2025 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500

donthaveanickname said:
It's not a command blue flag.
These flags only signal that the leaders are behind, they're not required to let them by.
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Yep the kart and mini moto track I flag at blue is a warning to slower traffic to not change what they are doing but to be advised traffic is catching them.
 
kkfan91 said:
Yep the kart and mini moto track I flag at blue is a warning to slower traffic to not change what they are doing but to be advised traffic is catching them.
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It used to be the same even in F1 until the 80s or 90s.

There is a command blue flag in IndyCar but only if a car has already been lapped by the entire field and I don't think this even applies to oval races.
 
Only got home in time to watch the last 20 laps. From what I've read here, I'll have to watch the whole race tomorrow on DVR.
Sounds like lots of strange things happened.
 
I listened on Sirius XM on board my cruise; kinda great and old school. Seemed like an entertaining race. I know some folks have big feelings about this not being a photo finish sorta race after the last couple of years but good god, they were all together on track and obviously Palou made a move. He just happened to have more than everyone else.
 
The race was a mess with all the weird crashing in the pace lap, cars bursting into flames. running over your pit crew and outright crashing in the pits. I was very nearly ready to file this one under "Twilight Zone," and then it all turned around and we had a real race on our hands with 16 different leaders.

Palou came in as such an overwhelming favorite no one was surprised he won. Looking back on it, he just rode around and played with everyone until it was time to go, and then he made it look easy.

It wasn't a mega finish like we've come to expect, but it will still end up being better than the rest of the schedule. We've had unbelievably magical finishes since 2020, so we were due for a bummer. With a contested lead change with 16 to go, it was still an instant classic.
 
Well, if we’re keeping track of repeat offenders, that’s both Andretti and PREMA as well. The 26 and 83 got hit with penalties after Thermal, but were limited to $25k fines and losses of 10 points each. Maybe this whole month has marked a significant turning point in how stringently the series polices technical violations. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world so long as it’s applied consistently.

At least Palou went out and won it on track.
 
Seems like they should be finding more of the illegal stuff while going through the prerace tech. They have almost 48 hours from the final practice until the green flag to get it done.
 
Not a good look any way you slice it with that many cars getting DQ'd. Does that seem like enough of a penalty for that kind of thing? It doesn't to me is why I am asking. I know it is their big payday and the rest of the season not so much, but damn, it makes a person wonder about the rest of the field at this point.
 
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