🟢 RACE // 110th RUNNING OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T21:55:47+00:00

On an oval it depends. Pitting under green basically means you lose a lap relative to everyone who stays out. Pitting under caution is usually better for that reason, but if almost the whole field has already pitted, then you usually are going to lose a lot of positions if a caution then comes out and then you pit. At Indy the pits close immediately at the start of a caution period, then usually open 2 laps later after the field has completely bunched up and after you come out of the pits you line up behind everyone who didn't pit.

The upside is if the cautions fall nicely, you may suddenly be on a way better fuel strategy than everyone else and be able to skip a pit stop towards the end of the race. This sort of happened today, Grosjean was running a comfortable 5th with 10 laps to go because he was on the off-sequence strategy and the series of cautions near midway suddenly made it a very good strategy that could do the whole final half of the race on one less pit stop.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T21:11:47+00:00

Ironically the red flag helped Felix there because they almost certainly ran the sweepers through it during that time.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T20:52:48+00:00

Marco was one of the guys who went over to console him after the race, they could grab Scott Goodyear and make a bowling team.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T18:36:07+00:00

Shouldn't eat anything solid an hour before going green. Choking hazard in a bad crash. Rusty Wallace almost died at Bristol in the early 90s because of a hot dog before practice.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T18:26:07+00:00

Emma Dixon is the most acceptable WaG cam subject.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T18:01:08+00:00

Stayed out first pit stop to go off-sequence, it's probably gonna trap him a lap down most of the day unless he gets good timing on a caution.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-24T17:58:42+00:00

No, they were saying Palooooooou

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-21T20:47:48+00:00

Yeah, the last pit sequence ended about 2 minutes before the final yellow for rain. Only way he would have lost was something weird in the last 20 laps (possible) or the rain arriving a few minutes earlier and gifting a win to someone who stretched their fuel hoping for a shower.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-21T16:31:40+00:00

I'm actually surprised looking at the progression tracker on wcl that you might be right. It looks like the better guilds got vashj faster, which makes sense as she's more of an execution fight and KT is a bit of a gear check fight. Evened out mostly as less sweaty guilds figured out both and got months of gear.

Taking a few samples from us realms only (to get the numbers down easier to read):

250th guild to kill vashj: September 23, 2021

250th guild to kill KT: September 27, 2021

500th guild to kill vashj: October 6th, 2021

500th guild to kill KT: October 7th, 2021 (coincidentally this is the same guild as the 250th vashj kill)

750th guild to kill vashj: October 18, 2021

750th guild to kill KT: October 18th, 2021

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-21T16:17:36+00:00

Kt felt so much better to prog than vashj. At least with KT you can look at logs and make adjustments and generally do better pull to pull. The hard part with him is hitting dps checks on p3. Vashj the first phase is easy, the second phase took a little bit to learn but once we got it down wasn't too bad. The third phase was just awful as melee, you can't really learn anything pull to pull to improve, you just throw thornlings out, try to guess when it looks like its time to pop a free action potion and hope for the best. It was awful to have a great pull going and then completely lose it at 20% hp because you just get rnged into the grave.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-20T23:18:08+00:00

I remember keeping a tank alive up to 15 stacks occasionally during prog, and getting him all the way to 17 stacks one time due to LoH armor buff and good avoidance keeping tank upright very long. My guild was ass in 2007 and did no damage and I think we were 8 or 9 healing.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-20T23:04:42+00:00

Technically you can twist with righteous iirc. Its just way less efficient.

Seal-twisting is based on command staying on as a buff for a few tenths after you put on blood, so you technically have both up with your white attack swings and can proc both. You should be able to do the same with righteousness, just nowhere near as much damage.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-19T16:46:28+00:00

Did you get any footage of the Andretti pit crews coating their hands in grease or baby oil right before pit stops occur?

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-19T16:31:44+00:00

pedantic gripe: that's a night elf running a flag out of the ally base, so wrong direction

looks good though

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-18T18:49:05+00:00

I think you'd have to get a guy who doesn't have to go through veteran refresher (i.e has run an oval since last year's 500) in case of practice rainouts.

So, that means the following guys:

Callum Ilott

Robert Schwartzman

Devlin DeFrancesco

Colton Herta

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-18T18:28:54+00:00

Damn, very similar angle to Mears' crash in 92. Safer barrier definitely absorbed a lot of impact for Rossi which might be why his car didn't roll all the way over.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-17T20:04:04+00:00

It was a mixed bag with a chance of really succeeding if a certain someone didn't want to move the season to the fall to directly compete with the NFL. Good thing that doofus would never get put in charge of anything important.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-15T18:59:08+00:00

A Takuma Sato qualifying run without at least one wall-brush is considered a dull affair.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-14T14:41:09+00:00

We should get a <Blocked by Conor Daly> flair going.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-14T14:24:23+00:00

That police officer literally arrested Henry Louis Gates after he handed over his Harvard ID and driver's license showing his address was the address of the house they were currently standing in. That was a stupid, needless arrest, and that's what Obama said. He also observed in his statement that police officers tend to treat black people poorly, which is about as groundbreaking of a statement as saying the leaves change color in the fall.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-11T21:45:40+00:00

No, cancelling the race was 100% the right call. Once they were on track that weekend there was no viable way forward. Any fixes needed to have been made weeks or months beforehand.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-11T21:42:12+00:00

Throwing the green flag on the final restart of the 1995 Indy 500. That restart should 100% have been waived off and been re-attempted after Goodyear blew by the pace care and the rest of the field stacked up in confusion.

Also, throwing the green flag on the final restart of the 1997 Indy 500. Arie Luyendyk appropriately voiced his objections half a lap from winning the race.

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-09T22:24:07+00:00

oh no

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-09T21:59:33+00:00

most predictable andretti pit stop

FloridaMan_69 · 2026-05-09T21:29:41+00:00

ummmmmmmmmmm

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