pieces of carbon fibre that kept falling off when touched causing unnessesary yellow flags and the danger of serious injury if a driver hit one. And they didn't work, they just broke when hit and the car with forward momentum still took off. Dario Franchitti - https://youtu.be/XHLc7f6lmno?t=154

The ones in front of the rear wheels, which form part of the main bodywork/sidepod not prone to breaking off if breathed on remain to prevent flipping with interlocking wheels when side by side. Dario again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQs7oAuYZEY

bobski1

1,788 posts

106 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Is the indy car race available on UK tv?

MartG

20,733 posts

206 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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bobski1 said:
Is the indy car race available on UK tv?
BT Sport ESPN will be showing it

CraigyMc

16,504 posts

238 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Trabi601 said:
Will they really take the rear wheel guards away?

Thought they were introduced to stop cars getting snagged in each other's wheels and being launched into barriers and catch fences?
Yes. The renders of the red cars are complete - the rear bodywork is gone for 2018. It never worked properly anyway.

FourWheelDrift

88,718 posts

286 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Hinchcliffe's Honda has blown.

Otispunkmeyer

12,660 posts

157 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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I read that Alonso had an engine glitch that hobbled his front row chances. Gotta chuckle if that's true...maybe he has no mechanical sympathy hehe

CraigyMc

16,504 posts

238 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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Otispunkmeyer said:
I read that Alonso had an engine glitch that hobbled his front row chances. Gotta chuckle if that's true...maybe he has no mechanical sympathy hehe
It was a turbo overboost on lap 2 and given that the front row at indy is 3 cars, probably did scupper him. He reckoned it was a loss of about .3 to .4mph from lap 2 alone.

glazbagun

14,301 posts

199 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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Am I right in thinking it's lights out at 17:30 UK time, so I can watch the Monaco procession and then go to a BT sports pub and watch the Indy 500 afterwards?

FourWheelDrift

88,718 posts

286 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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glazbagun said:
Am I right in thinking it's lights out at 17:30 UK time, so I can watch the Monaco procession and then go to a BT sports pub and watch the Indy 500 afterwards?
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/events/in...

That means it'll be engines started at around 5.14pm. UK and green flag before 5:30pm

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Saturday 27th May 18:04

Quickmoose

4,531 posts

125 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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programme starts at 4:40pm
Lights go green at 5:19pm (anyone know the significance of such a weird/specific time?)

ClockworkCupcake

74,902 posts

274 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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Quickmoose said:
programme starts at 4:40pm
Lights go green at 5:19pm (anyone know the significance of such a weird/specific time?)
It's probably a round number in US Cubic Furlongs or something. silly

vonuber

17,868 posts

167 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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I like the look of those 2018 cars.

RichB

51,806 posts

286 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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Quickmoose said:
programme starts at 4:40pm
Lights go green at 5:19pm (anyone know the significance of such a weird/specific time?)
According to Indy web site it's:

12:14pm - "Drivers Start Your Engines"
12:21pm - 101st Running of the Indy 500 Presented by PennGrade Motor Oil - 200 Laps

Local times

CraigyMc

16,504 posts

238 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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ClockworkCupcake said:
Quickmoose said:
programme starts at 4:40pm
Lights go green at 5:19pm (anyone know the significance of such a weird/specific time?)
It's probably a round number in US Cubic Furlongs or something. silly
It's the top of the hour on their clocks.

Trabi601

4,865 posts

97 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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CraigyMc said:
It's the top of the hour on their clocks.
Eh?

Time zones work in hours, not minutes!

CraigyMc

16,504 posts

238 months

Saturday 27th May 2017
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Trabi601 said:
CraigyMc said:
It's the top of the hour on their clocks.
Eh?

Time zones work in hours, not minutes!
Not there.

That's the joke.

  • Facepalm*

NRS

22,270 posts

203 months

Sunday 28th May 2017
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There seems to be a lot of Spanish people paying attention to it due to Alonso on the Youtube site (albeit not showing the actual race).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nZ3YjJpFuw

FourWheelDrift

88,718 posts

286 months

Sunday 28th May 2017
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Coverage on ABC already started, hour of pre-race interviews, military displays and recaps of previous races.

FourWheelDrift

88,718 posts

286 months

Sunday 28th May 2017
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Missed the first one but Graham Rahal is carrying one of the two visor cams in the race.

This is visorcam if you haven't seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJor4Y7WHYk

GCH

4,003 posts

204 months

Sunday 28th May 2017
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FourWheelDrift said:
Coverage on ABC already started, hour of pre-race interviews, military displays and recaps of previous races.
I was looking for it on the pay channels and couldn't find it, then realised it was on free network tv hehe



Edit: Are we allowed to post links to streams here for those who aren't stateside?