Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio - Page 2

ptclaus98 · 7 Aug 2010, 12:31 (Ref:2740913)

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Originally Posted by JagtechOhio

Quite a good day, started late but got tons of photos of the Dyson Lola with the skin off. Great bunch of guys.

Met DF and his Mrs., that was a pleasure...nice guy, who is probably happier no where else than at the racetrack. Me too

Talked to a few bigs, most is off the record but there are mixed signals big time between the Series and team owners. The one thing everyone has in common is that every fourth word in converation is "money".

If you ever see Jon Beekhius at the track, talk to him. He's very willing to spend the time.

IndyCar ran just a one hour practice today, and nobody looked like they were flailing afterwards. Easy night for the boys, I think.

Highlight: Patron tequila girls. I hope the pic came out

The place looked great, paddock is swamped with all the ALMS and support series cars, and the weather will continue to be splendid for the weekend. Hope the racing is too.

Times were slow today, lots of sandbagging. I'm sure DF or somebody else will post the list...but Rahal #1 will not last long!

The highlight of my trip to Petit Le Mans in 2008.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Aug 2010, 17:42 (Ref:2741018)

Pretty lively q-ing session going on....

JagtechOhio · 7 Aug 2010, 18:13 (Ref:2741030)

That was great stuff. Top six within .3 if I remember correctly. Power is magic.

To cds: I don't think it's your rider, mate....his horse should be headed to the glue factory.

Yesterday after practice I walked by the garage. Think they did 9 laps, and the report floating around was "tight steering".

It the garage, there are six guys standing in a semi-circle at the front of the car, staring at it. The picture was not one of race engineering at its finest, if you get the drift.

DanicaFan · 7 Aug 2010, 18:28 (Ref:2741038)

Im here at the track. We got here early yesterday. The weather has been beautiful. I talked to Danica, her crew already of course. I spoke with Helio and told him he was the Edmonton winner. He said thanks.

Great meeting you Jag!

DanicaFan · 7 Aug 2010, 18:29 (Ref:2741039)

Unfortunately, Danica didnt make any of the qualifying sessions. Will Power ends up on the pole.

cds_uk · 7 Aug 2010, 19:09 (Ref:2741054)

You guys are so lucky to be there, thanks for the updates. I can only hope Jay makes it to the finish, i would take a top 15 right now, fingers crossed.

DanicaFan · 7 Aug 2010, 19:22 (Ref:2741061)

Here is your starting grid..

Row 1 Lap Time / Speed

#12 Will Power -1:07.1997 / 120.965
#10 Dario Franchitti - 1:07.2846 / 120.812

Row 2

#5 Takuma Sato - 1:07.4337 / 120.545
#37 Ryan Hunter-Reay - 1:07.4411 / 120.532

Row 3

#9 Scott Dixon - 1:07.4711 / 120.478
#3 Helio Castroneves - 1:07.5370 / 120.361

Row 4

#6 Ryan Briscoe - 1:07.4687 / 120.483
#8 EJ Viso - 1:07.4713 / 120.478

Row 5

#26 Marco Andretti - 1:07.5436 / 120.349
#78 Simona De Silvestro -1:07.6190 / 120.215

Row 6

#22 Justin Wilson - 1:07.6230 / 120.208
#06 Hideki Mutoh - 1:07.7941 / 119.984

Row 7

#4 Dan Wheldon - 1:08.2415 / 119.118
#77 Alex Tagliani - 1:07.7789 / 119.931

Row 8

#36 Bertrand Baguette - 1:08.3069 / 119.004
#32 Mario Moraes - 1:07.7821 / 119.925

Row 9

#27 Adam Carroll - 1:08.4825 / 118.699
#24 JR Hildebrand - 1:07.7943 / 119.904

Row 10

#2 Raphael Matos - 1:08.5386 / 118.602
#11 Tony Kanaan - 1:07.9321 / 119.661

Row 11

#19 Alex Lloyd - 1:08.7818 / 118.182
#7 Danica Patrick - 1:07.9780 / 119.580

Row 12

#34 Francesco Dracone - 1:11.3968 / 113.854
#14 Vitor Meira - 1:08.0414 / 119.468

Row 13

#02 Graham Rahal - 1:08.0459 / 119.461
#66 Jay Howard - 1:09.5028 / 116.956

Row 14

#18 Milka Duno - No Time / No Speed

JagtechOhio · 7 Aug 2010, 19:28 (Ref:2741064)

DF is having a blast, I'm sure...man, I love that track.

Since I couldn't stay for the weekend, here is the list that DF would have put up if he was stuck at home too:

http://www.indycar.com/var/assets/ho...tinglineup.pdf

cds, I think if Jay is lucky, he will have a long day. If he is luckier, it will be short. The Dracone dude is having a worse ride on a better horse.

Carroll should be fun to watch, and J.R. Hildebrand is in his first IndyCar race and will not take long to get comfortable.

Edit: son of a gun, beat me to it anyway ;}
Pretty amazing that Patrick starts all the way in the back, and she ran only 0.8 sec. off the pole time.

Steevp · 7 Aug 2010, 20:27 (Ref:2741095)

Did anything happen to put Justin that far back? ...I'm transferring my alliegances to Simona now anyway.. or Adam Carroll.. SimonaFan..hmmm.. sounds good...

I'm off to the BTCC at Snetterton tomorrow, would rather be at Mid Ohio though.

JagtechOhio · 7 Aug 2010, 21:03 (Ref:2741118)

Steevp,

Justin had a bit of a bingle, unfortunately.

Near the end of the session, Briscoe went off, came in for tires and was close to not having enough time to get a hot lap in before the session ended.

Wilson was on a flier, caught up to Briscoe running off line (in 5, I think), made a perfectly smooth move inside to get by...

Briscoe didn't know he was there, moved inside and they banged wheels. Both into the tire barrier, light contact and heated words. That was that.

Simona is wringing every bit of performance out of an average car. Guys listening to the radio yesterday told me she was the only one chattering, with constant feedback and requesting changes. She's on it.

Tim Northcutt · 8 Aug 2010, 14:12 (Ref:2741360)

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Originally Posted by JagtechOhio

Steevp,

Justin had a bit of a bingle, unfortunately.

Near the end of the session, Briscoe went off, came in for tires and was close to not having enough time to get a hot lap in before the session ended.

Wilson was on a flier, caught up to Briscoe running off line (in 5, I think), made a perfectly smooth move inside to get by...

Briscoe didn't know he was there, moved inside and they banged wheels. Both into the tire barrier, light contact and heated words. That was that.

Simona is wringing every bit of performance out of an average car. Guys listening to the radio yesterday told me she was the only one chattering, with constant feedback and requesting changes. She's on it.

Simona had a shot at the Fast Six, but her clutch failed as she was going back out in the final minutes of the second round and she couldn't continue.

At the time of the failure, she was in the Top SSix, but four others topped her time in those final laps.

She IS on it!

JagtechOhio · 8 Aug 2010, 14:27 (Ref:2741366)

Carroll went well in morning warmup, as did Baguette.

Apparently Moraes hit his fuel man coming in to practice a pit stop, no word yet.

Pit stalls were shortened 1.5 feet to provide a 27th stall. Tight business, that.

Wilson had a minor off, no contact and no company in the weeds for the session. Weather spectacular.

Graham Rahal might have his car geared to run a fuel strategy race and one less stop. He will be worth watching, and was pretty quick this morning too.

If you've ever been frustrated with the lousy video stream from IndyCar.com, try again today. It has been flawless all weekend, with good camera angles. The in-car shots are always great too.

Last2LiftOff · 8 Aug 2010, 14:39 (Ref:2741368)

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Originally Posted by DanicaFan

Date - Sunday, August 8th
Time & TV Schedule - 2:30PM Eastern -Green Flag -3:20PM Eastern -Versus

Just bringing that forward, carry on.

JagtechOhio · 8 Aug 2010, 15:18 (Ref:2741382)

[IndyCarNation] RT @kvracing: 3 members of 32 crew injured in pit incident during warm-up, X rays negative. All were checked & released from care center.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 8 Aug 2010, 16:39 (Ref:2741404)

Unfortunately I'm going to miss most of the race but hopefully I'll get to see the fininsh.

fieldodreams79 · 8 Aug 2010, 17:58 (Ref:2741441)

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Originally Posted by JagtechOhio

[IndyCarNation] RT @kvracing: 3 members of 32 crew injured in pit incident during warm-up, X rays negative. All were checked & released from care center.

Glad they are "OK", but Moraes hit three?!

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Unfortunately I'm going to miss most of the race but hopefully I'll get to see the fininsh.

That stinks. I'll watch an extra one for you, simultaneously.

JagtechOhio · 8 Aug 2010, 18:51 (Ref:2741464)

Yeah Field, although Moraes might have thought he was "pit bowling".

Hopefully he doesn't try to pick up the spare during the race.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 8 Aug 2010, 19:19 (Ref:2741486)

I only missed the first 10 laps and Sato is still running.

fieldodreams79 · 8 Aug 2010, 19:23 (Ref:2741489)

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

I only missed the first 10 laps and Sato is still running.

So is Milka!

JagtechOhio · 8 Aug 2010, 19:25 (Ref:2741491)

Milka has looked better than awful all weekend, and has some company.

Thru 15, every session this weekend has had more action than this.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 8 Aug 2010, 19:25 (Ref:2741492)

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Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

So is Milka!

Lol, but for how long?

fieldodreams79 · 8 Aug 2010, 19:35 (Ref:2741498)

Wilson having a rough weekend...

JagtechOhio · 8 Aug 2010, 19:38 (Ref:2741500)

I thnik Simi got out 5th!

Helio's car can't be OK...bounced off the armco

**bjohnsonsmith** · 8 Aug 2010, 19:44 (Ref:2741507)

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Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Wilson having a rough weekend...

That was unfortunate at least they showed the replay on indycar.com, I don't think they've showed replays before, so that's a plus.

el_cat · 8 Aug 2010, 19:45 (Ref:2741508)

Taku in the wall.....

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