Racecar Engineering

Chicanery

This year’s 105th Indy 500 ran true to fascinating form. After first-lap jockeying for position, and the sponsor-pleasing buzz of leading ‘the world’s most famous race’, it soon settled into a fuel-saving, drafting snake of cars leading up to the first fuel stops, from which most team strategies would then evolve.

Yellow caution periods, pit fumbles and closures and fuel consumption differences then jumbled up the order and the strategies from there on in. The final few laps culminated in an edge-of-the seat finish, just half a second separating winner and runner-up after 500 miles and over 2½ hours of

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