As a weather nerd racing and severe weather conditions looks so eerie and beautiful also indycar had another situation like this 10 years earlier where a high risk was issued during the indy 500 and there was a EF-2 6 miles from the track
I was going to mention that 2004 Indy 500. If I remember right, it was the the year before, 2003, when Pole Day was ended by weather, and there turned out to be a watch or warning on the storms that ended it, too. It was the year that Billy Boat had a big crash into the attenuator at the entrance to pit road, right before the storms hit. We left the stands when the rain came and, before we could get out of the Speedway a bunch of yellow shirts forced the small crowd we were in into a restroom underneath the front straight stands along Georgetown Road. I had my scanner so I tuned it to the local weather radio station.
Montoya is a guy I wish we could have back. I feel like collectively, as a fan base, we didn't appreciate that dude when we had him. Especially in the NASCAR world. He had a chance to win Indy, Monaco, and Daytona.
I can't speak for the rest of his career, but in Formula 1 he had a gung-ho energy that made him entertaining on the track, but at the same time made him sound like a bit of a tool in press conferences.
@@x-90I still remember an absolutely psychotic move he pulled off at Road America. He was running down the leading Mazdas, and caught them right as the lead one was getting out of the pits. They tried to effectively block most of the track while the lead car was getting its tires up to temp, but he threaded his Acura through a closing gap that I swear was smaller than the car under braking and got them both in one go.
I met him in 2022 at Mid Ohio for the IMSA weekend. Bruh had the nerve to comment I smelled like weed and said it makes you do dumb things. Without missing a beat I remarked is that how you blew it at Indy in 09
I like how when RHR passed Castroneves, the commentators immediately thought that Castroneves had a problem, and that it didn't even cross their minds that fresh tires were THAT MUCH BETTER for a few more laps.
See. Newgarden has always been good here even before Penske! Actually I think it was the year after this one where he lapped the field in a Carpenter car. Totally missed the awesome JPM interview where he went off on Carpenter lol I just noticed the Hyvee logo on RHR's car. Didnt realize theyve been involved that long
Speedways are tornado magnets, just off the top of my head, you got this watch and another watch at West Palm Beach in the late 80s/early 90s IMSA, you had Houston in 98, you had 2009 IRL at Kansas that got qualy cancelled and the drivers watching the KSN coverage, you had a TC2000 I think it was race in South America with a developing storm at least, overhead, you had Nashville Fairgrounds being in the path at least twice, you had Talladega hit in 04, an Indy the same year missed by a quarter mile, and you had Daytona at least twice, 1998 and 2014, as well as War Bonnet raceway in Medford, Okla that had a tornado cross the track in an acrive race, and Barber was nearly hit at least twice that I could find. Went to dig through IEM's archives for the watch in question since the weather moving straight south makes me uneasy knowing what that usually entails, people caught off guard. Man if I wanted to study tornadoes I'd build a racetrack in a tornado prone area and keep my research vehicles nearby
I also remember Atlanta Motor Speedway getting hit pretty bad, but thankfully not during a race weekend. Also Huset's Speedway in South Dakota where the World of Outlaws race got hit pretty badly as well.
Atlanta was from a tornado spawned from Hurricane Cindy, IIRC but didn't know about the SD one and makes me wonder just how often that happens. Time to put the video on while I dig through IEM's archive to see how often Iowa Speedway or any speedway has shown up. e@@Demise90Racing
Do you have data to prove race tracks are the only places in the last 25 years that could experience more than one event with tornado touchdowns, warnings, or high winds? Or do you always make fallacy assumptions in RU-vid comments.
I remember this night, went to my first actual rock concert. It got canceled but we had as an acoustic gig in the shelter at our local park I went to see red jumpsuit apparatus in concert that night. The show almost got called off but we had a acoustic gig instead of a real live concert outdoors I was looking at my moms so at the time My mom called told me to come home ASAP and I told her now I'll come home when when the show is over?
There is a difference between watch and warning watch is it is possible and warning is there is at least rotation there have been multiple times i have been under watch in West Virginia 90% there is a watch you dont see a tornado even in tornado prone areas like Iowa. This is for tornadoes at least.
Best analogy I’ve seen is the taco analogy. Basically a watch being all the ingredients being in one place but not assembled and a warning being a fully assembled taco. Or basically watch being where conditions are favorable for tornadoes and a warning being one on the ground. Still wouldn’t want to have a watch during a race. Those things, for all their size and sounds, can still sneak up on you.
A tornado warning is the last thing I'd expect a series to give the go-ahead to race in. That aside, the broadcast audio mixing was a bit "meh" and the 2nd commentator (not Diffey, obviously) sounds like he just doesn't even care. And man does he sound BORED.
I've watched that race on Viasat Sport with Russian commentators, who even didn't know that there is no race on ovals while raining) P - professionalism.
