And back-to-back days with a Podcast, huzzah! Dre, Cam and RJ are joined by Frontstretch.com (http://Frontstretch.com) ‘s Christopher DeHarde to talk about the 110th Running of the Indy 500 tomorrow, the story so far, and preview the grid before the world’s biggest race.
It was a dramatic week of prep for quali in a different way – With Bump Day not on the table due to exactly 33 entrants, we had a change of format, with an extra elimination round for Sunday as only Positions 1-9 being locked into the Fast 12, and an extra elimination round for positons 10-15. But with rain destroying Saturday’s running, we went to single-run eliminations and a standard Fast 12 and 6 round.
It looked like Felixz Rosenqvist had Qualifying in the bag, but a poor final run opened the door for a trimmed-out Alex Palou to take his second Indy 500 pole position and a $100,000 bonus.
And on top of that – Alex Rossi, Pato O’Ward and Romain Grosjean had a huge crash on Monday practice, with Rossi breaking his ankle, but still racing on Sunday. The gang break it all down here!
