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He's done it! 211.516MPH

Graham Rahal's Honda went Poof... If I were Honda, I'd be getting ready to make a new advert.....

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Alesi's now completed all the phases.

They're faster in traffic than by themselves. That is so not Indy.

I think its too early to be saying what the car will do in traffic or that were not going to see much passing.

Afterall people were saying the same thing Pre-Season yet I think we have seen 4 good races which have all featured some good racing & a lot of good overtaking.

I've been watching practice for the last 15 minutes. The cars seem fine in traffic and there's tons of passing. I just think it's lame that they're so slow and draggy that they actually speed up in traffic. Even the last car didn't have that problem (at Indy).

But the racing with the last car was shit.

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I don't know of any racing car which would be slower when slipstreaming or being slipstreamed though.

Americans, Rejoice! ESPN Classic are showing the following Indy 500 related events: (Thanks to someone on iRacing for the Post)

[spoiler]Monday May 21st, 2012 Sports Century: Tony Stewart 10 AM EST
Monday May 21st, 2012 - 1979 Indy 500 11 AM EST
Monday May 21st, 2012 - 1996 Indy 500 12 pm EST
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Monday May 21st, 2012 - 1999 Indy 500 4 pm EST
Monday May 21st, 2012 - 2006 Indy 500 6 pm EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 1967 Indy 500 1 am EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 1969 Indy 500 2 am EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 1981 Indy 500 3 am EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - Sportscentury: Mario Andretti 9 am EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 1969 Indy 500 10 am EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 2000 Indy 500 11 am EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 2001 Indy 500 1 pm EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 2002 Indy 500 3 pm EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 2009 Indy 500 5 pm EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 2005 Indy 500 7 pm EST
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 - 2011 Indy 500 10 pm EST
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - 1980 Indy 500 1 am EST
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - 1983 Indy 500 3 am EST
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - Sportscentury: Rick Mears 10 am EST
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - 1984 Indy 500 11 am EST
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - 1988 Indy 500 1 pm EST
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Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - 1986 Indy 500 5 pm EST
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 - 2010 Indy 500 7 pm EST
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Thursday May 24th, 2012 - 1970 Indy 500 9 am EST
Thursday May 24th, 2012 - 1971 Indy 500 10 am EST
Thursday May 24th, 2012 - 1978 Indy 500 12 pm EST
Thursday May 24th, 2012 - Sportscentury: Al Unser, Sr. 2 pm EST
Thursday May 24th, 2012 - 1987 Indy 500 3 pm EST
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Friday May 25th, 2012 - 2003 Indy 500 4 am EST
Friday May 25th, 2012 - Sportscentury: Rick Mears 9 am EST
Friday May 25th, 2012 - Sportscentury: A.J. Foyt 10 am EST
Friday May 25th, 2012 - 2008 Indy 500 5 pm EST
Friday May 25th, 2012 - 30 For 30: Tim Richmond: To The Limit presented by Cadillac 10 pm EST
Monday May 28th, 2012 - 1977 Indy 500 - 1 am EST
Monday May 28th, 2012 - Sportscentury: A.J. Foyt 2 am EST
Monday May 28th, 2012 - Sportscentury: A.J. Foyt 10 am EST
Monday May 28th, 2012 - 1977 Indy 500 - 11 am EST
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meh, same as last year. Was hoping for 66 and 68

Of course it's faster on the straights, but the nature of the corners at Indy have typically made for slower speeds in traffic, and slower overall lap speeds.

Judging from Newgarden's quote in today's Autosport article, it seems everyone is still working on race setups. So I very well may be wrong in assessing the car's performance and behavior.

OMG! that's amazing!!

Well of course. This car has had very little testing on ovals and it is still very early days. Give it a chance before panicking and being judgemental.

No-one wants a boring race but be realistic, the last car was developed over many many years by many many teams and drivers. This is a new car with limited running and yet the (road) races we've seen so far have all been good, despite everyone's pre-season premature criticism.

Whose to say that despite delivering slower average speeds than the old car, the racing might still be better?

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Love the fact that Tim Richmond was stuck in there on a program list full of Indy 500 races and documentaries about IndyCar drivers.

Unless I'm missing something here.

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1980 Rookie Of The Year, but he never ran another 500 until his family forced him into stock cars. Well, they had to fill the TV schedule with something, and it's a good docu.

Initially Newgarden and Hildebrand were running 219.9's and 219.4's alone with no tow. If they're still in race mode that's pretty impressive numbers. Or maybe they are looking towards qualifying and starting to trim the car out and see what they can achieve. If they're getting up to 220 alone before trimming that's awesome. Squeeze out a 221 or so with the low drag setup and then add another 50hp we could see 226-228mph. Hell if they decide to draft a little in that morning session or on Fast Friday we could see 230mph in a tow. I'm looking forward to heading down on saturday to see these new cars in action!

HVM are in serious trouble with Lotus. No oval tests, engines that suck, they aren't doing to much practice at Indy

The last CART race that I see him listed for was the first 1980 Michigan race where apparently he had a spectacular crash. Possibly that had something to do with things, too...

So. Any news on the engines for Seb and Legge?