Anyone watch Indy? Luckily, I could watch it on BT sport. When all you guys were watching commercials, we were watching discussion. Even the commentators talked about how many commercials the American broadcast has. That was the only thing that made watching the race tolerable. That and the Alonso story. Great to see him in the lead for a while.
It's weird, because the '73 Indy was the first race I ever watched. Accidents were always part of the race, so that's what I knew until I stopped watching when Tony George ruined thing. Now? I don't like Indy, now, because of all the accidents. There is a 100% chance there will be an accident. Some teams actually make the high percentage bet that a yellow will help their chances at the end of the race. That's like shorting a stock, buying into the VIX, etc. Betting something bad will happen. Accidents and yellows on an Indy level are a complete buzzkill.
It's unnecessarily dangerous and this coming from a person that believes motorsports should be dangerous on some level. Let's take Scott Dixon's accident. Forget the collision between the two drivers. It's obvious the safety cells are doing a great job. It's the 3 other things that could have gone wrong:
1. Debris field. Good there wasn't too much traffic, but still lucky noone got tagged. Remember the errant suspension piece that hit Massa in the head years ago?
2. Very small margin where the accident could have turned deadly. Castronenves was commited to go down the inside against the wall. He luckily drove underneath Dixon. I'd say it was about a .25 second difference or any other small thing, like Dixon not going quite as high and you'd have Dixon either coming down on top of Castroneves or worse, Castroneves spearing Dixon in the head.
If that's not enough, how would you like to drive your race car into a hunk of drivetrain flying across your path? Margin for that going very wrong was very small.
This guy got an image he'll never forget and thankfully a memory of crash where noone got hurt.
Anyway, I get that some folks like it and think the competition is exciting. I respect that. The part of the race I found pretty cool to watch was the Andretti team executing the race as a team. It's just all the damn yellows that completely neutralizes tactics. I will probably watch again if Alonso returns or maybe I'll just tune in to the last 30 laps.