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Strike against company appears to be over. Looks like it's back to work. Mixed feelings about that. Happy to have "won", but not happy that I will likely have to work with "scabs" who crossed the picket line to enrich the 1% and themselves and will enjoy the new benefits we won by staying out for over a month. Scumbags.
 
I thought it was great for him to have the win, especially since it was the 100th running of the Indy, so it marks it as an especially notable occasion!

The fuel strategy always comes into play, but I was surprised to see the field pit so late for fuel...usually they try and keep it closer to the 25 lap remaining mark. Figure that on the average, the Indy cars have a range of about 76 miles on a full tank under typical hard racing. 25 laps remaining is about 65 miles total (as the track is 2.5 miles), so I was a bit puzzled why everyone pitted at 8 laps remaining as it wouldn't be long enough to back into a good position.

One of the most notable fuel gamble failures I can think of, was Robby Gordon, back in '99 who was leading the field by a nice margin, going into the white flag lap...and runs out of fuel, losing the race!
 
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I thought it was great for him to have the win, especially since it was the 100th running of the Indy, so it marks it as an especially notable occasion!

The fuel strategy always comes into play, but I was surprised to see the field pit so late for fuel...usually they try and keep it closer to the 25 lap remaining mark. Figure that on the average, the Indy cars have a range of about 76 miles on a full tank under typical hard racing. 25 laps remaining is about 65 miles total (as the track is 2.5 miles), so I was a bit puzzled why everyone pitted at 8 laps remaining as it wouldn't be long enough to back into a good position.

One of the most notable fuel gamble failures I can think of, was Robby Gordon, back in '99 who was leading the field by a nice margin, going into the white flag lap...and runs out of fuel, losing the race!

Indeed but that is half the fun of the Indy 500...
 

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