Big Crashes in Indy 500 Practice - Indy 500 Practice Day 3 Report 

I concur. Four practice days before time trials isn't nearly enough, plus starting practice on a weekday is lame. I hope they consider moving the Indy GP to a week earlier, and start practice on the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend, from 9am-7pm every day until qualifications. It's time to put the main focus of the month of May back on the 500 again.

will power is a different person now after his wife’s illness

⁠@@johncole5286I heard Power was much nicer to the fans after his first title. But holy cow I’m so glad to hear he’s even more different after her illness. Happy that Liz is still doing okay!

Will Power is definitely a character and has been really nice all the times we’ve talked to him. One time he even jumped in on a FaceTime call with our family in Taiwan because he thought we were filming for our son to meet him, haha. It was really funny. Our son and his son are near the same age. All the drivers are very friendly and open to meeting the fans, which is why I like IndyCar a lot. We’ve met several throughout the years. Scott McLaughlin remembered us from the previous year and asked how we were doing, which felt really neat that he’d remembered.

I've gotten to work and meet with Power several times and he is, without a doubt, one of the best people in the garage.

All my homies love Will Power

Hope you get better soon man

@sh14ty Thank you. Been in a-fib since 120pm. Not fun.

Praying it's alright. You got a 500 to watch!

Hope you have a speedy recovery

Feel better brother!

A true race fan, RIP

Oh man, gone too soon. RIP definitely miss him at TMS our home track. Lots of things changing now.

So who is your dude?

@@MowersNBlowers David

Sunday is very hot so no chance and Saturday is pretty hot. We’re not gonna see speed this year. Past weekend was ideal.

the team changed his engine

​@@HorrorDoxstill should've had more laps.

@@HorrorDox The car was ready early in the afternoon.

This ain't no tin top buddy. Do you auctual think McLaren purposely kept him out of the car? Chevy called for the engine change as well. ​@@gbpckr34

No margin at all for inclement weather.

It's now called global wetting

Funny looking clouds... hmmm

Shhh. If you make a point of saying something about the rain, next thing you know it’s more weird climate change etc… It’s not. It has just rained more than usual this year. Sheesh!

​@@markvincent5992Reminds me of 1996, the first year of the split- rained practically the entire month.

Yeah tomorrow they will get after it more with the boost being turned up.

No contest

Ironic that Linus crashed in Marcus's old ride. Glad both were ok.

I can’t fathom trying to bet on a NASCAR race. It’s just a crap shoot for who gets the luck and who doesn’t. But I hear the bookies love it.

Absolutely. I play the Indy 500 as my only single race bet for fun, and I go for prices. I play the season also, for fun, won with Will Power two years ago. Nobody is making a living betting on motorsports.

Jackie Stewart had the best quip about betting on racing during the closing stages of the '81 500, and it went something like this- "Motor racing is something you can never bet any money on, because you've got these thousands of moving parts in one of these race cars, and all you can do is hope & pray that the car can do the job that's been prescribed- completing all the 200 laps"...and then Gordy Johncock promptly dropped out just a few laps after Sir Jackie said that.

Doubtful

Oh please! Foyt was running Indy while The Captain was still a cadet. I’m pretty sure that AJ had won a couple of 500s before Roger quit driving sports cars. In fact it was quite the opposite; they learned from AJ.

Not dialed in yet. Preliminary setting until it gets on the track

Also, some teams back up cars are their road course and street cars, which have different setups for the different kind of racing and like was said before need to be dialed in.

@@marty0063 you are correct. The team would have brought along at least one extra car with the basic setting already in place.

That's not always the case - in 1991, Rick Mears hit the wall in Turn 1 on Fast Friday due to a mechanical failure. Then he jumped in a backup car just three hours later, and turned the fastest lap of the month at over 226mph. He ended up winning the pole and his 4th 500 in that backup machine.

@@tbh791 With the Penske organization, one can expect that sort of thing. I should think that 3 hours to prep a backup is about right, if the settings are up to date.

it’s penske’s fault. it’s always been his fault

Doesn’t work like that. You must declare what car you intend to qualify and I’m not sure if it is permitted to practice the spare until it is the primary.

The one you practice with will be set up differently than the other!

I hope it’s Katherine legg, she just coasts every year. And never competitive. Such a waste of a car! Sting ray Robb too! Waste of a car! Put sage karam, David malukas, tony kanaan in it!

Didn’t she have a bad accident a couple years ago? Might be hard getting back on the big horse again.

A lot of drivers would of never came back after a crash like she had when her wing came off at Road America.

@@Phil00484 Do you mean 18 years ago? Yea, maybe. I spoke with Jan Heylen a week (at COTA) after his brakes failed (GT3D) going down the front stretch into T1 at Road America @ 180mph+ and he just sluffed it off and was always looking ahead to the next race.

50% of scheduled practice time plus the open test gone because of rain isn’t news for the rookies??

Spoiled brats having to postpone their fun

⁠@@ABEnsteinI agree. But I think that the rookies will be fine,

She is better than half of the field!