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Milwaukee Indyfest, Round 1 of the World Championship

Started by Ross Stonefeld , Jun 12 2013 18:10

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#201 Prost1997T

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:22

RHR says

#202 billm99uk

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:26

Team orders controversy?

#203 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:30

Will Power is a fool.

#204 PayasYouRace

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:30

Someone check Roger Penske's heart condition :eek:

#205 expert

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:30

Team orders controversy?

Nope

#206 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:31

Still a good finish for Sato!!

#207 PayasYouRace

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:31

RHR really knows his way round this place. :clap:

#208 anbeck

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:33

That was an entertaining race, particularly for the first 200 laps. It really didn't feel like 2 hours, to be honest.

#209 Prost1997T

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:35

Did anyone see what happened to Vautier?

#210 greenman

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:36

Solid race, I enjoyed it. Good to see Power up there

#211 anbeck

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:36

Good to see that everybody is happy for DHL

#212 Andrew Hope

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:36

Good race! Hinch in 5th was nice, strong from Viso one spot ahead too.

#213 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:37

I ain't gonna lie, that's an ugly baby.

Where is its hair?

Edited by SR388, 15 June 2013 - 22:37.

#214 billm99uk

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:37

Nope

Fine by me :up:

Nice run by RHR at the end there :up:

#215 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:40

Congrats to RHR.

#216 Deluxx

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:41

Pretty good race, eh?

#217 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:42

Pretty good race, eh?

Nah, all the F1 snobs turn their nose to this sort of stuff.

#218 greenman

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:46

I think the broadcast crew also did their job well. Especially when compared with "Always Bad Coverage" guys.

#219 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:47

I think the broadcast crew also did their job well. Especially when compared with "Always Bad Coverage" guys.

I see what you did there.

#220 greenman

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:48

I see what you did there.

I did not make it up, unfortunately. But how true is it...

#221 Deluxx

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:50

Nah, all the F1 snobs turn their nose to this sort of stuff.

So?

#222 OvDrone

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:50

DAMN IT! For some unholy reason I though tonight's race was at the same time as was Texas. Eh... there is at least more Indy race this month right?

Anyways sounds like a nice race. Happy for RHR and Power. I was rooting for Marco sadly. Bourdais... was he a douche again? And Satoooooooo

Edited by OvDrone, 15 June 2013 - 22:51.

#223 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:51

Hinchtown talking truth. I think he said he was gonna put Carpenter in the wall at Iowa.

#224 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:52

So?

We are lower class. *Lifts pinky as sips from can of PBR*

#225 SR388

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:53

Sato looks none too happy:

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#226 greenman

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 22:59

What a way to waste cream puffs

#227 Deluxx

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 23:01

We are lower class. *Lifts pinky as sips from can of PBR*

pbr is so underrated.

#228 prommer

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 23:20

pbr is so underrated.

Agreed, so very much. I wish the hipsters would leave it alone!

And what I wouldn't give for a PBR livery!

#229 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 15 June 2013 - 23:50

Sato bossed it, especially after he was part of that first group who pitted.

I was pointing it out to my seat buddies "The blue car with the orange flashes is leading the group that all has fresh tires, they'll be quick". Tagliani loops it on restart.

Then Sato just started video gaming it. But everytime he was setting up a pass or going by someone I looked to the big screens and he never seemed to be on screen. He got hurt BAD by that last yellow, I'd have liked to see him and RHR restart that final time side by side...

#230 jj2728

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 00:04

Another snooze fest.

#231 Deluxx

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 00:10

How was attendance/atmosphere? Looks like a fun race to attend

#232 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 00:12

Dunno, I was up in the top of the grandstand but my section was all but sold out. Looked like the grandstands in the turns were filled in the top half. But that makes sense, I don't think you'd see much at track level in any of the sections. I think they sold 18,000 tickets pre-event.

#233 HaydenFan

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 02:04

Dunno, I was up in the top of the grandstand but my section was all but sold out. Looked like the grandstands in the turns were filled in the top half. But that makes sense, I don't think you'd see much at track level in any of the sections. I think they sold 18,000 tickets pre-event.

You're not going to sit down alongside the track unless you have to. But saying that, when showing close ups on television of the cars on the front stretch, it made the crowd look bad. Even worse when they showed clips from the 1993 race with Mansell and Andretti and the infield was packed, let alone the grandstands.

#234 djparky

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 12:16

enjpyed the race- but not the endless ESPN ad-breaks

#235 muramasa

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Posted 16 June 2013 - 12:57

Sato still 4th in standing

#236 racinggeek

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 18:02

How was attendance/atmosphere? Looks like a fun race to attend

Local paper, the MKE Journal-Sentinel, guessed about 22,000, about the same as last year. Seems about right, the stands and bleachers looked about half-ish full.

Ross is right about sitting down low. From about Row 14 or so on up, you can see most of the track.

Wonder how many in the infield? For the second year running, there were basically no worthwhile viewing spots inside the track; other than one platform for people who paid extra to be there, infielders couldn't get closer than a good 30 yards, and looking through the fencing. Major downer for us wannabe photogs

#237 racinggeek

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 18:07

Sato bossed it, especially after he was part of that first group who pitted.

I was pointing it out to my seat buddies "The blue car with the orange flashes is leading the group that all has fresh tires, they'll be quick". Tagliani loops it on restart.

Then Sato just started video gaming it. But everytime he was setting up a pass or going by someone I looked to the big screens and he never seemed to be on screen. He got hurt BAD by that last yellow, I'd have liked to see him and RHR restart that final time side by side...

Sato said his car got bad loose toward the end of the next-to-last run, about five or 10 laps before Helio and RHR caught him, and never came back, even after his last stop. I was waiting for him to start marching to the front after the last restart, but the car wasn't there any more.

#238 Risil

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 20:41

Really enjoyed that one. Thanks for the analysis, Ross and Racing Geek. This shit's hard to follow on the TV.

Looking forward to Iowa, that's always a high point of the year.

#239 Andrew Hope

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 22:38

I got the Iowa thread, gimme a day to think of some ****.

#240 Risil

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 22:47

Go get 'em champ

#241 sennafan

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 22:47

enjpyed the race- but not the endless ESPN ad-breaks

and we now interrupt the ads with the race.

#242 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 22:50

I got the Iowa thread, gimme a day to think of some ****.

Children of the Corn.

Moonshine - Ethanol jokes

#243 SR388

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 23:12

I got the Iowa thread, gimme a day to think of some ****.

Yo, make that **** funny. I like laughing.

#244 HaydenFan

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Posted 17 June 2013 - 23:58

Children of the Corn.

Moonshine - Ethanol jokes

Field of Dreams! Field of Dreams! Gotta mention that stupid Costner movie. If the state is known for something beyond corn, it's a baseball field in a cornfield.

#245 packapoo

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Posted 18 June 2013 - 03:07

and we now interrupt the ads with the race.

My feed came by NBC, complete with Diffy and Buxton.
Best bit though, most of it was commentary free.
Sights of cars going round and round; sounds of the same.
No talkee.
It occurred to me someone, somewhere, must be enduring one hell of a lot of add breaks.
I'll swear the commentary was a whole lot shorter then the non-commentary periods. :lol: