It’s Carb Day at IMS!
Greetings from a surprisingly dry Indianapolis Motor Speedway! We arrived about fifteen minutes before the practice ended, due to getting caught behind a wreck in downtown Louisville.
Josef Newgarden led the Carb Day practice with a speed of 228.342 mph. ECR’s Christian Rasmussen was the second quick with a speed of 227.474 mph. David Malukas, Conor Daly and Takuma Sato rounded out the Top Five.
The three cars involved in Monday’s crash had mixed results. Romain Grosjean was eleventh quick in his repaired primary car, but Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi dod not fare as well in their primary cars. O’Ward was twentieth quick at 224.202 mph, and Rossi was thirty-first on the speed charts at 222.291 mph. The only two drivers slower than Rossi were Sting Ray Robb and Katherine Legge.
I said it was surprisingly dry, because it poured on us constantly from the time we left Nashville to just north of Columbus, IN. The rain was coming straight out of the south, so it will most likely catch up to us later today. Once it gets here, I think it is here to stay for the day.
The Weiner 500 will run regardless of weather, at 2:00 on FOX. But the Pit Stop Competition will probably not run in the rain.
The place was packed and getting rowdy as the concert-goers have already made their presence known. I would be lying if I said that CarB Day was my favorite day of the month. We almost totally missed the best part – the practice. The Weiner 500 was funnier than I was expecting last year, and Susan is really looking forward to Version Two this afternoon. Hopefully the rain will hold off until all scheduled track activities are completed.
We are meeting our friend Paul Dalbey and his son at Dawson’s for a very early dinner, then will go check into our hotel and call it an early night. We have early reservations for the IMS Museum tomorrow morning, then breakfast at Charlie Brown’s in Speedway. Dinner tomorrow night will be at The Coachman in Plainfield – a place we discovered about five years ago and added it to our rotation. Then it will be an early night before the race.
Please check back here tomorrow and through the weekend for updates.
George Phillips
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