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Indy in St. Louis. I'm not certain why I thought it was in Illinois. 500 miles on a 1.25 mile track. Penske secured the front row in qualifying. Veekay qualified 18th, but felt he had a good car for the race.
Race was interesting. Penske apparently has angered the luck gods with their many many cases of being caught cheating. Will Power suffers a sidewall failure on his front right tire. Louis Foster bumps the wall, then snaps across the track. Palou banked to the right, Newgarden to the left (should always follow Palou!) and Newgarden smacks into Foster in a rather bad looking crash that both drivers walked away from. McLaughlin was going well until something in the rear suspension (I believe) broke. So Penske has zero cars finishing, leaving the field to all the rest of the teams.
Malukas had a great first 2/3 of the race, but then faded. Veekay kept slowly creeping up the field. Ferruci's and Herta's cars are apparently a couple now after some close quarter snuggling that rubbed away the sidewall coloring on Herta's front left. The guy of the race was Rasmussen, who just wouldn't stay back. Climbed up into the top 5 from 20th or so, penalyzed for bad pit behavior and the dude just comes back through the field. He has guts out there on the oval.
A late yellow went in Dixon's favor, and almost Veekay's, which put Dixon at the front of the field (weird seeing the entire field get waved around Dixon). The Ganassis however weren't up to the task, being out powered by... well everyone else (AJ Foyt, Andretti, ECR, Dale freaking Coyne). So Dixon faded, but not too badly. Fuel was the last question. Illot and Rosenquist pitted the most recently, and it was unclear if they could make it the distance. They held out as much as they could but no more yellows forced them into the pits. O'Ward and Kirkwood would be the final two to fight it out with Kirkwood taking his third win of the year. This year was supposed to be Herta's, but while he is suffering a little less bad luck, Kirkwood has been the only other winner in lieu of Palou. Palou finished 8th for his worst finish that didn't involved being crashed out of the race. Veekay finished a strong 7th (ahead of Rossi) while Rasmussen got a podium.
Meanwhile in Mexico City, Katherine Legge is showing why she needs to pick a platform and stick with it. If she can't be competitive in Mexico City in the wet, what is she doing there? She has a sponsor, but either her car sucks or she just can't manage this type of car. She has legit racing cred, but she is bouncing all over the place and she isn't sticking the landing anywhere. van Gisbergen won the race while McDowell finished 5th even after the boneheaded move by his team to stick to wets... on a drying track. Allmendinger's role in the race was as pinball bumper with Kyle Busch being the pinball. Allmendinger fell back to 30 or 32nd a couple times and nonchalantly worked his way back up the field. Finished 13th with a bruised car.
Race was interesting. Penske apparently has angered the luck gods with their many many cases of being caught cheating. Will Power suffers a sidewall failure on his front right tire. Louis Foster bumps the wall, then snaps across the track. Palou banked to the right, Newgarden to the left (should always follow Palou!) and Newgarden smacks into Foster in a rather bad looking crash that both drivers walked away from. McLaughlin was going well until something in the rear suspension (I believe) broke. So Penske has zero cars finishing, leaving the field to all the rest of the teams.
Malukas had a great first 2/3 of the race, but then faded. Veekay kept slowly creeping up the field. Ferruci's and Herta's cars are apparently a couple now after some close quarter snuggling that rubbed away the sidewall coloring on Herta's front left. The guy of the race was Rasmussen, who just wouldn't stay back. Climbed up into the top 5 from 20th or so, penalyzed for bad pit behavior and the dude just comes back through the field. He has guts out there on the oval.
A late yellow went in Dixon's favor, and almost Veekay's, which put Dixon at the front of the field (weird seeing the entire field get waved around Dixon). The Ganassis however weren't up to the task, being out powered by... well everyone else (AJ Foyt, Andretti, ECR, Dale freaking Coyne). So Dixon faded, but not too badly. Fuel was the last question. Illot and Rosenquist pitted the most recently, and it was unclear if they could make it the distance. They held out as much as they could but no more yellows forced them into the pits. O'Ward and Kirkwood would be the final two to fight it out with Kirkwood taking his third win of the year. This year was supposed to be Herta's, but while he is suffering a little less bad luck, Kirkwood has been the only other winner in lieu of Palou. Palou finished 8th for his worst finish that didn't involved being crashed out of the race. Veekay finished a strong 7th (ahead of Rossi) while Rasmussen got a podium.
Meanwhile in Mexico City, Katherine Legge is showing why she needs to pick a platform and stick with it. If she can't be competitive in Mexico City in the wet, what is she doing there? She has a sponsor, but either her car sucks or she just can't manage this type of car. She has legit racing cred, but she is bouncing all over the place and she isn't sticking the landing anywhere. van Gisbergen won the race while McDowell finished 5th even after the boneheaded move by his team to stick to wets... on a drying track. Allmendinger's role in the race was as pinball bumper with Kyle Busch being the pinball. Allmendinger fell back to 30 or 32nd a couple times and nonchalantly worked his way back up the field. Finished 13th with a bruised car.
YouTube served that up to me this morning. Yikes! Both drivers are fortunate to be relatively unhurt.
High of about 92 today, 101 or so Heat Index. It is going to be warmer tomorrow and probably less clouds. I'll be hiding in the woods tomprrow by the Carousel. Also Road America is an absolutely awesome place! Just need to add a lake for when the mercury rises above 90 degrees. Or a creek and do a Gordon Johncock.
At least there was a stiff breeze today. Over a gallon of water drank.
At least there was a stiff breeze today. Over a gallon of water drank.
Seeing some local newsflashes that events on the mountain are delayed or shortened due to high winds.
Back to back 100+ degree heat indices. Then an eight hour drive post race to get home. 1.5+ hour shorter drive being Sunday night and I gave 94 the finger and took 294. I did a quick weeding between NXT and Indycar's races. And working on the photos, but kind of tired. NE Ohio is bloody hot now too!
Long story short, this race got weird, and fast. Dixon and Veekay started near the back and managed to slot themselves into a pit strategy allowing a top 10 finish, with Dixon being a couple laps short of fuel of winner the race. Sloppy start. Then things calm down. Sting Ray Robb did his darn best to kill himself... again, panicking behind a slowing Malukas, hitting the wall and then tearing into the Turn 5 tire barrier. A solid whomp. Lundgaard was having a solid weekend until he was a bit too far outside on the exit to Canada Corner, which I was lucky to get on video. Veekay moved up, then back, then back up. Saw a great pass on McLaughlin into turn 5, which is where a lot of the action takes place. Like when he slowed up and lost a lot of positions when the turn jammed up and cars were everywhere. But after getting a set of reds, he tore through the field, passing a number of cars and with Rossi pitting (along with Dixon), got Veekay a 10th place. Could have been 9th, but Siegal passed him. Seemed like Veekay was on aging alternate tires. Ferrucci had an awesome race, if not easy to underexpose race car livery. He was fifth, but promoted to the podium when Rossi and Dixon needed to stop for fuel.
Palou would pull off the upset and win his first race since, what three races ago? Palou had the fuel, Dixon did not. I was in Turn 5 at times. Including when Conor Daly spun out, got a pull from the AMR crew, and then proceeded to drive off with the tow rope still attached to his car. He did a full lap with it attached... which led to a penalty. Josef Newgarden (and Penske in general) had a mediocre day. Newgarden crashed much like Jacob Abel did in the race warmup (while I was shooting 1/160 shots and just didn't have a chance of capturing Abel's spin), except Abel did crunch the tire barrier. I did catch Schwartzman's loss of control before heading up the hill to the start/finish line, in my first ever, do I duck for safety or get the shots. I did the later. Nothing happened except I got a couple real tight shots while shooting at 1/1500ish, thankfully. Just don't have time to change the shutter speeds.
And once again, Road America is bleeping awesome. It is a large park with a track. They've done a good deal of work here. You can traverse most of the track. Low fences with photography options everywhere! Canada Corner, if you don't mind standing next to the Port-o-Potty, you are about 10 or 15 feet from the cars making the turn. So many places for photos, almost all of the turns are accessible with no more than a 300 mm zoom. This time of year, you generally need to shoot in overcast or it'll be north to the west. If the race started at 4 PMish as originally scheduled, there would be even more options. That place is awesome. And not a terrible amount of walking. People say to use a golf cart, but I'd only do that if one can't manage the 5k to 10k of hiking. On Sunday, the Bluff was packed with golf carts.
View: https://youtu.be/KdwktyDMzpQ
Long story short, this race got weird, and fast. Dixon and Veekay started near the back and managed to slot themselves into a pit strategy allowing a top 10 finish, with Dixon being a couple laps short of fuel of winner the race. Sloppy start. Then things calm down. Sting Ray Robb did his darn best to kill himself... again, panicking behind a slowing Malukas, hitting the wall and then tearing into the Turn 5 tire barrier. A solid whomp. Lundgaard was having a solid weekend until he was a bit too far outside on the exit to Canada Corner, which I was lucky to get on video. Veekay moved up, then back, then back up. Saw a great pass on McLaughlin into turn 5, which is where a lot of the action takes place. Like when he slowed up and lost a lot of positions when the turn jammed up and cars were everywhere. But after getting a set of reds, he tore through the field, passing a number of cars and with Rossi pitting (along with Dixon), got Veekay a 10th place. Could have been 9th, but Siegal passed him. Seemed like Veekay was on aging alternate tires. Ferrucci had an awesome race, if not easy to underexpose race car livery. He was fifth, but promoted to the podium when Rossi and Dixon needed to stop for fuel.
Palou would pull off the upset and win his first race since, what three races ago? Palou had the fuel, Dixon did not. I was in Turn 5 at times. Including when Conor Daly spun out, got a pull from the AMR crew, and then proceeded to drive off with the tow rope still attached to his car. He did a full lap with it attached... which led to a penalty. Josef Newgarden (and Penske in general) had a mediocre day. Newgarden crashed much like Jacob Abel did in the race warmup (while I was shooting 1/160 shots and just didn't have a chance of capturing Abel's spin), except Abel did crunch the tire barrier. I did catch Schwartzman's loss of control before heading up the hill to the start/finish line, in my first ever, do I duck for safety or get the shots. I did the later. Nothing happened except I got a couple real tight shots while shooting at 1/1500ish, thankfully. Just don't have time to change the shutter speeds.
And once again, Road America is bleeping awesome. It is a large park with a track. They've done a good deal of work here. You can traverse most of the track. Low fences with photography options everywhere! Canada Corner, if you don't mind standing next to the Port-o-Potty, you are about 10 or 15 feet from the cars making the turn. So many places for photos, almost all of the turns are accessible with no more than a 300 mm zoom. This time of year, you generally need to shoot in overcast or it'll be north to the west. If the race started at 4 PMish as originally scheduled, there would be even more options. That place is awesome. And not a terrible amount of walking. People say to use a golf cart, but I'd only do that if one can't manage the 5k to 10k of hiking. On Sunday, the Bluff was packed with golf carts.
View: https://youtu.be/KdwktyDMzpQ
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