[kidcudi92]

"The Greatest Spectacle In Racing"


Never too early, almost the great month of May


Testing - no cars really looked "weak" maybe Andretti and Foyt... seems like a pretty open field. The Dreyer & Reinbold cars looked very good for the team (#24 Sage Karam and #23 Santino Ferrucci) Like usual though, it seems a battle between Penske and CGR


So far I like these prices


Jimmie Johnson +2500 (proved he can hold it and knows the track well, got into the turns surprisingly well...he is live)


Takuma Sato +2500 (2nd fastest lap with his ROAD COURSE car, 2x winner, knows what he is doing)


Santino Ferrucci +7000 (guy is just fukking fast and needs a full time ride)



Any posters going except me?

[dapperandy]

Thanks for posting this

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Wow Cudi. Jimmie Johnson really?

Glad you posted as never would have considered him at all, ever. lol But will watch him now.


I'm on Ferrucci train with you. Have wasted a fair bit of money betting on him over the years so he owes me one.

[jjgold]

It’s a
Month away you hamburger

[Optional]

It’s a
Month away you hamburger

Practice sessions have already started for it. Party goes for a month




@Kidcudi... Callum Ilott a top 10 chance at big odds?

[jjgold]

Karam wild card winner

[Bcatswin]

Haven't followed in years but Jimmie J racing peaks my interest quite a bit.

[Brock Landers]

I watch maybe 5 minutes then look for something else

[Optional]

Haven't followed in years but Jimmie J racing peaks my interest quite a bit.

Oh boy Bcats. Jimmie has been so awful I wanted him to quit.

Be nice if Cuddles is right about him

[Optional]

I watch maybe 5 minutes then look for something else

Indycar has seriously improved with the latest car version and lots of great drivers wanting in.

[Otters27]

Love this day!

[kidcudi92]

Wow Cudi. Jimmie Johnson really?

Glad you posted as never would have considered him at all, ever. lol But will watch him now.


I'm on Ferrucci train with you. Have wasted a fair bit of money betting on him over the years so he owes me one.

It's just tough not to, if he had no speed yesterday I woulda definitely been off it...but he was sending it. Personally I was pretty surprised he wasn't out there babying it. With his 6th place finish at Texas, he can run ovals well it appears (small sample size of course - woulda been 5th but gas problems so had to save the last few laps)


Same with Santino, but at +7000 how can you not


One thing to note is the raw speed which Foyt/Ed Carpenter showed without a tow was impressive, Veekay was fastest without a tow...but didn't look as good with a bunch of cars out there


I really don't hate the idea of a Ilott T10 bet, but not quite sure yet


JJ, its a month long party here in Indy for the Month of May


Also, Karam isn't a horrible bet I just haven't made it yet personally but those Dreyer cars looked good


Final Day 2 Testing results

[infotimbo]

should be fun to follow, as usual. Always hard to reach much into practice performances, though. But the Carpenter cars for sure are always super quick over one lap, and will likely fight for pole again - but usually that's it then. Veekay is also pretty bad with tyres/fuel, so usually only stands a chance when he gets yellows at exactly the right time, or his (off-)strategy accidentally turns out to be the best one.

But well, yeah, I guess in the end it'll be more or less the usual contenders. But I'd also see Santrucci as one of them. Did he find enough money to get a new engine for the race this time, though?

[kidcudi92]

should be fun to follow, as usual. Always hard to reach much into practice performances, though. But the Carpenter cars for sure are always super quick over one lap, and will likely fight for pole again - but usually that's it then. Veekay is also pretty bad with tyres/fuel, so usually only stands a chance when he gets yellows at exactly the right time, or his (off-)strategy accidentally turns out to be the best one.

But well, yeah, I guess in the end it'll be more or less the usual contenders. But I'd also see Santrucci as one of them. Did he find enough money to get a new engine for the race this time, though?

Agree. Testing is just that... testing. Veekay has a huge chance if he can just be patient and not try to pass every car he comes up on. He is a really good driver obviously... just needs to chill and save his equipment sometimes

I think Dreyer & Reinbold is live this year absolutely, both cars

[jjgold]

All about pole position

You basically have very little chance anything worse than 11

The race is always decided qualies any Indy car race

[kidcudi92]

Going to the race so like to have a decent amount of drivers for fun (longshots), that'll be it for me

Helio +1600
Tony Kanaan +2000
Jimmie Johnson +2500
Takuma Sato +2500
Rinus Veekay +3000
Santino Ferrucci +7000
Sage Karam +10000

[kidcudi92]

All about pole position

You basically have very little chance anything worse than 11

The race is always decided qualies any Indy car race

Also this is fukkin dumb but its JJ, F1 is like that


Indy is so different

[jjgold]

basically not in top 15 massive longshot to win..its all about qualis you dumb fuks where every race is decided ...average about 6.5 starting position

Non Indy car races is about 5.1

Dummies

I own everyone all the time

1911	Ray Harroun	28
1912	Joe Dawson	7
1913	Jules Goux	7
1914	Rene Thomas	15
1915	Ralph DePalma	2
1916	Dario Resta	4
1917	No race held
1918	No race held
1919	Howard Wilcox	2
1920	Gaston Chevrolet	6
1921	Tommy Milton	20
1922	Jimmy Murphy	1
1923	Tommy Milton	1
1924	L.L. Corum, Joe Boyer	21
1925	Peter DePaolo	2
1926	Frank Lockhart	20r
1927	George Souders	22
1928	Louis Meyer	13
1929	Ray Keech	6
1930	Billy Arnold	1
1931	Louis Schneider	13
1932	Fred Frame	27
1933	Louis Meyer	6r
1934	Bill Cummings	10
1935	Kelly Petillo	22
1936	Louis Meyer	28
1937	Wilbur Shaw	2
1938	Floyd Roberts	1
1939	Wilbur Shaw	3
1940	Wilbur Shaw	2
1941	Floyd Davis, Mauri Rose	17
1942	No race held
1943	No race held
1944	No race held
1945	No race held
1946	George Robson	15
1947	Mauri Rose	3
1948	Mauri Rose	3
1949	Bill Holland	4
1950	Johnnie Parsons	5
1951	Lee Wallard	2
1952	Troy Ruttman	7
1953	Bill Vukovich	1
1954	Bill Vukovich	19
1955	Bob Sweikert	14
1956	Pat Flaherty	1
1957	Sam Hanks	13
1958	Jim Bryan	7
1959	Rodger Ward	6
1960	Jim Rathmann	2
1961	A.J. Foyt	7
1962	Rodger Ward	2
1963	Parnelli Jones	1
1964	A.J. Foyt	5
1965	Jim Clark	2
1966	Graham Hill	15
1967	A.J. Foyt	4
1968	Bobby Unser	3
1969	Mario Andretti	2
1970	Al Unser	1
1971	Al Unser	5
1972	Mark Donohue	3
1973	Gordon Johncock	11
1974	Johnny Rutherford	25
1975	Bobby Unser	3
1976	Johnny Rutherford	1
1977	A.J. Foyt	4
1978	Al Unser	5
1979	Rick Mears	1
1980	Johnny Rutherford	1
1981	Bobby Unser	1
1982	Gordon Johncock	5
1983	Tom Sneva	4
1984	Rick Mears	3
1985	Danny Sullivan	8
1986	Bobby Rahal	4
1987	Al Unser	20
1988	Rick Mears	1
1989	Emerson Fittipaldi	3
1990	Arie Luyendyk	3
1991	Rick Mears	1
1992	Al Unser, Jr.	12
1993	Emerson Fittipaldi	9
1994	Al Unser, Jr.	1
1995	Jacques Villeneuve	5
1996	Buddy Lazier	5
1997	Arie Luyendyk	1
1998	Eddie Cheever Jr.	17
1999	Kenny Brack	8
2000	Juan Montoya	2
2001	Helio Castroneves	2
2002	Helio Castroneves	3
2003	Gil De Ferran	10
2004	Buddy Rice	1
2005	Dan Wheldon	26
2006	Sam Hornish Jr.	1
2007	Dario Franchitti	3
2008	Scott Dixon	1
2009	Hélio Castroneves	1
2010	Dario Franchitti	3
2011	Dan Wheldon	6
2012	Dario Franchitti	16
2013	Tony Kanaan	12
2014	Ryan Hunter-Reay	19
2015	Juan Pablo Montoya	15
2016	Alexander Rossi	11
2017	Takuma Sato	4
2018	Will Power	3
2019	Simon Pagenaud	1
2020	Takuma Sato	3

[Optional]

Look at JJ with the motorsport stats!

Only 4 times this century a starter outside first 11 win.

[jjgold]

Optional guys are fukkin dummies here

Cuddles IQ maybe 15?????????????????????????????????????? ??

CART RACING IS DECIDED ON SATURDAYS NOT SUNDAYS

[Optional]

I apologize Mr Gold.

I agreed with Cuddles when he said you were wrong.

Schooling us

[jjgold]

Optional I am an expert cart racing

[kidcudi92]

Optional guys are fukkin dummies here

Cuddles IQ maybe 15?????????????????????????????????????? ??

CART RACING IS DECIDED ON SATURDAYS NOT SUNDAYS

Trends are a thing


Check the last 10 years and you didn't include 2021

6, 16, 12, 19, 15, 11, 4, 3, 1, 3, 8


avg 8.9

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Optional I am an expert cart racing

[kidcudi92]

Tomorrow will most likely be rained out

Lets take a look at today's practice

A few things jump out at me

The Ed Carpenter cars (#21 Veekay/#33 Carpenter) and Jimmie Johnson had the fastest 3 non-tow laps (Jimmie stands out a LOT)

Then you head to the overall laps, Sato ripped an insane lap during the end of happy hour at 228.93mph to finish P1 overall vs Dixon at 227.76mph

Guess who was 3rd overall? Jimmie Johnson...again at 227.72mph

Overall, what I take away from today is currently the CGR cars are the best, no question about it. Andretti cars look a bit lost, Penske was taking a safer approach today as things got a little wild in the last 30 minutes


Arrow McLaren, kinda mixed


Dreyer and Reinbold were not as impressive today but everyone has their own motives in practice, it's more about the car and figuring it out. They know they have fast cars but think they were dialing it in today more than trying to rip fast laps


I hope practice doesn't get rained out tomorrow, but it doesn't look good

[Easy-Rider 66]

prefer watching the Coca Cola 600 instead.

[Optional]

prefer watching the Coca Cola 600 instead.

Coke 600 starts about 2 hours after the Indy 500 finishes.

[Easy-Rider 66]

Coke 600 starts about 2 hours after the Indy 500 finishes.

correct but not a big race fan so 1 auto race is enough. thx

[jjgold]

Herta my final play

[packerd_00]

Good write up cuddles very well detailed.

[kidcudi92]

Tomorrow for "Fast Friday", 85-90ish horsepower will be added to the cars and things will ramp up to the 230mph range


Winds will be 10-25mph and around mid 80s temperature wise which will create a tricky track which the 500 is anyways...but worse


People who almost lost it today(Grosjean like 3 times), will lose it and catch a wall tomorrow if they aren't careful


Sato once again ripped the fastest lap at 227.519


The combined practice results so far leave us with
1. Takuma Sato 228.939
2. Scott Dixon 227.768
3. Jimmie Johnson 227.722
4. Marcus Ericsson 227.094
5. Rinus Veekay 226.995



CGR cars are still the best


Again not sure what Andretti cars were up to, but looked slow again


Penske was slow but I don't think they were pushing that hard


Arrow McLaren, faster than last practice (P6, P8, then Juan Pablo Montoya was really slow) - quit earlier than usual which makes me think they are happy with whatever they found going into tomorrow


Dreyer and Reinbold said they were mostly trimming out and testing for qualifying today so they didn't post any spectacular laps



Tomorrow should be quite interesting

[Optional]

Penskes were up there in no-tow lap times. I think they will be fine.

But I am looking for reasons to bet Scotty **

[kidcudi92]

Herta my final play

Well done Gold

[jjgold]

many books do not even have odds for this how far indy has fallen

take 1 to 10 pole positions or most likely your throwing your money away

[kidcudi92]

many books do not even have odds for this how far indy has fallen

take 1 to 10 pole positions or most likely your throwing your money away

trash books

yeah I mean only 300k + will be there, really fell off