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I see IRL is taking a cue from NASCAR

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JDee

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I thought it was a decent race. Though there were a lot of needless "incidents". I guess rich kid racers don't care what the carnage is if dad is picking up the bills. Until it comes to someone's life that is. A couple of those "incidents" were pretty damn bad.
There did seem to be a hell of a lot more contact between cars than I recall in past years. Indycar needs to sit these rich kid racers down and give them holy hell about respect between drivers.
 

Dave_W

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They really needed to throw that last red flag a lap earlier, so they could do the normal full-lap warmup before going green. It would have let them pull all the cars into pit lane and park instead of threading through wrecked cars and workers on the front straight.

I think as soon as they didn't immedately throw that red, they should have let it finish under yellow. Ericsson would have made an extra $420,000 over the winner's purse for the repeat bonus, so that was a huge payout swing for his team.

If they had a normal warm-up lap, Ferrucci may have challenged for the win. He had been a demon on most restarts (the previous restart he was nose-to-nose with 1st & 2nd by start-finish at the green flag), but on the last one he seemed to drop back unexpectedly. Though I may be biased because he's from CT.
 

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