A second complete washout - and a 16🐲8澳洲5最新开奖结果:third day with no running during practice week for the Indianapolis 500 at Indi🐼anapolis Motor Speedway - has started to send drivers and teams more than a little stir crazy.

The extended period of enforced inactivity has resulted in an outbreak of "planking" along pit lane that proliferated through social media n♔etworks and swept up Scott Dixon,꧋ Tomas Scheckter, James Hinchcliffe and Tony Kanaan, among others.

The drivers and teams were getting up to some very strange antics, with Dale Coyne's British driver Alex Lloyd and Ganassi's New Zealand driver Scott Dixon teaming up on Twitter to spark on outbreak of the current Internet craze of "planking" - having a picture taken of yourself lying face down, arms by your side, in unlikely (and safe, please!) public settings.

's contribution missed the "public" setting and featured his effort in thওe front room of his home in Indianapolis, while 's contribution featured a painful looking pose across the handlebars and saddle of his mountain bike as well as a later group shot with the rest of the line up of EJ Viso, Takuma Sato, Tomas Scheckter and Kanaan.

showed that ඣTeam Penske were in on the fun as well, while managed to balance himself on one of the front wheels of his Sprott Newman/Haas Racing car in the garage (well, the car wasn't doing anything else today after all), while went for both rear wheels and ♛'s saw him balanced across the front of his car on both front wheels, which was arguably the most spectacular of all.

But in terms of most appropriaܫte symbolism, it was hard to beat 's contribution of a simple "planking" photo opportunity lying along the yar𝔍d of bricks that mark the start/finish line of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Dꦉepending on your pꦇoint of view, either really hasn't got it - or has totally nailed the 'anti-plank'.

[All the above links open the driver's planking picture in a new window, from their various respective social media photo sharing services.]

Dixon and Kanaan even reached out🐬 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. Kanaan sent a cheeky tweet saying, "We want to see you pull out a plank", to which Jimmie responded "I will work on something...it might take a day or 2 before I'm around a car," adding "I'm wondering how I can pull that off on a cup car꧑??" while studying Dixon's own impressive balancing act.

All in all, "💖Planking Day" was about the only highlight of a deeply dull and frustrating day for everyone at IMS. Wea꧋ther forecasts are much improved for Thursday and Friday, but thunderstorms threaten the weekend when the two qualifying days - Pole Day and Bump Day - are scheduled.