After you’ve situated the tree at the proper depth in the hole, cut and remove the twine (or use wire cutters to remove the cage) and cut away as much of the burlap as possible, allowing the portion under the roots to remain; it will gradually decompose without interfering with root growth. (However, if the roots are wrapped in a synthetic material like plastic or vinyl, remove it all.)
That preternaturally placid demeanor was stretched nearly to a breaking point at last year’s Indy 500, though.Larson was taking his first shot at “the Double,” trying to run every lap of the 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte the same day Memorial Day weekend. Many have tried but only Tony Stewart in 1999 has managed to pull it off.
But while Larson was able to overcome every problem lobbed at him on the track — aside from a speeding penalty on pit road in the 500 that took him out of contention for the win — he was powerless when it came to dealing with the weather.He doesn’t like being powerless.On race day, rain swept through Indianapolis Motor Speedway and soaked the track, leaving Larson to wait in Gasoline Alley to see whether the race would even take place that Sunday. And if it did take place, would he stay and run the 500 or be forced to withdraw so that he could head to Charlotte and fulfill his obligations in the Cup Series race that night?
He stuck around and ran every lap of the Indy 500, and was chosen rookie of the year afterward. But the delay kept him from starting the Coca-Cola 600, and by the time his helicopter-plane-helicopter trip from Indiana to North Carolina had deposited him at the track, more rain in Charlotte kept him from ever climbing into his car there and completing a lap.“Unfortunately once Mother Nature stepped in,” Knaus said, “we didn’t have a whole lot that we could do.”
The long-range forecast for the Indianapolis 500 looks much better this year.
And once again, Larson is heading into perhaps the busiest month of his calendar year riding a wave of on-track momentum.“It owes me nothing,” he added, “so every time we come back, there’s always a smile on my face to have another opportunity.”
for O’Ward, whose team appeared to find some speed in race trim during practice Thursday but then encountered a problem Friday, when cars received the 100-horsepower boost they will use for qualifying.Instead of getting on the track early, Arrow McLaren was wheeling the No. 5 car back to Gasoline Alley.
“There was something the engineers didn’t like in the rear of the car,” O’Ward explained as he walked back to the garage. “You want to make sure everything is where it’s supposed to be, so you don’t regret not going back to check it.”Earlier in the day, O’Ward unveiled