Kansas race weekend thread (starting grid included)

luke · 29 Jun 2005, 15:44 (Ref:1343011)

Race 8 of 17 Argent Mortgage Indy 300 Kansas Speedway

Weekend schedule: (ET)

Practice 1 Sat Jul 2: 9 - 10:30 a.m.

Practice 2 Sat Jul 2 : 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Qualifications Sat Jul 2 : 1:45 - 2:45 p.m.

Final Practice Sun Jul 3 : 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.

Argent Mortgage Indy 300 Sun Jul 3 : 1:25 p.m.

Weekend weather forcast:

Saturday
87°F (31°C) | 72°F (22°C) Thunder

Sunday
87°F (31°C) | 73°F (23°C) Sunny

Website: www.kansasspeedway.com

TV :

U.S. Race Live at 1 p.m. (EDT) on ESPN.

U.K. Race Live at 6 p.m. (GMT) on Sky Sports xtra

Australia : 2.30am Monday Morning "life in the fast lane" ESPN
Australia : Race Live at 3am Monday Morning ESPN (Foxtel , Austar)

Canada: Live from 1 - 3:30 PM (ET) on TSN.

Radio : IMS

First IRL race: 2001

Total IRL races: 4

Race distamce: 200 laps/300 miles

Defending champion: Buddy Rice

Kicking-back · 29 Jun 2005, 16:29 (Ref:1343056)

Great job there, luke. As ever.

luke · 29 Jun 2005, 17:23 (Ref:1343132)

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Originally Posted by Kicking-back

Great job there, luke. As ever.

Thanks Kicking-back!

marcus · 30 Jun 2005, 12:38 (Ref:1343783)

interesting reading the previous winners at this round.

seems to have thrown up a few wildcards.

2004 : Buddy Rice
2003 : Bryan Herta
2002 : Airton Dare
2001 : Eddie Cheever

ok with the exception of Rice the other 3 havent been regular winners in the series so will 2005 throw up yet another strange winner perhaps ???

jock25 · 30 Jun 2005, 13:37 (Ref:1343849)

It is a good point marcus...and to be honest, Rice would have been considered something of a 'wildcard' up until his success during the 2004 season. Buddy could probably be considered a wildcard this time around as well.

BootsOntheSide · 30 Jun 2005, 15:33 (Ref:1343921)

Maybe this will be the weekend when Ganassi come good? Or perhaps Cheever's team?

jock25 · 30 Jun 2005, 16:55 (Ref:1343985)

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Originally Posted by BootsOntheSide

Maybe this will be the weekend when Ganassi come good? Or perhaps Cheever's team?

It would be good if they did, as another boost to the competitiveness of the series. Having said that, their performances to date suggest they will struggle with a lack of power relative to Honda and Chevrolet. The best non-Penske Toyota performances have been at St. Petersburg and Richmond, tracks with little in common with Kansas unfortunately.

But then again...

GP Racer · 30 Jun 2005, 19:57 (Ref:1344166)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BootsOntheSide

Maybe this will be the weekend when Ganassi come good? Or perhaps Cheever's team?

I've heard that Penske was going to leak his winning engine info to the other Toyota teams sometime after Indy. We may have seen that at Richmond as the Cheever boys finally put together an outstanding race. They may surprise us all.

As for Ganassi, all of their drivers just seem snake-bitten as of late. The usually hard racing Manning has been horribly uncompetitve, Briscoe just cannot keep it clean on the ovals so far, and Dixon just doesn't seem to care! He has shown zero ability to move through the field or race cleanly within it. Right now he is a backmarker that is no better or safer than AJ Foyt IV. Yes I said it!

jock25 · 30 Jun 2005, 20:12 (Ref:1344184)

I remember hearing Carpentier saying the engine at Richmond had excellent torque. However I would think that having strong torque at tracks like Kansas would be of little benefit - outright power must be the key factor. It would make sense though that the non-Penske cars have shown strongly on the short-oval at Richmond and the road/street course races/tests - something that could be directly attributed to this feature of the Toyota engines.

IMHO the non-Penske Toyota units still lack outright power relative to Honda and the Panther Chevy's - something that will hinder them this weekend.

But then again...

mac · 30 Jun 2005, 22:37 (Ref:1344300)

Quote:

Originally Posted by jock25

IMHO the non-Penske Toyota units still lack outright power relative to Honda and the Panther Chevy's - something that will hinder them this weekend.

I think you're probably right there - would also explain how the Ganassi boys are so fast on road courses.

tbman · 1 Jul 2005, 21:30 (Ref:1345026)

Kansas Speedway from satellite

drewdawg727 · 2 Jul 2005, 03:57 (Ref:1345166)

Carpentier does have experience on Superspeedways, seeing as he raced on a whole bunch of them in the CART series since 1996, so therefore drafting and keeping in the line on the Superspeedways shouldn't be hard for them. All he needs is power and he's good to go. And remember Barron? A spin and a win was his ticket a few years ago.

Speaking of the winners above that Marcus mentioned, whatever happened to Airton Dare..?

This should be an interesting race, i am really looking forward to this race, Michigan, and Fontana!

infoxicated · 2 Jul 2005, 18:42 (Ref:1345538)

Not bad for a domestic appliance!

Down F0rce · 2 Jul 2005, 18:46 (Ref:1345542)

Wow! All three Rahal cars in the top three, and Tomas is right up there as well! Excellent

infoxicated · 2 Jul 2005, 18:50 (Ref:1345548)

Yep - should be some race the way that grid is mixed up behind the RHL cars

Cant wait for tomorrow night now...

marcus · 2 Jul 2005, 18:52 (Ref:1345550)

ive merged your thread into this one infoxicated

marcus · 2 Jul 2005, 18:55 (Ref:1345555)

STARTING GRID

1. Danica Patrick 214.668 (1st Career Pole)

Career Best Qualifying
8th Career Start

2. Buddy Rice 214.650 (5th time starting 2nd)

41st Career Start

3. Vitor Meira 214.546 (4th time starting 3rd)

37th Career Start

4. Tomas Schekter 214.543 (6th time starting 4th)

52nd Career Start

5. Darren Manning 214.321 (2nd time starting 5th)

Equal Career Best Qualifying
22nd Career Start

6. Dario Franchitti 214.214 (3rd time starting 6th)

28th Career Start

7. Scott Dixon 213.778 (1st time starting 7th)

39th Career Start

8. Tony Kanaan 213.411 (4th time starting 8th)

41st Career Start

9. Scott Sharp 213.376 (5th time starting 9th)

106th Career Start

10. Sam Hornish Jnr 213.116 (2nd time starting 10th)

76th Career Start

11. Ryan Briscoe 213.063 (1st time starting 11th)

8th Career Start

12. Tomas Enge 212.973 (1st time starting 12th)

9th Career Start

13. Dan Wheldon 212.750 (7th time starting 13th)

40th Career Start

14. Helio Castroneves 212.507 (2nd time starting 14th)

55th Career Start

15. Kosuke Matsuura 212.212 (3rd time starting 15th)

24th Career Start

16. Bryan Herta 210.697 (1st time starting 16th)

35th Career Start

17. Roger Yasukawa 210.682 (2nd time starting 17th)

26th Career Start

18. Alex Barron 210.113 (3rd time starting 18th)

50th Career Start

19. Ed Carpenter 209.550 (5th time starting 19th)

26th Career Start

20. Patrick Carpentier 209.190 (2nd time starting 20th)

8th Career Start

21. Jimmy Kite 209.182 (1st time starting 21st)

27th Career Start

22. AJ Foyt IV 208.956 (3rd time starting 22nd)

40th Career Start

Kicking-back · 2 Jul 2005, 22:31 (Ref:1345631)

Excellent job by Rahal team, a 1-2-3.

Ganassi seems to have found something too.

luke · 3 Jul 2005, 08:55 (Ref:1345827)

Wow that is an amzing job by the Rahal team, they had a 1-2 here last year as well. Glad to see Danica on pole.

I was looking at the standings and Hornish is in good postion yet he keeps on making mistakes they were at Indy and Richmond.

jock25 · 3 Jul 2005, 11:53 (Ref:1345893)

I think the most significant outcome of qualifying is that the non-Penske Toyota engines are still hopelessly underpowered relative to Honda and Chevy. Richmond was clearly representative of that. Must be pretty awful for Red Bull & Cheever to go from top 5 to (almost) propping up the grid.

GP Racer · 3 Jul 2005, 12:53 (Ref:1345927)

I don't know about that jock, it seems that Ganassi had it's best qualifying effort in quite some time. Manning came out of nowhere to take the 5th spot, and Dixon finally looked competitve in 7th. I was beginning to write this whole team off. We'll see if they have the race pace though.

I think Danica will fall back from her excellent pole position though. This is a real slice and dice type of race. Good to see Buddy back, isn't it?!

A very crazy grid I must say. What's going on with Wheldon? Could he still lose this championship, or will he move to the front? I can't wait!

mabs_nsx · 3 Jul 2005, 13:13 (Ref:1345941)

1st Danica Patrick

7th Scott Dixon

11th Ryan Briscoe

macdaddy · 3 Jul 2005, 17:02 (Ref:1346136)

My apologies...
I was very late in adding this...

But the race is being shown live on TSN (right now!) from 1 - 3:30 PM (ET).

Kicking-back · 3 Jul 2005, 19:10 (Ref:1346235)

What an excellent race!

Wheel to wheel action all the way.

Well done to Tony Kanaan.

And great job too by Vitor Meira - so close at the end but still a win eludes him.

GP Racer · 3 Jul 2005, 20:02 (Ref:1346263)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kicking-back

What an excellent race!

Wheel to wheel action all the way.

Well done to Tony Kanaan.

And great job too by Vitor Meira - so close at the end but still a win eludes him.

Absolutely! As a fan you can't expect it to get any better than that.

And in front of another full house!

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