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Fernando Alonso and McLaren have stunningly failed to qualify for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500.

00:00 - 00:03 We had to go through a blind draw, and we drew third

00:04 - 00:05 James Hinchcliffe set the benchmark

00:05 - 00:07 at 227.543mph, then Chilton did a 226.192mph

00:08 - 00:12 we achieved a 227.353mph which was a faster four-lap speed than during Saturday

00:12 - 00:15 but Sage Karam turned in the fastest run of the day at 227.740 mph

00:17 - 00:19 So what did everyone else afterwards do

00:19 - 00:21 as I was signing my life away in the pit lane?

00:24 - 00:26 Err... Fernando

00:27 - 00:28 Pato O’Ward did 227.092mph

00:31 - 00:33 and Kyle Kaiser did 227.372mph

00:34 - 00:36 that knocked us out of the 33, thus we did not qualify.

00:53 - 00:58 Brown, Fernley, De Feran, and any of you that doesn't want to go back to Formula one, stay in the room.

01:13 - 01:15 NOW THAT'S FUCKED MY TRIPLE CROWN!!!!

01:15 - 01:17 HOW AM I GOING TO TELL THE WORLD I FAILED TO QUALIFY FOR THE INDY 500???

01:18 - 01:23 I don’t think I can wrap my mind around what just happened

01:25 - 01:28 How the fuck did Kyle Kaiser, on a shoestring budget without a sponsor

01:29 - 01:31 after crashing their oval car

01:31 - 01:34 then had to thrash out an oval car out of their road chassis

01:34 - 01:37 then had zero practice on Sunday morning

01:37 - 01:40 knock me off the bloody grid of the 500???

01:40 - 01:42 Fernando, the boys worked 40 straight hours to get us back on track

01:42 - 01:46 ...and the car was way off when we got back on track, But the speed wasn’t there.

01:46 - 01:48 Fernando, there was no practice so you don’t know what to expect

01:48 - 01:52 so what of the Team Penske set-up and Andretti Autosport dampers?

01:53 - 01:54 MY TRIPLE CROWN IS RUINED!!

01:56 - 01:57 thanks to Honda and their bloody formula 2 engines

01:57 - 02:00 we can't even do a bloody deal with Andretti like 2017

02:00 - 02:03 and we have to deal with these bloody Carlin amateurs

02:04 - 02:08 3 out of their 4 shitbox cars haven't even made the bloody grid

02:08 - 02:13 and we had electrical problems then I lost completely the front aero then the wall came too close and too quickly..

02:14 - 02:16 now we just achieved most significant DNQ since Team Penske’s Al Unser Jnr and Emerson Fittipaldi failed to make the grid in 1995

02:17 - 02:21 and eclipsed Defending IndyCar champion Bobby Rahal's high-profile DNQ in 1993

02:27 - 02:29 now I have to watch the Indianapolis 500 on television

02:30 - 02:34 after learning the hard way that the 110-year old Brickyard carries no favourites

02:34 - 02:36 no matter how successful or famous they may be.

02:41 - 02:42 I drove with a loose car and didn’t lift off

02:43 - 02:47 I drove with an understeering car; I didn’t lift off

02:48 - 02:53 I drove with a rear (tyre) puncture; I only lifted off in the last lap because I could not make the corner.

02:54 - 02:56 And today we went out with an experiment that we did overnight.

02:56 - 02:59 We went out not knowing what the car will do in Turn 1, but still flat. So we tried.

03:00 - 03:02 We certainly underestimated the challenge and unaware of how difficult this was going to be

03:04 - 03:07 It's alright Pippa, you qualified 30th so you're in.

03:14 - 03:16 this is the most painful experience I’ve ever had in motor racing

03:19 - 03:23 When you walk down to pit lane after that, it really injects something else into you, how you’ve got to come back and be stronger

03:25 - 03:26 I'm going home very disappointed, the car was not fast enough

03:31 - 03:33 The boys did everything possible to get us into this field today and we did what we could

03:40 - 03:46 What appears to be the simple act of completing four laps around a straightforward-looking

03:46 - 03:49 four-cornered rectangle is far more challenging than it looks