Round 6: The 99th Indianapolis 500

[bjohnsonsmith]

Congrats to J-PM, on an amazing win, who would have thought it. What a race.

[fieldodreams79]

John Paul!

Good race; great finish!

[J Jay]

Great finish, excellent racing from the front four, but the plaudits obviously go to JPM. 31st (?) to first, it doesn't get any sweeter than that!

[Marcus666]

MONTOOOOOOOOYYYYAAAAAA!!!!!

[rustyfan]

Edge of my seat, holding my breath, feeling my heart thump in my chest. Wow, what a finish. Still shaking. Great win for Montoya!

[rwintle]

Argh! Sportsnet cuts to their analysts right when JPM is celebrating the win. Yay Rogers.

[note to non-Canadian viewers: hope your networks didn't do this]

[BudLightJaguar]

Montoya!!! So "Juan Tim Horton Montoya" wiseguys, who's the greatest now?

[J Jay]

Well then Juan now that you've won your second Indy 500 how about having a go at the third leg of the Triple Crown?

[Lagunaseca_4life]

NICE!! Congrats to Montoya!

[icemachine]

Great race today, JPM got that last pass in just in time I think, everyone's tires were fading. Hope the pit mechanic and Saavedra end up ok

[Paradise City]

Excellent stuff. Thought Dixon had it in the bag! From being a washed up NASCAR driver to winning the biggest race a 100 years since he won it as a young pup on the up - great stuff from Montoya.

I kinda wish the F1 race was next, I could do with winding down. I'm out of breath!

Certainly as a good a racing in the last quarter of that race that you'll ever see in any era.

[fieldodreams79]

The real winner on the day is Graham's racing suit. Nice bowtie!

[canamman]

What a race! 2 for 2 today in the finest in open wheel motorsports.
Outside turn 1 pass was money at the closing stages of the race.
2000 Montoya wins with Ganassi. 15 years later with Penske.

No blow overs, no one too seriously hurt. Thank goodness.

[Bob Baldwin]

And NOW onto the NASCAR 600 Mile Race at Charlotte

[Nikki Katz]

AAAARGH!!!! Sky player cut out with 8 laps to go...

[jasonjessica09]

First of all it is awesome that JPM won! I wonder what the NASCAR folks think of it?

Secondly, I used to be a big of a Indycar fan as anybody. But I lost interest baring watching the end of the 500. My racing passions is now just with sportscars. I hope none of you wasted the whole day watching the 500. I turned on the ESPN3 replay a few minutes ago (without looking at the results) and skipped to the last 6 laps to see everything. I think that is all you really needed to see.

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by jasonjessica09

First of all it is awesome that JPM won! I wonder what the NASCAR folks think of it?

Secondly, I used to be a big of a Indycar fan as anybody. But I lost interest baring watching the end of the 500. My racing passions is now just with sportscars. I hope none of you wasted the whole day watching the 500. I turned on the ESPN3 replay a few minutes ago (without looking at the results) and skipped to the last 6 laps to see everything. I think that is all you really needed to see.

I enjoyed the entire race but thank you for your concern. You missed a good one.

[Paradise City]

There was occasional stretches where not too much happened. All that's in endurance racing too. There was nothing in the 500 today that wouldn't delight a serious motorsports fan.

[jasonjessica09]

Originally Posted by Paradise City

There was occasional stretches where not too much happened. All that's in endurance racing too. There was nothing in the 500 today that wouldn't delight a serious motorsports fan.

Indycar, Nascar, F1..all spec racing now.

[Paradise City]

Originally Posted by jasonjessica09

Indycar, Nascar, F1..all spec racing now.

That's fine and body kits seem fairly trivial to me. But your objection was to the action. If there's good action in the racing then there's stuff a motorsports fan can chew on and there was alot of suspense in that race. The action wasn't CGI generated and the drivers faced huge risks racing on the edge. These men are fine racers who raced courageously. There's no garbage yellows or the silly stuff the France people do to keep the sportscars TV friendly. The 500 on-track action today was top motorsport.

[Lagunaseca_4life]

Originally Posted by jasonjessica09

Indycar, Nascar, F1..all spec racing now.

No more spec than lmp2 and Dp, or gte,gtlm,gt3's bop'd mess......outside wec p1 there's really no openness in any racing now adays.


Anyways it was a good race and I enjoyed my morning waking up to the end of f1 and watching the indy 500 and all the pre race activities.

Really glad to see no blow over or flying cars thank god it went ok in that aspect of the race.

[Bob Baldwin]

the last 25 laps in Particular were pretty awesome . Many drivers putting it on the EDGE and getting away with things I thought were almost certainly going to cause a big wreck . Kudo's to the top 5 finishers .

Wife was mentioning on some of the TV shots that there still looked like a lot of empty seats .

[Woolley]

Originally Posted by Nikki Katz

AAAARGH!!!! Sky player cut out with 8 laps to go...

Same here. Annoying isn't the word.

[jimclark]

Originally Posted by jasonjessica09

Indycar, Nascar, F1..all spec racing now.

Originally Posted by Paradise City

That's fine and body kits seem fairly trivial to me. But your objection was to the action. If there's good action in the racing then there's stuff a motorsports fan can chew on and there was alot of suspense in that race. The action wasn't CGI generated and the drivers faced huge risks racing on the edge. These men are fine racers who raced courageously. There's no garbage yellows or the silly stuff the France people do to keep the sportscars TV friendly. The 500 on-track action today was top motorsport.

'Been down this road too many times but once again....'been thru the good stuff (60's-80's) and don't like what's happenin' to all of racin', but keep,watchin' for the occasional good ones and today was one. I was able to shut down my thoughts on the rules and watch a motor race that was in doubt throughout. Even during what I consider the best times, these were far and few.

Todays 500 was a good one.

Like Forrest (gump), that's all I have to say about that.

[jimclark]

Originally Posted by jasonjessica09

First of all it is awesome that JPM won! I wonder what the NASCAR folks think of it?

Secondly, I used to be a big of a Indycar fan as anybody. But I lost interest baring watching the end of the 500. My racing passions is now just with sportscars. I hope none of you wasted the whole day watching the 500. I turned on the ESPN3 replay a few minutes ago (without looking at the results) and skipped to the last 6 laps to see everything. I think that is all you really needed to see.

According to your theory, that's all you have to do with any sport. Watch the last 3 minutes. The results for any are right there.

I've enjoyed Le Mans since '65, but according to you, I shouldn't waste my day watching what is determined at the very end. I've been wasting very much of my life I guess, watching with anticipation....

Hell, another edit. Why bother watching at all. Just read about the results. Better yet, why give a sheet at all????