Indy 500....

[foster3jd]

Coverage on Sky Sports 3 now... race starts at 6.30pm.

British driver grid positions:
2nd Dan Wheldon (championship leader)
3rd Dario Franchitti
14th Mark Taylor
15th Darren Manning (4th in championship)


>>> Edited by foster3jd on Sunday 30th May 18:17

[foster3jd]

Comedy... race was due to start 5pm, was delayed 2 hours while they dried the track, now stopped after 27 laps as it's raining... bunch of poofs!

[Eric Mc]

Try doing 220 mph on slicks - in the rain.

[foster3jd]

so cut some grooves, put on wet tyres... can't imagine the frogs postponing Le Mans!

[FourWheelDrift]

Good. meant I could watch Das Boot & Top Gear, bank holiday tommorow to watch it live again, if Sky show it

[foster3jd]

race restarting in 1 minute!!!!!.... crowd is sooo patient, have been there for about 6 hours and watched just 27 laps of racing.

[Eric Mc]

Impossible to run safely on ovals in the rain - even if the cars were running on wets. It's never been done.

On the other hand - in pre-war days, was the banking used at Brooklands when it was raining?

[forever_driving]

OK, so the race has been postponed until today, which is great for us in the UK as we have a holiday, but do the US? Or will 400,000 people pull a sicky at work today so that they can go watch the race?

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

On the other hand - in pre-war days, was the banking used at Brooklands when it was raining?

Amazingly yes.

www.brooklandstrack.co.uk/Race1/34_5.htm
www.brooklandstrack.co.uk/Race1/30_5.htm
www.ddavid.com/formula1/ogden31.htm

But they were real hero's back then.

[FourWheelDrift]

forever_driving said:

OK, so the race has been postponed until today, which is great for us in the UK as we have a holiday, but do the US? Or will 400,000 people pull a sicky at work today so that they can go watch the race?

Er.....nope. I saw the race restart and finish, Sky Sports 3 dropped some boring football or tennis replay and showed the race, after it had restarted.. I won't spoil things and say who won or anything, but I can say it was still light when they finished

They may show the race replay today or highlights..

[foster3jd]

Ok, so not giving things away... but how about that move by Tomas Scheckter, that took some balls!!!!!

[FourWheelDrift]

I have always considered him a very dangerous driver, but that was amazing.

He must have had white walled tyres after that move.

[foster3jd]

Kinda guessing that the race suit was NOT white tho

>> Edited by foster3jd on Tuesday 1st June 00:02

[Eric Mc]

Thank's for the Brooklands pic - I had a sneaking suspicion that they did.

[forever_driving]

FourWheelDrift said:

forever_driving said: OK, so the race has been postponed until today, which is great for us in the UK as we have a holiday, but do the US? Or will 400,000 people pull a sicky at work today so that they can go watch the race? Er.....nope. I saw the race restart and finish, Sky Sports 3 dropped some boring football or tennis replay and showed the race, after it had restarted.. I won't spoil things and say who won or anything, but I can say it was still light when they finished They may show the race replay today or highlights..

Oops, I switched off the moment the commentaors said "There's no chance of the race restarting today" and I've just turned the TV on now to watch the restarted race. Only now have I realised that it's already been and gone, bugger. Oh well, only a year to go until the next one

[FourWheelDrift]

They will repeat it again on Sky Sports, tend to at least a 2 or 3 times.

[foster3jd]

Eurosport appear to have some highlights at 00:45 tonight... other than that, nothing showing on the listings!