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IndyCar: Top 5 strangest races since 2010

By Asher Fair

FORT WORTH, TX - AUGUST 27: James Hinchcliffe, driving the #10 Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda leads the pack late in the race during the Verizon IndyCar Series Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on August 27, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Ralph Lauer/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway)
FORT WORTH, TX - AUGUST 27: James Hinchcliffe, driving the #10 Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda leads the pack late in the race during the Verizon IndyCar Series Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on August 27, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Ralph Lauer/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway) /
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LOUDON, NH- AUGUST 14: Dario Franchitti, driver of the #10 Nikon Target Chip Ganassi Dallara Honda (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images)
LOUDON, NH- AUGUST 14: Dario Franchitti, driver of the #10 Nikon Target Chip Ganassi Dallara Honda (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images) /

#1 – 2011 MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225

For several years, if you Googled images for “IndyCar memes”, the majority of the memes that popped up would have something to do with this race.

The MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 unofficially turned into the MoveThatBlock.com 220 and then the MoveThatBlock.com 215, but not until after enough action to cover multiple 500-mile races took place at the four-turn, 1.058-mile (1.703-kilometer) New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval in Loudon, New Hampshire.

A crash that took place on the race’s 110th lap involving Tomas Scheckter, who shot like a rocket from 18th to second place in the early stages of the race, as well as Marco Andretti and Tony Kanaan resulted in Kanaan’s car smashing into the infield tire barrier, knocking over a porta-potty and then flipping upside down, ended up not being one of the most talked about occurrences of the race.

Here is a video of this crash.

A caution flag came out on lap 75 and stayed out until lap 107 as a result of rain, which returned on lap 206 of the scheduled 225-lap race.

Then, despite the fact that it was still raining, IndyCar decided to go back to green flag racing on lap 218 despite the fact that numerous individuals, both drivers and team officials, stated afterward that they warned IndyCar that this would end up being a bad decision and that it was too wet to race.

Coming to the green flag with eight laps remaining in the race, Danica Patrick spun across the track, collecting several other cars, many of which were simply unable to be guided out of the way by their drivers.

As a result of how slick the track was with rain, they ended up being involved in the chain reaction that ensued. Meanwhile, Oriol Servia passed Ryan Hunter-Reay for the lead of the race.

Here is a video of this failed restart.