Pick the Podium: IndyCar - St Petersburg, FL, 2016

[Retroram52]

We are just past halfway and this race is turning into a demolition derby.

 

[Retroram52]

Looks like the wreck started between Carlos Munoz and Graham Rahal.

 

[Retroram52]

Cleaning up the mess.

 

[Retroram52]

At lap 66, Montoya, Daly, and Pagenaud are the top three.

 

[Retroram52]

Castroneves is 4th and Dixon 5th.

 

[Retroram52]

Montoya, Pagenaud, and CastroNeves with 16 to go. Looks like 43 might come out of this leader.

 

[Retroram52]

Montoya takes it followed by Pagenaud and Hunter-Reay. Nice start to the season. On we go to the next one in a couple of weeks.

 

[IndyAndy]

Here is how we did:

forty_three: 8 points - Picked Montoya to win & Pagenaud for 2nd.
Retroram52: 7 points - Picked Montoya to win & Hunter-Reay for 3rd
IndyAndy: 5 points - Picked Montoya to win.

Next Up: Phoenix, on April 2nd.

 

[forty_three]

Newgarden is out. Ran into Hinchcliff. Dumbass Marco screwed-up and tried to follow Hunter-Reay around Flippi and got into a spin.

I'm more interested in how Marco managed to stall his car on the restart. Dingleberry.

Rahal has the worst damage. Daly leads followed by Kanaan.

What the hell was Munoz doing? Looked like he didn't even slow up at all for the corner. Rahal completely innocent, and to rub salt in the wounds Munoz finishes 8th and Rahal 15th.

Great drive by Montoya, especially considering something in his steering was broken. Tough luck for Daly on the pit stop. He could have had a podium. I expect he'll win one this year.

 

[Retroram52]

Don't know 43. Looked like Munoz just drove into the corner and never bothered to slow or turn and ran right into Rahal. Munoz looked like a complete amateur on that re-start.