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18 Apr 2009, 21:39 (Ref:2444070) | #26 | ||
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Helio hasnt lost any pace at all - has he been testing during his trial?
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18 Apr 2009, 21:40 (Ref:2444072) | #27 | ||
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what? Danica always had pace!
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18 Apr 2009, 21:49 (Ref:2444081) | #28 | ||
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Mike Conway is flying during qualifying, the car looks great too.... Will Power just went P1
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18 Apr 2009, 22:16 (Ref:2444092) | #29 | ||
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Briscoe runs off the track & Helio spins into the wall... Go Will
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18 Apr 2009, 22:28 (Ref:2444095) | #30 | ||
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The drivers advancing to the Fast 6 are..
Dario Franchitti EJ Viso Justin Wilson Will Power Raphael Matos Scott Dixon |
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18 Apr 2009, 22:37 (Ref:2444100) | #31 | ||
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Shall be interesting, not much between those drivers...
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18 Apr 2009, 22:41 (Ref:2444104) | #32 | ||
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Congrats to Will Power...gets the pole!
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18 Apr 2009, 22:41 (Ref:2444105) | #33 | ||
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Will Power on pole
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18 Apr 2009, 22:57 (Ref:2444122) | #34 | ||
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Here is the starting grid for tommorow's race...
1. #12 Will Power 2. #10 Dario Franchitti 3. #2 Raphael Matos 4. #13 EJ Viso 5. #18 Justin Wilson 6. #9 Scott Dixon 7. #02 Graham Rahal 8. #3 Helio Castroneves 9. #34 Alex Tagliani 10. #6 Ryan Briscoe 11. #11 Tony Kanaan 12. #21 Ryan Hunter-Reay 13. #5 Mario Moraes 14. #4 Dan Wheldon 15. #06 Robert Doornbos 16. #24 Mike Conway 17. #27 Hideki Mutoh 18. #23 Darren Manning 19. #26 Marco Andretti 20. #14 Vitor Meira 21. #98 Stanton Barrett 22. #7 Danica Patrick 23. #20 Ed Carpenter |
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19 Apr 2009, 01:15 (Ref:2444201) | #35 | ||
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I'm seriously hoping for a Will Power victory. It would add more pressure on the team to keep him in a drive. IMO he's way too good a driver to be sat on the sidelines when a top ride is fairly easily available. Penske have pulled a third car out of the bag easily enough this weekend. I'd be dissapointed if they felt that they couldn't do it again.
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19 Apr 2009, 01:46 (Ref:2444223) | #36 | ||
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Castroneves crashed during qualifying - will be evaluated on race day to see if he'll be cleared to race.
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19 Apr 2009, 02:02 (Ref:2444233) | #37 | ||
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He will be surely. The accident wasn't a big one. It didn't look it to me, at least.
A formality I would say. |
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19 Apr 2009, 05:40 (Ref:2444318) | #38 | ||
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My thoughts from being at the track:
The crowd here is very good, especially for a saturday, and at least in this case the notion that street race crowds are just there for a party isn't true, there were a LOT of knowledgeable fans. This is probably the most beautiful setting to watch a race in the US (although I haven't been to Watkins Glen - and I'm not planning to considering how hard it is to get to). Stanton Barret is driving the right lines and seems to have decent gearing and wing in his car, his trouble just seems to be that his braking performance isn't as good. This may be due to the fact that that team may just not have the experience in setting up brakes for a road course. Helio's hit was a lot harder than it looked on TV. It was very similar to the wreck that injured Paul Tracy about 2 years ago. The new mufflers on the IndyCars are a lot quieter, but on a road course at least, I can't hear the "turbo-like" sounds that some people describe. The new exhaust note for the Indy Lights cars is a TON better. They actually sound like exotic race cars now, not like an old bus with an exhaust leak like they used to. On the Indy Lights notes: Sergey Mokshantsev appears really frustrated with his team and his performance. This is not going as he envisioned. It definitely appears that AGR/AFS has caught up to and perhaps passed SSM in on-track performance. Perhaps Schmidt has stretched his team too thin this year. I'm predicting Jonathan Summerton to have yet another good race tomorrow. His car is decent and he impresses me on so many levels as a driver and a professional. |
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19 Apr 2009, 09:11 (Ref:2444449) | #41 | ||
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Remember the Zanardi move in 98 at Long Beach - one of the many times he screwed Bryan Herta over...
How healthy was the field in 93 at Road America |
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The strength of '93 grids was largely due to the glut of awesome cheap '92 Lolas available.
You could shop up with an out of date car and be right up front since the '93 car wasn't really any better than the '92 car. |
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19 Apr 2009, 15:47 (Ref:2444797) | #44 | ||
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First bit of news for the day...Helio Castroneves has been cleared to race
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EJ Viso got squeezed out by the Target car - very unlucky for EJ who has been fast all weekend.... Dont know what happened to Power who bunched the field up to cause that incident & drop to 3rd....
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19 Apr 2009, 20:49 (Ref:2444963) | #46 | ||
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whos the idiot commentator? is it scott goodyear? he was on about the late stirling moss the great f1 champion!!!! hes neither dead nor ever world champ!!!!
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Big pile up at the final corner
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The loudmouth commentator is former IRL driver and team owner Robbie Buhl. Between him and Big Bird, it's hard to hear the race cars.
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Nice move by Tags.
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