Sometimes, the best way to tell if things are going well is to watch how drivers talk with their hands when they’re out of the car, if the gestures are calm and steady, things are fine. But if there’s a lot of wild air steering, be assured that things are troublesome. Thursday’s Indianapolis 500 practice session at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was clearly in the latter category. “You could see the gestures of a lot of people when they were debriefing with their engineers,” Sebastien Bourdais said after a rain-shortened session in which teams and drivers struggled to get a handle on changing weather conditions. “I don’t think there were a lot of people who thought it was easy....
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