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12 minutes ago, Jurgen said:

Morao je Rossi da čeka poslednji krug za preticanje. Previše ga je lako obišao Paženo oba puta... 

 

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Pazeno je imao znacajnu prednost u brzini na pravcu, tesko je bilo Rosiju da uopste dodje u priliku da ga pretekne. Morao je da iskoristi sansu cim mu se pruzila jer mozda u sledecem krugu je nece biti.
 

9 minutes ago, alberto.ascari said:

Proradio stream taman da vidim kako Pagenaud parkira na brick line.

 

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Pazeno je imao znacajnu prednost u brzini na pravcu, tesko je bilo Rosiju da uopste dodje u priliku da ga pretekne. Morao je da iskoristi sansu cim mu se pruzila jer mozda u sledecem krugu je nece biti.
 

 

Bice na YT verovatno repriza, iskopacemo nesto 🙂

 

Nije sporno uopšte, ali svejedno, morao je da sačeka. Prerano je bilo, mislim da mu je čak i spoter rekao be patient i there's a long way to go ili tako nešto, ali on je krenuo u akciju. Naravno lako je biti general posle trke, ali videlo se da je jako teško mogao da zadrži Paženoa iza sebe čak i jedan krug.

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Sledeci vikend je dabl-heder u Detroitu (dakle: dve trke za vikend, u subotu i u nedelju) na stazi Bel Ajl koja po svemu podseca na Montreal u F1 - poluulicna staza na ostrvu usred reke, brza za ulicu, dzombasta za autodrom, pola riba pola djevojka sto bi se reklo.

 

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Ovde smo do sada imali prilike da vidimo svasta, od fenomenalnih trka punih tenzije i preokreta do totalnih farsi sa stazom koja se raspada i masovnim udesima koji zakrce kompletnu stazu. Vremenske (ne)prilike cesto umeju da budu faktor jer je u ovo doba godine vreme u Detroitu izuzetno promenljivo, nije neobicno da bude ceo dan tmurno sa niskim temperaturama do 15 stepeni ili sa sitnom skoro pa jesenjom kisom, a takodje moze da se desi i da je suncano i preko 30 stepeni uz ogromnu vlaznost vazduha da bi sledeci cas uleteo pljusak. Zato je ovde tesko predvideti pobednika a takticke zamisli timova su najcesce samo spisak lepih zelja koje se najcesce ne ostvare nego se improvizuje u letu pa ko se bolje snadje.

 

Na ovoj stazi Indikar vozi od 1992 (u medjuvremenu je konfiguracija par puta menjana pa vracana, ova varijanta je vozena od 1998 - 2001 pa onda opet od 2013 do danas) i jedna je od retkih staza na kojima zbog svega gore opeisanog nema izrazite dominacije "velike trojke" Penski-Ganasi-Andreti nego cesto pobedjuju i uslovno receno "mali" timovi.

 

Konkretno ova konfiguracija staze ima 14 krivina, duzinu kruga 3,78 km a rekord staze drzi Skot Dikson sa 1:10.3162 postavljen 2012. godine.

 

Kompletna satnica vikenda: https://detroitgp.com/eventinfo/Full-Schedule/55234

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Emotional Rossi Rages to Runner-up Finish after Duel with Pagenaud

May 26, 2019 | By Jeff Olson, INDYCAR

 

After an angry day behind the wheel and over the team radio, Alexander Rossi was quietly subdued as he circled Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the end of Sunday’s 103rd Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge.

“Sorry, I couldn’t do anything,” Rossi told his Andretti Autosport crew over the radio after Simon Pagenaud beat him to the finish line by .2086 of a second to end a wild, back-and-forth duel.

The disappointing finish capped a strong but troublesome effort by Rossi, who lost the lead to Pagenaud heading into Turn 3 on the 199th lap and couldn’t regain it during the final five turns of the race on the 2.5-mile oval. The two drivers exchanged the lead five times in the final 14 laps of the 200-lap race.

In the end, Rossi explained his emotions in terms of his desire to win the race for a second time. 

“Once you've won this thing once, the desire to win just ramps up exponentially every year,” said Rossi, who won the Indy 500 as a rookie in 2016. “So it sucks to come this close and really have nothing that we as a team could have done differently. I'm proud of them. I'm proud of the effort that they always put in. When we get (win) No. 2, it's going to be probably a huge explosion of emotions because we all want it really bad.”

Rossi’s anger began to surface shortly after the halfway point of the race when he struggled to lap Helio Castroneves, who was two laps down. It continued as he lost track position when the fuel probe wouldn’t engage during a pit stop on Lap 137.

Rossi, who entered the pits in the lead, pounded on the steering wheel as crew members struggled with the fuel hose. Once he returned to the track under caution, Rossi complained to strategist Rob Edwards about Castroneves.

“Is INDYCAR going to deal with people who are five laps down?” Rossi asked.

Edwards told Rossi that the incident had been reported to officials.

“Five laps,” Rossi said.

That wasn’t the end of the emotions. When the race restarted on Lap 147, Rossi struggled to get around another lapped car, this one driven by Oriol Servia. As Rossi finally got past Servia on the frontstretch on Lap 154 after seven laps of battling, he shook his left fist in anger.

“What is he doing?” Rossi shouted over the radio after he completed the pass.

After the race, Rossi had harsh words for Servia, a veteran of 10 Indy 500 starts.

“That’s one of the most disrespectful things I’ve ever seen in a race car,” Rossi said. “He’s a lap down and defending, (nearly) putting me into the wall at 230 mph. It’s unacceptable.”

In spite of the various issues, Rossi was still in position to win at the end. As he chased Pagenaud through the final lap, Pagenaud swerved to try to break Rossi’s draft. Edwards told Rossi over the radio on the cool-down lap that they would protest to INDYCAR officials that Pagenaud had blocked Rossi.

“He was moving in reaction, for sure,” Rossi said after the race. “But it’s the last lap of the Indy 500. They’re not going to do anything about it, so it’s kind of irrelevant.”

Afterward, Rossi emphasized the positives from the runner-up finish, including the 82 points gained, which moved him into third place in the NTT IndyCar Series standings, trailing only Pagenaud and Josef Newgarden, who finished fourth Sunday. Pagenaud is one point up on Newgarden and 22 ahead of Rossi after six races.

“Ultimately, it was a good day for the team,” Rossi said. “I think that we put a huge focus all month as we always do on the race car. The car was by far the best in the field in terms of what we could do and pass at will when I needed to. I didn't see anyone else doing that. So a huge testament to the whole Andretti Autosport organization for … giving me a car that was capable of winning.”

Rossi has never finished worse than seventh in four Indy 500 starts. He’s also led at least a lap in each start at the Brickyard.

 

 

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INSIGHT: McLaren begins its Indy post-mortem

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By: Chris Medland | 1 hour ago

 

On Sunday evening in the Monaco paddock, the McLaren hospitality unit was a somber place. What should have been a tense and nervous few hours with hundreds of eyes glued to the nine massive screens that stretch up over three levels ­– and potentially a big celebration at the end of it all – was a non-event.

 

Ten people sat around watching the Indy 500, while the majority of the team continued with their work and the hospitality crew packed up.

 

The failings at Indianapolis Motor Speedway a weekend before meant many of the team that should have been Stateside were at home, or a lucky few in Monaco instead. The reasons for those failings had been laid bare shortly after Fernando Alonso was bumped from the 33: an unprepared team – exemplified by a lack of a steering wheel and a spare car being re-painted a different shade of orange – had not gotten everything together in time to make the show.

 

“When you get into things like ‘we didn’t have a steering wheel’, it wasn’t like someone forgot to get a steering wheel,” McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown tells RACER. “Just to give context, we were going to do our own steering wheel, we didn’t get it done in time. Yes, Cosworth sells them off the shelf, but getting ready for Indy, everyone’s ordered them, so it ain’t Walmart where you walk in and go ‘I’ll take one of those’.

 

“By the time I got the call – ‘Oh ****, we need a steering wheel’ – Carlin got us one and I got us one from Cosworth, because you need two. So while the story was raw and made us look pretty bad – which we deserved – it wasn’t like ‘****, no one got a steering wheel!’.

 

“And then if you look at all the problems that we had, they all came from lack of preparation, because yes, we didn’t get the gears right. The day before, had we got the ride-height right, we would have identified that we didn’t have the gears right. Why didn’t we get the ride-height right? Because we changed set-up that we were rushing on. Why were we rushing on it? Because we didn’t do Thursday…

 

“It’s like the late Bill Buckner [ED: Red Sox major leaguer who made a notorious fielding error during the 1986 World Series] – it’s the final mistake and everyone remembers that, but they did lose two games before the ball rolled through [his legs], and he ain’t the only guy who had made an error. It was just one of the final moments.

 

“So at the end of the day, we weren’t prepared for Texas and never rang the bell, which is my fault because I saw it but was assured that everything was under control, and it wasn’t. And you saw the result.”

 

While Brown was on the ground at IMS to see the final stages of the attempt unravel, he then spent the following weekend in Monaco. A full post-mortem will now be carried out to identify things like when the spare car was sent to be re-painted, who made the call to do so, and why concerns weren’t voiced earlier.

 

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Cracks in McLaren’s preparations were appearing as early as the Texas test. Image by IndyCar

 

Bob Fernley was head of the McLaren Indy project and his departure made him an immediate scapegoat, but his contract only ran until the 500 regardless. What Brown really wants to know now is the finer details of what tripped his team up.

 

“I know what I saw, I know what wasn’t done, but what I don’t yet know is the minute-by-minute,” he said “I want to know. I don’t want to just generally know why it wasn’t ready, I want to know who made those decisions, who was consulted, why were those decisions made… I want to do a full post-mortem instead of a half-story.

 

“We want to go back. Until we do the post-mortem and then sit around the table and go, ‘What did we learn? What would we do differently next time?’. Then the conversation becomes that we want to do it, is there anything that we find we should have done differently but we can’t right now for whatever reason?

 

“So that will be the sequence: What happened? What would we do differently? Do we want to go back? We want to go back. We will go back. Will we go back in 2020? That will depend on what went wrong this year – can we make sure that’s not going to happen next year?”

 

An obvious piece of the puzzle that Brown says is already in place is Gil de Ferran. The sporting director was hands-on in F1 when work began on the team’s Indy program, but with Andreas Seidl now installed as team principal and James Key as technical director, all of Brown’s players are on the field.

 

“I would have liked Gil de Ferran to be involved from the word go, but he was heavily focused on Formula 1,” he said “So that’s one thing that I know I would want to do differently, and he’ll be able to do that from now on.

 

“So my gut [feeling] is, we’re going to be in a much better position. We’ve done the learning, we’ve bought the cars, we’ve got the equipment, so much of what you would need to do to go [back] has been done. Now it’s about learning where we made the mistakes, and fixing those.”

 

Now with a car at the factory and Fernando Alonso about to be free from his WEC commitments, entering a race later this year might have been attractive to both McLaren and the Spaniard. Brown insists that won’t happen, and while a race or two in early 2020 is much more likely than a full-time program Brown says the project does not center around Alonso’s involvement.

 

Still hungry for the Triple Crown, Alonso felt the car McLaren had given him by the end of Bump Day would have been a real contender once the gear ratios were adjusted, and in that there is hope he will still be behind the wheel of a future McLaren entry. After all, the team missed out by one spot on each of Saturday and Sunday – by 000.02mph and 000.019mph respectively – when the closest field in Indy 500 history was set.

 

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Brown expects Gil de Ferran to be more hands-on with any future McLaren/Indy project. But will Alonso be there? Image by IndyCar

 

“Everyone’s entitled to their opinion,” Brown says. “In a public sport, you put yourself out there, and you’re going to have your supporters and your critics. I recognize that, I acknowledge that, I accept that.

 

“There are a lot of uninformed opinions. I see something like ‘I can’t believe they only did one test day’. That’s all we were allowed to do. There are certainly a lot of people that don’t understand, but then there’s also people who say ‘you’re McLaren and you have an expectation and not qualifying is not acceptable’, and I agree.

 

“So I think what we took on was a big task, it was brave, we got it wrong and we’ll come back fighting. Some people – which I appreciate – recognize that, and then some people don’t recognize that, don’t want to recognize that, aren’t fans of ours and therefore take shots at us.

 

“That’s the nature of [sport]; whether you go to a football match and you’ve got one guy who is cheering for a team and another guy who is screaming at the quarterback because he threw an interception… I’d like to see him try and throw a touchdown pass. But that’s sport, you have to accept it’s that type of environment.”

 

Even in the face of such criticism, Brown is confident the members of McLaren’s executive committee share his hunger to return to Indianapolis. A final call on 2020 is likely to be made in the coming weeks, and even if there are roadblocks to an immediate return, it’s clear the 500 is now unfinished business to more than just Alonso.

 

“We want to go back and I’d like to go back,” Brown insists. “If we’re going to go back next year, we’ll want to make a quick decision so that we’ve got maximum preparation, because a lack of preparation is what got us where we are this time.

 

“I don’t want to predict that we’re going to go back. I’d like to go back. All the reasons why McLaren should be at Indy are still valid reasons, and we’re not quitters. We’re racers.

 

“Even though this was the lowest point in my career and a massive high-profile failure, you’ve got to get back on the horse.”

 

 

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