2025 Indianapolis 500

I think he was probably citing information in some of the articles, with opinions provided by people who actually were aero guys.

 

No. My opinion entirely.

Not an aero engr but am an engr working in aviation sector. Aero topics have been a hobby interest of mine forever.

Is it a rules violation? Not sure but i'll assert that given the penalties that it is.

Is there a performance advantage? Im 95% confident there is no advantage.

 

A bunch of F1 engineers would argue a "Monkey seat" with you all day....

 

Well i'm not an aero engineer, nor did i stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but the Aero people that weighed in on it concur with your assessment. Without seeing the actual flow data in that area of the car, I don't know that anyone can confidently say, but it would seem that it's inside of the air flow envelope so wouldn't have an affect.

 

I suppose the best fallback is:

“if the rule book doesn’t explicitly say you CAN do it, you CANNOT do it.

 

Anyone know where the rules for the Wienermobile Weiner 500 can be found?

 

This is only for WERA!

Edit: one of my favorite haunting grounds is homebuiltairplanes.com. Aero topics all day every day.

 

Your point is fair, as always, and reminds me of something I heard once, "you can be first, or you can be wrong, and you can fail either way."

 

Hell, NASCAR DQd Hamlin and Busch a few years ago for having a 2"x5" piece of tape under the wrap that was .012" thick. That was determined to be an aero advantage providing a micro amount of extra downforce.

 

30 minutes ago when they rounded turn two, hhhhaahaaahaa…

 

That's fookin' hilarious. I love it. Didn't even know there are six of these things.

All the bad puns, fabulous. I want to see them do a pit stop next year for mustard and relish.

 

Well, I’m sitting in T4 right now and it’s been somewhere between ‘sprinkle’ and ‘rain’ for the last 45 minutes.

edit: and now it’s slowing substantially.

 

Dryers are out

 

Bitch butchered the anthem plus went too long causing the flyover timing to be off.

 

Concur. Dude singing Back Home in Indiana killed it.

 

Yes to both of those, but I doubt anyone will ever really match Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors belting out that song.

 

Who dresses that woman?!?!?

 

Fire Fire!

 

So the boss owns the series, the track, and you crash out before the race begins.......how low do you feel?

 

She really needs to go away. At least it wasn't a toga this time.