1hooper
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Post by 1hooper on May 29, 2022 10:13:56 GMT -5
Trying a couple of longshot Honda engines. +1800 Ericsson +2000 Kanaan
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May 29, 2022 12:43:13 GMT -5
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Post by elkurzhal on May 29, 2022 12:43:13 GMT -5
Went with Soto +1800
My oldest kid went with a friend, looks like a huge crowd on tv.
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Post by spanky126 on May 29, 2022 14:12:23 GMT -5
Is this the race where the winner drinks milk? Or spill it? Or does something with the moo juice? I thought this race is generally on Memorial Day...
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May 29, 2022 14:26:31 GMT -5
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Post by elkurzhal on May 29, 2022 14:26:31 GMT -5
Yes Spanky, the winner usually drinks a glass of milk. Always the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. It has been run on Monday a few times due to rain on Sunday.
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May 29, 2022 14:46:16 GMT -5
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Post by elkurzhal on May 29, 2022 14:46:16 GMT -5
Well done Hooper!
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1hooper
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Post by 1hooper on May 29, 2022 16:05:20 GMT -5
Thanks Elk. Didn't understand why everyone went to pit road after the crash with about 6 laps left but I only watch two races per year. See you at Daytona in Feb!
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May 29, 2022 16:33:56 GMT -5
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Post by elkurzhal on May 29, 2022 16:33:56 GMT -5
The Indy circuit will do a red flag (everyone stops on pit road) for cleanup of an accident near end of the race to give the race a chance to finish under green flag racing. If they stay under yellow for the clean up they would have clicked off enough laps to end the race in anticlimactic fashion. NASCAR does a 2 lap overtime in that case.
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Post by shoes on May 30, 2022 7:32:28 GMT -5
The race used to always be on Memorial Day. I can remember one year they raced on Tuesday after a rain-out (on a school day no less). They switched to Sunday to give them the buffer of having a rain day make-up still on the holiday weekend. Great call hoop- Kanaan was a live possibility as well. Penalty killed Dixon again this year (as well as Palou).
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Post by elkurzhal on May 31, 2022 8:22:10 GMT -5
Shoes/Spanky. You guys are/were right. Looks like it moved to Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in 1974 prior to that it had been run on Memorial Day. Memorial Day was on May 30th regardless of the day of the week until the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Monday_Holiday_Act took effect in 1971.
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