The good news: cars were on track today turning practice laps in preparation for the Indianapolis 500. Scott Dixon, Marco Andretti, and Takuma Sato were the top three.

29 cars ran laps. One driver who did not get out was Alex Palou.

The bad news: After 24 minutes rain began to fall, lightly at first, then more heavily and steadily. Track activity was cancelled around 2 pm.

In an attempt to make up some of today’s lost time, practice tomorrow will start at 10 am instead of noon. There will not be a break as was planned for today.

Bronze badge holders who were not at IMS early lost out on their opportunity to spend some time in the pits. IMS will not reschedule this experience this year.

There was a bit of news today.

The hybrid system will make its debut at Mid-Ohio July 5-7. This date was long assumed to be the target. I appreciate the series waiting until I return from Le Mans to have its premiere. I guess I asked nicely.

I heard that there are fewer than 10,000 grandstand seats unsold for the race. No word on how close General Admission is to being declared full.

Here are the results from today’s abbreviated practice: