I should have as I am on West Coast time zone most days. I rise at about 10 am (Uk), have my free time during the day, work picks up sometime in the afternoon and then I am tending to be busy all evening long hitting the sack at 2 am. It is my bedtime now.
I'm not sure that comes close to doing to chaos justice. It was bonkers. Shambolic at times. The only saving grace of the race was watching Herta make passes in places you thought he'd never be able to pass. Only to bin it with a few laps to go.
The end of the race is a bit controversial. Someone should show it, and Hamlin's subsequent interview immediatley afterwards, to Max & Red Bull and teach them how to act.
I actually put the second half of the race on while I was getting stuff prepped for dinner, but the bloody cable channel kept freezing, so had to switch it off. I saw what looked like a splitter had got wedged under the curb or something and cars bouncing all over the place on Twitter.
Is Indy always that close and eventful? Great to see a driver actually expressing emotion. I have no idea if he is normally a front runner or back marker etc... Why can't F1 drivers get this emotional????? Thinking of Occon, he was very pleased but not as emotional as this guy at all. Maybe it's a Europe vs USA thing?
Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't, last season it was dominated by 2 drivers, neither of which has won this season, where-as this season 14 different drivers have won. I like that it's a mixed discipline with super-speedways, short ovals, road courses and dirt, and that they get their elbows out. Can't say I've seen the other winners get that emotional. As to 'the Dinger' he's a bit of a crowd favourite, possibly because he wears his heart on his sleeve. I don't really know that much about him as I only got hooked on it last year. I don;t think he's ever been a 'front runner' but seems to punch above his weight on the road courses, so he's only racing those this year iirc.
Probably goes a long way to explaining why F1 has struggled with a wider fan base in the USA, which ihas always been an issue. F1 is too pure for the USA taste. Combine a season of track and rally and you likely would see a very different driver story and success, well, not just likely, you would see.
I dunno, a lot of the old school fans don't like the new gimmicky version, can't say I don't disagree with them either in some regards, neither of the 2 drivers that dominated the series last season won it because they didn't win the final race. There'a always at least 2 caution periods as they split the race into 3 stages, so racing off into a big lead is a waste of time, unless it's in the final stage, though the first 10 in each stage get points and the winner gets a play-off point (don't go there)
I struggled with the lack of flow in American football, but having got to know a few ex players it has a new interest for me. I guess motor racing is the same, it is what you know and are familiar with, the passion tramsmitted by your family, e.g. loyalty to a football team sometimes has no logic.
That's my problem with NASCAR for me these days. It's just so convoluted. That and turned in to a MAGA event pretty much. Maybe one day Ill get back in to it.
If any of you lot are up watching Le Mans, and need a break. Indycar coming up about 1:30am. Grosjean is doing and oval.... Yup....
Good to see Dixon first giving kudos to his mechanics for doing an amazing job fixing a car that looked totally done, but then calling out some of the utterly stupid driving that's taken place lately. Some of it's been shambolic.