The Month of May: INDYCAR Races.

INDYCAR/FoxSports/Me ^ | 05/02/2025 | Me/INDYCAR

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[Big Red Badger]

Ha !
Drink toilet Water...!! Ha!
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How about
Take Your Zippo Lighter
Go to your Frontline and
Turn Yourself into a Yard Candle!!!
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I sorta regret that
But it shut him Up !

[mabarker1]

Take Your Zippo Lighter
Go to your Frontline and
Turn Yourself into a Yard Candle!!!

M*A*S*H Season 5 Episode 14 Start at Time Stamp 20:42 or Watch the Full Episode.

[mabarker1]

This week there will be a small modification in the Name of the NTT INDYCAR PING LIST it will become:

🇺🇸Carbon Fiber Crotchet Club🇺🇸

🏁inspired by the Big Red Badger.🏁

SONSIO GRAND PRIX
May 9 - 10 Indianapolis, IndianaNow, onward through the fog.

Current Championship Standings

WillScot Named Official Partner of NTT INDYCAR SERIES, IMS.

The 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course incorporates portions of Turns 1 and 2 and the frontstraight of the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval and the remainder of the circuit is within the infield, allowing for great spectator viewing.

[NFHale]

Thank you!!!

[mabarker1]

Most Welcome, gonna be a few busy weeks at The B’Yard.

[Big Red Badger]

I’m Honored..
First I’d like to Thank All
The Little People...
Billy Barty...
Etc.
Etc.
Etc..

[mabarker1]

Just a small Token of Appreciation for Inspiring Your Contribution in Crowd Management for the Races at The Brickyard.

A Non-Standard Drum Solo just for You.

[Big Red Badger]

Keith Moon on
Teenage Wasteland!

[Big Red Badger]

Of course Your Choice is Amazing!

[mabarker1]

Most excellent and a flash to the past Teen years, I have not heard that one in a lllooooonnnnnggg time.

[mabarker1]

God only made 1 of The Professor !!! And He has got the best playing every day along with:

Edward Van Halen, the Greatest of All Rock and Roll Guitarists !!!

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I will be back in a few to gather Friday’s P & Q updates...

[mabarker1]

Alex Palou Pounces at Last Second To Cruise to Sonsio GP Pole

Paddock Buzz: Ed Carpenter Taking Unique Role Saturday

Lots of information tidbits from the link above.
This is 1 of them.

There have been 339 consecutive green flag laps run this season, including all 65 laps of The Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix, the 90-lap Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach and for the first time in 15 years, all 90 laps at Barber. The only caution displayed this season came during the first six laps of the season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding due to a first-lap crash between Nolan Siegel, Power and rookie Louis Foster. The last three IMS road course races produced one caution each. An IMS road course race has gone caution-free three times, including both races of the October 2020 Harvest Grand Prix doubleheader.

Qualifying Highlights: 2025 Sonsio Grand Prix at Indianapolis (video included.)

There's some goodies I am still checking out that looks to have Live Race Data looking to be available:

I AM NOT GETTING A SUBSCRIPTION AT THIS TIME. AFTER LOOKING AT THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND "GOODIES" WHEN I WENT TO CHECK OUT MY CARD WAS DECLINED !!! I KNOW MY CARD IS PERFECTLY READY TO USE !!! AT THE CHECKOUT THEY WANT THE CUSTOMER TO USE SOME "STAYLIVE/STRIPE/LINK" I WENT BACK THROUGH THE CARD INFO/NAME/ADDRESS/PHONE NUMBER/ETC. THE NAMES OF MY DOGS/THE DOGS WEIGHT IN BOTH POUNDS AND KILOGRAMS AND EVEN STONES/HAIR LENGTH AND COLOR/RABIES TAG NUMBERS AND IT STILL WOULD NOT WORK. I HAVE SENT AN E-MAIL TO INDYCAR APP AND.COM AND I AM WAITING FOR THE REPLY !!! SO I HAVE TO SAY AT THIS TIME DO NOT USE !!!

😤😖😡😤🤬

INDYCAR.com Live Race Leaderboard

Stay connected to every moment of the action with the INDYCAR.com Live Race Leaderboard. Follow every on-track session in real time with updates on your favorite driver’s position, lap times, pit stops and more.

Learn more about it.

Clicky the Pick to Watch. I'm still working on breaking the "Code" then have to make an Account and that looks like it will require a Subscription...

INDYCAR LIVE - Subscriptions and Season Pass Information

Check Content availability for 2025. OK I'm gonna go for it !!! I'm going to select the "

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[Yogafist]

Anyone who uses Verizon gets free access to an indy car app that allows you to see just about everything you could want including video from the cars of certain drivers. You can watch the telemetry of the cars, but there is no index to explain some of the things shown. There are colors on the steering wheel indicating things the driver is doing that I don’t understand.

[mabarker1]

I’m on Spectrum Phone/TV/.net but that’s good information that hopefully will help others here. Grab some Screenshots of the items You want to know about and I’ll see if I can help figure it out. INDYCAR has a fairly simple Steering Wheel when compared to a F1 Steering Wheel but I’m sure that with the FRRacing community collectively can figure it out.

I’m a bit ticked off that the INDYCAR App is such a hassle to subscribe.

F1 only took a few minutes to do.

I gotta grab Me a Power Nap before the day’s Live Racing starts.

[mabarker1]

Race about to start PING !!! On Your local Fox Station...

[Big Red Badger]

25 yrs ago i put together steering wheels
and they were not to difficult.
Quick realease Hub had a 9 pin connector mating to the Steering shaft. Radio PTT OF
course. Water bottle for road course. Pit Lane speed limiter button. The computer Head was the heart of the Driver Info system. RPM’s- gear selected several FUELMapping scenarios-Weight Jacker-
Temperature- Pressures.
Texting car to Pit. Of course Telemetry
To the Engineers in the Pit was amazing.
Ride Height lazers would come off for the Race. Steering,Shock Travel and Throttle positions. Track speed and position was really informative.
Don’t forget ‘G’ Force sensors !
And that was Twenty Five years ago!

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STEERING WHEELS
Explore the complex world of racing steering wheels

🛞 DW12 Indycar steering wheel. 1. Small readout indicates gear. Typically drivers swap between fifth and sixth at Indy, depending on conditions.
2. [White] ‘O/S’ button or weight jacker – left weight
3. ['OT' top right] Overtake button aka Push to Pass. Not used on ovals
4. [Green 'NEU'] Neutral button used when stopping in the pits
5. [Yellow 'PLC'] Pit lane speed limiter button. A 60mph limit operates at Indianapolis.
6. [Blue bottom right] ‘H20’ or drink button. Pumped from bottle in sidepod.
7. [Black 'PAGE'] Toggle adjusts display.
8. Three display screens. Top one relays engine information, others can be programmed for different parameters, such as lap time and fuel info.
9. [Bottom left] Reverse button – hopefully not required at Indianapolis!
10. [Orange ‘RES’] Reset button for alarm and fuel. Pressed each time they he car is refuelled in the race
11. [Red ‘PTT’] radio button, aka Push to Talk
12. Rotary Wheel adjusts the Honda engine’s mapping for different situationssuch as fuel saving and caution periods
13. [White] ‘U/S’ button or weight jacker – right weight
14. Alarm lights. Warn if engine temperatures are too high, etc
15. Shift lights. Go from green to red, telling driver when to shift gear

F1 McLaren is Driver/Team Specific this one is for Fernando Alonso.

1. The PCU8 screen, a standard item used by all teams. Displays multiple sources of information on request by ALO. Changes colour when coloured buttons are being used
2. Launch map toggle used by ALO for start. Car has to stay in that map until first pit stop
3. [Pink + 1 button] Used by ALO to choose further functions
4. [Blue on top right] Controls level of brake balance
5. [Green on right] Further refines torque balance under braking – adjusted for various types of corners around the lap
6. [Yellow PLS at right] Pit-lane speed-limiter. Set to 80 km/h, or at 60 km/h for some venues.
7. [Red at right] Spare button. Used for example for stopping MGU-K deployment under blue flags to save energy – aka ‘anti-overtake’
8. [Orange on right] Torque switch, used for engine braking
9. [Black Max] For different power unit modes – used for a few laps, unlike OT, which is for short bursts
10. [White + button] Used by ALO to choose further functions
11. [round dial bottom right] Multi-function – 14 switch positions provide a different functionality which is further sub-divided by the white - and + buttons
12. [Green I and Blue W] I and W turn on rain light, and tell the car it is on intermediates or wets, as different diameters impact pit speed limiter. Diff functions can also be linked to this. [Yellow Box] Box. Confirmation that the driver is coming to the pits, in the event of radio failure. [Red Punct] Puncture. Switches to settings that protect the gearbox and the differential as the car is returning to the pits. [Round control bottom centre] R switch, aka ‘Tyre’.
13. [round dial bottom left] Multi-function –
14 switch positions provide a different functionality which is further sub-divided by the pink +10 and + 1 buttons
14. [White – button] Used by ALO to choose further functions
15. [Green N] Neutral. Used coming into pits in practice, arriving at grid, when parking car, etc
16. [Silver] Additional diff control switch
17. [Black X] Accesses defaults, for example to turn off a failed sensor. Used to confirm functions
18. [Yellow OT] Overtake or ‘OT’ button. Used by ALO to adjust deployment to help with attacking or defending
19. [Red left next to OT] Differential control switch – adjust stability
20. [Yellow top left]: Raises and lowers engine deployment
21. [Pink +10 button] Used by ALO to choose further functions
22. [Grey Toggle next to triple lights on left] Radio toggle, aka ‘PTT’ or push to talk
23. [Left and right triple lights] Blue flag, yellow flag, and red flag lights in pairs, controlled by FIA. Team can also use light combinations to send messages to ALO
24. Shift lights. Five reds (in middle) and five blues (at right). ALO shifts when it turns blue. Also five greens on left for other uses

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