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I blame Barnhart

In all seriousness though its worrying how easily it took off pretty much as soon as it got backwards. I just really hope this is a freak 1 off & not something were going to see as frequently as we did with the old car.

I thought it was a pretty sweet wreck. Helio is fine. Bring back the speed and drama and danger to racing. Now I'm excited for the race even more!

That thing did it's best NASCAR blowover emulation. Seen a lot of Indycars take off, never like that though. Definitely not good.

They just went 2 wide into a corner, nice

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Dang, RHR and one of the Coyne cars ran side-by-side through T3 a few moments ago.

Looking at timing and scoring, Helio only had one lap at speed before his accident. I wonder if something was amiss on the setup or something.

Wasn't someone suggesting earlier that Helio was testing new sidepods? If it was his second lap at speed then maybe tyre pressures weren't fully up? Just speculation of course.

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Normally I'd go along with the jokes about rexx and fatalz, but after Wheldon I don't want to see anything like that any more.

I hope this is just a freak accident, but Indycar needs to look into this.

he and 1 other Penske car (Pagenaud or Montoya I think) were testing a different sidepod/wheel ramp configuration.

i might be crazy but after watching clauson's car there for a bit it looked like the (drivers) left side side pod and rear pod weren't as tall of a profile as the right side ones. was it just an optical illusion or is that an option they even have with the oval aero kits?

Power & Pagenaud on track right now with the standard sidepod, anyone got a feeling that the addon pieces are possibly for qualifying? Helio ran his fastest lap without a tow with those pieces yesterday

also Pippa is P8 right now

Reminds me of Pancho Carter's flip.

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That's what I was thinking too. I imagine the more Honda-like sidepod pieces Helio was running are low drag but low downforce, while the other pieces are higher drag but higher downforce, so teams may be willing to sacrifice a little speed in a straight line for more grip in traffic come race day.

Here is a screengrab showing when it started to lift:



It seemed to kinda stall like that until it hit the wall which is when it started to really take off:

If that left sidepod had crushed when he hit the wall it would have removed half the under car surface area and it wouldn't have taken off.

Bourdais or Munoz just scraped the wall coming out of turn 4. still green flag conditions though

That's about as close as you'll get to the wall without hitting it.

Not sure if this is a 2nd different sidepod/wheel ramp addon piece for the Chevrolet's or if it's the same piece just disconnected/missing a piece

Pippa Mann hit the inside wall & end of the pit wall exiting turn 4.
Pretty hard hit into the foam covering the end of the pit wall & the car started spinning quite violently to the outside wall after it hit that.

Looks like Pippa's OK though.