My 2014 Indy 500 pics

[IndyAndy]

I take a Canon PowerShot A620 with me to all of the racing events that I attend. It's not exactly a high end/professional level camera, but I assume that it does a fair bit better than your basic smart phone camera can. Still, for every speed shot where I luck out & manage to get the car somewhere near the middle of the frame, I probably shot up to 6 or more where all I get is the nose or the tail - if I get anything at all!

Anyways; here is the best of what I got yesterday, just to give those who have never been to the 500 the merest 'taste' of what it's like.

Just a part of the crowd filing into IMS



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Gridding the cars



The pre-race ceremonies

 

[IndyAndy]

James Hinchcliffe had the early lead



The view down the Turn One from my seat



Sage Karam pits



Graham Rahal's pit was directly opposite from my seat



Carlos Huertas

 

[IndyAndy]

Marco Andretti leads for a while



Not a good day for Tony Kanaan



Jacques Villeneuve



Helio Castroneves



Martin Plowman

 

[IndyAndy]

Will Power (L) & Alex Tagliani (R)



Not a good day for Scott Dixon



Race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay drives to Victory Lane



... and then takes a celebratory lap around IMS in the Pace Car



It's time to go home

 

[Retroram52]

Good stuff Indy.