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1st Sergeant
I have gotten back to serving the needs of bark angels at Valley Animal Center.
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The Indy 500 was a good race this year.
Won our Lacrosse yesterday 10- 0
That's great Wayne but.......did they show up is the big question???
The Indy 500 was a good race this year.
And did you see where Rossi's car ran out of fuel half a lap after the finish?
Talk about a wild gamble!
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!