Tacet-Conundrum

I'm way more interested in F1 but I will usually watch the Indy 500 if I find it on the Tele.

I got home from my meeting yesterday around 12pm and there were like 11 laps left with a Red Flag coming out - Pacific Standard Time here!

My Question is do they always start the Indy that early each year? Seems like they always have started after Lunchtime here on the Pacific Coast.

I will usually try to catch the F1 events Live if they aren't on too early; say before 5:00 a.m. provided some channel shows it again. which NBC Sports did yesterday. But I must admit I haven't caught the 500 in a few years and I was wanting to watch the whole thing after catching Monaco.

Which on is it?

LostSouth

Yes, it use to start at 11:00 a.m. central and then they switched 5-6 years ago to 12:00 central. Then Indiana decided to start following eastern time year round, so it's basically at the historical time again.

race911

Not in my lifetime. Annual ritual was mom and me grabbing the tables about 8AM at the local park for the F&F Memorial Day BBQ. Always listened to the race, keeping a lap chart. Probably '71-2 when I started that. Absent rain, race was wrapping up when the out-of-towners started showing up.

Guess in the pre-VCR days it was great the TV coverage was on tape delay, and I could watch it at night.

Speaking of Back To The '50s, how about ABC still not moving beyond showing wives during the final laps? At least they split-screen it now. But still.........

gums

You missed a great race.

fjpdds

It really was great. Camera work seemed improved too.

Tacet-Conundrum

Well, so much for tape delay then if indeed that is true.

sig_a

The 98th running of the 500 started at about 12:20, shortly after Jim Nabors finished singing "Back Home Again In Indiana" for the final time. I was there among 300,000 race fans. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a spectacular facility where American motorsport racing was born.

The Brewmeister

^A lot of empty seats...