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11 May 2008, 15:44 (Ref:2199039)
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The Starting Grid for the 92nd Indianapolis 500 (Race thread)
This is how the Grid currently stands , amendments will be made as the qualifying progresses.
ROW 1 1. Scott Dixon 226.366mph 84th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 6th Indy 500 Best Finsh = 2nd 2007  2. Dan Wheldon 226.110 mph 85th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 6th Indy 500 Best Finish = Winner 2005  3. Ryan Briscoe 226.080 mph 24th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 3rd Indy 500 Best Finish = 5th 2007  ROW 2 4. Helio Castroneves 225.733 mph 102nd Career Indycar Start Indy Form 8th Indy 500 Best Finish = Winner 2001 , 2002  5. Danica Patrick 225.197 mph 52nd Career Indycar Start Indy Form 4th Indy 500 Best Finish = 4th 2005  6. Tony Kanaan 224.794 mph 86th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 7th Indy 500 Best Finish = 2nd 2004  ROW 3 7. Marco Andretti 224.417 mph 36th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 3rd Indy 500 Best Finish = 2nd 2006  8. Vitor Meira 224.346 mph 81st Career Indycar Start Indy Form 6th Indy 500 Best Finish = 2nd 2005  9. Hideki Mutoh 223.887mph 6th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  ROW 4 10. Ed Carpenter 223.835 mph 70th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 5th Indy 500 Best Finish = 11th 2005 , 2006  11. Tomas Scheckter 223.496 mph 94th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 7th Indy 500 Best Finish = 4th 2003  12. Townsend Bell 222.539 mph 15th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 2nd Indy 500 Best Finish = Yet to finish 
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13. Graham Rahal 222.531 mph 4th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  14. Darren Manning 222.430 mph 46th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 4th Indy 500 Best Finish = 20th 2007  15. Bruno Junqueira 222.330 mph 9th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 5th Indy 500 Best Finish = 5th 2001 ,2004  ROW 6 16. Justin Wilson 222.267 mph 5th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  17. Buddy Rice 222.101 mph 85th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 5th Indy 500 Best Finish = Winner 2004  18. Davey Hamilton 222.017 mph 50th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 8th Indy 500 Best Finish = 4th 1998  ROW 7 19. Alex Lloyd 221.788 mph DEBUT INDYCAR RACE Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  20. Ryan Hunter-Reay 221.579 mph 11th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  21. John Andretti 221.550 mph 2nd Career Indycar Start Indy Form 9th Indy 500 (7 with CART) Best Finish = 5th 1991  ROW 8 22. Sarah Fisher 221.246 mph 68th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 7th Indy 500 Best Finish = 18th 2007  23. Will Power 221.136 mph 5th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  24. Jeff Simmons 221.103 mph 26th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 4th Indy 500 Best Finish = 11th 2007  ROW 9 25. Oriol Servia 220.767 mph 5th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  26. Ernesto Viso 220.356 mph 5th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  27. Milka Duno 220.305 mph 10th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 2nd Indy 500 Best Finish = Yet to Finish 
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28. Mario Moraes 219.716 mph 5th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  29. Enrique Bernoldi 219.422 mph 5th Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  30. Jaime Camara 219.345 mph 2nd Career Indycar Start Indy Form DEBUT INDY 500  ROW 11 31. AJ Foyt IV 219.184 mph 70th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 5th Indy 500 Best Finish = 14th 2007  32. Buddy Lazier 219.015 mph 100th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 16th Indy 500 (3 with CART) Best Finish = Winner 1996  33. Marty Roth 218.965 mph 13th Career Indycar Start Indy Form 4th Indy 500 Best Finish = Yet to Finish  DID NOT QUALIFY 1.Mario Dominguez 2.Roger Yasukawa 3.Max Papis Thread is now open for discussion  and I will finalize the field after bump day
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18 May 2008, 17:42 (Ref:2205702)
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Marty Roth just made a phenomenal run, I don't think anyone thought he could do that after qualifying at 215.
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18 May 2008, 22:11 (Ref:2205943)
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WOW What a Bump Day , I only managed to catch the last hour of it due to work but that was exciting indeed.
AJ Foyt IV was the only driver who managed to get himself in the field. Roger Yasukawa was sadly the man to be knocked out of the field but there was heartache for Max Papis who has gearbox and clutch problems and was unable to get a qualifying attempt in and Mario Dominguez who had made the field before being bumped again went out for a last ditched attempt and after 1 lap was well within the time needed but it all got away from him exiting turn one on lap 2 when he spun and collected the wall hard. He thankfully walked away unhurt but that was simply awesome to watch. |
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You just knew that Dominguez was doomed from the start though. Despite his two wins he has just never really showed me much of anything throughout his career and the talent deficit really was apparent Sunday.
Buddy Lazier, on the other hand, could probably put a Checker Marathon in the field. He drives that track beautifully...I could watch him run laps there all day. When they took the wing out the back of his car I thought: "This is going to be cool!" When they did the same to MD's car I thought: "Those poor PCM guys are going to have a lot of pieces to put on the trailer." |
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That was the real deficiency. I am not saying Mario is going to win the championship or anything but he IS a solid driver with talent. |
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yeah I disagree with that as well John.
Mario is a very competent driver and I though he looked like having the goods to at least bump Roth , and indeed on his first lap he was on the pace. It was a tough ask though for both team and driver , but whats done is done and im sure both driver and team learnt something from that. as for Buddy , you've just gotta love him
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I've haven't felt as excited about Bump Day than this year. I think that there was something in the air that, since there hasn't been a real Bump Day in a couple of years, that there was a lot of anticipation about it.
I don't know if I am describing what I am thinking, but basically it seemed that there was both relief and tension that a real Bump Day was going on! P.S. Who's sponsoring Davey Hamilton? From the look of the sidepod writing, it looks like "The Nightmare Before Christmas!"  
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A question for real connaisseurs: I noticed that this year the whole grid is filled by Dallara chassis: is this the first "mono-make" Indy ever or has it happened in the past as well?
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21 May 2008, 15:09 (Ref:2208352)
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What about last year?
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Three Panoz's last year (Lazier, Moreno, Giebler)
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Hamilton is sponsored by by HP. The text on the side is "The Computer is Personal Again"
This is pretty much the first one-chassis Indy 500. In 1959 and 1960 every car had an Offenhauser engine and most of the cars were either Kurtis Krafts or clones of Kurtis Krafts, but there still was some variety as different cars had different front end treatments and since the various Offy engines were actually assembled by the various teams, they could potentially be very different in how they were built (different cams, compression ratios, etc.). |
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Man, what if this year it was the Champ Car Panozs vs. the IRL Dallaras? Just tune the cars so that they both are technically equal.
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Well I knew that if I had stated it that way (one behind safety car, one "real" win) it would have done more harm than good so I just stuck with the stats as they are!
Either way, I think he is relatively useless (got to watch him up close and personal at Mid-Ohio a few years back) and his inability to achieve a good result on a consistent basis (for me) confirms that. Last edited by JohnSSC; 22 May 2008 at 09:52. |
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"useless", throwing out big words here John. All pretty unfair in my book. There are far more "useless" drivers out there that are escaping your wrath.
Dominguez when he has been in a stable situation ride wise has been pretty consistent, ie 04-05. When he jumped around, so did his results. Just for being objective, how consistent has Mr Lazier been over such the similar time frame ? |
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OIIII dont pick on Buddy LOL
we are all entitled to out opinions guys and the end result is Mario didnt make the show so lets move on from that and concentrate on those that did shall we
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23 May 2008, 23:23 (Ref:2210095)
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Anybody know what the weather forecast will be for Sunday ?
The Lights race has been moved due to rain and the final practice wasm also messed around , Im hoping we dont get a washout sunday |
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I hope Rahal or Bruno win.
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Briscoe looks like a good dark-horse candidate, but I think a Ganassi driver will win. Hopefully the ex-ChampCar guys can add something to the field.
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Anyone know if theres a live stream of the 500?
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www.indycar.com will have a stream, but it will probably only be the blimp cam. Apparantly with TVUPlayer you can watch it though the Chinese channel CCTV 5. Check it out here:
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Thanks, I've just had a look on cctv5's schedule and i cant see any mention of the indy 500. I'll try it later anyway
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