The Firestone Indy Lights race is over. What a Festival of Carbon Fiber that was. Probably approaching half the laps were under yellow. Combo, probably, of the first oval of the year (first ever for some drivers), a track washed clean of rubber and some ass-smacking wind out of the north blowing like a beeeeyotch up into three and four.
Drivers yesterday said that you get a tail wind coming down the back straight, somewhere through turn 3 and into 4 the wind hits you like a bulldozer and just walks the car up the track. I guess you just dive for the white line into three and hope the wind shows up. Problem is it swirls and comes and goes. The wind is stronger today than it was yesterday.
Today's raging debate is when to actually light this candle. Many vocal people in the media center think they should basically run the race at noon, some four hours ahead of the advertised time, because noon is supposed to be the best weather of the day.
"Get them all out there and run this (f-bomb)ing thing," I think is how Robin Miller put it.
But, on the other hand, that would SCREW the many paying customers, some of which went to the trouble of buying tickets from brokers and off Ebay just to come to this race.
The deal with Kansas Speedway is that it's a season-ticket track. You can't buy individual race tickets to this place, you gotta buy the whole season. So what happens is the N-word fans buy the whole season then sell their IndyCar tickets on sites like eBay or Ticket City etc. What also happens is a lot of the N-word fans show up here just because they have the ticket and watch with half interest.
So far it's still on for 4 p.m. Central.
Anyway, pretty doom-and-gloom about getting the race in today. Weather people say the sky will turn to shit at about 3 p.m. If it gets washed out today, I'm afraid the pdog will have to bolt out of here. Another night in KS to watch it rain tomorrow is not in the plans or budget, sadly.
Back in a bit.
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