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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) /

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Because of this crash, the race remained under caution for another few laps before the red flag was flown with five laps remaining. One of the drivers who was involved in it, Will Power, gave the race officials the double bird salute while on camera.

With championship rival Dario Franchitti having already crashed out of the race, Power had a great opportunity to make up a lot of points on him in the championship standings. Power saw that opportunity slip away as a result of this senseless crash.

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Just as the track announcers were getting the fans, of which there were not many in the grandstands, hyped up for the five-lap shootout to determine the winner, the race official waved the checkered flag from the flag stand. Ryan Hunter-Reay was ruled the race winner since he was never officially passed by Oriol Servia under green flag conditions.

But despite the fact that 220 laps had been completed, the race officials decided not to count the race’s final five laps. So the restart that had tempers flaring up and down pit road ended up meaning absolutely nothing from a competition standpoint. Power ended up finishing in fifth place, scoring 30 points and making up 15 points on Franchitti as a result of it.

Can you understand now why hardly anyone remembers the porta-potty?

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Do you agree with this list of the top five strangest IndyCar races since the start of the current decade? If not, which races would you add or remove from it?