2018 INDY 500 THREAD

Anyone else tuning in? Carpenter on the pole, Danica starting row 3. 90+ degree heat in Indy today. I'm ready for a good race!

 

Absolutely!

 

I’m looking forward to a good race!!!

 

I still can't believe they lessened the down force these cars

 

Yeah, it's gonna be bonkers. They look great but will be pretty twitchy.

 

That was a bone head move

 

I was rooting for Power and Carpenter. Rossi was putting on some excellent passes out there. He's on fire this year. Wickens is proving himself to be a consistent rookie. Tough break for Danica.

 

Danica as expected

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjSocjxnMc3/

 

Did you happen to notice (5) other drivers also crashed on that same corner and two of them very experienced well known drivers such as Helio Castroneves and Tony Kanaan

 

Will Power is the 2018 Indy 500 winner. Team Penske does it again.

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=23624896

 

Those cars were twitchy as heck all day. Now that Danica is retired, I look forward to all the anti-Danica rhetoric to vaporize. Her former BF Stenhouse has a higher crash percentage but nobody calls him out about it.

 

That's because Danica got more publicity for just being a woman in the sport. Nobody ever talks about the back field crashing because they are just the back field but because Danica was a back field marker and still got more publicity than most top 10 drivers it brought on well deserved criticism.

 

I mean, there are 1,000,000 better causes to die on a hill for. Do you think fan's anger was towards the media singling her out, or directly at Danica for not succeeding?

 

Danica did have some unwanted targets on her back I remember seeing her crash hard @ Homestead In her debut in 2005 her career ended the way it started crashing.....

 

I think it's a little of both. She has been the most talented female driver in Nascar to date I imagine but her career in the series has been disappointing especially for those wanting a win. People will always look at her career in Nascar as a marketing tool and not for what she accomplished.