Pick the Podium - IndyCar - The 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis, IN, May 17-29, 2022.

[Retroram52]

Dixon is back in the lead with 33 to go.

 

[Retroram52]

Holy Cow, Marco Andretti and Jimmy Johnson are now 2nd and 3rd respectively with 16 laps left.

 

[Retroram52]

MARCO ANDRETTI IS THE LEADER!!!

 

[Retroram52]

Jimmy Johnson is Second!

 

[Retroram52]

Marco pits, Jimmy Johnson leads.

 

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Jimmy Johnson pits, Ericsson takes the lead.

 

[Retroram52]

9 laps left and O'Ward and Ericsson fight it out.

 

[Retroram52]

Rossi moves to 5th. 7 Laps left.

 

[Retroram52]

Jimmy Johnson brings out the yellow. He's done.

 

[Retroram52]

Dixon gets a pit lane speeding penalty and his day is essentially done.

 

[Retroram52]

Under the yellow, everybody is in the pits. Here is where the race will be won.

 

[Retroram52]

Going to be a drag race to the finish.

 

[Retroram52]

Jimmy Johnson crash brings-out the red flag!

 

[Retroram52]

Yellow Flag out and Marcus Ericsson wins it. O'Ward is second, Kanaan is third, and Rosenqvist is fourth. Rossi finishes 5th.

 

[jvett77]

I hate race finishes like this.

 

[Retroram52]

Here's How We Did:

All-Star Bench Warmer: 0 points-Did Not Show
Obxyankeefan: 5 points-Correctly selected O'Ward for Second Place
Retroram52: 0 points-Skunked

Season Totals:

All-Star Bench Warmer: 0 points-Moves to loss of competition privileges
Obxyankkefan - 18 points
Retroram52 - 12 points

Totals for Guests for the Race
43: 0 points-Skunked
JVette: 0 points-Skunked
Schmoopy: 0 points-Skunked


Next Race: Detroit Grand Prix, June 5, 2022

 

[jvett77]

I attended a race, may have been the 2014 race that ended under yellow, where Castroneves lost out to Hunter. And it’s just unsatisfying when your watching a race for a few hours, and sh happens and the cars get closed up and it’s an all-new race to the finish. Maybe ban finishing under the yellow.

 

[Retroram52]

Yea jvett. This time, the Indy 500 officials Red-Flagged the event after the Jimmy Johnson crash to assure that there was at least a couple of Green Flag racing laps left even though this 500 did finish under Yellow with Ericsson out front. The only logical resolution would be to do the Green/White/Checkered approach of NASCAR. That has been suggested to IndyCar but the governing body declined the proposal especially for the Indy 500.

BTW. If they did do the G/W/C approach, Ericsson was going to win this race anyways because his car was just too dominant for O'Ward even though I get your point.

 

[pachyderm]

he he he he he