Well, first of all they put the Indy Car Grand Prix road coarse race on the second Saturday of the month. If I read the article correctly this morning, they have now bumped the qualifying to a single weekend which they are going to qualify on Saturday and do the fast nine on Sunday?(I think) If that is what they are planning, I wonder exactly how they will proceed if they get rain that weekend and have a wash out?
Apparently this is the idea from Mark Miles the CEO of Hulman & Co which owns IMS. It would be interesting to see if they have even consulted with any drivers or team owners to get their imput into all of this.
Mike
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Originally Posted by Mud Packer:
Well, first of all they put the Indy Car Grand Prix road coarse race on the second Saturday of the month. If I read the article correctly this morning, they have now bumped the qualifying to a single weekend which they are going to qualify on Saturday and do the fast nine on Sunday?(I think) If that is what they are planning, I wonder exactly how they will proceed if they get rain that weekend and have a wash out?
Apparently this is the idea from Mark Miles the CEO of Hulman & Co which owns IMS. It would be interesting to see if they have even consulted with any drivers or team owners to get their input into all of this.
Indy 500 Qualifying has been just a single weekend since 2010. I have always wondered what they would have done if rain had wiped out the entire weekend in the past. Apparently, they would just move it to the next nice day until they got it all done. I know it's strange to most fans that the pole winner is determined on Sunday instead of Saturday now, but I think this new format makes more sense than the last system of locking 22 in and filling in the final 11 spots on Sunday.
Of course, I'd love to see 50 cars qualifying for 33 spots and a true Bump Day once again. That would involve a lot of changes to open up the rules, cheaper equipment, etc. I hope we can get back to that point again, but I don't know when that's going to happen, unfortunately.
