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17 Aug 2016, 21:51 (Ref:3666230)
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Round 14: ABC Supply 500, Long Pond, PA. August 20-21, 2016.
Round 14: ABC Supply 500, Long Pond, PA. August 20-21, 2016.
Pocono Raceway, or the Tricky Trangle as it has become known, was founded by Joe 'Doc' Mattioli, a Philadelphia dentist turned successful property businessman. At first Pocono Raceway comprised a three-quarter mile oval and a drag strip, which later doubled as the main straight for the full, 2.5 mile 'tri-oval'. A 1.8-mile road course was added in 1969 and in early 1970 the work on the full sized oval was started. The Pocono 500 was first held on July 3, 1971 and was won by Mark Donohue for Penske Racing, driving a McLaren M16-Offenhauser. The race was part of the USAC National Championship Trail and part of USAC's "Triple Crown", comprising the Indianapolis 500, Pocono 500, and California 500. After the CART/USAC split, the race became a CART event from 1982 - 1989. However, it was dropped, mainly due to the increasingly rough track surface as well as poor safety features, like the lack of run off areas and catch fencing. The IZOD IndyCar series successfully revived the race in 2013 after a 23-year hiatus, including the "Triple Crown". It adopted the 1971–80 USAC format, with the Indianapolis 500 in May, the Pocono IndyCar 400 in July. The MAVTV 500 in October at Fontana, replacing the original California 500 held at Ontario, as the venue longer existed. In 2014 the race returned to it's original distance of 500 miles and is the fastest 500 mile race in IndyCar history, with an average speed of 202.402 mph (325.734 km/h) and was the first 500-mile race to be completed in under 2 hours and 30 minutes. However, since the MAVTV 500 was dropped after the 2015 season, the "Triple Crown" is no longer contested. Some trivia: Triple Crown: Al Unser Sr., 1978. The driver with the most wins, A.J. Foyt: 1973, 1975, 1979, 1980. The team with the most wins, Team Penske: 1971, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2014. Track Layout: The track's unique layout with three turns, has each turn based on turns from 3 other tracks. Turn One, with 14 degree banking, is based on the now defunct Trenton Speedway. Turn Two, also known as "The Tunnel turn", is like Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with 9 degree banking and Turn 3 has 6 degree banking, similar to The Milwaukee Mile. Original 3/4 Mile oval, with the 1969 road course in grey:  Current track:  Length: Turns: 3 Lap record: July 5th, 2014, Juan Pablo Montoya. 40.1929, 223.871 mph (360.285 kmh). Team Penske, Dallara DW12-Chevrolet IndyCar V6, Verizon IndyCar Series. Last year's winner: Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport, DallaraDW12-Honda HI13RT Laps: 200 Distance: 500 Miles (804.672 km) Race Time: 3:25:08 Average Speed: 146.245 mph (235.36 kmh) TV Coverage: NBCSN, 3:00pm ET. Last edited by bjohnsonsmith; 17 Aug 2016 at 21:57. |
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Cool, historic track. Wish there were more like it, but then again, it wouldn't be as cool!
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20 Aug 2016, 21:13 (Ref:3666786)
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Mikhail Aleshin gets the first pole of his Indy career and four Honda powered cars are in the Fast Six. Apart from Josef Newgarden and Helio Castroneves, it wasn't a particularly good day for the Chevy powered teams. I had no idea Pippa Mann, was driving in the race. 1 Mikhail Aleshin, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 220.445 2 Josef Newgarden, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 220.195 3 Takuma Sato, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. 220.067 4 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 219.781 5 Carlos Munoz Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 219.647 6 James Hinchcliffe, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 219.463 7 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Herta. Dallara/Honda. 219.326 8 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 218.617 9 Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 218.606 10 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 218.424 11 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 218.204 12 Jack Hawksworth, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. 218.051 13 Marco Andretti, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 218.012 14 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet. 217.721 15 Juan Pablo Montoya, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 217.284 16 Charlie Kimball, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 216.917 17 Max Chilton, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 216.689 18 Sebastien Bourdais, KVSH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 216.263 19 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 215.337 20 Conor Daly, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 214.757 21 Pippa Mann, Dale Coyne Racing Dallara/Honda. 211.267 Last edited by bjohnsonsmith; 20 Aug 2016 at 21:20. |
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I just hope that it's a safe race, as fun as parts of the race last year were, I really don't want an ending like that.
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21 Aug 2016, 12:39 (Ref:3666867)
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21 Aug 2016, 16:25 (Ref:3666894)
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Heading out to the AAA ballpark for 2:05 game. Nephew getting the start which is rare since he has been mid relieving at this level. Lots of musical chairs going on to get Atl. a win. So hopefully when we get home there will still be racing to be finished up. I would like to see Rossi back up that Indy win. |
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The race has been postponed due to rain and will be run tomorrow at noon ET. The race will be broadcast live on NBCSN with the green flag scheduled to wave at 12:09 p.m.
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Bollacks. I'll try to record it, I guess.
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Dagnabbit, I forgot to record...
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22 Aug 2016, 16:12 (Ref:3667037)
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It's very sunny and not a bad crowd considering.
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22 Aug 2016, 16:14 (Ref:3667039)
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Restart is good but Sato loses it and hits the wall big time on lap 2 and it's an FCY.
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22 Aug 2016, 16:35 (Ref:3667040)
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22 Aug 2016, 16:48 (Ref:3667044)
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What ever they did with the engine mapping on RH-R's car, has had the opposite and he's dropped back from Aleshin.
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22 Aug 2016, 17:07 (Ref:3667048)
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A big shunt in pit road. Kimball hit Rossi's as Rossi was released, Rossi's car then jumped up and climbed over the right side Castroneves car, the left front tyre just missing Castroneves' head. Blimey.
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22 Aug 2016, 18:19 (Ref:3667062)
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Pagenaud goes into the wall at Turn 1 and takes himself out.
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22 Aug 2016, 18:58 (Ref:3667070)
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Congrats to Power. Who would have thought, as the majority of the race had been dominated by Aleshin and RH-R but it was RH-R's car suddenly losing power that changed things. Superb drive by RH-R he more than desrved 3rd. Overall a good race, shame it wasn't yesterday.
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That was one hell of a race. Helio a lucky guy.
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22 Aug 2016, 23:46 (Ref:3667123)
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Despite Power's win, the Hondas of Aleshin and RH-R dominated most of the race. 1 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 2h46m28.9856s 2 Mikhail Aleshin, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Dallara/Honda. 1.1459s 3 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport, Dallara/Honda. 5.9076s 4 Josef Newgarden, Ed Carpenter Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 7.0750s 5 Sebastien Bourdais, KVSH Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 7.5285s 6 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 7.8896s 7 Carlos Munoz, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 11.5938s 8 Juan Pablo Montoya, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 13.4345s 9 Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 13.7988s 10 James Hinchcliffe, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 14.2235s 11 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 14.3471s 12 Marco Andretti, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 16.3334s 13 Max Chilton, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 17.1907s 14 Jack Hawksworth, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. 18.5585s 15 Charlie Kimball, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 1 Lap 16 Conor Daly, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 2 Laps 17 Pippa Mann, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 3 Laps 18 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact 19 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. Contact 20 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Herta. Dallara/Honda. Contact 21 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. Mechanical 22 Takuma Sato, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Honda. Contact |
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Is that Power not finishing outside of the top 2 for the last 6 races?
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Fairly impressive run
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