IndyCar Toronto Goes Twice On Sunday

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The rain came plowing through the streets of Toronto yesterday and the IndyCar series was supposed to have two points races over a weekend. The whole weekend got condensed after two false starts and matching red flags.

How bad did it get...??? The pace car didn't even escape...


And in the second restart, Will Power ended up backwards...


The races were supposed to go two hours or 85 laps each.
The weather has moved everything to 65 laps and 90 minutes each Sunday.

But the cars didn't even get out of Lap 1 before wrecking everyone from 10th on back as rookie Luca Filippi got into Simon Pagenaud. The first race was red flagged Sunday as well while they cleaned up Turn 10.

Was Inaugural Indy GP Worth It...?

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It was an interesting challenge for an entity that is still looking for an identity.

Trying to restore a bit of the roar to the month of May in Indianapolis, the folks at IndyCar decided to have another race on the IMS property. In the pre-schism days of open-wheel racing, the entire month was packed with fans in the stands. Every day of qualifying and practice had full stands and that it nowhere near the case nowadays.

Now, the stands are fairly empty and the idea was to find a place holder for the Formula 1 race.

Thus, the Grand Prix of Indianapolis...

Running clockwise on the front stretch and on the inner portion of the old F1 track, it meant that the standing start would be interesting as well...

Good enough for a surprising winner as well...and an injury to the mayor at the start when pole-sitter Sebastian Saavedra stalled at the beginning...


Here's WISH-TV's video of Ballard waving the flag for start and getting clipped...