[AGreatPer]

Just heard on espn radio that a lot of teams are really poed when nascar made this and impound race in a decision during the middle of the week. Teams have long since based their strategy for this race on no impound and that all goes out the window. Now, they say, its back to guessing.

Baseball heads up:

Watch Zack Duke pitching against the Dodgers tonight for the Pirates (yea, Im a loser in all sports). Duke is 4-0 in 40 innings with an era of 0.92 as a rookie.

[WestCoastGal]

It really sucks that they can change this impound stuff at the last minute. I wondered because I have it listed as a normal qualifying race with NO impound in my notes!!

[steveegg]

NASCAR really fouled things up with the rain yesterday. First they said there would be 2 practices today separated by a half-hour, then qualifying. Now, it's down to the 1 mega-practice (seems that half-hour break came early).

Speaking of qualifying, first it was supposed to be carried live, but with it being moved to 4:05 pm Eastern, TNT is now delaying it until 6 pm Eastern. As for the impound/no-impound bit, I haven't heard anything on it, much less a middle-of-the-week decision (the schedule up through yesterday was that there would be a post-qualifying Happy Hour).

Indy is cursed, I tell you, CURSED!

[steveegg]

Found the reference to the change to impound rules (thanks ESPN) - that just added 5 to my caution-pool pick.

[steveegg]

Mark Flash as one of those unhappy that Indy became a sudden-impound race. Quoth Gordon from Speed's Indianapolis NASCAR Notebook: Saturday - "They showed us they can pretty much do whatever they want to do at any time."