29 May, 2017
Bourdais, a four times Champ Car series champion who had a brief stint in Formula One with Torro Roso, took full responsibility for the crash saying he should have lifted off the throttle. But the focus became more intense in the lead-up to the biggest race of the season.
Dixon won the pole for the 101st running of the Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway IN with an average speed of 232.164 miles per hour and he told reporters afterward that he hoped this pole would not be as bad an omen as 2015's, according to Fox.59.
Ryan Hunter-Reay, Charlie Kimball and Fernando Alonso all had their Honda's give out.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Surrounded by cameras and flashing cellphones, Fernando Alonso picked up a carton of milk and took a huge swig.
Rookie Ed Jones, born in Dubai, was third, followed by Britain's Max Chilton - who led a race-high 50 laps - Brazil's Tony Kanaan, Colombia's Juan Pablo Montoya and 2016 victor Alexander Rossi of the United States.
"Overall I just think we were a little bit light on downforce but later in the race that would have been the right move to have". Congrats to Sato. I didn't really have the pace for him and Helio at the end. "Thanks for the welcoming".
It's the third win for Andretti Autosport in the past four Indy 500s.
Given that "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" is indelibly associated with in, it's perhaps not surprising that more race winners have been born in IN than nearly any other state. Neither of his McLaren teammates finished the famed road race.
Said Alonso: "Please don't do that!" You've got to go for it, run it flat. This is the best opportunity to score points.' I won two times there. "If I want to do that, I need to win it".
Honda's lineup is impressive, with Andretti Autosport winners of two of the past three 500s.
"To be here is not possible to compare (to) that thing".
"Now they are familiar to me but not because I watch the races on TV but because I play with them on Playstation". "I know it is going to happen". Some, like Alonso's fellow F1 competitor Lewis Hamilton, think IndyCar drivers just aren't very good.
Indiana's own: Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, arrived at the track Sunday morning via helicopter and landed in the second turn.
Dixon said he couldn't have avoided Howard's vehicle.
"I knew I could do it". It will be easier, let's say, adaptations.
Chilton led off the final restart and initially held off Sato, and then, Castroneves, but Castroneves ultimately passed Chilton in Turn 3 with seven laps left, drawing a roar from the crowd hoping to see Castroneves win his fourth Indy 500. He had never raced before on an oval, never driven an IndyCar and hadn't done a rolling start since his karting days.
"Just a little beaten up there. I'm not an American, but I feel really proud to race here". Vettel starts the race on the front row alongside teammate Kimi Raikkonen.
Winner Sato was one of 15 drivers to lead the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
He was working his way back through the field after a pit stop and was seventh when his engine blew.
After that, it was Honda's engine reliability that defined the last third of the race.
Alonso has spent the last two weeks in Indianapolis learning the ways of IndyCar and impressed in qualifying last weekend, booking his spot in fifth on the grid. I came here to challenge myself.
Sebastien Bourdais was back at the Brickyard on Sunday, eight days after a spectacular crash knocked him out of the Indy 500, declaring he would return to the vehicle for the IndyCar season finale.
You may not know these teams now, but how they expand for the rest of their IndyCar ownership careers may rest in large part on how well they do today.
"I felt the noise, the engine friction, and then I saw the smoke on the exhaust", he told BT Sport/ESPN. "I was thinking at that moment that someone from the team was taking a picture because I want that picture at home".
