![]() But as the drivers soon illustrated, the light drizzle, combined with the spray and mist that came from the field of 23 Indy cars circulating behind the pace car, left those drivers running blind at low speeds.Īdd Firestone’s curious rain tires to the mix – ones with a tread pattern closer to something on a passenger car than anything we’ve seen in racing that pumps high volumes of water from the track – and lapping at anything more than a crawl came with unreasonable risks. Having stood outside Turn 1 prior to the start, and through the two hours of relative inaction that followed, an umbrella was never required, nor did my clothes get doused with what was falling from the sky. I was wondering the same thing before I heard some of the driver feedback over the radio while they circulated behind the pace car. ![]() And that’s where the first bout of confusion was created at Toronto: The conditions didn’t look that bad, so how could that lead to the race being postponed? The visuals didn’t match the call by Race Control to delay the start – we didn’t need Noah’s Ark to escape with our lives, so why couldn’t the drivers couldn’t go out and do their jobs? A perfect storm… (LAT photo)MONSTERS IN THE PARASOLįor those who weren’t at the track on Saturday, the rainfall wasn’t heavy, which most likely led to the popular belief that the race should have been held. Taking Saturday’s oddities into account and how Sunday had everything but snow to deal with, I doubt I’ll come across another race weekend like the one we had in Toronto. Starting 11th, Mike Conway and Ed Carpenter Racing stunned the field after gambling by taking Reds on lap 43 and Conweezy then went on a passing spree, racing his way from 18th to first in seven laps! Then we had what felt like Iowa 2.0 in the afternoon as a mad scramble to jump from Firestone wets to slicks jumbled the running order over the final laps – but only after a red flag was thrown. Leading 58 of the 65 laps, the old SeaBass was back and based on his dominating performance, we have every reason to believe KVSH is on the road to becoming a serious contender with Bourdais leading the charge. Sebastien Bourdais and the smaller-than-you-think KVSH Racing team pulled off a shocker by earning pole position Saturday morning, and then spent the next 24 hours waiting to turn their qualifying achievement into a trip to Victory Lane. ![]() What a genuinely bizarre weekend in Toronto.Īmid the chaos brought by rain, indecision and a lack of information on Saturday, folks returned the following day for two rounds of the Verizon Ind圜ar Series action where teams, drivers and fans did their best to deal with a pair of shortened races crammed into a tight schedule.
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