I try to never utter any negatives but I gotta let something out of my chest:
The commentary on the race was absolutely abismal imo. Leigh Diffey is not bad as a lap-by-lap guy. I like him quite a lot and he is definitely not clueless. I like him when he was doing F1 and Nascar and like him for Indycar as well. Now, the analysts, Tracy and Bell are just ridiculous. Especially Paul Tracy. For the life of me I do not understand how guys that have years and years of experience driving Indy have no clue as far as strategy is concern. They were probably 0 for 30 on projecting stuff. And JJ and Letarte had NEVER been to a Indy 500 race, LOL! They were's as bad as PT and T-Bell though.
One in your face exemple was the fist yellow flag. Some cars had pitted already. Their comment was that the flag was benefitting Dixon and some other cars who hadn't stopped yet. WTF? Indy is a 2.5 mile track in which one does NOT lap a car which has pitted. It was so obvious that the cars that hadn't stopped would go to the tail end of the lead lap car file. Yes, some of the mid pack were lapped by those who did not stop but not the contenders. They should know that. The flag was horrible for those who had't sopped yet (and not great as they claim).
Another exemple was when Dixon, McLaughlin and others were going for fuel saving and one less pitstop. They were saying a yellow flag would benefit those cars. However, the whole strategy was counting on the remaining cars making a green flag pit, thus loosing more time while Dixon and gang were racing at 200mph. A yellow flag before those regular guys pitstop would cancel that advantage. Just SMH...
It is just annoying seeing every chance they had, they got it wrongly.
Also, they should have some other guys paying closer attention to the cars not in the top 5. It would be great to hear why Power was up and down, Why Herta dropped many positions. How Pagenaud got into contention from running back the whole race, etc... Some of those things I was paying attention to because of our gambol but it would have been nice to get useful information rather than gibberish...
Oh well... Maybe I'm asking for too much...
The commentary on the race was absolutely abismal imo. Leigh Diffey is not bad as a lap-by-lap guy. I like him quite a lot and he is definitely not clueless. I like him when he was doing F1 and Nascar and like him for Indycar as well. Now, the analysts, Tracy and Bell are just ridiculous. Especially Paul Tracy. For the life of me I do not understand how guys that have years and years of experience driving Indy have no clue as far as strategy is concern. They were probably 0 for 30 on projecting stuff. And JJ and Letarte had NEVER been to a Indy 500 race, LOL! They were's as bad as PT and T-Bell though.
One in your face exemple was the fist yellow flag. Some cars had pitted already. Their comment was that the flag was benefitting Dixon and some other cars who hadn't stopped yet. WTF? Indy is a 2.5 mile track in which one does NOT lap a car which has pitted. It was so obvious that the cars that hadn't stopped would go to the tail end of the lead lap car file. Yes, some of the mid pack were lapped by those who did not stop but not the contenders. They should know that. The flag was horrible for those who had't sopped yet (and not great as they claim).
Another exemple was when Dixon, McLaughlin and others were going for fuel saving and one less pitstop. They were saying a yellow flag would benefit those cars. However, the whole strategy was counting on the remaining cars making a green flag pit, thus loosing more time while Dixon and gang were racing at 200mph. A yellow flag before those regular guys pitstop would cancel that advantage. Just SMH...
It is just annoying seeing every chance they had, they got it wrongly.
Also, they should have some other guys paying closer attention to the cars not in the top 5. It would be great to hear why Power was up and down, Why Herta dropped many positions. How Pagenaud got into contention from running back the whole race, etc... Some of those things I was paying attention to because of our gambol but it would have been nice to get useful information rather than gibberish...
Oh well... Maybe I'm asking for too much...
