JR on the track and Coop in the booth! Prior to the start of the race Coop's commentary made him sound like he had been in a broadcast booth for years. Very informative and eloquent (well except for the T1 comment, but we discussed that over a beer at lunch time ). Once the green flew (1st attempt was a wave off) JR took off and was never headed. I have posted 4 images of the start (1) JR behind Jacek in the ASR (2) he sees an opening between Downing and the JDR (3) my camera is saying "good Lawd, what is he doing!" (4) he and Jacek are already out of sight. Perhaps the statement of the day came from Jacek who had an off course excursion between T1-T2 "I tried following JR through T1 and it didn't work out!" I will now defer to Mr. Cooper himself for any additional race comments since he was in the "driver's seat!"