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Created talk page for the 2014 event, so that there are no red links in the 2013 page, as well as to prepare for future news. Scarletsmith (talk) 15:37, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thursday May 11 – Rookie Orientation Program

Weather: TBA 0 °F (−18 °C)
Practice summary: TBA

Top Practice Speeds
Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Speed
1
2
3
OFFICIAL DAILY TRACKSIDE REPORT

Schedule

Scheduled based on 2013 Indy 500 scheduling, adjusted for 2014 calendar. Please adjust dates as needed when pasting on final page. Scarletsmith (talk) 15:37, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Race schedule — May, 2014
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1	2	3
4	5 São Paulo	6	7	8 Testing	9	10 Practice/ROP
11 Practice/ROP	12 Practice	13 Practice	14 Practice	15 Practice	16 Practice	17 Pole Day
18 Bump Day	19	20	21 Comm. Day	22 Indy Lights	23 Carb Day	24 Legends Day
25 Indy 500	26 Memorial Day	27	28	29	30	31

Color	Notes
Green	Practice
Dark Blue	Time trials
Silver	Race day
Red	Rained out
Blank	No track activity

* Includes days where track activity
was significantly limited due to rain

ROP — denotes Rookie Orientation Program

Comm. — denotes 500 Festival Community Day

Redundancy in the info box

I don't know if it's just how the info box for this race is but the head info box has a line for both pole position and fastest qualifier. I don't work on IndyCar race pages so I don't know how this works but having those two things seem rather redundant.--Daytona 500 23:55, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For instance last year, Ed Carpenter took pole with an average of 228.762 in the Fast Nine, but in the first segment of Pole Day qualifying, Will Power recorded the fastest speed of 228.844. Alternatively, in 2005, Kenny Brack was the fastest qualifier, but his time came on Bump Day rather than Pole Day itself. There are more instances listed here. Craig (talk) 11:07, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism?

<quote>Post-qualifying practice and Carb Day
Monday May 19 – Post-qualfiying practice

Weather: 70 °F (21 °C), partly sunny
Practice summary: The 33 qualified cars participated in a post-qualifying practice session on Monday from 12 noon until 5 p.m. The drivers completed 2,329 laps with Josef Newgarden fastest of the day. At 1:35 p.m. Kurt Busch's car got loose in turn two, he lost control, and crashed into the outside wall at the exit of turn two. The car had heavy damage on the right side, but Busch was uninjured.</quote> Completed 2,329 laps in one day? 173.81.156.205 (talk) 16:57, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, that's legit. Did you read the source provided? That number of laps over the course of a single day of practice at Indy isn't unheard of. TheChrisD ^{Rants•Edits} 19:40, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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