Indy 500 finish!!!!!

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 3:17am
OMG! That poor kid!Shocked
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yam261 5/29/2011 12:23pm
5/29/2011 12:23pm
I don't know what's worse, the guy crashing in the final corner while leading or wheldon's team carying on like he dominated the race.
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Racer92 5/29/2011 12:35pm
5/29/2011 12:35pm
TripleFive wrote:
That was an epic fail!
The kid did good on 199 & 3/4 laps, making one mistake aint too bad for a rookie.

Great effort JR.
oldschoolmxr203 5/29/2011 1:08pm
5/29/2011 1:08pm
TripleFive wrote:
That was an epic fail!
Racer92 wrote:
The kid did good on 199 & 3/4 laps, making one mistake aint too bad for a rookie.

Great effort JR.
That was a crazy finish ,,,

He had it won, then lost it with one corner ouch,,,,
And then Dan Welden, was the winner, and he was like thank you very much,,ill take it,,,


I wat ched the last two laps, with the mrs and middle son, after the race i told my son, watch he will drink milk, and he looks at me wierd and says what? so i explained it, an old tradition,, at that race.

Hopefully me and the mrs will go to the Indy 500 someday,,, its on my bucket list ,,,Laughing Whistling

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Bill_Carroll 5/29/2011 1:10pm
5/29/2011 1:10pm
Goodness, can you imagine living with that the rest of your life?

Was hoping he could have closed the deal for his sponsor on this Memorial weekend.
good show though.
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Digger437 5/29/2011 1:35pm
5/29/2011 1:35pm
Major bummer for JR, he didn't want to let off and let Weldon catch him and lose that way, just a rookie mistake trying to push to hard and got up in the marbles. At least he slid across in 2nd place so that will take away some of the sting. Good race though. The two by two restarts made the race more exciting also than single file restarts.
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KMC440 5/29/2011 2:07pm
5/29/2011 2:07pm Edited Date/Time 5/29/2011 2:14pm
JR's team failed him, they should have been more on top of how far behind Welden was. He had time to check up.

The finish is still under review as this moment, the yellow came out prior to Wheldon crossing the line and they are determining if it came out before he passed JR.

Just adding a bit to the drama......

The re-start at lap 156 was freakin nuts.
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Bill_Carroll 5/29/2011 2:46pm
5/29/2011 2:46pm
Looks like Indy is following Nascars lead by implementing side by side restarts.

And ya lap 156 restart by that camera view looked insane, cars scattering everywhere.
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uk125250 5/29/2011 4:55pm
5/29/2011 4:55pm
He should have kept it pinned after he hit the wall. That will haunt him the rest of his life.
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WhKnuckle 5/29/2011 5:46pm
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Digger437 wrote:
Major bummer for JR, he didn't want to let off and let Weldon catch him and lose that way, just a rookie mistake trying to push...
Major bummer for JR, he didn't want to let off and let Weldon catch him and lose that way, just a rookie mistake trying to push to hard and got up in the marbles. At least he slid across in 2nd place so that will take away some of the sting. Good race though. The two by two restarts made the race more exciting also than single file restarts.
Looked to me like he was lapping a much slower car, wanted to leave a lot of room to make sure he didn't make contact because he was approaching him so fast, got just a tad out of the groove into the marbles and straight up into the wall. What a terrible thing for a young guy.
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Racer92 5/29/2011 5:55pm
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JR's team failed him, they should have been more on top of how far behind Welden was. He had time to check up. The finish is...
JR's team failed him, they should have been more on top of how far behind Welden was. He had time to check up.

The finish is still under review as this moment, the yellow came out prior to Wheldon crossing the line and they are determining if it came out before he passed JR.

Just adding a bit to the drama......

The re-start at lap 156 was freakin nuts.
I was thinking the same thing earlier today, his spotter shoulda already told him where everyone else was so he would have info to make the right decision.
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jtomasik 5/29/2011 6:13pm
5/29/2011 6:13pm
If JD never wins the Indy 500, he's going to have nightmares about today until his last breath.
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FIREfish148 5/30/2011 3:08pm
5/30/2011 3:08pm
That was such a shitty deal. Reminded me of dungeys weekend.

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