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indycool
19th April 2008, 06:17
Might as well start one.......weepers in Turn 4 delaying the start and it's about 50 degrees ambient.....supposed to go at 25 past the hour....wherever your "hour" is, but it's awful late in Indy! :)
pits4me
19th April 2008, 06:28
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
indycool
19th April 2008, 06:38
Well, for the moment....still weepers in Turns 2 and 4 apparently.
Jonesi
19th April 2008, 07:05
I gave it an hour and it's still wet so I'm switching over to "Battle 360" on History channel. It dawns on me there's irony in that.
harvick#1
19th April 2008, 07:18
run em on the road course, geez all they have to do is move the stuff over
indycool
19th April 2008, 07:24
Doubt they have any rain tires there.....they're already talking about tomorrow. Those are serious weepers and I've never seen 'em length-wise before ("longitudinal," Barnhart said).
call_me_andrew
19th April 2008, 07:38
Doubt they have any rain tires there.....they're already talking about tomorrow. Those are serious weepers and I've never seen 'em length-wise before ("longitudinal," Barnhart said).

I'm not sure which part of that to correct first.
indycool
19th April 2008, 07:50
Well, whatever you think is wrong with it, give it a try.
indycool
19th April 2008, 08:10
That's it.....10 p.m. Saturday ET on ESPN Classic.
millencolin
19th April 2008, 08:46
gave it an hour, switched over to the v8supercar race in New Zealand
DBell
19th April 2008, 15:52
I thought it was on Saturday night here in the US until I saw this thread. I'll have to play closer attention to the TV listings I suspose. IC or someone else who has been a IRL follower, what is the reasoning with having Saturday races this time of year? I know why it happens in the fall, but why now?
gofastandwynn
19th April 2008, 17:05
I thought it was on Saturday night here in the US until I saw this thread. I'll have to play closer attention to the TV listings I suspose. IC or someone else who has been a IRL follower, what is the reasoning with having Saturday races this time of year? I know why it happens in the fall, but why now?

It is a Saturday race over there for this reason, so if there is a rain delay they have a make up date.
Marbles
19th April 2008, 17:32
I thought it was on Saturday night here in the US until I saw this thread. I'll have to play closer attention to the TV listings I suspose.

I got caught out by this also until the TIVO booped. TSN Canada has the race listed from 11:00 AM until 12:30 PM? A 90 minute race? Boxing is filling in? TSN will probably end up do what? Show it at midnight? Show it on their alternate feed? Drop it altogether?
indycool
19th April 2008, 17:54
gofast has the best reason I know, DBell....same reason they actually started the Brickyard 400 on Saturday, to have a rain day. Now it's on Sunday with the new TV deal though.
Marbles
19th April 2008, 18:32
I'm going to guess it's going to be simulcast with ESPN Classic U.S. on TSN's alternate feed at 10:00 PM.
FormerFF
20th April 2008, 04:09
Marco: D'ohh!
indycool
20th April 2008, 06:05
Danica on strategy. Great!
gofastandwynn
20th April 2008, 06:20
Spoiler:

















Danica Wins!!!!!
DBell
21st April 2008, 15:32
It is a Saturday race over there for this reason, so if there is a rain delay they have a make up date.

OK, this makes some sense, being an overseas race, but Homestead was on a Saturday wasn't it? It just seems to me the fans would get more out of a race weekend if the race is on Sunday.