{"id":711,"date":"2006-05-27T18:02:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=711"},"modified":"2006-05-27T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T22:03:43","slug":"the-cars-on-the-track-go-round-and-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"The cars on the track go ’round and ’round…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I did last year<\/a>, it’s time to pick the finishing order of this year’s Indy 500, from 1-33. I realize this is a little late to be throwing out here, being 5:45 on the night before the race, and anyone from Indy who might be interested had better not be online right now (unless you’re at work, like me. Shhhhhh!), rather relishing the beautifully hot weather and free-flowing beer around every turn of this fair city.<\/p>\n

So again, it looks like it’ll be just me and Dan<\/a>. If anyone else gets in, I think the scoring system needs to be revised, something involving average positions missed or something. Definite bonus points for picking the winner, maybe some more for the number of top ten picks that actually finish in the top 10. Tiebreaker is the whoever is closest to picking Thiago Medeiros’ finishing position. There may even be a prize involved.<\/p>\n

Anyway…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Tony Kanaan<\/li>\n
  2. Scott Dixon<\/li>\n
  3. Dan Wheldon<\/li>\n
  4. Helio Castroneves<\/li>\n
  5. Tomas Scheckter<\/li>\n
  6. Dario Franchitti<\/li>\n
  7. Sam Hornish, Jr.<\/li>\n
  8. Vitor Meira<\/li>\n
  9. Danica Patrick<\/li>\n
  10. Bryan Herta<\/li>\n
  11. Buddy Rice<\/li>\n
  12. Jaques Lazier<\/li>\n
  13. Marco Andretti<\/li>\n
  14. Michael Andretti<\/li>\n
  15. Felipe Giaffone<\/li>\n
  16. Townsend Bell<\/li>\n
  17. Scott Sharp<\/li>\n
  18. Jeff Simmons<\/li>\n
  19. PJ Chesson<\/li>\n
  20. Kosuke Matsuura<\/li>\n
  21. Thiago Medeiros<\/li>\n
  22. Jeff Bucknum<\/li>\n
  23. Arie Luyendyk, Jr.<\/li>\n
  24. Eddie Cheever<\/li>\n
  25. Stephan Gregoire<\/li>\n
  26. Al Unser, Jr.<\/li>\n
  27. PJ Jones<\/li>\n
  28. Larry Foyt<\/li>\n
  29. Airton Dare<\/li>\n
  30. Buddy Lazier<\/li>\n
  31. Roger Yasukawa<\/li>\n
  32. Ed Carpenter<\/li>\n
  33. Max Papis<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I really hated doing that to Max Papis, but I left him out of the mix early, and someone in the upper half or so has to have some trouble early. Max and Ed Carpenter lose out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As I did last year, it’s time to pick the finishing order of this year’s Indy 500, from 1-33. I realize this is a little late to be throwing out here, being 5:45 on the night before the race, and anyone from Indy who might be interested had better not be online right now (unless … Continue reading The cars on the track go ’round and ’round…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}