The 96th Indianapolis 500

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Only 8 days to go until 'The Greatest Spectacle In Racing', so i thought id start a thread, its probably going to fall on its arse because nobody gives a shit about IndyCar but i dont care, its pole day today ahead of bump day tomorrow, both should be fun!

Qualifying runs from 11am to 6pm ET, with the last 90 minutes being the top 9 shootout for pole and $100,000

Fastest lap so far of the week so far: Helio Castroneves 227.555mph (average)
 
Full starting grid:


Code: 
SP	Car#	Driver
ROW 1
1	2	Ryan Briscoe
2	27	James Hinchcliffe
3	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay
ROW 2
4	26	Marco Andretti
5	12	Will Power
6	3	Helio Castroneves (W)
ROW 3
7	67	Josef Newgarden (R)
8	11	Tony Kanaan
9	5	E.J. Viso
ROW 4
10	8	Rubens Barrichello (R)
11	98	Alex Tagliani
12	38	Graham Rahal
ROW 5
13	25	Ana Beatriz
14	83	Charlie Kimball
15	9	Scott Dixon (W)
ROW 6
16	50	Dario Franchitti (W)
17	19	James Jakes (R)
18	4	JR Hildebrand
ROW 7
19	15	Takuma Sato
20	99	Townsend Bell
21	18	Justin Wilson
ROW 8
22	30	Michel Jourdain
23	77	Simon Pagenaud (R)
24	17	Sebastian Saavedra
ROW 9
25	7	Sebastien Bourdais
26	41	Wade Cunningham (R)
27	22	Oriol Servia
ROW 10
28	20      Ed Carpenter
29	14	Mike Conway
30	6	Katherine Legge (R)
ROW 11
31	39	Bryan Clauson (R)
32	78	Simona De Silvestro
33	64	Jean Alesi (R)
 
Tributes planned on sunday for two time '500' winner Dan Wheldon

•All fans entering the track on Race Day will receive a pair of white cardboard sunglasses – white sunglasses were a favorite of the fashionable Wheldon – to wear in tribute to Wheldon on the parade lap, Lap 26 and Lap 98, recognizing the numbers of his winning cars. Fans also are encouraged to wear their own white sunglasses during those laps.
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•Bryan Herta, co-owner of the team for which Wheldon drove last year at Indianapolis, will drive Wheldon’s winning 2011 car for a lap of honor during pre-race ceremonies shortly before the command to start engines. Sam Schmidt Motorsports, which had a technical alliance last year with Bryan Herta Autosport at Indianapolis, has restored the car.
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•Wheldon will be featured on the Race Day technical inspection stickers affixed to all cars in the field.

•Wheldon’s wife, Susie, participating in the Public Drivers Meeting on Saturday, May 26 at IMS and receiving her husband’s Champion of Champions ring for his 2011 Indianapolis 500 victory when she arrives in Indianapolis.
 
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