In the round-up: IndyCar race winner and 2016 Indianapolis 500 pole sitter James Hinchcliffe may not start this year’s race after he was one of two drivers who failed to make the cut in qualifying yesterday.
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Remarkable #Indy500 bump day ends with returnee @h3lio fastest, @DanicaPatrick in the pole shoot-out on her one-off comeback, and most sensationally @Hinchtown potentially not in the race after missing the cut. Will @SPMIndyCar substitute him for one of their other drivers?
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) May 19, 2018
Great day at the Mille Miglia. The highlight driving these amazing Alfa Romeo cars from the 30s and 50s 🙌🏻💯. Thanks @alfa_romeo for an unforgettable day! #ME9 pic.twitter.com/GbPo19fMCs
— Marcus Ericsson (@Ericsson_Marcus) May 19, 2018
Great to drive this beast ! Back to the 30's ! How amazing to experience what the drivers used to feel 90 years ago. A bit different, isn't it ? Definitly have the 30's style though… 😅 Huge thanks to @alfa_romeo !! pic.twitter.com/Qf1XYSdRGf
— Charles Leclerc (@Charles_Leclerc) May 19, 2018
We made it! End of the Mille miglia in Brescia ! I will be back in futur for sure :))!
On l’a fait! Nous sommes arrivés à la fin du mille Miglia à Brescia ! C’est certain que je reviendrai!:)) #EO31 pic.twitter.com/Ezopv2aHrg— Esteban Ocon (@OconEsteban) May 19, 2018
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Norris: Revised McLaren F1 car faster, but less forgiving (Crash)
"I think if I did make a mistake it’d be slightly more costly. I think the old one was a bit - not more predictable - but slightly more forgiving in some ways, I don’t think it’s maybe so much the downforce but trying to maximise the newer package."
Drivers are revving over IndyCar's more powerful engine formula for 2021 (IndyCar)
"The current 2.2-liter platform will be expanded to 2.4 liters in 2021, providing an increase of approximately 100 horsepower. When using the push-to-pass feature that gives an additional horsepower burst on road and street courses, the new engines are expected to generate more than 900 horsepower."
Lotterer found it 'difficult to enjoy' the start of his Formula E career (Katy Fairman)
"What happened in Paris, I think with more experience I could have avoided that because it was just about a few meters lifting on the power earlier to survive."
Miami GP: A warning from history (ESPN)
"The final race weekend in Phoenix got off to a bizarre start when a man managed to evade security and hobble onto the track during first practice, brandishing one of his crutches at a fast-approaching F1 car."
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Comment of the day
Will yesterday’s news about McLaren open the door for Nicholas Latifi to get an F1 race seat? Ronin isn’t convinced:
Latifi does not have the required superlicense points and it is unlikely he will ever get to that point.
Ronin
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On this day in F1
- On this day in 1973 Jackie Stewart won the first Belgian Grand Prix to be held at Zolder
@HoHum (@hohum)
20th May 2018, 0:16
Why the mirror image from Ocon?
Chris (@chrisgalaz)
20th May 2018, 1:23
instagram mirrors selfies
@HoHum (@hohum)
20th May 2018, 1:58
Thanks for bringing me up to speed @chrisgalaz, but still I wonder why.
ColdFly (@)
20th May 2018, 8:16
Psychology of Perception.
We’re used to seeing our reflection in the mirror, and our brains have trained us to recognize that image.
When we see our face the way others see it, that can be disorienting.
Poor selfie generation; cannot even handle a true image of themselves ;)
Mark (@blueruck)
20th May 2018, 0:18
I suspect they are going to buy a seat to get Hinchcliffe into the race. It was shocking, he was in and the team pulled his qualification so they could try a faster time, they went out and had a real bad vibration and had to scrub the run. They ran out of time while watching Pipi Mann try and qualify (she didn’t).
High drama
Victor (@mrmuffins)
20th May 2018, 1:15
I thought Hinchcliffe was down to 34th place when he pulled his time and attempted to re-qualify.
Bleu (@bleu)
20th May 2018, 7:35
@mrmuffins You are right. Hinch’s fastest speed was 224.784 while Davison was the last to qualify with 224.798.
JackySteeg (@jackysteeg)
20th May 2018, 0:59
My heart sank when I saw Hinch getting out of his car when time ran out. Forgot just how gut wrenching bump day could be.
But I don’t think that’s him out of the race for the year. Schmidt is running 3 other cars, one being a part-time operation and another being an Indy one-off. It would be incredibly harsh on either of their non-regular drivers to force them on the sidelines to serve the interests of their star driver, but it feels like the only logical solution.
I’m more gutted for Schmidt than anything else. He runs a brilliant little team, it’s sad that they find themselves in this situation.
StefMeister (@stefmeister)
20th May 2018, 1:50
In the past Hinchcliffe would have had time to have a final run as qualifying has always traditionally ended at 6pm.
Today qualifying ended at 5:30 & it seems they cut 10 minutes off qualifying at the request of ABC who wanted to be off the air before 6pm but insisted on having 10 minutes for post session interviews.
Mark Zastrow (@markzastrow)
20th May 2018, 6:16
Yeah, the cutoff was 5:50 pm, but it’s been that way at least since 2014, when IndyCar introduced the fast nine–Sunday qualifying format. It has just never mattered that much until this year because there weren’t enough cars making runs to do any bumping.
Don
20th May 2018, 3:13
Shocking disappointment for Hinch! That is the drama of the 500.
Jere (@jerejj)
20th May 2018, 6:50
“The final race weekend in Phoenix got off to a bizarre start when a man managed to evade security and hobble onto the track during first practice, brandishing one of his crutches at a fast-approaching F1 car.”
– That has happened on few current circuits as well, though. Hockenheim, Silverstone, Circuit de Catalunya, SIC (China), and most recently Singapore.
Sundar Srinivas Harish (@sundark)
20th May 2018, 7:44
Wasn’t this in Australia, IIRC? (And going by the Foster’s branding?)
ColdFly (@)
20th May 2018, 8:26
It’s a circuit race – not Australia. @sundank
(Silverstone 2003)
ColdFly (@)
20th May 2018, 8:27
@sundark
Sundar Srinivas Harish (@sundark)
20th May 2018, 11:05
Ah, right. What happened to your original comment? Its missing for some reason…
Now I look like a rando posting a random link.
ColdFly (@)
20th May 2018, 15:54
The original post was probably the one above by @jerejj, @sundark
ColdFly (@)
20th May 2018, 15:55
The original post was probably the one above by @jerejj.
The ‘duplicate post error’ seems to be back, which causes replies to end up as a separate post, @sundark.
NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
20th May 2018, 16:37
900 hp in them Indy cars, low downforce, single make aero package… Twin turbo dream
Now if only F1 added 200 cc and 150 hp…
What a wonderful world it could be. Oh and twin turbo.
Sally
21st May 2018, 5:25
imagine if Hinch was bumped by Pippa Mann who rarely races anytime