105th Indianapolis 500

Metzo · PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2021 7:32 pm

was surprised that sport1 showed a one hour highlight program of this race yesterday. was a very enjoyable race. :yes:

wished they showed more indycar on free tv here.

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:51 am

Some of these must have been side-by-side ads.

Gabriel · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:56 am

As far as I noticed, every green flag ad-break, was side by side.

I don't mind about that. We get to watch the racing, they get to pay the bills.

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:00 am

An updated one:

They are from here: https://reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/ ... s_mothers/

Gabriel · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:02 am

I'm not sure about that...but hey, I have shitty short term memory.

Omega · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:00 pm

Meh, someone added a stream here that was completely add free, so I watched all 200 laps live.

RtN · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:13 pm

For the third time in succession, the Indy 500 in a year ending in the number 1 has been won by a driver not contesting the full IRL\Indycar schedule.

All other editions in between have been won by full-timers.

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:54 pm

RtN wrote:

For the third time in succession, the Indy 500 in a year ending in the number 1 has been won by a driver not contesting the full IRL\Indycar schedule.

All other editions in between have been won by full-timers.

Also quite interesting that 2/3 of the drivers who won those races are Castroneves

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:07 am

And that switching to being a full time driver the year after is the only reason he's celebrating his 4th right now and not his 3rd :whistling:

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:51 am

gkmotorsport wrote:

RtN wrote:

For the third time in succession, the Indy 500 in a year ending in the number 1 has been won by a driver not contesting the full IRL\Indycar schedule.

All other editions in between have been won by full-timers.

Also quite interesting that 2/3 of the drivers who won those races are Castroneves

and if you go back further, 1991 was a 4th win, 1981 was a 3rd win (depending on how people see it)

the 1's are a year for the multiples

Schumifan · PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:31 am

2031 will be Sato's 4th in a one off entry then :thumbsup:

RtN · PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:00 pm

Sign me up for that.

In other news, Helio is a draw. The Indy 500 is the most-watched race in the US this year.

https://racer.com/2021/06/02/indy-500-t ... year-high/

Vassago · PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 2:08 am

Indys in years ending with '1' is not good for one-off winners in hindsight. Last time a one-time winner won in this year was 1951. Since 1961 it's either a multiple-winner or first of many (Foyt 1961, Castroneves 2001). 1971, 1981, 1991, 2011 were all won by previous winner. 1941 was both first of many (Rose) and only-timer (F. Davis).

There are 53 one-time winners and only 4 of them have come in years ending with a '1' (1911, 1931, 1941, 1951).

For instance years ending in a '6' have only two multiple-winners all time (Meyer 1936, Rutherford 1976). Fewest of all 10 digits and the complete opposite of '1'.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 2:14 am

races ended in 1 also had some interesting feats

71 being the last time a car without bolted wings won

81 having the winner decided in october after a lenghty legal battle

91 Mears won with a broken leg

and 2011 with the winner having led only the final lap (actually only the final stretch)

sennadesillva · PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:09 am

LucasWheldon wrote:

races ended in 1 also had some interesting feats

71 being the last time a car without bolted wings won

81 having the winner decided in october after a lenghty legal battle

91 Mears won with a broken leg

and 2011 with the winner having led only the final lap (actually only the final stretch)

Mears "only" had a broken foot, not leg.Here's a video indycar uploaded today with Mears talking about it.

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:47 am

I like stats, but year number is such an arbitrary thing to stat about. Almost in astrology territory :lol:

I'll be damned, this actually exists:

https://myastro.com/myastropedia/tag/in ... 00-winners

They don't have Helio though but here's the most recent winner there: