102nd Running of the Indianapolis 500

The following is a special presentation of on ABC there's nothing like Indianapolis on race day the show welcome to the one hundred and second

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of the Indianapolis 500 the pre-race show presented by Pennzoil and for the 54th year we're on NBC Hello , I'm Nicole Briscoe, there are 33 drivers in this field and over the next few hours they will be writing a story for one of the endings that will define their career, a bit like winning a Super Bowl that Aaron Rodgers has done. here today with his girlfriend Danica Patrick making the final start of his career more on that in a minute Kelly Clarkson will sing the national anthem and Thor after Chris Hemsworth has an important job today he will wave the green flag some advice he received about it and Victor Oladipo of the Indiana Pacers, appropriately, will lead the beat card.

A certain respect is given to the Speedway when it comes to life on a race morning, a quiet calm and then noise as soon as their final preparation cars begin. now on the grid and the drivers heading to the pre-race ceremonies saw for the first time the crowd of a driver's fans this place is also his childhood in carpenter he grew up in

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he tried his first race here when he was eight years old he used work on the golf course inside the track; In fact, he crashed some of those golf carts on the way, but this month they cleaned it up and dr.

Jerry Punch was the fastest when he was needed; Well, for the third time in his career, the fans stood up and shouted their approval when you won the pole here in Indianapolis and I know you're looking for that first win, so today, how? Do you translate that he took out a speed to compete with his results? It will be a totally different day. You know the conditions will be very challenging today. You can feel the heat rising here. The Tim Sprague track will be as high as we've seen. month, so it's going to be a struggle for all of us, you know, we're all going to have to manage our car and the traffic and whatever circumstances come our way, but you know, I feel like we're battle tested, right?

Now, in fact, the team is prepared and you know that if we have good pit stops and we will do everything possible to stay in front, your fellow drivers have said that with this current aerodynamic package it is very important to start at the front, so with how hard are you going to exert yourself? early to stay there, I mean, I think we're all going to work hard to get to the front, you know, I think what's going to get difficult is just not knowing where the yellows are going to land, you know if you could skip the middle.

It's not yellow, you know you're going to see the field is going to be divided and it's going to be a tough call, so hopefully we can stay out front, although hey, it's been a week today since Carpenter won the poll here in Indianapolis and it's important to understand that the standings in Indy here is not just about speed, but about excitement. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the day of improvement. The drama and tension of establishing the 33 who will compete in next Sunday's Indianapolis 500. The drivers are fighting to be in the 33. car field, so here's James Hinchcliffe, he's following as the slowest of the cars, dollar lap number four for Conor Daly, he's 30 seconds into the fast four now pumping his head of James separated from the starting field, a man is on the track now on the outside looking in who doesn't seem to have much speed has to come back and try again 13 minutes and change left to go or I can feel the tension just sitting here, he is trying to empty his head of everything that is the winner of the 2016 hole. having two fights again the last place on the grid very, very, very bad vibe.

I received some and the track will be available for a man's hip and all James Hinchcliffe can do is sit back, listen to his heartbeat and watch the seconds tick by. James Hinchcliffe is not going to qualify for this year's Indianapolis 500 as long as he's here with James Hinchcliffe and that's okay, let's talk about the fact that as hard as it was on the day of the hit, how hard was it the next day when everyone Did the other drivers return to their cars? and you weren't, it's a weird face, weird to be on a racetrack and not drive even if you're not supposed to be in the race, so to be on a racetrack and not drive when you really should be in the race It's tough, there's no I doubt it, but he was a good guy, you know, dip your toe in the water of what it's going to be like today, today's going to be tough, there's no doubt about it, but you know, I'm very proud of this team.

I'm proud of my teammates. Obviously I'll encourage you to help out in any way you can, but yeah, it's going to be a tough day for sure. Okay, there were efforts to get you into a car after that day, which would have meant you. I'm taking the place of another driver. How close was that gift? Honestly, everything was done way above me. I don't even know. I told. I really want to stay out of it. As I said. You know from the beginning. I was mentally preparing myself to not be in the race from the moment the gun went off because that's what I needed to do for myself and I guess there were some arguments, I'm not sure who they were with or how far they went, but in the end you know.

I think we did it, what we had to do and we're going to take our lumps, we're going to put our heads down and go to Detroit and try to win two races there, yeah, a different kind of survival for James Hinchcliffe today and of course, a. One of the key things is the fact that the Indy 500 isn't just a race, it's the crown jewel of what can only be described as the best day in racing. We call all racing fans, gearheads and speed freaks, your time has come, welcome. the fastest day of the year three iconic races three legendary tracks an incredible death dawn Ray's racing wallet eats up the golden streets of Monaco midday promises 500 miles of immortality if you are pushed through the vein of the god of bricks and the day ends with an incredible endurance test under the lights and Charlotte, if you love the smell, feel and taste of victory milk, you, my friend, are on high octane, the Indianapolis 500 and Coca -Cola 600 today, speed has no limit, the three-race spectacle of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Pennzoil. babies to switch to synthetic Pennzoil today and partly through progressive insurance in the past all those naughty images came out of all of them make a snake face they shut it down because there's a fuss and then there's a fuss about snake bites, I'm not sure about actually it's a lot quieter there today you still need to be a proper adult to be there it's a lot quieter Who am I now this has always been my favorite place to watch from IMS it's the grassy knoll in turn two like grabbing a blanket maybe You have a drink, sit down and when the cars go by, you feel it in your soul now as a reference.

I, in theory, turn three is right there, except on this day the Indianapolis Motor Speedway actually becomes the second largest. city ​​in Indiana, we're talking 300,000 people, this sixty-fourth largest city in the US alone for this day, so big that it becomes bigger than 53 countries in the world now I'm not judging, okay, maybe a little, but I think where you choose to watch this race might say something about you in all the years I've come here. I've never been brave enough to go where Marty Smith is now welcome to the snake pit Nicole, it's funny, the Indianapolis 500 and the American sporting institution and somewhere.

Inside that portrait of Americana are these wild people, the snake hides in turn three, it's an old tradition, David lifts a staff on the field and the tents are as heavy as a J-point, the prime ministers are Al Unser, It's crazy out here, this is the loud one. clown, let's go to the fancy Bunch, I'm not a fan of sitting in racing traffic where there were 200,000, your closest friends, we still want to be here early enough to enjoy the energy of this show, try this glamping, glamorous camping this year, seventy-two complete tents. With beds, furniture, electricity, and 15 air-conditioned tiny houses, prices start around $1,300 for an overseas holiday.

The key word is party, but here's the best part. People were right in the middle of the action. Who's ready to see some drivers? You imagine? Today's emotions for Danica Patrick is back in the place that made her a household name. Remember 2005 when she took the world by storm at the end and finished fourth as a rookie behind Dan Wheldon. Today she is back for the first time in seven. years, but also during the last period until the end, her racing career comes to an end when she raced with us today, the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race in Japan in 2008, finished third here in 2009 in 2018 to close the book here it is Hannah Storm can't think of a better place to end than here, where it all began and came full circle.

Why was it so important for you to finish your career here? Good memories, lots of memories, period, all coming together for one last race. It will be an emotional day of racing, but I will try to have as much fun as possible and come out with the best possible result. What do you remember most about being here as a rookie and leading those 19 laps? I just remember feeling so humble because it was easy, like just the car was good, it was so fast, I just remember it being easy and I remember thinking just stay humble like there's no way it can be that easy all the time if there's one. thing I've learned about life in general, but especially about this track and her story and the life she has here, is don't be too arrogant and look at this as an absolutely incredible tactic, it's real and she leads, why?

I think what you were able to accomplish here and why resonated so strongly outside of your sport. I mean, that's a great question. I really don't know other than the fact that there are only a couple of things I've won. I'm always honest and I think people can connect with that, but they see that they feel that and the pioneer aspect of who you are, girl, by the way, yes, if I had thought of myself as different and being a girl, and how would I'm? for a girl, well, then that would have been the right indicator and then my mind would have been set on that limit or that potential, and it never has been.

You have made it easier for women who have dreams in this sport, our mind is incredibly powerful, so as soon as you think you can do something, you can, that's really the teaching, not for me to do something, for me to do something, it doesn't make you capable of doing something well, you have to believe it, so there will be skeptics and they will be believers from the beginning and then the question is how they handle the situation, they know what they are going to be able to do and they have not been able to do, that is which excites them very much.

I'm excited to have it overall. less pressure how I feel in my evolution I enjoy doing things that are artistic and creative and that's why I want to do more of that and less of what you know, not in my stomach, holy, do it, go deeper, you know, this is what you do. Danica um I'm excited to put that aside and just relax, the question has to be asked about the legacy: what do you think it will be in terms of racing more than anything? I just hope they remember me as a great driver and then I was a girl, that's not something that should be dismissed.

I think that's part of my story. I'm proud of it. It helped me. It hurt me. I just hope that people remember me as a great German and this summer Danica Patrick will do something. More than any other woman has done before she will host the ESPYs live on ABC presented by Capital One. It's Wednesday, July 18 from the Microsoft Theater. It's the night where sports and entertainment collide, although that's happening here today to actor Chris Hemsworth. Thor, also played James Hunt in the movie Rush, will be waving the green flag today, so when you throw out the first pitch in baseball, all they tell you is not to bounce it, what advice have you been given on how to wave it? the flag that's definitely done bounced a flag don't drop it trying to figure out which hand we're going to use move it in the right direction so you don't redirect cars there are a few things that Hawaii Michelle just mentioned. pressure, but it should be fun, how long do you plan to stay in that position while he lets me?

That probably signaled me to come back down. I don't know, it's very exciting that this is the first time I'm here. I've been to Formula A in New York which was great Minda Monica this is something completely different again it's wonderful how does this compare to Monaco? I mean, this is the biggest day in motorsports around the world, how does this experience compare to that? So chaotic in the crowds, this is intense, busy and excited, so they are very similar, obviously, very different to the geographical environment, but the crowds are as enthusiastic as those in Monaco, yes, just remember, don't drop it, enjoy the day.

So Chris, we'll start the day withthe green flag, but remember that for a driver, this will all end with a bottle of ice cold milk. Marty Smith, one of the most iconic traditions of the Indies, arrives in a glass jug at 5:45 in the morning by the first people who let the milk people deny here on race day for more than 80 years nearly every Indy 500 winner has drunk from the glass chalice of tradition and poured out their life-changing moment with white drops of history. It all started in 1936. with Louis Mayer, his mother told him on a hot day to drink plenty of buttermilk when he won the 500, he was hot and like any good son he listened to mom, what he didn't know is that at that time covered the story and didn't abandon Meyers.

Tradition asks Emerson Fittipaldi in 1993 Fittipaldi decided to drink orange juice in victory lane to promote some orange orchards that he owned, they still haven't forgotten him around here these days, the 33 drivers choose the brand of milk they want to drink in victory lane before getting in the car, in case they get a chance to spill a victory into history, check it out here. the list of what the drivers were expecting, check out ed carpenter, he's going with Louie Mayer if he wins, he wants that buttermilk, you know, we're going big here, we're bringing the flags, be this guy this weekend of the Memorial Day and skip some of them veterans for flags and when we return, the most kissable Rick's on all the covers, the Indianapolis 500, a show presented by United Rentals that their shifts, first group program that helps provide technology cutting-edge medical care and access to rehabilitation and to military and veterans. turns for the troops helping our heroes take their next steps forward, a turn in no other world, the idea of ​​getting down on your knees and putting your mouth on the road that's been run over repeatedly sounds appealing unless, of course, You may be in Indianapolis and that piece of road is the brick yard, which is also always difficult to explain to children.

No, don't eat that food off the floor, but yes, we're going to kiss some bricks if you win this race once you're a part of history. if you win it four times, you will have reprinted Kittery AJ Foyt in unser rick mears, the only four-time winners of this race, but today we could add the yacht Vegas to that list, yes we could and, of course, it would be Elio Castroneves who just See that. graph of the four-time winners last year, you were two tenths of a second away from doing so, but the cars have changed a lot since then, how do you rate your chances today?

Yes, I like it a lot. The Shell Pennzoil machine definitely looks strong. As you can see, the weather is really very difficult, something that throughout the whole week that everyone has been practicing is a little bit different, so a lot of people, not just me, but a lot of people, started relearning the car in those conditions, but we feel that we have achieved it. enough tools in the car to make that happen, so I'm excited, let's get going, so quick, is there something about the fact that you're not racing the entire series in IndyCar? Does that somehow make you more focused on today I feel like we have nothing to lose right now we're not thinking about points you're not thinking about the championship we're just thinking about that big one and we're going to make it happen and of course Elio will be easy to spot again this year and Pennzoil's colors drive what he calls the Yellow Submarine.

Nicole. Roger Penske earned his 200th IndyCar Series victory with Willpower's victory at the Indy Grand Prix just a couple of weeks ago; There have been 15. new Penske Indy Car championships, but the number when you drive for Roger Penske is 16. 16 wins at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. None of the guys who have the privilege of calling this race Scott Goodyear, Eddie Cheever and Allen Bestwick, if you're going to look at just one team. a team that wins this race today Penske is probably a good place to start, yes those numbers say a lot about the captain and his team here in Indianapolis.

Nicole, what makes Roger Penske so good here, think about how he started down this path. Many, many decades ago, you had a lot of great drivers driving what has been the only consistency: Roger Penske, he's relentless when he starts going down a road and now he's got the number 16 and today he's got four guys who could go 17, now Roger could be. Anywhere on the planet he chose to be today, but he chooses to be here in Indianapolis and not in the sweet air conditioning, but in the moment. Stan calls this strategy for one of his race teams, so the passion for this race, how does that affect? the drivers, the mechanics and the teams that work for him now, when you ask anyone who works for Roger Penske, they will tell you that Roger tells them that the most important race to win is the Indianapolis 500, it is what defines the $21 billion Penske.

Automotive Empire now the only one who maybe has no pressure on him here today to win is Elio Castroneves because he has won three times, but the other three Pinsky drivers who won the Verizon IndyCar Series championship know that to keep their spot in the equipment. Penske are going to have to have an Indianapolis 500 win on the resume, so 33 other cars in the field today are Team Penske Penske or the field in those conditions today, new cars, the heat, I'm going to go with the field. you go with Penske every day you take the safe road I'm taking the very safe road those four cars, all ranked in the top eight of the field, will no doubt be contenders, let's hear from last year's champion who drives for the team Penske Josef Newgarden is in the pits, well Allen you are right he is the reigning champion, he won the championship in his first year for Roger Penske, but when you drive for the captain there is one job and that is to win 500. you feel that pressure when you're with this team, oh definitely yeah, I mean, I think you feel the pressure of the Indy 500 in general, but when you run it with Team Penske you feel that legacy, you feel the pressure to do your job. for the group and this means the most, we have one opportunity every year to make this happen in this race and when you get to Sunday for this race day, you have had three weeks to fix your car, you have one day to do it right, so That pressure is enormous, but I think we have excellent cars.

The Chevy team has done an amazing job for us this month. We feel like we have the reliability of the power and certainly the mileage of the engine. We are ready to start today. Verizon cars will be fast every time. Well, all four cars are really strong, let's say the four cars on the lead lap are fighting on that last lap, what's your thinking? What do you want to be in the right position? You know, we still don't know if that's leading. or if it's second or third, you don't really know yet until you run the race, you're playing with it throughout the whole process, figuring out where you want to be positioned, but look at these four of us on the lead lap fighting.

That's a good thing for Team Penske and I can tell all these guys that they love it so much, so we're going to compete hard with each other, but let's try to be very fair, yeah, how competitive the battle is between these teammates. I really call it an all out war in this case an autograph war even though we are teammates there are some lines that just don't get crossed this is over this will never really end it started when I signed at the Indianapolis airport when I took it to the next level I'm going to sign a real race car Simon it's so easy to pay it's like taking pole position from a baby hey Simon that's a super cute signature look at this I know if I push it a little and that's what It's funny, King Joseph, since I see you already signed your amendment, you know, the helmet that really hurt, that hit very close to home with me, Simon, you have to think bigger than that, brother, you signed my house, it really went up a level and Simon signed on my front door, who will make sure that the package delivery person will sign on the underside of your car?

I had to wait for his move, that's the game, it's your move, brother, so Joseph, you know where I am now, I assigned you your move. bro, what kind of person signs someone else's shoes? I'm like a fox terrier man. I never give up. I think he's getting a little tired of it. I'm not whatever. You know, April 15 was a particularly difficult day. The next level was. when I signed with his mom, I really think I upset him in some way and I thought we agreed not to talk about it, you know, I was struggling to process it.

Hello, José, it's mom, maybe anger, betrayal, but really just determination, yes, that's the deadly thing. weapon right there and you pass and all you can see is my signature on this one is better, it's your move bro, you know, at this point I thought I just needed to do something nice like get the details of his bus, did you really do it? Are they going to stop us? Just make a legal U-turn down there. Oh, it's your call, brother, when will this challenge end well? I guess I'll take the final checkered flag with me. Yes, Jammu, brother, welcome back to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, before the race. program presented by Pennzoil, can you imagine Tom Brady winning the Superbowl one season and then, in the off-season, changing teams and trying to come back the next year to win it again, but with a different team, Takuma Sato won the Indy 500 on last year?

With Indrani Autosport is back this year, but with Ray Hall Letterman Lanigan competing, you'd think that would make it different. The chaos here is contagious. The Indy 500 is all about precision measured in microseconds and razor-thin margins, but with that order comes some chaos. starts with 3,333 brave drivers, some move before moving from new cars to these new teams each year, exciting unknowns welcomed on this iconic oval, new blood, eyes wide open, in fact, as champion, three top five In three months, expectations with the group, there are familiar faces in unknown places. places Yemen seven years of an athlete now with Carla the children led laps last year leave Josie look here here there is not enough beauty beauty routine even two champions will try to return to Victory Lane wearing the colors of a former rival you drank the milk and still getting some runs has the power to upset the natural order of things this track owes you nothing but the call of these bricks is too loud for the Speed ​​beans to ignore Elio back Pinsky Pinsky time' thanks again daily first race this year after Brady revealed to Brennan he's super smart, anything, his weight or the cable, is also a powerful way to frame a record-setting race.

The first lady is very fast, but she is not here for seven years and she walks off into the sunset knowing that she has changed the sport forever, a change comes. many complete cars, including one that puts skill above all else and drivers see that no one knows this car to make sense of the chaos. One was focused on the note that speed and danger are brothers. On occasion, it can reach more than 200 miles per hour. so fast here the rewards never precede the risk and victory embraces but one all these drivers thirst for the same they bring the mail and from all this chaos a resolution that precisely measured trophy or curve forged into medals that will never be forgotten thirty five drivers tried but only 33 have the honor of crossing this same stage today.

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of the Indianapolis 500? Bob Jenkins, take him away. Thanks Nicole, here we go, starting in 33rd position driving the number 17 car in its fifth. Indianapolis 500 Appearance Conor Daly shook the racing world with his daring rookie victory in the 100th Indianapolis 500 in 2016 Alex Center Aussies and starting in his second Indy 500 from Bassington England Jack Harvey or the Tetro was the youngest driver to win an IndyCar race making his 11th Indy 500 start gray m.r one stop, finished third last year in his first 500 from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, IDI Jones and returning for his third Indy start from Basildon, England, Jay Howard and now on highway nine, his second place. finishing scorched him Rookie of the Year honors in 2011 Junior Delta brand starting in his tenth place in position 526 of Catalonia Spain Barrios Serbia defeating in his second Indy 500 driving for Andretti Autosport in the beach of bags of cars number 26 until the eighth launch 2013 in fact white champion competing in his race Indy 500 step the wise man Karam in the middle of that row is driving liver $25.00 for Andretti Autosport from Sheffield England Stefan Wilson here is the 2014 Indian Lites champion from Bogotá faces Gaby Chávez in row 7 2013 that d500 working of the year and twice runner-up starting in his sixth Indianapolis 500 also from Bogotá Carlos muñoz rises again these days more than last year in the Indy 500 of Bugatti England max Jetsons and competing in his fourth Indy 500 in MelbourneAustralia James hikmah son to row six one of Yelp Ontario of Canada Robert Wiccans - champion of Santa Clara California Kyle Kaiser his driller Brooks let's duel with our block water trophy from last year that a good one from Tokyo Japan Takuma Sato now in row five and starting is eight-five hundred from Camarillo, California, Charlotte Niple, is the most successful active American driver in open-wheel racing in the 2012 IndyCar Series in the 2014 Indy 500 and one chaser away and starts in her first Indy 500 Montreal Quebec Canada Zachary - D'Mello in 2:04 now in his 13th Indy 500 driving other sports Marco Andretti while the fastest working on the face 2017 freedom 100 champion rock Rahzel fat ass face and 2013 Indy 500 winner and 2004 Verizon IndyCar Series champion are two days, nothing wrote 3d wave sports all time IndyCar Series wins its support time Verizon IndyCar Series champion and 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner from Auckland New Zealand Scott Dixon three times 55 from Sur Paulo Brazil here comes this fight indy500 race in 7th position returning to Harbor 500 since 2011 and retiring from racing at the end of today's event Danica Patrick - was runner-up in 2015 starting her third Indy 500 Spencer Pickett in the drivers' battle to win four consecutive championships from Lamar and Sebastien Bourdais and the 2017 Verizon IndyCar champion's fourth position in the current 2018 series Points leader Joseph Newgarden started on the front row, a three-time Indy winner Three in 2014, the Verizon IndyCar Series champion, Australia, with the 2016 Series champion, also for France, Simon Padgett.

Oh, and if he was good for the third time, he recorded the blistering average qualifying speed of two hundred and twenty-nine point six one eight miles per hour from Indianapolis ON the starting field of today's Indianapolis 500 and now everyone can relax, take a break, sit down, take that iconic photo, you know what I bet someone could tweet a photo of that and maybe someone could get some love from the fans on the other end of the line and then maybe not, and that's okay because I think it would actually be boring if we all just had along Ryan Hunter-Reay boring the head carpenter, which is saying something.

I don't think the end of that 14th race was very boring. Twenty guy knows that he has his own area code. Yes, it's 305. Miami code Eric has a beach in our. own island there's no point having a sexy party it's a starter contest I won't be a part of it totally agree have you seen my hip movements just new Guardian superstar he's the perfect guy to be the face of your series handsome nice hilarious cool with the shiny media, he needs to come with me everywhere I meet my big man Robert Wilkins, he looks like he would be on a local Remax billboard, he's a remax endorsement, yes, Tony Kanaan looks more like a wrestler than a runner , he's got an uneven year, he's a big nose and thick neck is racing I don't have to be pretty I just have to be fast I bet Ryan Hunter-Reay drinks skim milk - hashtag Indy 500 gotta love the fans man but I gotta dragon's milk so Simon is passionate about it I'm like the Talladega Nights genre I really want him to lose well that's good don't hate like that damn thieves Wiccans sounds incredibly Canadian notability Tony had a good try we all know that in you're actually Vin Diesel using a fake accent to try to fool us all, yeah I love how all these people suddenly fall in love with IndyCar because Joseph Newgarden is hot, that's great reasoning.

There's a second part to this tweet and it says, for God's sake, Joseph Newgarden isn't that interactive. I agree, that's really it. funny, actually, big babe, I really don't like Simon, passionate, such a tool. Wow, what kind of: a hammer, a screwdriver, hey, he can't be loved by everyone. I like you, he will potentially be the hottest indy500 by a record, a balmy 90 degrees. Look now, that's the other race no one talks about today, the drivers drink their fluids and make one last stop, okay, some other calls of nature, there are 33 drivers and only two, two bathrooms, now, when my husband was in this career, this was the part. which would always make me very, very nervous nervous Becky Gordon accompanied by her beautiful family and Ryan Hunter-Reay we don't really care about you right now How do you feel now?

I feel good. I'm ready for it to happen. start nerves of steel this woman nerves of steel is about to get very real good luck beautiful camera we will return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in just a few minutes we are live here in everything how does the old saying go if these walls? could speak at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway these walls do speak this may be the day a revolution comes to a complete and protective conclusion for over a century they have framed history and for the past 53 years our cameras have captured that history every May in Every corner of this place speaks to us, vibrating with the echoes and images of what you have absorbed, the sights and sounds have come to life in your living room.

I'm Jim McKay, speaking to you from one of the most exciting places at one of the most exciting times. throughout the wide world of sports hear Jake in history the first man in history four times the roar approaches the wood of a turbine the scream of the turbocharger you are watching live at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the voices of men and women in charge of covering history in an automobile History of Indianapolis a woman driver Janet Guthrie this proving ground automotive innovation this coronation field for the hero of J&J are for Rick and Kelly hunters and ready to return home their families have become part of our family we've celebrated with and we've cried with them I haven't really moved a brick across the yard sometimes all at once Indy is the rarest sacred ground the kind that can tear your heart out so mercilessly yeah, yellow, yellow, yellow, but it still draws you back for more, that's why so many have done it. returned over the decades, most of their identities lost for some time only a select few timeless ones have had their faces frozen forever in silvery joy, the barrier between remaining among the legends or disappearing among the lost is as thin as a knife, you just don't do it. you know what it means thank the racing gods you've been here to win we thank you we've been here to witness it with yes these walls can talk they've seen so much so what will we watch together today?

I've witnessed Elias climb the fence three times when Alexander Rossi won the Hunter Rays 100 in 2014. How about Sato's redemption by having milk poured over their heads by Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan, Yon Veikkaus and Nicole, former winner Tony Kanaan, of course? has changed teams now with AJ Foyt racing, seems like with all the smiles around Indy it's been a good fit for you, yeah I mean we worked really hard over the winter, AJ and the ABC guys gave us all the tools , so hopefully, we will. make it happen today you know we have a little bat going and we'll see what the bat will be if I win this race AJ will kiss me before the princess Wow when you won here in 2013 I don't know how to react to the old kissing situation but when you won in 2013 I did 68 degrees you never changed the car all day you said that with these temperatures today will be a different game extremely worrying I think everyone is not comfortable and everyone is worried I talked to the guys in the green room, there are definitely 33 guys, we don't know what do, we don't know what's going to happen, we have bad tendus conditions all month, this is the toughest 500 since 1937, so let's make our money today. right and Nicole of course is known as the iron man it's a perfect day to have a triathlon experience on this warm day jess is Nick.

Chevrolet Silverados leads the way for the ceremonial Chevy military lapel and its dealers proudly support all those who serve for more information. go chevy say hello to the communicator when we return the speed of india the milk of india but it's also about the pomp and circumstance of a day like no other at school we have it for you live below on ABC Andretti Autosport ha won this fee three of the last four years but no driver named Andretti since 1969 Marco long 12º we are about to start these engines on said side of the track Dave Calabro ladies and gentlemen please stand up and take off your hats for the presentation of the colors and the invocation ladies and gentlemen to say today's invocation please Welcome Archbishop of Indianapolis, Charles C Thompson, let us pray for a merciful and loving God in all times and seasons.

You are with us to guide us with your wisdom and support us with your providential care. We take a moment this morning to thank you for your many blessings. Help each one of us. and each of us to always strive for the greatest good and to live in a way that strengthens the human family today we welcome to our great city those who gather from around the world for the

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edition of the Indianapolis 500, We ask you to bless the drivers, their teams, the officials and the fans, as you promise to hold us in your loving hands, help them stay safe, just stay safe on this track and on the path of life on this Valentine's Day weekend. of the Fallen, we commemorate your eternal care. men and women who have died serving our country in the armed forces and the other example continues to show us the way to service and dedicated to the tasks that lie ahead may god bless those who have died for our freedom god bless all here Gathered together for the greatest spectacle in racing God bless America Oh oh oh right, right, for the storm across the sea three, I stand aside and watch ladies and gentlemen God bless America before Indiana's own singer-songwriter and recording artist John McLaughlin, Memorial Day tends to remind us of what we have, family, friends, companionship and fun, but its greatest impact and true importance lies in what we don't have, the men and women who died to give us this life, think that they literally gave their lives to preserve our life most valuable asset freedom we spend this day celebrating however it may be, let's never forget it or abandon it we live in the greatest nation in the world and the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who died fighting for us are the reason why they are a testament to our most honorable values, selflessness and sacrifice, be your brother's keeper no matter the cost for over a century, the 500 Miles from Indianapolis have provided an international stage to thank that supreme sacrifice, to always remind us that freedom is very costly, the Indy 500 is a day to celebrate tradition, history, family and fast cars, but it is also a day to remember why you came, ladies and gentlemen, to honor America.

Please stand and take off your hats as Atlantic Records' Grammy Award-winning artist Kelly Clarkson performs our National Anthem. It is seen with the first light of dawn what we so proudly hold, that is why the lights shone for the last time, whose wide stripes and bright stars across the five of the walls that we observed were so bravely transmitting the bounce bus that crossed gay Peru, but now that our flag was still there. there, oh, let's say, that's covered in stars for the last time you're watching ESPN on ABC 500 miles, a daunting overland journey, no matter where you are, in Indiana, lies a huge, famous leaf, 500 miles, the Indy 500, the show to end all shows. competes with all the other races that wish they could be and while every mile of this America has been a thrill ride, this race lives on everywhere, all you need is someone with a little short track speed in their soul from Brazil where Tony Kanaan began turning his Indy Dream toward the Illinois bedroom of a racing-obsessed young woman who hoped to cap her career today with the prize she's had her eyes on forever, the 500-mile trophy.

Indianapolis, that's my goal, to use crust-melting mechanical beasts in science, so Drivers can experience a calamity, yes, and not just drive away, come back for more and come, they do it from all corners of the world to chase the history forged by legends. II came from the dead, while the exclusive for Tyler's foyt unser and his ears return to the current icon to climb his club is a race that stretches beyond distance and time: the clay blocks that provide the very foundation of this event and if they are always present, nicknamed Brickyard, it is the latest like no other, it sounds like just a few tears in your voice, right?

Now you just don't know what a 500 mile ride means, but a race for all ages. welcome to thebroadcast number 102 of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Firestone tonight on ESPN on SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt, you will have complete coverage. From everything going on here today in the race, as well as my Sunday conversation with the winner, his SportsCenter tonight with SVP after Game 7 between the Cav's and the Celtics Scott Goodyear Eddie Cheever and Allen Bestwick, they are the men, the voice behind this race. I don't know if you know this, it's a little hot down here, okay, I really hope it stays that way.

It will be just one element of what will be a very fascinating day at the track Nicole, thanks Scott, let's start with This new generation of IndyCar for 2018 is designed to have less downforce pressing the car against the track, what does it mean for the drivers in the race? Well, I'll say to the drivers in the race today Alan, wow, this probably wasn't the year. that they brought in this new car because the temperature is going to make it very difficult to drive, we heard Tony Kanaan say before that the car will have less grip on the road, it's almost like you're driving on the pavement on the highway. the road and suddenly you end up on gravel the car doesn't have as much grip that's what these guys are going to experience today in over 500 miles the performance that consistency is what these guys are going to chase listen to them broadcasting on your radio to the teams I need some changes the collars don't handle and we've all done this Eddie and I talked about this before running a temperature of 70 80 degrees 90 that we had never experienced.

I am happy to have done it. I'm here without mentioning that there is air conditioning here Eddie that the temperature hurts you Tony Kanaan say it a little before how difficult a race will be for the drivers with such a warm temperature Well, it is difficult when you start a race for the car you are not used to , but what you have done now is that you have ruined the system because there is even less grip than before if we remember all the races we have seen this year. The new car has been very exciting, but its circuits have been slower.

Now we're at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and now you're never under 215 miles and when you make a mistake here, things can get really bad and really quickly. The end result of today's race is unpredictability. No one is exactly sure how it will play out behind the wheel, it will be fascinating for us to watch and discover, so erase so many traditions based on what you have heard about some of them before, a drink of milk, a kiss to a brick. I have seen some of them already unfold on the road with the sound of taps and the memory of those who serve and have served after 500 very difficult miles, someone is going to continue those traditions with the laurel wreath around the neck, that celebration and Victoria.

Roll the track and the convertible in front of the fans and her life was changed forever as the winner of the Indianapolis 500, but all of that comes after one last couple of traditions that brings us to the start of the engines in the green flag ladies . And gentlemen, welcome back to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Jim cor Neilson, graduate of Indiana University, and the Purdue All-American Marching band performing again at home in Oh, I See Dr. Mann continues to shine. I drink on a war footing and now it's time for the most famous words in motorsports. Welcome, almond.

Join President Tony George. The drivers start the engines. They think about what was always a moment, but you had to turn around and have the opportunity. Make sure you made the right decision entering turn one. We've been out of the car for a couple of days racing into turn one at 200 miles an hour with 32 other three-wide cars, the only place in the world where we have a free White Exit, no margin for error, but we have to turn one today, but you're on automatic, you can't program anything for those first two claps. You see the last pre-race stage and then the cars will move away.

Will everyone escape? It seems like every year there's a car that doesn't make it cleanly off the grid, isn't that the starting line-up at driver presentations? But as a review here, the 11 rows of three heads appear at the top of the screen. by the pole sitter in carpenter while the field screams there's the Honda two-seater leading the field Mario Andretti the 1969 winner behind the wheel riding in the back seat musician actor producer Nick Cannon enjoying the thrill of a lifetime war Honda Racing content go to Honda Racing Don't worry, Alexander Rossi, the 2016 winner, is in 32nd place, in the middle of the last row of the grid.

He has our automatic nation on board. If he wants to win today, he will have to make history, since no one has won the race from this far back. and yet a lot of people who do those things seem to like it, here's Graham Rahal Graham has a lot of work to do too, he's got our United Rentals on board and 30th on the grid, Ed Jones finished third last year in his debut in indy. the NTT DATA camera with him starting on the 29th Jay Howard makes his third start in the 500 from the 28th position carrying the arrow aboard Ohio Zach Beach in his second 500 starting on the 25th with the relay camera on board and one of top four in Canadian field Robert Wiccans starts in 18th place with Lucas Oil on board.

Last year's winner, Takuma Sato, starts in 16th place with the Honda on board. The last time a winner was consecutive in O 1 and O 2, it was Elio who did it the last two years in a row in three. Of the final four, it is the ready-to-finish Auto Sport team that won this race. They have six cars in the field for this one and of course, of those six cars, you've already documented the two former winners, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi. but leading the way for Andretti Autosport in qualifying was Marco Andretti. He also has the fastest practice lap in the entire field.

Marco says I like this body work. I like a car that is difficult to drive and remember that Marco is trying to bring the final reading name to Victory Lane as a driver the last time it happened to his grandfather Mario in 1969. Marco with a car on board is classified for the Andretti Armada I honored and also with a car on board today is where the Andretti Autosport sports Hondas will begin. a way to the front again in this race like they have done in recent years on the third row in the year of the stars, think about Danica Patrick came here 13 years ago, she will retire from IndyCar racing today here just fits, dries up at number 13.

She wants to win the Indy 500 just like Elio and Scott Dixon the other two drivers in her row Scott Dixon carrying a Honda on board fourth in all-time wins in IndyCar won this race in 2008 pretty well In practice for me his team won the pit stop competition on carburetor day, the team's new crew chief and outside front tire changer Blair Julianne will be carrying our camera on the wall. You will be able to see a race car approaching you at a pit stop at 60 miles per hour. Elio Castroneves carrying the Pennzoil on board in the Yellow Submarine paint scheme, this is my favorite for the race, it's great to see him back and he has that special little motivation, he will be the only one, he is the only human being alive who has the chance to join him.

That incredible list of Floyd's years in Britain. Castroneves' age is just a number, but likely a number that contributed to last year being his 20th and final full-time season in IndyCar Series racing, but thanks to the loyalty and love of the car's former owner , Roger Penske. He's back this year with a chance to make Indy history. You will see it on May 10. Elio turned 43 years old and for him those numbers in Almond, yes, three is the number of times he won this race, also the number of times he finished second and four. what it's about today I hope you never come alone a fourth driver to win by time just before getting on the I want you to tell me the myth and I'll quote you if you're looking for someone to cheer for, he chose me because today I have one more race to win and a final hurdle to climb, sure it would be fun to see Danica Patrick in the last race of her driving career starting seventh today, Rick, but when it comes to IndyCar, Danica Patrick is a runner-up when she left the series seven years ago.

Years ago he had set the record for most consecutive finishes committed to the checkered flag 50 times in a row, but as any driver will tell you, that's not enough, you must also be fast to win this race and this month, the Carpenter team has given She is a fast car, so let's think about this, a person who can finish with a fast car that could make this a very memorable last race for Danica Patrick. Sure Josef Newgarden, last year's Verizon IndyCar Series champion marrying a Verizon on board, finished third two years ago. has a Verizon on board, the 2015 runner-up, winner of the free field to start the month of May here at the circuit and feed one of those four powerful Pinsky entries, all qualified in the initial top eight places and the field receives the sign of leading the field towards the 2019 corvette zr1 for more information on the corvette zr1 go to chevy comm /cr one Victor Oladipo of the Indiana Pacers driving certainly endeared himself to the locals around here with his leadership and his play to the Pacers this season doing a good job in front of the field our track fax now presented by Firestone 200 laps around the two and a half mile track to make up for the 500 mile distance and pinch strategy due to this new car and the heat and tire wear, etc.

The ignition is a variable factor on the day we will talk about, as the race progresses. Spanish version of the race presented by ESPN Deportes, you can access it using the s AP function on your remote control and with that we are halfway there. back from the beginning you met Chris Hemsworth before, the Avengers marble series played James Honda moving Ross, he's ready, green flag in hand waving over the field of 33 as they hit the final turns, about 300 thousand here in a hot day for 102nd place in the Indianapolis 500 race, how it will play out and who will win, it's time to start fighting.

I always thought the qualifications would leave them with a huge sigh of relief when they made it through the first two corners without an accident. In a very busy first level, what I noticed in turn one, if you saw a car turning around on the outside, none other than Tony Kanaan, took advantage of the exit or the restart, when the bravest one turned around on the outside and moved forward a couple of positions. will drive 12 Simon passion oh and the neon 22 going for second place Penske and Roger's teammates said the other day at a press conference that we tell our drivers to look out for each other for the first hundred and eighty laps and not there is The team orders the last 20 laps, you're going to race, you have to get to the end, although Padgett Oh again, within a power for second, get that in turn one, the taya has tied the room with a bet for a place where he gets into the corner, he just thinks. about what it's like for Mateus Lace, yes, he grew up here before he won the Freedom 100, but when you get to an Indy car, he says it's much faster, short throws don't even immediately seem like great leadership on the team's part on the ABC team. but also having a teammate like Tony Kanaan on your team said: I've learned a lot from Tony, it seems like he took two years off my rookie credentials, that's absolutely true, but you can't teach someone how it's going to feel when When you do those first two or three laps at the start of the Indy 500, there's so much turbulence that you're just trying to move around the track without making any mistakes.

Now everyone is starting to get used to it, they know how their cars feel and they are starting to get used to finding a rhythm that will carry them through the rest of the race Elio Castro David is driving the 340 Penske City in eighth position, ideal for that fourth victory in 500 23 Charlie Kimball is responding gibble moving up to 17th position, this is what many of the drivers were saying after card game practice when it was hot and actually the first time they raced this style of chassis twenty eight in the high temperatures, they said it was going to be an opportunistic race, it's going to be a very technical race, a technical race, they said at the start, when you have new tires, you will have to go as hard as you can, you will have to try to get as many positions as you can because As you put more laps on the tires and the heat increases throughout the day, the handling will be difficult to manage and you may have to cut back on fuel and drive a little further, preserve track position and save a few things.

In fact, when you say save some things, you talk about reducing fuel, they have a knob on the steering wheel and then they can trim the fuel almost like you would in an airplane, so instead of using a hundred percent fuel, they can reduce speed. go back to maybe ninety-eightninety-five percent and get better fuel mileage, maybe do an extra lap every race they're on the track, but the limiting factor because of the heat, like you mentioned now, all drivers are charity territory. because the tires wear out and I think the tires might start to wear out sometime around lap 15 or 20, which you can get to 30, maybe 32 on a load of fuel, that's something that will wear through the tires, but they will give up. in a grip that will make it really difficult in these conditions, so we are off to a clean start in the Indy 500.

In the last few years, we have won almost a quarter of the race before we get the first yellow flag and let's see If that's what happens today, a green start to the Indianapolis 500 in Carpenter has led every lap from pole position Simon passion Oh willpower Josef Newgarden Sebastien Bourdais are in the top five talked about some of the tactics in the pits and the tactical race that we could see today the kippahs can add more men, yes, and if you look at the pit window to where you would stop on the track, you can see that you can make one last pit stop if you save a little fuel, like says Scott Gutierrez, however, if you have your strategy for the day to have fresh fire stones throughout the race, you could stop earlier, you have one more stop in the future, but why are we seeing this now?

Well it may only be lap 12 right now but we'll see these cars and The teams play their cards if they stop between 20 and 30 we know they're watching their tires if they stop after that until lap 33 even 34 we know that they're on a fuel maintenance strategy I think we're going to see a little bit of stock today, the guys, Ed Carpenter, you know that and if the car stays in front, that's where there's clean air, the car handles better. This is the downside, they told him that being in front you'll burn a lot of extra fuel, it'll probably make us lose a lap maybe two laps having to pitch shorter than everyone else, they just told ed carpenter, the guys behind he are probably being very smart and saving some fuel, so now you have to start thinking about that, ed, we are in front, we want to stay there.

To get clean air, but you really have to be careful with the fuel, you can start trimming; In fact, they think about it if the goal is to cover the 500 miles in the shortest time possible, the longer you sit and refuel, that adds to the equation. These engineers and strategists in the timing stands will have their work cut out for them today. We only really know how much fuel and carpet there is running after this first stop because I don't think the cars are close enough. having such a big game because my passion isn't really about closing the gap like they would have done in the past it's really going to be tricky asking about tire degradation, we don't see any lack of performance at all, they seem to just keep up at the same pace, he's definitely in control of his race at the moment because you would have thought that passion would have tried to get closer to see how his car would perform and he hasn't looked at some people who have gotten up and down.

Right off the bat, Danica Patrick has dropped five positions from her seventh place on the grid, she's back in 12th, Rick and she's already talked on the radio about the fact that the car is unscrewing here, in fact we're listening that of many. Of the drivers who are radioing their team saying they are understeering, they have already talked about the fact that at this next pit stop they are potentially considering redoing a wing adjustment on the front of the car to try to counteract that. , so the understeer doesn't turn hard enough when you enter the corner, imagine you're on ice and you're turning and instead you're skidding into the wall, that's not what a driver, riki, was also seeing on telemetry and listening is she on board with Danica how much did she have to lift the throttle to get through turn three and four let's look at it again that's completely off that's not lifting that's kicking your foot off the gas now look how much steering movement that It has that meaning it's very nervous racing car whenever you're pushing the wheel like that, but let's not forget that we also had a rain overnight that washed some of the rubber off the race track.

This race track is different than the last time they raced in final practice on Friday, what really surprises me about its lift is that it has clean air and it's fun, there are no cars in front of it, so it has no than going into turbulent air, if you lift someone else's gearbox, it will be much worse, Zack Beech and Max Chilton have dropped six and seven places respectively in these first laps. Now here is the big driver in the first few laps. This is Graham Rahal Ray Hall, who started from the back in position 30. He has now gained seven places and is running in the 23rd guard.

He at the beginning of the race here, receiving a draft with two cars in front, chooses the line wisely Alta is now an observer. You can hear that spotter on the radio of him standing up there, on the right side, turn three up, you can see exactly. What is happening is radioed to the drivers to tell them if they are clear and lets them know where the safe part is on the race track. Well inside the cars, they have what they call tools, the ability to change some of the suspension settings, not much. but they could do it.

The team simply spoke into Danica Patrick's radio and asked if the tools worked and she said no. As a result, they said well, we will also try to adjust the tires and adjust the full pressure when they arrive. I remember talking to Tony. Kanaan before the race about the fact that they need those tools, he said that there will be enough ways to make those changes in this car in this race. I'm Rick, thank you. As Fran Trey Hall continues to try to move forward, we look to the front of the field to see if some of these cars will commit to that shorter stop strategy for fresher tires that he already described a minute ago just to get some perspective on the pace, by the way, with the heat and race conditions etc.

Ed Carpenter, the race leader runs 1 second slower than most of the field on the day of the carb fight. I think that's due to the heat but what's very impressive with Ed Carpenter, his times are extremely consistent, when your tires drop you start to see a variation in your speed a few laps to get faster but they tend to keep dropping him is in complete control of this race right now so who commits to the earliest stops who stays out until the entire load of fuel burns we'll find out in these next ten minutes or so and the Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis 500 telecast presented by Firestone, we've already burned 250 miles so better, that's clear so far, there are no caution flags and Ed Carpenter led every lap from his pole after getting the jump at the initial start willpower is running in third a look from your on-board camera and a reminder to download IndyCar Mobile to access exclusive live in-car cameras here pit crew driver chatting more just on the horizon a little radio for you here that Could have been that could have also been Chinese for us because I have no idea what those numbers mean it was definitely a fuel discussion strategy so it has a number that it has to hit well never they will leave it, even when you ask the team what.

They explained on the radio to the drivers that it is a cold and for the driver to make the selection on the new steering wheel exactly where the teams tell them, saving a little fuel, we do not have to remember that all these cars have real-time telemetry. So everything that happens in their cars on the almost 100 mile channels is broadcast back to the pit lane. All the engineers sit on the pedal so they can see on their computers exactly what is happening with the car. One of them, obviously, is fuel, along with tire pressure. and among other things, they will come up with a strategy for the race itself to get the driver back on the field for a bit. 19 is Zachary Claimant De Bello, one of the rookie drivers in the field, followed by six Robert Wiccans.

Outside of Montreal, Pietro Capaldi, the two-time winner's grandson, was supposed to be in this race, but Fittipaldi was injured and had a sports car accident at Spa Francorchamps. I talked to him yesterday in the gas alley area. He underwent surgery, he said that here he is moving and reacting well. He hopes to be back in the IndyCar Series for the mid-Ohio race this summer, which would be a great recovery from what was a terrible accident. There are Wiccans. There is Boo. Leo. Carlos knows the greatest. I have noticed a difference from the last four years in that the cars can't wear their clothes in the corners like they have in the past and so it is very difficult to overtake someone because you are not accelerating out of the corner any more. faster than the bar.

That's going to factor a lot into how this race ends and I think you're absolutely right and I think the other thing we're looking at right now, I mentioned that it rained overnight and took away some of the rubber. The track cars will be a little different than what they finish in final practice on Friday. They'll be tuning those cars that we talked about when Rick mentioned some of the tools that are inside, they can change the weight distribution of the car. By pressing a button on the steering wheel and also moving the world bars in a road car, your non-adjustable drivers adjust their cars to the conditions after each stop.

I think we'll see the pace start to pick up and let's talk about the engine. Battle for the top of the eight best cars, seven of them are Chevy and only one is in fifth place as a Honda souvenir. I hope they can get another spot and I'm not so sure James Davis didn't have problems at the corner. three or four seemed very slow, lost the pace maybe got some dirty air from the car in front and ended up going down the road these cars have that understeer, you can see this is not where you want it says no to where you want to go. let off the accelerator, you're right, he absolutely had something look, what was that whole thing about what's up with Davis' car?

The situation when he was on the radio from the beginning saying that the car was loose, they said: hold on, wait, we're seeing. an example of what happens if you hold on too long if you have one then it doesn't work it disappears quickly james davidson a classic example es jr. The Hilton Hildebrand plan and the blue orange and white cars just beat Charlie Kimball to a spot in that quarter. Davis said, of course, he already crashed once in the week. This week, a bad accident left him quite battered and he is going to lose a place.

Here in Oriole Serbia, he has created a huge bottleneck behind him and Eddie, you know it ends halfway, when a car pulls in front of you, your car becomes more nervous and can't be driven, so that every time a car passes it, it has more risk. He loses control of the car, but you're right, the bottleneck behind him creates just a traffic jam and the leader is reaching the end of the field and this is the lead carpenter behind that group, right behind the double wide and pay attention to the head. in the pits, he won't want to waste time here, he will go into the pits.

I'm sure Danica Patrick, the first pick from the beginning, Han was talking about the question: are you looking for fuel or are you looking for well-fitted tires? In this case, it's the tires and concern about the balance of the car that they were concerned about, and as a result, they said they were going to take it home. We have a wig turtle and they sent it back there. You see, they came back to this. The racing guy, Davidson, he sure has changed the face of this race from the beginning. Now the farmer has to find a way to make his way through all those cars, otherwise they will pass him fashionably.

Here's Tony Kanaan on Tony Kanaan. Remember he was the fastest in Carve. On the day of the last practice before arriving at the Indy 500, they will also make an adjustment to the wing of their car. Rick mentioned that the wing shift Tony can probably always complain about understeer where the front end doesn't react, the wind shift will take care of that. Here pit lane leaders Simon Kesh meet Carpenter and a few others who followed him at Castro Devas will also be coming. behind that line is Charlie Kimball between the passion oh and the passion of Castroneves Rick Simon Oh lowering the car he was very happy on Friday in fact he said he had a car that was about ninety five out of a hundred in terms of where he was going to go And what was he going to do.

Haven't complained much about the car overall, but still had a minor change made to the probe wing chain for ED Carpenterto try to help with understeer in the corner carpenter. distance, it would come out in front of the deck, you know, but Carpenter hasn't played with the bar one bit, but they're trying to think ahead, so they made the front wing James have a little more forward direction on the car in traffic. Joseph Newgarden took the lead when the passion Oh, and the carpenter, check it out, now Newgarden is in the pit lane along with a host of others, power cable, Dixon, Marco Andretti, Ryan, hunter, all in at this stop, there's Newgarden, defending Series champion Josef Newgarden.

He comments a little about doing a wing change and they say I have the turnip front wing and I have a lot of pressure, no, it will be air pressure only on the side for Newgarden, trying to help the car turn a little with just air pressure. air. Dixit is away, let's get back to the line in front of Marco Andretti Spencer Pickett has taken the lead by not hitting but can't cross that line between turns one and two in the late warm-up with the four tires he can. Place the left side tires completely on that line, but you can't have all four crossed.

We're Julian, he just changed the outside front tire on Scott Dixon's car. This is what it looks like in Indianapolis. We'll be back after a news from your ABC station about a hundred miles from the Indianapolis 500 race through the first round of green flag pit stops and Edie Carpenter has maintained the lead, she's up by a second and a third about Tony Kanaan with the passion of Josef Newgarden Simon and Elio. Castroneves rounds out the top five, a penalty that Kyle Kaiser just served in 32nd for hitting personnel on pit road, he took a passing penalty and served that penance and, back to Carpenter, he just turned the fastest lap of the career. with 223 seven so he definitely has a car to dominate today he made his first pit stop without having any problems new tires Johnson got caught on the wing and suddenly the cars now settled with rubber when entering the track as I mentioned, I start to seeing those B's start to rise, tune your car all day long, inform the pits what your car is doing, the engineers to see that in real time;

Let me try it without problems, today's winner will be tuning his car following the track conditions. and weather conditions throughout the day at this time. I don't see anyone who can touch it. Hey guys, one of the reasons you think the team thinks Carpenter was going to be good and now he's good today is because they remember pole day when "Everything is on the limit," he said, when the cars are on the jagged edge and the grip is minimal and the track is slippery, our head carpenter goes there and spins in the labs at 230 miles per hour, he is not afraid and finds a way to make the car. pass when you have minimal to no grip, we think this will be your kind of day, it's not that the tires are hot, the grip is minimal and guess what, so far so many people have so much passion for this place, but in the head yes it is. deeply personal, you see his results in recent years, when he started on the front row, he couldn't achieve the result he wanted on race day, once he was in the fight, he was dragged by another driver in an accident, others had a mechanical problem. but today, with the hope of adding the 500 miles to the score, which would obviously be a great victory, each lap he does in the lead is one more confidence that he is betting and building in himself, which will be very useful in the end of the race if He still has a strong question and the real one at the moment is: when you start approaching the traffic that you have so far, the cars that are at the back of the grid, once you approach them, now You will find out how.

His car runs and the traffic disturbing the air now with this new car with reduced downforce is when cars are at their worst. This will be the test for ED Carpenter. I totally agree. I remember a race will happen. I think that's how it was. 94 or 95 world you couldn't match it, but it couldn't get close enough in the turn, so this is the last big speed hurdle that you're going to have to jump because you're going to be in traffic for a long time, you could lose three or four miles per hour easily behind a car that can't overtake, so you see a carpenter there, the return car from Oriels Serbia, that white car that Tony Kanaan, the former winner, moved up to second place after starting tenth, mentioned that he did some bold moves.

On the first lap and Rick, they executed the pit stop strategy very well, exactly, it's interesting because I'm carving. He was talking to Tony Kanaan about the car he was going to get into, he said we're just a couple of adjustments away. from having the car exactly where I wanted it and even if we don't have it, it will still be a good car after carving day, I reached out and said, hey, how did those adjustments work? He says, I won’t tell you. that means they were in a muddy Corsica that didn't drive this year for AJ Foyt.

AJ is here looking for what would be his third victory as a 500 participant by surviving another fight with those killer bees he seems to keep running into on his ranch outside of Houston. No, I'm talking about passion for this place. Can you imagine how happy AJ Foyt would be if he gave Tony Kanaan that big kiss on the cheek if they're in victory lane at the Indy 500 and how happy Kaname would be. Yeah, he gets that big bear hug from AJ here at the 500. Long way to go before that happens right after the hundred miles. In the race, Ed Carpenter is in the lead and guess what a bribe is?

He wishes the other yellow car started at Indianapolis. James Davison crashed in turn four. There is also another car down on the inside of the track and our first yellow car of the race. He leaves on lap number 47 of 200. Davidson we saw was in a lot of trouble and that problem became terminal for his career. I told Takuma Sato that I was inside caught up in it, yeah, okay, this is what happened. It's just a matter of time when that was going to happen, you can't be running that much slower than anyone else, you know, I don't really understand that because he's so off the pace he has to know he's on the road and the car wasn't right. and came in for a pit stop, came back out at that speed and that's so far from the pace you need, if you had more experience you'd come to pit lane saying change the car. fixing the car looks at Takuma Sato as it's a shame and a waste for both of them, all he should have done was call him to try to fix the car if it was loose, do something even if it takes two or three.

Absolutely brilliant laps driving, how sang-froid he was, he waited the whole time to see where they were going and then right at the end he made the right decision, but Sacco had nowhere to go, hang that one on 33 with Davison. because it makes me angry that he stays off the track like that, yes, but that's more from the pits, they should call him for this. He's doing his best to obviously keep a car loose on the track, but it's you who can tell where. he was passing, he was passing between 1, 2, 3 and 4 in all the years I have raced with her.

Maybe I had to pass two cars in 15 years, well maybe waiting for a yellow flag to have a chance to make some adjustments. that car without losing that much time, but unfortunately the yellow flag went to him, so the first yellow of the race was eliminated for James Davidson and Takuma Sato, who ran into a crash in turns three and four. The pit lane is closed while they pick up some of the debris and the place where the cars have stopped on the race track now the pits will be open as they have a clear enough scene and we will see if people return to the pit lane now.

I hope they do it in about 20 laps from the start of the race. round of green flag pit stops and about 15 since most of the leaders passed through pit road and another update on the engine competition, the top seven are Chevy for Honda: manufacturers in the series last year Honda with a decided advantage over Chevrolet and Steam. under the engine cover this year Chevrolet came back and said we found something. I don't think they said any more about that and when they came back they were left without you and I don't think Honda will sit back and accept that they will. is accurate, then the other one will do a little more, that's what competition is about, that's what the power and aerodynamics of the Indianapolis 500 are about.

I'm our security team collecting all the pieces and you see them working to remove the two cars, so here they are. Get to the opening of pit lane and Carpenter will head left like the other cars leading the lap, for the most part yellow flag stops sometimes lead to contact on pit road. This pit lane is very narrow when there are many cars there at the same time see the pit exits see if someone's race is ruined there Rick well Tony Kanaan taking down the car one of the discussions before getting here was whether I should make an adjustment of the wing said there was understeer in the car at first they said yes then They decided not to do a wing adjustment because they want to get it out as quickly as possible, doctor, in turn three, while the man in the critical part did not beat all the of the world and that's exactly what the number 20 car did, that's the advantage of Being the last starting business, it only had about 10 feet left before crossing that line and was close to the Honda race out of the pits.

Carpenter maintained the lead, made a good stop and with force of will tied to try to gain some of the track position they lost in that The last cycle of the race, the problems in turns three and four cause the first yellow flag of the Indianapolis 500. Back at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we're under caution for the first time after the accolades and D'Mello out front under the alternate selection strategy we've been on. He was granted incredible access at the top of the pagoda, no one can come here, in fact there are only six other people here at the moment.

I have to tell you that two of them are members of the Penske brass team and yet, Denker and Jonathan Gibson, but this gives you an idea of ​​the scope of this Speedway, you can see the snake pit there, that gigantic stage, There is a concert in the snake pit, in the middle of this race, you can see the golf course. Brickyard crosses the golf course, there are full holes located inside, turn towards the Indianapolis skyline and you can see the turn; In fact, this is one of the only places on the entire track where you can stand and see all four corners of the Speedway with incredible access.

We will continue to show it and we will continue to show you the action live from the Speedway under caution for the first time. We'll be back to the 100 and the second race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when we get back. This is what happened between Davis and Sato, we'll come back in a few minutes, so the new race leader is Zack, who claims to calm down the rookie from Montreal whose team did not pit under this yellow brick. Well, that's exactly it. He was talking to strategist Michael Canis and why he did it. If you bring him, he said, well, first, we didn't really have to come second to my goals to put him in front.

He thinks it is very difficult to pass. He said he needs him up front. And he said my theory is that I. I put him in front and then I figure out how to keep him in front later it's a little difficult to do with fuel, only his sixth start in IndyCar and his first start in the 500 lost Ed Carpenter right behind him, Elio Castroneves, back in the ninth document. There is a little problem here for one of the favorites and Elio Castroneves, as you see what they are trying to do here, they are going to change the fuel hoses.

Elio came in and the car was not accepting fuel, they were not sure if there was a problem with the car's dry brake, now they determined that they believe it is the fuel system here and that there is a problem with the nozzle, so they talked about it with Roger. Roger told me they waited long enough to fill it with fuel. but we're going to change the hose hello doctor thanks green flag here we go here's the carpenter he inside can't look outside lemon de mello turn one that's the perfect environment for at Cochran's to put distance he and everyone else goes Tony Kanaan to the Inside, remember that everyone has new tires and the tires have a lot more ride.

Firestone claims to use soft-wear tires and it's going to happen very often here, very quickly. It will be tricky for drivers to navigate it. You have to be pacient. here boy, they sure are using the whole road out of 2, 3 and 4, here comes Joseph Newgarden to get through, he had to force his way through, you see the car start to move just a little, that disturbed air even next to it. some battles now Ryan Hunter-Reay passing the PNC machine towards Scott Dixon were on board with Scott right now here's passionate Simon jumping into a line you'll get when you click to smooth out a couple of things here people this gets back to the urgency in the exits and restarts of thethat people were talking about, get what you can while the field is bunched up because once he spreads out, it's going to be harder to see him in the draft to pick him moving to the inside of the 21 Hunter, he has to back off trying.

To find a way around it, it will be harder to get those spots once the cars spread out online, so when everything is still a little bunched up and people have to check for other cars, get as much as you can, that It's a level of aggression that's only going to grow later in the race weekend, but Alan, the level of danger, caution issues and Jones out of turn two last year, such a spectacular performance as a rookie qualified for 500, 11 finished third, said this year everyone has been chasing a feeling that just isn't working. existing in this car, including myself, that was not the feeling he wanted.

I was just finishing up. He was trying to finish a sentence before the accident happened, saying the level of danger in trying to pass cars in those first two laps or the first four or five corners. is much higher than when it's just a one-on-one battle with someone else because there are so many things that can go wrong now. I'm looking forward to seeing what happened because the tires are inside the tires that are broken, not the outside tires, so Jones got out of his car and drove away towards the top of the screen. Wow, that's loose.

He went halfway around the bend. He's not close to anyone. When the rear end appears like this, it's called oversteer, so we're not sure if something broke or not. the car was just loose coming in to create that oversteer, now on board it was running and listen, I'm starting to wonder if maybe something didn't break there because it was just a very primitive movement in the tire of the car, which is very auto racing loose and that's when the rear wants to turn around, as I mentioned you become the passenger Eddie at that point and very early in the race, very disappointed, I was in a lot of dirty air and very low on the track when that happened.

What happened was that I was running in 24th position at that time, so the yellow flag appeared for the second time in this race and this is what we are talking about about the drivers being aggressive, leading more yellow flags, which generates more aggression to as people try to take advantage of overtaking opportunities. under today's extremely hot conditions at the Indy 500 150 miles in this Indianapolis 500 race, a pair of incidents Takuma Sato and James Davison involved in the first James Davison had difficulty getting this car off pace promising a bottom toward up entering the pit lane to get The car accelerates again to Kuma.

Sadness comes to the curve. There is nowhere to go. He passes him from behind and this could have been much worse, so the day of sadness ends a few laps after the restart. Joan had trouble getting us into the turn. under yellow once again after only three laps of racing and he simply lost control of the car due to something breaking or dirty air, but he was there one second and sideways the next and let's check with Yan who has good Dooku Asano. The good news is that Takuma Sato has been discharged from the Medical Center.

You're fine, but it seemed like a scary moment with a slow car, Davison in front of you. Yeah, I mean, it seems like too many clothes and when I said before, obviously, come back. Out of everything, I even hit the brakes, he just wants to have an air pocket like that, he's just sucking it up and it's a really unfortunate situation for both of them and they really feel sorry for the team, the fans and all the supporters. I know James feels very bad. about that too, but did you get any warning from your spotter that you were approaching so fast?

Robert and I were catching up to the train ahead of the group and once he figured it out I could obviously see two cars. on the side by side, but at that moment maybe James had too much trouble and had to back off and on the gray and get to the corner I think the speed differential is too big and I try to avoid everything unfortunately, sorry. Couldn't help a tough day for last year's winner thanks thanks John thanks so I'll look at some numbers from the race so far today five lead changes and two yellow flags again the car is different this year last year the car hit such a big hole in the air, the shot in the slate shot was all the car this year has less hole in the air hitting it, so it's kind of a throwback, the look of the car itself is a a bit of a throwback and the way these drivers have to move forward on the track is a bit of a throwback.

You also have to add one thing to that and you are right about the draft. The other difference is that they've taken a lot of downforce off the cars, so it's very harsh, you're unstable when you're behind a car that's one of you in the middle of a corner, it just doesn't handle as well as it used to, so so drivers don't have that downforce to rely on. Going back almost to the 90's or earlier, maybe even the mid 80's, there was a time when moving around this circuit without taking your foot off the accelerator was almost impossible.

The green flag is out Tony Kanaan chasing leader Ed Carpenter with a great run and the crowd. explodes every time Tony Kanaan takes the lead every time one of the fight cars takes the lead now this is the first difficult exam that the dead carp will have to deal with, we will see how he deals with Kaname in the matrix and Piggott in the matrix recedes. he didn't have the position next to Sébastien Bourdais gaining a spot over Charlie Kimball and deeper in line for the 18th cable 23 Robert Wiccans right behind them in the six-forward carpenter that the queer right thinks is perfect our city boy vs.

Tony Kanaan I let his driver be fine, so you passed me on the restart. I'll show you who has a horse today, yeah these resets are really intense, check this out. Wow, that's our day in Dixon, going 225 miles per hour. I'm just wondering if By the way, Dixon's tire might have been cut and he's down, boy, the grass hasn't seen him since Ryan Hunter was looking at the high side, man, I'm glad I'm in the booth today. Kanaan is with him. Do you think about Scott? Dixon, what happened in this race a year ago and there explains it all again why winning the Indianapolis 500 Nixon running in 11th ed carpenter running in the first dock remember that we told you yet, the partner was trying to save fuel and help.

The important fuel is today, they told you before the restart to go to a certain fuel setting that was completely rich, don't believe it. is a fuel and took the lead, while Tony Kanaan proved that the time was not the case, but they returned to where they were racing and now the result is that Carpenter sails back, so fuel savings in the spirit of the restart marked it. The list didn't work, but I have to tell you what Kanaan is doing. He is the only one who speaks Spanish in the state so close to Carpintero and if he can do that, he will run at the speed of a Carpintero, use much less fuel and If he does enough laps in enough light, it will be a huge advantage.

It's our Firestone telemetry. Look at the number of that mile per hour on the straight to the curve for the Quran and theology. He left it a lot, but he's still there and you know. Eddie, when you get back to being as aggressive as he was there, you have confidence in the car, you're not indecisive, that's a good sign, yes, he eased off the accelerator, but it's the best we've seen so far. a little 230 miles per hour Sunday driving into the corner, trouble for Danica Patrick and that will be how she will end her driving career in Indianapolis, safety team mayor Patrick begins to climb out of the car much like Ed Jones in the middle of a backward curve.

The end begins to appear. I thought I was dealing with a car that was very neutral to positive at the front when we saw it at the beginning of the race, meaning it was very difficult to enter the corner because the rear wants to shift. ends, not sure if that's the case, but it looks very similar, lies, dimension Eddie - Eddie Jones, oh that's just a loose car, the back end just slipped away from me and there's nothing you can do about it time he goes you can't catch him in time look I should get you down our hands running on the seventeenth at the moment another look from Alexander Ross he's on board that was Alexander Rossi's spotter telling him good job good job because he missed the accident death Patrick not what they expected for today but what a race Well she had a very long conversation with her team during that last yellow, they were talking about the car and how it was doing one thing she talked about was the fact which became more unstable as they entered the race, now she was talking about understeer.

Initially, but they were saying that she was telling the team that she just wasn't doing what she wanted as the race got longer and as you can see from this noise point, it didn't work when asked why she came here to finish his career. In Indianapolis, Danica said that this was the place that made her relevant and she said that, although she was hesitant, she didn't want to take away anything from what she had accomplished here, but she did it because she had time. To do it right, she was with a good team with a good program, you saw it in qualifying, but this was not the way she would have wanted the day to end, so Danica Patrick traveled to the Medical Center after crashing while running seventeenth before two hundred. miles of this Indianapolis 500 race, today's result takes nothing away from everything she has in a race car, so you address my next question, which is a legacy as a race driver, there aren't many interested at the head of the fields, only Josef Newgarden, the third.

De Melo and Wiccans claimed, but most of the favorites stayed on the track. Pick it up. I'm sure we'll hear from Danica. Park the snake pit at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 102nd Indianapolis 500, our broadcast presented by Firestone of a series of accidents, three in 20 laps of racing have put us under the yellow flag for the third time in this race , first James Davison having problems and Takuma Sato couldn't avoid it, it was on lap 48, we saw it coming three or four laps before, as difficult as he was just going to slow down, sooner or later someone was going to crash into the faculty and Both cars would be out of the race. ten laps later, on lap 58, Jones ran into trouble in turn two one night, in the middle of a corner the rear end flips over, that's what we call a loose race car or it oversteers, almost as if You were sliding on ice and the result was going to fall and then, like a hit race card, you are out of the race, then Danica Patrick on lap 68 now this is almost a photocopy and there Jones is excellent.

I'm hello, I don't want to point at something and say it's one. For some reason or another, these new cars have a lot less downforce and when you maybe pass the center, the car will lose balance, it will just lift off the track just like those two did and Jones has been transported to IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis is complaining about headaches and neck pain from their updates as they become available to us, so we're halfway through the restart lab and we've seen issues at both ends of the track, now two of the incidents in turn two , one of the incidents. in turns three and four, although the ones who have the cars going around alone, both in turn number two duck, Joseph Newgarden, one of the few leaders who came in and pitted that time, and I asked Syndrich, president from Penske Racing, why did you fix it in the sequence.

He said, well, two rounds on the front wing to help with the understeer, he said, but we're in our pit window now we can do it in three more stops, so why not roll the dice and go a little out of sequence? We have changed the front end to make it handles better in traffic and now we are in our window, only three stops left Newgarden gave up third position, will restart the year 20 with green flag with Carpenter and Kanaan again on a restart really has enough momentum to bypass Carpenter. he does, although on the inside line it will drive Simon's passion over third, Castroneves, next in line, fourth and what about Ryan Hunter-Reay from 14 to 5, former winner of the 500.

Doesn't surprise me at all that has found a way forward, I'll tell you what, starting from the front position, so far you're an easy target if there are five or six laps to go, that's not the best place to be that car you saw outside , which is Oriole Serbia, who was a lap down took a wave at the second yellow flag now there he is through part of the strategy to tenth place and up three wide qualifying in turn one with rush hour traffic at 210 or 15 miles an hour to get everything I can On these restarts, these guys for the dough, for God's sake, Rossi's blue and yellow car 27He also did a good job moving forward.

Remember he started on the back row, he started 32nd. Alexander Rossi is running 12th right now and that's the kind of race you would expect from him, a very methodical driver, very calm in the team, who I told him that he is very intelligent, very intelligent, a student of this type of racing when he came here from Formula One and he is the only driver this year who has dominated. In one race he qualified on pole and in Mom's field and just pulled away from everyone. I know this isn't Long Beach, but that kind of confidence goes a long way here in a long race like this.

Come on, he's still leading, yeah, after the last one. restarted evil, jumped over the carpenter and passed him a lap later, this time conatus pulled away by about five seven car lengths, so former winner Tony Kanaan took the checkered flag first in 2013 in a race in which He had to be very aggressive to get to the front at the end, remember what he said at the end? The last pit stop I go to was like a growth pointing to a certain part of the baseball field and saying that's where I'm going to hit. yeah, it was amazing, he's the master, restart Tony in his 21st IndyCar season and 17,500 mile race.

Rick, let's talk about something that is very different today than the year he won the race, he was saying that the year he won the race. he didn't make any adjustments to the car they liked the car all the time he wasn't using the tools inside the cabin they weren't making small adjustments totally different today he's been using the tools inside they've been making adjustments outside it's not an easy race to the front for Tony Kanaan in this race, but he doesn't care as long as it takes him to the end at the front of this group, as this race gets longer, there is another advantage that is for Tony Kanaan if he has any credible physical condition, he is a triathlete and I think the heat we're supposed to see today is only 123 degrees right on the track, that's the only thing you're really interested in, yeah, 88 degrees outside, right? now on the track the temperature is 123 degrees and this place is so big that the temperature of the track is actually different from one end of the track to the other, where Kanaan is heading right now, turn three is one hundred and thirty degrees of temperature on the track, turn four is 127 degrees in the The other end of the Speedway turns one in 119 turns at 117 angle of the sun shadows of the stands things like that and the thumb, but it affects the performance of your car and that level magic grip you're looking for to try to go as fast as you can around the Brickyard about to hit the 200 mile mark in the Indianapolis 500 race Tony Kanaan up front is your top five Tony Kanaan, the leader of the race of the Indianapolis 500, you race with Josef Newgarden, whose team just made a little strategy game download IndyCar mobile and access exclusive live in-car cams, driver's chat at the bank and more only on Verizon Newgarden again in 20th place.

Remember moving up third on lap 74, a pit stop when most of those running at the front of the group around him did not stop now. under green over the next few laps we were going to start to see some of those frontrunners start to filter out of pit lane, barring another quick yellow Newgarden that we're going to check out there outside of turn two, Rick, well, if you're looking The unfair advantage on Team Penske is all the little things, for example, look at this, it's a portable air conditioner that they have here in the pit, it actually sucks the air in, cold air comes out here, so if the crews feel overheated , you can come. put your face in this put your hand in this maybe put on your uniform get out because it's so hot here in the pit lane remember this baby is going to have the hottest 500 of all time, although if you need to cool off, the Penske teams They have that little extra advantage that other teams don't have.

You happen to be standing there and reporting on that car right now. All right, go to Burrows. Gently, yes, both the outside and the one I looked up and the Firestone information is giving us an ambient temperature. of 92 track temperature of one hundred and twenty-four and talks about the teams, the teams feel the heat as well as the drivers as reported and are so important that he simply for the fact that they cannot make a mistake when putting a wheel or fill up on fuel and it certainly cost them the race Tony Kanaan has a lead of a second and a half and the carpenter's willpower runs third Simon Passion Oh, fourth Elio Castroneves is fifth, so these favorites like Kanaan pitted last time on lap 1530 and James in the lap fuel window, except They also have caution laps because of those two crashes since they stopped, so they stretch it a little more and start readjusting the window, but look at the gap who have these six forwards from seventh place back, has realized that none of them. they're stuck with the gearbox, there's a big gap in each car, there's Hunter-Reay and they're all the way back, Marco Andretti and then Spencer Pickett from 8th back, we really separated the field after this last restart on their point more.

The overtaking occurred just after the restarts, this is the moment of the race as he secured himself. I was giving information to the team, who talked about the ambient temperature which is now the highest at 92 degrees. The track temperature is starting to rise. Return the information to the team. of what your car will be like, how it handles and runs and how to change the tools inside the car to make your car run better is when Tony Kanaan makes his way around J Howard J Howard in the lab, jay-j does a lot for racers young and -coming runs the most successful Formula 14 in the country right now leading the championship, works with karting kids and is certainly looking in his mirrors right now while the Penske cars are sterilized, why am I braking between three and four ?

You are the owner of that curve, Mr. Don't get up like that, I think he passes you at exit four, not between those two curves, you are the one who has driven racing cars, it is that cut when stopping to indicate ease, entering pits, that's what the drivers have been ordered not to do and told to signal to all other drivers. Wow, if it was ever dangerous to swerve and a steep section of Dahlberg, it hasn't ended here, it's good, in fact, from the beginning, here, in that adventure, don't say copy. wide open, you can see it.

I was very emphatic, no, I don't want that, after which it's interesting, when you think about it, a lot of teams have been making bigger pivots. I just heard another team talk about a mortar and they're going to do the bottom line here for these guys is to make these pit stops right when you're under green flag conditions, they need to make sure they time this as best as possible, take them out again and look at that. , a seven-second pit stop. that's incredibly fast, the pit crews are excited that 14 cars are out front and have a chance to win.

You could say at that point I've had a hard time performing consistently over the last few years, but this couple of weeks here in Indianapolis at the old wall here have been consistently fast as most teams struggled to figure out the enigma of the new car and what the data meant compared to what the driver was excited about and knew he had a chance to win this race. He is one hundred percent behind Konami and it shows. Now on Carpenter, the leader after the cotton stop, we hope to see Carpenter very soon. if not here and in fact here it comes, that white line you see is not what they call an official line, it's okay to cross that line until the point where you get to the commitment line to get to pit road, so carpenter here from the leader putting willpower. go ahead and you listened to the head carpenter when they asked him what do you have, he said maybe a little more, but that's what it's like to deal with understeer, especially the nose of the car, it feels light in turn three, it's okay and one and two , but life put four. pounds how to fill it with fuel knowing that Jane Marco Andretti also in the pitlane has already finished her stop and will follow Carpenter back to the track to energize the race leader.

Here's Carpenter coming out with a cannon and Hans will fly by. out of turn two for once the field goes through the stops, I think from that report of what Ed Carpenter said, it's probably the first time his car hasn't been perfect because he says that's what Rick is, yes, Simon's passion about relatively I'm happy with the car, but they're going to be out of breath just getting the fuel in and sending the back in seven point four seconds. Remember Mateus Lace, we haven't talked much about him today, he is a rookie in this race. Also Tony Kanaan's teammate when they qualified, in fact he qualified right next to Tony Kanaan.

He's been relatively happy with the car all day. Truly, this has been a great learning experience for him. They've been trying to convince you during this nice clean stop. once again at seven and a half seconds now out of turn four power Castroneves at Hunter-Reay the first three on the track in the stop cycle will come to the pits for their service Rick, yes, willpower has been sitting at the front , you can't really do everything you want you wouldn't see any adjustment of the wing they send it has a nice clean stop Nelio Castroneves said yes to be one of the front wing he said let's just go with air let's say that wing Elio said I'm worried about running out of air adjustments let's do it with air this time and save the wing for Spencer's later entries to his pit lane dr.

Spencer Pickett has probably had the best car, the last car he had today for the whole month, had a little problem with the gcd meeting, the gearbox control unit had to shut down the car, refine here in yellow, what does Safari say? The car actually handles pretty well in the news: slight understeer, a job for Megan, good fuel economy, good car handling, and a young, aggressive driver. Hey, doctor, be careful with him, he'll see again in just a minute. Speeding penalty on pit road will bring 21. for a passing penalty here Scott Dixon from the front along with Alexander Rossi doctor and keep an eye on Dixon, they said his drinking tube doesn't work; maybe he has to give her water, what if a driver sitting in this heat can't? drink now, tires are needed and obviously air pressure for a little bit of understeer, let's watch and see if they can take care of the driver or not.

Dixon said he may be fine in a bottle, he's out, there are no other adjustments, that's one of the worst things that could happen to a driver today without an accident is that the water system was not working inside the race car, that's where his trainers exactly for those drivers because he trains Scott Dixon a lot with the best team in the pits in the city. He works harder than probably anyone else. The water bottle system is attentive. 64 ms. The Serbian pit road tires will use fresh new firestones. He had traveled the valley on a bicycle.

Remember I said he was one lap down earlier. He caught the wave on the flat surface. buff 50 warning and the next warning allowed him to get back on the field and get back in sync Danica Patrick came from the Medical Center and is with God just walked to my position here very excited first of all Danica are you okay? happened in turn number two, it looked very similar to what happened to dad Jones just a few laps earlier. The first thing I said is I'm not sure what happened so it just seemed to come, it seemed quite late coming out of the turn so I don't know what they said they looked at the data again and it was like a little lift in the middle, it was a little understeer and then it came back to that and it just swelled, so yeah, you know, I mean, today was really disappointing for what we were.

I'm looking for what you want for your last race, but I'm grateful for everything, so I wish I could have finished stronger. All the emotions you're dealing with are specific here for Indy, knowing what a big difference that made in your career. Now that you're looking at a whole race that's finished, yeah, it's a whole race, I mean, but you know what really launched it was this, so it's both. You know I've had a lot of good luck here and I did it. I still have a few this month, it just didn't come on race day, but we had some good times, you definitely did.

Thanks Danica, it obviously wasn't the way I wanted to end. Tony Kanaan returned to the pit lane so soon. Rick apparently has a flat tire in him. behind right and this is really going to seriously affect his effort to win this Indianapolis 500, I'm not sure what caused it there, obviously there's a chance of debris, sometimes you can get close to something, it doesn't really matter, the end result is that he is forced to enter. to another stop and thatIt's going to really affect their ability to win this race and he was in front, what they have to focus on is that we're getting to the middle of the race so they have time to try to catch one of those waves or get back to the lead lap and try to see what they could do in the pit stop cycle Graham Rahal is currently the leader he started 30th last in the pits 30 laps ago we should see him in pit lane fairly soon so Danica Patrick finished her race and She said she wanted to be remembered as a great racing driver.

I think it's fair to say that she showed us that she was and moments of anxiety about Zach Beach and the pit stop she saw. In our ABC coverage, it looks like those flames coming out from where the fuel coupling disconnects have been extinguished for some reason, that dry break didn't dry up and in fact you can see the flames coming out, so all that . The fuel is going down to the undercarriage, you will see when it moves away, the flames will go out above it, sometimes they spray water on the car as it comes out and just below the undercarriage you will start to see a small flame.

They will still remain on board and hopefully we will get out since he is on the track. Continue. Continue. Wow, scary, doctor. Absolutely, it's very scary. Normally when you see these teams make a pit stop and add fuel, you'll see it once someone sprays. water through the Cal in the fuel nozzle that water against the hot cow prevents the escaping fuel from igniting water was not sprayed number one and you solved one of the rear changers in front of the fire extinguisher that could not reach the fire because the team member was blocking the fire extinguished the O2 problems and luckily the fire extinguishers helped but they were very lucky.

Graham Rahal Pitts of the lyrics listen to Graham. In fact, he has been very happy with the car he drives, as the new one is called. Garden strategy number The new garden came in and pitted. On/off strategy. Well, Ray Hall is doing exactly the same thing. His plan is to try to keep this car on a different strategy at the end of this race. The Wiccans also in Carlos Muñoz. Stefan will sit in the pits. on this lap, that will make Zac Flame go soft and get back into the lead from Will Power who is now like Carpenter and leading the guys on that other pit stop schedule, so there's Clayman de Melo for Tony Kanaan, an important.

Last year, if he could make it because he's the first car a lap down, if he could avoid claiming De Melo and then getting a yellow flag, he got back on the lead lap and got back on the cycle. Very unfortunate, I think he had a flat tire. there other cars will enter the pits pulling to the left the signal ticking in its intention lower your lap yes, breathe intelligently on the accelerator putting four because I knew the speech that dramatically slowed down the intelligent work of the veteran right Zachary Clayman de Melo the The rookie brings the car to Michael Caine and his strategist has been talking to him this entire race, giving him advice, telling him what to do, where to be on the track, how to handle everything when you're a rookie, this is exactly what you need and do.

I don't have it here, it's not a nine point four second quick stop, but the job here for a rookie is to just get out cleanly now that you've been taken out of the loop in the strategy, so depending on how the warnings play out, you can do that. in a race where track position is a major blow you know you could steal a lot of positions and in Indianapolis there will be a lot of money to be made doing that and it all depends on where the yellow or the inevitable yellow lands, yeah so there's your new leader, the power of the 37-year-old man.

Australia originally now lives outside of Charlotte in his 11th 500, driving for Roger Penske, we said before the race when you drive for Roger Penske or hope to win the 500, that's missing him like an Indy 500 win because he's won everything else and he is Definitely, on a road course, one of the fastest qualifiers, it is always a lot of fun for us, he will fight on the road to become champion of this series because his oval track career was not what he needed to be seen. The man Riddle is a champion, he is a contender. to win this Indy 500 Rick, well you hadn't thought about this so willpower, talk about the fact that in 2015 they had a great set of cars, this year he said he feels the cars are as good as they were in 2015, he lost that.

In the race he finished second behind Juan Pablo Montoya. Well, this year his strategist John Bond Locke is the same strategist who was the strategist, so we will go into this race with an added advantage knowing what happened in 2015. I have spoken to Will on several occasions over the last week and a half. state as calm as calm could be as calmly confident as confident can be we're on the envelope yeah it's okay everything's great now I think we're on top it's a man who knows what he's looking at in this race and hopes that At the end of the day you can see a brick very close and you would like to plant a big kiss on the road.

Willpower is the leader of the race. There are several stories from this day to talk about. one of the final races of Danica's career Patrick was coming here after racing at Daytona earlier this year in the Daytona 500 save me. Danika's double would be her last race and not the way she wanted the last ride of a drag race to end, but a crash into the outside wall in turn two on lap 68 would be the final circuit that her Mom Bev, looking at Danica, flew from the car and was fine, we heard from her before, Patrick finished and will finish in 30th place and will miss his last Indy. 500 you saw during our side-by-side coverage Kyle Kaiser's first Indy 500 came to an end due to a mechanical issue for the Yukos Racing Team that knocked third-place Oaks from Santa Clara, California, out of the field, so we now have five cars out of race. of the thirty-three participants, four of the five due to crashes in Jones, Takuma Sato, James Davison was also out of the race due to accidents, so he led the laboratory. 22 of the 33 entrants who led the most laps today belong to Ed Carpenter, who was the dominant driver in the first 150 miles. of the race and then Tony Kanaan passed him after a couple of restarts, the first regained the lead, the second did not, he was now 4.7 seconds behind his willpower and there was still a long way to go in this race and talk.

At the beginning of the program, drivers will be worried about the performance of the car for 500-plus miles, chasing the track conditions, chasing the heat that we have here. Eddie's no different than when you and I drove, if you're a single eight back to pit lane, tell me. what you feel inside the car makes the car fast and comfortable for you, as Rick Mears always did here, a four time winner, he wanted the fastest car he had that day at the end of the race, but I think this is It's a different race than we've seen in the past as these cars are very sensitive to shifts when they're behind someone, they have a lot of push but if you start to adjust it too much you can get stuck like Eddie.

Jones and Danica Patrick did what they just lost control of the car and they were both talking about pushing but what actually happened is it doesn't look like they overcorrected and two went the wrong way so you can tune to be in front or can. tuned to be in second place and the next thing we learned is that whoever is leading the restart you are an easy target that first turn some traffic here for the race leader next weekend a doubleheader in Detroit a Raceway at Belle -Isle Park the Verizon IndyCar Series Detroit brought free presented by Steel Saturday and Sunday next weekend at 3:30 both days on ABC willpower for Team Penske at the front 300 miles in the books then with your ABC station the Indianapolis 500 race on the other side your 300 mile mark here in Indianapolis on a 93 degree day it's a hot day there's your strong willed leader who Gus got stuck in some traffic saw a four-second lead reduced to one he has now rebuilt it three seconds after passing some of those lagging cars, the Carpenters team radioed him a fuel number they would like him to reach before having to pit the next time. time, so Carpenter is just ahead of Simon Padgett Oh in 22, who is running third.

The series champion is another who has been very confident all week on the oval track this year and it is Ryan Hunter-Reay and the fourth and fifth honoree of Elio Castro Devi. He advanced very well, don't count it, I'm sure he knows what he's doing to try to win this race and Marco Andretti just went into pit lane, yes, and he's happy with the car, but this is a little bit out of sequence if he stops. Now you will have two more stops until the end of the race. Ryan Hunter-Reay, for example, his teammate just told him that we only hope to make two more stops until the end, so they're giving him the feeling of being number two.

Look at this. is chasing Leo Castroneves, they're back in fifth place, they got as high as 23rd in some of the green flag bus stops we've had over the course of the race, but very solidly there all day, although in They don't really compete for the position. leading at any point is winning, he's gaining knowledge, he's figuring out where to put his card if he's in the top three, someone you're going to have to compete against and what I liked before is that he said he didn't want to use the front wing, he wants to improve the car by increasing the tire pressure, which was a smart move because it gives him the wing later in the race driving with Scott Dixon running sixth.

Dixon started in ninth position, here is ed carpenter on 73 laps for Go to the doctor and it is very interesting, they really want him to reach a fuel number and one has to wonder if they are thinking about maybe getting some yellows and some going further to stop. They didn't talk about doing. any wing Jane generates good pressure some mountains four seconds for the likes of Folsom intertwined also in and out of pit road with ed carpenter on this lap Simon passion Oh will take off and arrive at pit road along with Elio Castroneves so that the Team Penske cars Here's a 55 lap green flag race running at this point from the last restart and here they are with 72 to go Rick, yeah, Simon Maginot was actually complaining about a vibration a little while ago and they said, look , let's go into the pits. in just two or three laps to enjoy some of it at the moment, that might explain why as well as he could on the track, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, Castroneves, oh, there Roger is still talking about what big needle number it's getting a little slow and after a second or so, but Roger said I'm very impressed by the great job with the fuel and, from the front, the power heads for the pit lane, Ryan Hunter -Reay will take over the number one power and make his way to your team, Rick now. will power they actually made some adjustments to the car on the first two stops but they didn't make any adjustments on the last stop they were also talking about fuel it will come on the radio and you're fine keep doing it like you're doing a seven point one second stop big pit stop for seven point a second where the drivers enter the pit lane you see them reach for their helmet and tear off something that is a clear vision visor strip that gets dirty when racing and they take it off during the pit stop so they have a clear track ahead to be able to place the visor.

Ryan Hunter-Reay follows Max Chilton down the pit lane with an incredible charge across the field. Look for Ryan Hunter-Reay and they're going to add. half a turn of the front wing and they have been training it by giving it a fuel number. The team says it doesn't necessarily have the fastest car as usual, obviously it's making money when it takes a second hit here. Scott Dixon comes in to stop him and Dixon again. We talked about it, it's time to put water in the car, we'll keep an eye on her, Blair Julian and the crew chief, the outside front tire changer.

Here's Dixon coming in and he wants to be flawless. I would love to be in 7.2 seconds or less. Look at the clock to the left. Harmon checks the background in this pretty good pit stop prediction Tony Kanaan Alexander Rossi also wanted to exit pit lane on this lap. Remember that Kanade, who was leading the race earlier, made a pit stop and then had to return after suffering a puncture that sent him back to the bottom of the lead lap, so Sebastien Bourdais is his leader in that car number 18 who is running just behind Conor Daly who is now at the end of the lead lap with this cycle of pit stops Josef Newgarden runs second Graham Rahal third Robert Wiccans fourth Carlos muñoz fifth, all of them in and out of the pits, so some of the leaders likepower and passion.

Oh, and the carpenter has been doing and these different strategies have put a Honda engine in the lead, so we'll see how strong it is. What is the end of this race? All the drivers are making a plan in advance about what they might dislike while driving the sex pot Weiss, that was on the radio for more days saying to set this lap so that we can see it at Royal Serbia right out of the pit lane. so lower it to the point where they can make one more stop and we don't see the black drivers going too slow from 200 miles per hour to 60 as they go through the opening between the pit wall and the inside wall and then find their pit over the maze of roads and cars a year ago he was standing on crutches today he has been standing on the gas we are going to do a half return of the car owner Crow Wing Dale Coyne is there there was water to spray the fueling model to make sure If they have no fuel, there is half a lap away, almost nine seconds.

Oh, about a second, a fact when they wanted to be, so Josef Newgarden II is the leader there, now top five, top four. a different strategy to see how it plays out in the last laps of the race problems Sebastien Bourdais crashed and the yellow flag is in turn four of the Indy 500 and it's sad to see someone who worked so hard to come back here and have such a good car to compete in this you have this father it's nice to hang out on the way home you have you they are coming so this is the fourth yellow flag of the race these cars are very difficult to control when they are at the limit when you are behind someone, you you get caught in the dirty air and you have too much steering, he just had a tank thumper, while last year's Univ had eight hundred thousand more pounds of downforce to help you see that, he just barely got sideways and then lost the control.

All of this happens at 220 miles per hour. Cars are so safe today. You see that white barrier that we have in front of the concrete wall. The safest barrier we see at the top, look at the steering wheel. at this moment almost opposite I almost get it I almost get it and it comes back the other way I've lived then it starts to get into what you call Eddy like you mentioned a tank beater now you're on the ride and you want it To get in behind that safest barrier that was put there, designed by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the foam steel energy reduction really helps soften the blow of two cars hitting the wall, so thinking about what they're going to use, they have to get the right thing. kind of amount of downforce in the first 61 laps to go someone said he needed a yellow flag to get to the finish line with fuel, we'll talk about that, the next cleanup continues here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the fourth yellow flag of The 500 mile race after Sebastien Bourdais crashed in turns three and four, the leader is the power of Tony Kanaan who is now at the end of the lead lap and will be able to catch a wave around the safety car and rejoin at the end of the group and around the leader after having that.

He had a flat tire while he was competing for the lead earlier. Yanis' caution in doing so really establishes a strategy for getting to the finish line for some people. Yes, he does and you mentioned that there was a radio communication from someone who needed a yellow well that was. Marco Andretti, so this gives him a chance to get back on the bike and also helps his teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay, who was saving a little bit of fuel, will now be able to use more fuel and gain speed on the track, so 'It will be interesting to see some of the people stopped with about 70 laps to go 59 to go now who will win the Indianapolis 500 is still in doubt 57 laps to go the Indianapolis 500 our broadcast presented by Firestone ABC live at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 54th consecutive year, what I previously called a tactical race is certainly playing out that way now with this amount of time remaining, Rick, that's exactly, you know, it was a dangerous situation for the force of will and the fuel with which they hoped to achieve it now.

All this yellow. I just checked with strategist John Boss Lug and told him one more stop. Can you do it so fast? I'm not in his head thinking that's the plan. Curiously, he points out the power that stopped later than the people behind him a turn or two. later, by the way, they gave him a little advice: drink from the bottle, yes, let's talk to Doc, this yellow, a great break for the red carpet. I just spoke to Tim Boyles, they would have been very, very close and they probably would have been one turn away from this yellow now they can stretch it to a little bit beyond turn 165 and if they are careful in the draft they can achieve it with a stop more to save fuel, they know they have the horsepower and they have a strong car, the question is would they have fuel.

We've given it enough fuel to have a chance to win this race again with the variable settings, engine mappings, fuel burn rates, etc., how fast can you go and still have the fuel to do it? that one more stop if we don't see more yellows the other signal about that to sound is not just a feeling to do it but you have to go for a run in the end you need one hundred percent fuel with a percentage of horsepower if you are decelerating and the boy behind you has fuel to burn, you are an easy target, here we are going to restart with 55 laps to go in the race, you see how the power makes this restart because every time Carpenter was in front the position hunter lost. -king with a movement of passion Oh, passion offends him Castroneves tries to attack Rossi on the outside Xander Rossi with the movement of the race, you just don't do that with these new cars, but he never opened up, you can tell.

We're nearing the end of the race, but we hear Dixon speed up, that's how difficult these new cars are to drive, but he makes it through the yellow flag. LEL Castroneves crashes into the wall. Castroneves was running in fifth position and now crashed out of the race. Roger Penske He went to look and say what happened and he, as you mentioned, as the end of the race approaches, the drivers are thinking about position on the track, listen to the crowd roar for a Spider-Man Let's hope to see you again at the Speedway. for the yellow car Wow, same thing, same thing we've been seeing all day nine, Hunter-Reay directly behind him and Alexander Ross, he made some brilliant moves to not get caught up in that accident.

Back on whiteboard, it's about, you can't control that. let's run down listen just lose your lost grip so hard as a driver because you know you're upside down and you're about to hit something just sit back and wait this would be a good view from Hunter-Reay and these people this is just reaction, this is not thinking, the smoke is there, you die through it, you hope you have gone to the right place, observers above or shouting at their drivers, go up high, go down and he clearly managed to pass safely, this new car is very unforgiving, yes you can hear the fans but that's not how I wanted this Indy 500 and of course Rick Mears in the white jersey, one of Castroneves' spotters and a four-time champion, as well as AJ Foyt, a four-time times champion.

Al Unser. the other four-time champion and for Castroneves his ninth attempt to achieve that fourth victory will come out dry today watch in real time from the decision honoré young now he will not stop for a moment on his way through the pits very frustrating when you get out of the car, what happened , yeah, he had a good move on Ryan and it got to the point where I thought he was probably going to win a wide entry, it was probably a little bit of dust and tires and then as soon as the 23rd came around, I was him.

It's nice going in trying to beat the timer but then a butt just gave up so I wasn't expecting to ever have any signals but it's frustrating the car was fine it was definitely very difficult but please Roger we have to go back , I know. you want to come back, it seemed like everyone got down to business on that last restart, now it's getting serious, yeah, of course, I mean, 60 laps to go, 50 laps to go, now I'm starting to push and we're saving for you, and Yeah. People start like I'm going for it and that's why I saw the opportunity, it's time to go, but I misjudge the tires a little bit, okay, everyone here too Elio wants you to come back too, the security team is trying that Elio is going to make the trip.

Castroneves medical center wants to come out and talk to his team first and we appreciate you stopping to talk to us so that the yellow flag for the race can be adjusted four-time champion Elio Castroneves is out cleaning up we're back after a few words from his ABC Station talking about the coverage at OU Castroneves, a popular guy here who gets a lot of coverage on his walk back to the Medical Center after crashing in the race, crashing has been the topic of the day in this 500 mile race, has There have been five different accidents in the race so far, one involving driver Roger Penske, he was asking for strategy and it really has been the story of this new IndyCar moving as difficult for the drivers on a hot day like this as some of them They speculated that it could be and we saw Takuma Sato run after James Davidson.

You can see he goes up for a walk. A new Davison is too slow to go to Sado. There's nowhere left to go. The car slid and caught the rear end and went up and over it. Jones' tires had trouble in turn two, he just lost the rear in turn two and once that happens there's nowhere you can end up but the wall, but they are very unprepared, all these turns are uncharacteristic of these cars and ten. laps after the Jones accident, Danica Patrick's racing career came to an end, very similar to that of Edie Jones, in that scenario, the vacuum cleaner went around, as we mentioned, very similar to the previous accident, but there she went out of the car, the drivers that we have had in any sport NASCAR or IndyCar a few problems on pit road for Zach Beach, everyone misbehaves, everyone was able to handle that situation effectively, but the difficulty with the dry brake sprayed some of fuel in the hot car, but not listening to Sebastien Bourdais in a crash on lap 138, almost caught him.

He got away from him and spun a lot before reaching the wall, which is always good because it slows him down. They started this race in fifth position, but his day did not end the way he wanted to fall back in 28th place and Elio Castroneves. who started in eighth position running in the top five and had that accident in turn four, we heard him say it was time to get more aggressive approaching the end of the race, look at this as a driver, his weight or the impact there. It is and Roger Penske told Elio that if you win the race I will bring you back next year.

You heard Elio say Roger Roger during please bring me back, so let's see if he comes back in 2019, dr. Standing there, Roger Elliot was doing everything he could. He wanted you to be able to keep that promise if he wanted to come back next year. Roger kept saying what he got another car. Roger. Roger. I want to come back. Well, we certainly did well. Look. I'm sure you know he did a great job sitting on that restart, he had a good race and he makes this cut a little high there and you know you don't see a guy like that lose control very often, but what a great guy, what did what he did for our team for so many years?

And you know he's Klumps' hurdler and he's one of my best guys, so I've got three good ones there, a B and the green flag comes out again. Restart the document and willpower will try to fend off that hungry group of people behind it. Look at Alexander Rossi trying to break through in that blue and yellow and he's on the high side again and I can't believe he did it. He has two pilots in two. quarters Rossi, who started second to last in this race fighting to get to the front, well, he is starting to put all his cards on the table.

Oh trouble on the wall, wise Karam and another caution flag, what brilliant driving caught the car. Put yourself back against the wall and this is going to be a longer clean. What a piece of driving from Rossi on top around one and two and it's not the first time he's done it, it's the second. I really don't know what happened. Let's see if we can find out what happened when the young driver from Nazareth Pennsylvania hit the wall, the same thing that happened to everyone else. I can start to turn around when he hit the wall, he just ripped the right rear tire off the car and after that. once he hits the wall, everything starts to fall apart, which started before he showed up along with Scott Nixon for Howard.

For you, some crazy things happen in these reboots every time the final event gets closer, Eddie, as you mentioned, they are the drivers. Everyone thinking about the position on the track, wants to get as high up the field as possible.because it's hard to pass these cars and everyone knows it's time to put on the show. The worst part of that accident was that the rear tire bounced. Yes, without a doubt, but the day of caroms is over in this 500 and the countdown of the cars in the garage continues to increase after a series of incidents spread throughout the race that will boost the race leader under yellow with 45 laps to go.

Marco Andretti 'zv you of this sixth yellow flag very intense final stages of the Indianapolis 500 a race a year ago we are brats and overtaking was the norm today the cars with less downforce required a delicate balance that required the drivers They had an incredible touch, who would have thought Alexander? Rossi after a problem in qualifying would have started in the middle of the last row and would now be in third place with 43 laps to go, very aggressive just driving the car where he wants, high or low, that means the driver has a lot confidence with the car turns Ethan look at this to the grass below crushing incredible this is the movement of the race right here look at all these cars passing by outside the outside is slippery it's full of dust and he keeps going he barely makes it but he makes our woman of the Firestone race and then, on the next restart, tries to enter his Andretti Autosport teammate Hunter-Reay, who closes the door to let him go outside, passes Hunter-Reay in one and passes out of passion.

Oh, in two and look. how close are those tires at 250 20 miles per hour and this is the area everyone has been spinning oh look how fun it is it's an amazing mix of talent and pure courage well they have this 27 car place to his The driver who has done everything he can yawns, yes, they do and that is exciting for us. I don't know if it's exciting for Ravenn's words on the radio. It's a crazy time driving around outside obviously the cars run good yeah the cars run good. I mean obviously when we got a lot of traffic again at the beginning of the race it was hard to know exactly what we had but you know now we have a few less cars around us yeah the cars are running well Alex is on the pace . so we'll see what we can do here in the last 40 laps, you were just on the radio telling him where they're sweeping because he makes these outside movements that obviously play into your hand with a clean track, yeah, I mean the more information he has.

I got to work with him, he knows what options he has, high or low, so we're just trying to make sure he knows everything he needs to know. You can win? I think we'll see, that'll be awesome, Allen. Well, well, I said in the pace laps when we were talking about Rossi that if he wanted to win he would have to make history today. He started in 32nd place. No one has won the 500 further back than 28th. and that was a very long time ago, including the first 500 mile race, and you can listen to Alexander Ross and right now, saving fuel, accelerating and then grabbing , just doing that, Scott Dixon is very good, but also what I notice, guys, when I saw this with willpower, I just saw him with Alexander Rossi raising his hand out of the booth just to start making the wind blow over your body to try to cool off trying to get some airflow through the car in this 92 degree ambient temperature that we have.

I have driven when the temperature was 80 to 85 in our discussions this morning before we got here, you are just looking for air flow because yellow is when you start thinking about how hot you are, when it turns green you forget everything When they're in the top three around here, they can have a volcano erupting and I don't think you'll feel a thing. Rossi is on top right now. Rob said he's in a groove. It's the rhythm he's making, it's his own rhythm. He decides where he puts his car and gets his way. Anyone else who tries is going around and crashing.

The great Castroneves, who knows how to solve this, tried a perhaps not so aggressive move and did not escape, but Rossi did. and he knows it and everyone in front of him knows it one lap behind Scott Dixon and making a fuel strategy play here by Mike Holland the Ganassi team with 40 laps left in the race while they say no one is better to save fuel at In fact, making fuel at Scott Dixon, now you think about these 39 laps left, they come in, who knows, everyone else has to make one more pit stop around 170 or, to top it off, fill up on fuel watching the number Mike Hull told me this morning. that could just sneak off with an ear they know how to produce fuel and winked at me while the guy he's the best in the business.

I think they are betting on another yellow. You see that tube coming out of Scott Dixon's helmet, that's him. water tube that the drivers have, you press a button on the steering wheel and the water goes in, you get a good drink, but the problem is that right now, at this point, the race if you had water is quite hot, we had reports that such time its The water bottle system was not working, but there is no doubt whether there is water or not, the hottest day we have ever had in the makes us here, let's see this reset.

The energy gave Carpenter the jump. He is going to lose another position to Rossi. Alexander Rossi, on the move again. the outside goes for second place carpenter carpenter no one to come in Rossi still feeling uncomfortable leaving two big slides there for Mateus the tied up Wiccans had to check look come on Tony Kanaan tries to fight his way back to the front in the 14 car are you kidding me? This is crazy, that put Connaught in a late night spot, but he's still way back in line. Graham Rahal just came out and took a spot. Josef Newgarden in that silver car trying to get a squad together and Kanade leaves.

Again, now you're someone like Rossi or someone like Kanaan trying to get everything you can or you're going backwards on fuel, so you spent LaHood for Rossy, for example, to spend less time sitting still at the pit stop, you know? ? comes, let's see if they can gain some runway that way. All of you are interested to see that some cars can travel that entire line. That second group is starting to arrive, so the white car we were actually doing just now. I was very surprised once this track starts to arrive without a top group, maybe they have an option up there.

We have yet to see the car that was running second, passing the car that was in the lead when Carpenter was the leader, fail to pass. Behind is a carpenter who could not pass power and except Reese three stars but we have already passed the restart every time they start they have rhythm after two or three laps the leader moves away from second place although Rossi sure looks strong in the middle of the curves, interesting this week. I was doing a small survey asking drivers. Do you think that, unlike other years, a driver will start to be able to pull away and get away from the guy in the second half?

Field said no way if some of the other guys said I think that's possible, so it'll be interesting to see how far a guy like Willpower can widen the gap. Here we look back at the running order at the top of the screen with everyone. From the warnings and accidents we've had, the different pit stop schedules we had during the long green flag run that have now been put back together because of the series of yellows, some people have really benefited and taken advantage. to the maximum. First of all, for missing the Rex, but since Graham Rahal, for example, in other words, started xxx, right now he is in sixth place for a long time and Nash, for being very smart on the track, working with the team at what we talk. making the car better has had problems with a car that handles poorly all week, but now that United Rentals machine that boarded Granma is doing a tremendous job and putting itself in contention, nothing Ray Hell does in the race surprises me , it's like a tiger when it has to catch up with another, it's in a similar race starting behind but circumstances have worked jr.

Hildebrand in '66 Hildebrand started the race in 27th place and now he's running in 10th place in that blue and orange white car over there, so Hildebrand, for the entire Indianapolis-based Reinbold team, running alone in the 500, They have worked on it and there it is. He always seems to find himself in the top 10. Last year he was in the top 5 and they got a late penalty for a problem. They had to apply a passing penalty which reduced it to 15. A very intelligent racing driver, you can almost say he is In a way, I'm an engineer because the way his mind works, he told me earlier in the week that It's been harder coming here as a part-time driver, but also with a part-time crew, so give them all the credit.

Now they are on the grid, when will the last pit stops be made? We'll make the first move and let's not forget Scott Dixon, who's back there, running 2 seconds slower than the leaders every lap, saving fuel, willpower, pits outside the lead here in race number 102. in The Internet 500, a 6.6 second stop, came out again trying to retake the lead of this race. He was beaten by Marco Andretti Josef Newgarden, who moved up the lap ahead of junior Hildebrand the previous lap, here's Ryan Hunter-Reay dodging fourth Tony Kanaan follows. Ryan Hunter-Reay is taking advantage of this opportunity. We observed another stop of 6.6 seconds.

He's obviously been very loose in traffic. They have the opportunity to make an adjustment. Rick Tony. Kanaan is returning to the front of the group. He'll probably need one more yellow flag to do it. You see, they made it just a wing adjustment. There he has been able to advance in those restarts. He is a master at that. He'll probably need one more to do it. yellow flag not for fuel just for track position and another chance to restart to try to take advantage here is ed carpenter from the race lead Graham Rahal follows him through the pit lane doc and carpenter saved fuel and can fill the laps later because he wants to burn fuel, he will be able in this class, it tends to drain willpower and company, they talked about four tires, they have to achieve all the appeal, there's the front road and Bram Ray Hall follows Carpenter back to the track so now Rossi is the race leader with Padgett Oh mooyah Serbia Wiccans and a few others on a different pit stop schedule here comes Rossi yawns and they are going to change these tires to a bigger step which means the car will turn more positively inside, rarely a little.

We're picking the right 6.5 seconds Robin, where you look at Alexander Rossi back in the races, how all these cars mix together again after the pit stops, it's going to be fascinating to see all the cycles here at Padgett, oh to the leader of the race entering the pits due to excessive speed. Here would be an Abbas Hillier, don't do it. Carlos Muñoz passionately takes the lead all the way down the pit lane to Team Penske. The Simon pass you know in 2015 had a killer car, a car he thought he could win. the race he was actually playing with elcampo but he made a mistake he hit another car his goal today not to make a single mistake a little more stopping a second ahead of his teammate at this point in the race that time makes a big difference football field the second and put you are a distance of a football field behind that teammate, you lost the two seconds here, Carlos Muñoz left the lead and, of course, Carlos is also ready in the end, he has been very Happy with this car, it runs that unique line where it goes very low. the right rear is the last one that will be done and that slows them down a little bit, eight point six seconds, there are two football fields that you talked about, yes, they cover a lot of ground in a short period of time at 200 miles per hour. your orioles Serbia is now the leader of the race, remember I talked about how Serbia got a lap down and stayed out under a yellow flag, got a wave from being between the leader and the safety car and fought his way to the top 10.

Has been dragged. and dropped in the standings since then based on the pit stop cycle and strategy cycles, but now the veteran from Spain who now lives in Los Angeles is the race leader in Indianapolis with 23 to go. Spencer Pickett, right in front of him, remembers he had a pass. via an earlier pit road speeding penalty, which dropped Pickett back to 21st on the card. Sorry Scott, of the cars that pitted, you see the Wiccans there in the six, he's a second place car right now, all the cars that pitted will have power. It's seventh now guess who sixth Scott Dixon and I have been telling you that we won't see Dixon in the pits for the rest of this race unless something goes wrong.

Now the only disadvantage for Dixon is that he will have more laps on his tires. Whetheris a shootout at the end of these late pit stops we've seen, we shouldn't have to worry about people using fuel, they'll be able to use the fuel at full power and don't forget there's usually a knob on the steering wheel that advances the spark from the engine it gives you a little bit more power you can't run it all day but you know I talked about this the other day there's no doubt we'll be there for the last 20 laps excitement but it will change its fuel the way we use it maybe Dickson is trying to do it Alexander Rossi did it for the first time in the Annapolis 500, which was Dixon passing Clayman D'Mello for fifth place, there is leader Robert Witness who just passed or Serbian beer for the race lead as we went back and took a look at Scott Dixon's position on the track, you heard the instructions from the Wiccans team, so he will give up the lead and be able to lead his first Indianapolis that he races in, which is something that is always great and Become part of what they call the leadership circle club even though it was under a different fuel strategy, but it's still good to have your name on that board within Serbia.

Oh, Stefan Wilson, Jack Harvey, those first four here they come Wiccans of The leadership in the race gives first place back to Serbia 20 laps left in the Indianapolis 500 in the last miles of the Indianapolis 500 our broadcast hosted by Firestone in our side-by-side ABC coverage you just watched will beat Scott Dixon, so who? They pitted with twenty nine laps to go on top of the cars that we know can run hard to the finish but Serbian Oriole is the leader and Steph Wells in second and Jack Harvey is third they all pitted on the lap 157 157 and 158 Will we see another change lately in this race like we have seen in the last eight years of the event?

What about Serbia, where they had their fuel strategy? I just spoke to tactician David Derek Davidson and he said, they need a yellow, so they're saying to Oriole, okay, push, push, but unless they get a yellow for their English corps, they're not going to make it to the end, but If they get that warning, obviously leading the Indy 500, he's right where they want him. be and it's a question of new tires and how many other people get all that sort of stuff that could come into play, so Serbia runs 4.2 seconds behind Serbia and there's Stefan Wilson, 28, originally from Sheffield, England, now from Denver in his second 500 start for Andretti Autosport, you know the story well: Justin Wilson's younger brother lost his life and a racing accident at an event at Pocono donated organs that helped five others after that accident.

Stefan qualified the races not only to compete but they drove him to save lives. promote organ donation which was so important to him after what happened to his brother Stefan. He was supposed to have run his second 500 race a year ago, but was asked to give up the seat when Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso became available. He promised he would have a ride this year, Michael Andretti kept that promise and here's Wilson running second with 13 laps to go, doctor, and he said, "I've never felt closer to my late brother than I do today on this track. I know that we would do it".

I don't want this career someday He said he's taking care of me He'll ride with me He said I have nothing after today He said I'm like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff and there's no tomorrow so I have A roll of two dice, any Whatever I can do to have a chance to win this race, it will happen for me and for him, accident doctor Tony Kanaan is in trouble and against the wall and the yellow flag is out with 12 laps to go. race seventh yellow flag of the 500 and now Oriol Serbia will have a decision in his hand, as will the others who run on the lead lap, the speed of the new tires versus the position on the track and the few laps left in this race when we go back to green what happened with the Kanaan corner - it caught other things like the car to start don't move just a little bit when exiting the turn back it started to move a little it seemed like it had a correction it almost caught it and then I ran away from him he almost doesn't do it around here that's the same but you're hopeful you can be as hopeful as you want once I get on my side you're gone you heard him being aggressive on the gas he was looking for a draft that was going for the final stretch to turn three hoping to make up some positions and it didn't work.

What a day Tony Kanaan has had, remember he was leading the race fighting for the win, one of the strongest cars in the field right after. a series of pit stops a puncture occurred and a tire had to be refitted he fell backwards he got a lap down he made the return lap he was charging again to try to be in contention for the win and now his race car is wrecked and he's in The safety vehicle headed for an inspection, but it performed great, didn't it? He was solid, so now, with 11 laps left in this race, there are 19 cars on the lead lap, which means a lot of traffic for Oriole Serbia to think about giving up. track position to try to get back on new tires there you go, there's a decision well you can't really, you have to keep up with the safety car, but John is taking the lead at the moment Derek Davidson is on the radio on this moment for Oriole, okay, you said you wanted to scream, you got it, can you make it to the end?

We think we can, we're going to try, so the last word was save, save, save right now, save with caution. Will he have enough to hit? the forward pedal if it receives pressure from behind, yes, we believe, yes, we believe we are good. Wow, exactly what this team wanted for Oriole Serbia and who knows how a tiebreaker works if you think a couple of those other restarts were wild, you did. I haven't seen anything yeah I think there's a good chance we'll get another yellow oh this is going to be crazy these cars are so hard to drive right on the limit they keep catching everyone the technology to catch a driver like Conan in turn two.

It takes a special set of circumstances, well, when you look at Serbia, Wilson and Harvey or the first three, then behind you, when you look in the mirrors, you see the willpower, Scott Dixon, Edie the carpenter, Alexander Rossi, Ryan, Hunter-Reay, Simon, passion, oh, not just the champions there, but also the Indy 500. winners, you think they're not going to come out. I'm looking for it five wide, damn it, now and now Dixon doesn't have to go slow because he's got some fuel back in the tank and he can go however he wants. fast as he wants and that will make the difference and then there is willpower, one of the dominant cars of the race sitting there in fourth place.

Rick, in fact, his strategist John Bas Locke was telling him that you have a lot of speed, a lot of power. He talks about what he's going to do in this reboot. Can he top these three guys? We believe he can. He was running very fast talking right now. I think we have something for him for sure. I hope they have to turn green soon because the guys in front. Many of us still need to save a little, but we went a couple miles per hour faster. He's been great all day. Great stops. You know, Robbie with our fuel and Dave with the engineer.

It's been a solid effort so far. It would be a shame if we didn't get it because it's been a really good race for us, but that's Indy, so here's the question, inside, outside, which way do you go in that race truck? He kept talking. I don't know, it will depend on him he is talking about both, so we will see, it will be exciting, in fact, it will be like that. I think that's a euphemism for John Vause. Record just one other driver we want to talk about in this car line, that pink and black car. there, number 60, Jack Harvey, driving for Michael Shank, the former driver who made his name building a team in sports car racing, at one point mortgaged his house to keep his team alive, now his dream is to own it of IndyCar here for the second year.

Harvey, former winner on the oval in the Freedom 100, the Indy Light Series race they have here on Carb Day, making just his second start in a 500-mile race and here he finds himself running in third position within the last ten laps. What do you think is going through his head? Remember he said last year along with Michael Shank, I can't believe they're here, it's a dream come true, but there's no doubt you've got butterflies in your stomach, and as we look here, on the left side of the car, the mirror for Oreo Serbia now as leader Eddie, I'm not sure if I'm going to look in the mirrors much and also remember that you have the spotters up and in turns one and three to let the driver know if there's anyone looking on the high side and on the low side, but right now, when it's time to turn green, there are the spotters lined up there for all the teams.

I wouldn't be looking in the mirrors at all. I'll be putting my foot on the accelerator. We will receive the signal to go at the start/finish line. We'll turn green with seven laps left in the 500 Wow and the heart rate is picking up right now and we know a point that Eddie brought up today Scott and his thoughts on this but it's so hard once you resolve to pass as it has been how aggressive everyone will be when releasing the green flag, you don't even weigh the risk-reward ratio anymore, just do it, we heard John Boss Law talk about willpower. go up or down, you're going to take whatever opening is in front of you because he wants to send a car a lap so he can get out in front and take off from Scott Dixon, but member Scott Dixon doesn't have that much fuel, but I think.

That will also have powers at this point, the pilot leading Serbia has to be a little sneaky in how you take off from him, because if you take off where they expect you to on the restart, they'll pass you over to one we saw. that at the beginning of the race, so you have to find a way to put enough distance between you and the cars behind, but his problem is that there are a lot of guys behind him, so I'm thinking exactly the same thing, well, about the other one side. That's also that wherever you are with willpower, those three guys in front don't have that much experience with the exception of Oriole Serbia, if something happens in front of him, you have to overcome that accident too, so, coming to the green flag , How long will it take?

We run under green with all that aggression, another factor to try to get everything you can as quickly as possible. I'd say there's no chance of getting through without any problems on the first restart. These 300,000 people have simply stood by. feet reaching the green flag on a late restart to see who wins in Indianapolis didn't get enough didn't get enough here comes Wilson looking for the lead Barbie the inside Wilson comes in Butler had to check how much will that cost him I think Dixon is going to get around him Stefan Wilson leads the Indianapolis 500 incredible powers will have to start passing cars there is nothing they laugh to go I have to go around Serbia fast here to be able to look in the ship Rick is out and he reach third place with six laps to go, the other thing is willpower.

He has newer tires on his car about 20 laps in, so it's definitely good to have more grip almost close enough to get to the end of this level, but not quite. Restless another six feet no fracking Harvey go see I won't have it in this coin game now it's all a matter of time sit here for a while and then have Goss look at the throttle he lost, they wasted time on that left, his right The hand went down to make an adjustment to the sway bar to change the handling of your car, what a story for Stefan Wilson, do you have enough fuel?

Oh, he'll show up. Willpower takes the lead and heads to Annapolis with four laps to go. is where it's hardest for the team and the spouse you drive the car with, you know what you're doing out there, the team right now just sees coming back to the frontstretch all the time to marry the same thing as Liz, she it's just going to I wonder if you'll make it to the end. We will check the speed of it. His last lap was 2:16. I received a card three laps from the end. That lap was 220 which compares to Mackenzie's race pace for many.his blister is very fast in the car that follows him only in 2:16 this is power, willpower in the race for several years he spoke from having a hard time handling the mental aspect of racing, the pressure situations he had a hard time with he put himself in position to win a championship he had to lose one to win one he finally won that championship then the oval track racing guy said who is not a good track racer he is a supreme road horse racer worked on it worked on it losing to Montoya in 2015 here but finishing The second driven will drives the level of confidence on this track and now here it is, like I told you before,so smooth, so calm and so confident all month and now, just over a lap away from checking off the last box of Corinna's goals, she has a marker behind her for cutting and that box you talked about that we mentioned earlier in the program, if you drive from Roger Penske West, I'm writing ships as he approaches for a lap, the white flag is flying, but you have to make sure you wouldn't.

At the Indianapolis 500, if you want to keep your job with Team Penske Barty, the lap car is Charlie Kimball, you hear the radio call clear for 40 car lengths to quarters for fans to stand waving and cheering , you will never be presented with the same point. again, from now on he will be the willpower, winner of the Indianapolis 500 for 2018. The power of inspector 5 allows me to win him. Roger radio his work. Her wife Lyz enjoys watching her husband become the 72nd driver to win the Indy 500 dr. Liz, he just won the Indy 500, you're excited, what were you taking that last card?

I knew he could do it. I received a slightly strange call. Moreland really rests. He knew we could and the guys, the team, I mean, just oh, he said. Me at home in quiet moments, he shared with you how much he wanted this race, so he did it to Herman for this one, go celebrate, thank you, how about that Alan Liz husband? It's for the Indy 500 winner, I think we saw it before for Balancer Junior. It's Indianapolis, you just don't know what it means, well that's a good illustration. It's 5:25 in the morning in Australia. I bet you there are a lot of people up, cheering and about to start a great day.

The celebratory energy was left there twenty years ago, that was you, how does that feel, like you're a horrible dancer, dr. Wu just starts over. I am very glad to have been able to witness the minute of willpower. It's such a long way from Toowoomba Australia to Victory Lane. Get a hug from Simon Padgett. Oh, let's talk about what this means. What a long journey! I've been to this place today, man, I just can't believe it. I changed my attitude a lot after being a barber, very positive and I had a great mother. I just can't believe it.

I must thank Roger Penske Horizon and my parents for allowing me to arrive. at this point this is just i can't describe it i feel like collapsing i want to cry oh my god i couldn't stop screaming at the thought i can't quite believe it so you're leading with only a handful of laps to go and the yellow flag comes out. What's on your mind? I'm just saying I have to catch these guys. I don't know how much fuel they got, but this is just a reset of my life and then I'm off. Go ahead and shrink like a man I think I'm going to win this I'll keep screaming with one of the girls screaming like a man I got this amazing It's okay, you've had some low moments in your life Things you missed We were So close makes this so much sweeter for a guy your age, 37 years old, to win this Indy 500.

I wondered if he would ever win it and thoughts ran through his mind throughout the month. I guess it's like my career. I have had so many victories, so many polls, but everyone always talked about the 500 and I wanted to. I can't, um, I just couldn't imagine winning a race in front of a crowd like this, so many people, it's just amazing which I love. BorgWarner Trophies behind you your face will be there congratulations willpower Roger Penske with his 17th victory as owner of the Indianapolis 500 you know that made him happy the team worked so hard on these race cars so hard what a reward and the driver the dream is reality willpower you are a winner of the Indianapolis 500 what day what race and much more to come from the Brickyard willpower started this race in third position he turned 59 of the 200 laps and led the More willpower counted on Firestone, the race's long-lasting driver, from some of the reactions we've seen, you get the feeling that this could be held for a while.

You certainly know it's appreciated, what a great tribe and all the traditions that come with winning at the Brickyard. will power NGO wins Team Penske president Tim Canela and the captain himself, so a look at the unofficial Indianapolis 500 results will boost their race winner, Ed Carpenter fell short Scott Dixon finished third , a lot of Chevy and Honda powered cars out there, but when you look for Alexander Rossi, he was marching down the field, it would have been different if he had just a few more laps. Marco Andretti, another brilliant Drive alongside him, but he never quite gets it, but what really impressed me with Stefan Wilson was. in very few laps finish in the top three and the drivers who had difficulties in the race number of drivers with crashes, including Kanaan Castroneves during the day and the last race of Danica Patrick ended up in the wall in turn number two, the last three finalists, ed carpenter with his best result in the 500, but it is not the place that John wanted and ed carpenter with the day normally second place that any other race is almost like a victory, but this one you proved it, you were so strong at the beginning , what happened next.

I'm not totally sure, I mean we lost, we lost the lead and one of the adjustment sequences to have to look at the data and see if I shot wrong on that thought, the guy's stops were great all the time there was one of them, one On those laps I encountered a strange chain of traffic, you know, and that's all it took, you know, track position was so critical, you know, at the end of the race, everyone was saving fuel and I knew Well, the boys told me well and Simon where he was. going better than me at the time and on the first restart we had when I was behind I ran a good race and I think I might have passed him and I thought I'll just sit here and save some fuel and work on it.

In the exchange, we got all those yellow cards and that made it no longer a fuel race, so that's the moment, in retrospect, where I kicked myself, but at the time it seemed like the right decision, but in retrospect I should have. I took a chance on track position and worried about fuel after the fact, but yeah, like you said, it'll be in a couple of days. I'll feel better about this ending. You know, I'm still extremely proud of the entire Red Carpenter Racing team. I think he probably has to have been one of the two most consistent guys, you know, day in and day out, in different conditions this month, I'm very proud of that desire.

I wish my teammates could have been there a little more too, but it had been a while since I had a top 5 here, so it feels good to finish in a good position, very happy, you know? And I, you know, I talked quite a bit about the competitors and when he first came here after unification, he hated ovals and now he loves them, and him and me. racing together one day you could drive for me I don't think we'll have an IndyCar ruined by tampering, but congratulations, good job, well done, thank you. I think it will be a popular victory in many areas, surely in victory lane it will propel the winner of The 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500, which will be broadcast live at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it will propel his wife Liz and his family on the traditional victory lap around the Speedway in the convertible live over the public address system so that all the fans around this huge Speedway can see the winner and no doubt see the joy on his face as the force of will he has achieved his first victory in this great race.

Wow, what a day, where to begin to sum it up. What are your final thoughts on the 102nd 500? What a popular winner I know. Australia will drink a lot of beer the next few days because they know how to have fun, but it was amazing at the end, it was amazing, yeah, it was something else in the cars, the cars were very difficult to drive, I think, I think. They brought the cars back to where they need to be and if you're going to go fast you're going to have to take risks because sometimes the risk is worth it, but sometimes you don't know, when you think about willpower, it came to Team Penske. in Long Beach in 2009 as a substitute for Elio Castroneves, who was unable to attend the event.

Roger Penske saw the talent in the young driver and decided that he had to retain him somehow, somehow he ended up being on the team very early, they are complete. time and look at what he's accomplished now remember what I said earlier on the show keep your job at Team Penske sooner or later you need to win the Indianapolis 500 I think willpower can be sure he picked it he chose it he chose it a week ago let's go every two minutes he tells us look who's leading look who leaves our expert driver here willpower was calm with him you heard him mention it before but he was calm with him all week every time you talk to him while other teams are trying to figure it out . the balance of the car what to do what to do he yes, we're good, we're there, we have a good feeling.

I'm sure it's good. I mean driving with confidence like that all week, you saw it in the way he drove, particularly on that last restart when he had to do it and now look at him making the trip down the Speedway as the winner of the Indianapolis 500, well, He never has been, he's always been very fast, but as you mentioned during the broadcast, Allen is now very focused and doing it. not making mistakes for a driver I think the talent that has so many races wins so many polls that more championships are needed maybe more Indy 500 ahead my favorite shot is to win in the winner's circle and focused on the eyes of him. a crazed animal, he was so full of energy I can't believe it, he's too amazing, it was great to see him now, as he always seems to do another 500 in the books that don't disappoint us and get us talking. about what a great day it was and that's why Willpower celebrates winning its first victory in the Indianapolis 500 and you know, one constant and ABC's coverage of the race over these last 54 years has been that it's not about us, it's about the people in the race and so on.

We leave you with a very easy presentation to watch and a celebration of all the traditions that are the Indianapolis 500 and all the joy that comes with winning the greatest spectacle in racing put on today by Willpower and Team Penske.