Good morning from IMS. The weather is beautiful today for the first time this week and no rain interruptions are expected. Let’s enjoy today and not worry about tomorrow.

28 cars have been on track so far. Josef Newgarden just turned the fastest lap of 226.684 mph. Colton Herta had the early lead. Herta has been the fastest Honda in the limited practice time so far. The three Team Penske cars have been the class of the field.

Coming Up

Tomorrow morning Indycar and Shell will present an update on their sustainability efforts.

Sometime next week we might get the details of the Indycar Charter program. The new broadcast package may be close to an announcement as well.

It appears Indycar will not set a cutoff lap for throwing a red flag during the 500. I wish they would. I would like to see lap185 as the last lap that could be red flagged. Any later than that, we will see another manipulated finish where the leader gets a deserved victory taken away from him.

I’ll be back later today with an update and I will also have an end of day wrap up.