2025 Month of Motherfucking May

[John]

We're going live with the Sonsio GP tomorrow. Qualifying tonight.

Will sadly miss this one, as I'm out and about. Enjoy this weekends proceedings.

[MonteCristo]

Palou pole again. Sigh.

[MonteCristo]

Guess who won?

Apparently it was a decent race though.

[John]

Get this fucker to F1 so someone else has a chance.

[Cheeveer]

Indy 500 practice is green!

[Everso Biggyballies]

Indy 500 practice is green!

Power tops rain interrupted opening Indy 500 practice

Team Penske has fired the first warning shot at the Indianapolis Speedway, topping Practice 1 for the 109th Indianapolis 500 thanks to Will Power.

On an interrupted day due to rain, Power was fastest with a 39.6430, which was the only the lap to have an average speed of 227mph.

Will just edged ahead of teammate and Indy hotshot Josef Newgarden by 0.0097s, while the winning machine Alex Palou completed the top three.

In another strong sign for Team Penske, Scott McLaughlin, who took Indy 500 pole last year, was a solid fifth, three tenths adrift.

In all, drivers got roughly three hours of on-track running after proceedings were delayed by rain.

The day was incident-free, though there were curious scenes for IndyCar newcomers Prema who spent the lion’s share of the day parked up.

Callum Ilott and Robert Shwartzman and were last and second-to-last, respectively. Ilott ran 16 laps with a 217.189 mph effort his best of the day. Shwartzman, meanwhile, cut just six laps with a 217.836 mph best.

Of the no-tow runners, Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood led the way on a 219.497 mph lap ahead of Newgarden and surprise packet Jacob Abel for Dale Coyne Racing, who could make his Indy 500 debut this year as long as he qualifies.


Practice started two hours, 32 minutes late due to intermittent rain and damp track conditions, and the session ended 32 minutes early due to lightning strikes within the vicinity of the historic 2.5-mile oval.


This is just the first chapter of a busy build up to the Indianapolis 500 with the next three days full of practic
Practice is scheduled to continue on Thursday

Results: 109th Indianapolis 500, Practice 1

Pos Num Driver Team Engine Speed Lap Diff Gap Fastest Lap Laps
1 12 Will Power Team Penske Chevy 227.026 39.643 39.643 61 73
2 2 Josef Newgarden Team Penske Chevy 226.971 39.6527 0.0097 0.0097 26 63
3 10 Alex Palou Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 226.673 39.7047 0.0617 0.052 29 51
4 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 225.059 39.9896 0.3466 0.2849 4 53
5 3 Scott McLaughlin Team Penske Chevy 225.005 39.9991 0.3561 0.0095 41 52
6 6 Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank w/ Curb‑Agajanian Honda 224.523 40.085 0.442 0.0859 12 25
7 20 Alexander Rossi Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 224.347 40.1165 0.4735 0.0315 20 51
8 66 Marcus Armstrong Meyer Shank Racing Honda 224.212 40.1405 0.4975 0.024 9 59
9 28 Marcus Ericsson Andretti Global Honda 224.169 40.1483 0.5053 0.0078 23 47
10 98 Marco Andretti Andretti Herta w/Marco & Curb‑Agananian Honda 224.147 40.1522 0.5092 0.0039 28 44
11 21 Christian Rasmussen Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 223.933 40.1906 0.5476 0.0384 65 75
12 4 David Malukas AJ Foyt Enterprises Chevy 223.176 40.3269 0.6839 0.1363 8 35
13 24 Jack Harvey Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevy 222.822 40.3909 0.7479 0.064 27 47
14 23 Ryan Hunter‑Reay Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevy 222.704 40.4123 0.7693 0.0214 28 50
15 33 Ed Carpenter Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy 222.66 40.4204 0.7774 0.0081 25 39
16 26 Colton Herta Andretti Global w/Curb‑Agajanian Honda 222.537 40.4427 0.7997 0.0223 38 40
17 77 Sting Ray Robb Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevy 222.438 40.4608 0.8178 0.0181 34 37
18 60 Felix Rosenqvist Meyer Shank Racing Honda 222.335 40.4794 0.8364 0.0186 11 55
19 27 Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Global Honda 222.03 40.535 0.892 0.0556 37 39
20 6 Nolan Siegel Arrow McLaren Chevy 221.822 40.5731 0.9301 0.0381 40 69
21 76 Conor Daly Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevy 221.671 40.6008 0.9578 0.0277 13 33
22 8 Kyffin Simpson Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 221.629 40.6084 0.9654 0.0076 72 84
23 7 Christian Lundgaard Arrow McLaren Chevy 221.262 40.6758 1.0328 0.0674 49 51
24 17 Kyle Larson Arrow McLaren Chevy 221.207 40.6858 1.0428 0.01 5 45
25 30 Devlin DeFrancesco Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 221.201 40.687 1.044 0.0012 40 42
26 15 Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 221.142 40.6978 1.0548 0.0108 33 35
27 14 Santino Ferrucci AJ Foyt Enterprises Chevy 221.048 40.7151 1.0721 0.0173 6 21
28 51 Jacob Abel Dale Coyne Racing Honda 220.983 40.7271 1.0841 0.012 36 40
29 5 Pato O’Ward Arrow McLaren Chevy 220.263 40.8602 1.2172 0.1331 33 35
30 45 Louis Foster Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 220.063 40.8973 1.2543 0.0371 7 54
31 75 Takuma Sato Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 219.998 40.9095 1.2665 0.0122 21 29
32 18 Rinus Veekay Dale Coyne Racing Honda 219 41.0959 1.4529 0.1864 31 54
33 83 Robert Shwartzman Prema Racing Chevy 217.836 41.3155 1.6725 0.2196 6 6
34 90 Callum Ilott Prema Racing Chevy 217.189 41.4385 1.7955 0.123 11 16

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[John]

1. Palou (227.548)
2. Power (225.854)
3. Newgarden
4. Dixon
5. Daly
6. Malukas
7. Armstrong
8. Castroneves
9. Harvey
10. Rasmussen
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12. Herta
14. Larson
16. Mclaughlin
20. O'Ward
32. Robb

Prema moved up to 29th and 31st. Progress. Special Ed dead last. Ferucci 33rd.

Palou almost two MPH faster than Power. What the fuck.

[MonteCristo]

Madness.

MADNESS!

[Everso Biggyballies]

The people's favourite is clearly sandbagging.....

[John]

Day 3

1. JoNew (226.632)
2. Dixon
3. Daly
4. O'Ward
5. Hunter-Reay
6. Palou
7. Herta
8. Rasmussen
9. Malukas
10. McLaughlin
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12. Robb (!!!!!)
16. Kirkwood
24. Power
27. Ericsson
30. Rosenqvist
33. Ferrucci
34. Rahal

All Honda cars will fit a new engine for tomorrow.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Day 3

1. JoNew (226.632)
2. Dixon
3. Daly
4. O'Ward
5. Hunter-Reay
6. Palou
7. Herta
8. Rasmussen
9. Malukas
10. McLaughlin
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12. Robb (!!!!!)
16. Kirkwood
24. Power
27. Ericsson
30. Rosenqvist
33. Ferrucci
34. Rahal

All Honda cars will fit a new engine for tomorrow.

Mentioned after P1 and 32nd place.....

The people's favourite is clearly sandbagging.....

You read it here first!

Interesting we have a car in our Touring Car Masters big V8 Historic Tourers that runs with a full Jesus Racing Team livery. https://jesusracing.com.au/

Seems JC was off duty last weekend. Bit of a 3 car big one. The words :"Jesus wept" were heard. Amongst others.

Video and pic in Spoiler

[Microsprinter18]

damn

[MonteCristo]

Christ, what a hit.

[Cheeveer]

Larson just crashed. Not huge amount of damage.