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Old 27 May 2015, 23:26 (Ref:3541916)   #1
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Rounds 7 and 8. The Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit, 28 - 31 May, 2015.

Rounds 7 and 8. The Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit, 28 - 31 May, 2015.

The Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit is the only double header this season. Last season, Detroit was the first of three.

Detroit was originally the venue for the F1 Detroit Grand Prix, held from 1982-1988. It was dropped from the F1 calendar after 1988, when F1's governing body FISA declared the temporary pit area sub standard and because of the drivers dislike of the event due to track disintegration, which was particularly bad that year. It was planned to move the F1 event to Belle Isle in 1989 but no agreement was finalised and F1 went to Phoenix and Detroit became a CART event, with the race initially held on a slightly modified version of the F1 track. In 1992, the event moved to Belle Isle, where it was held up to and including 2001. In 1998 the track was extended from 2.1 mi - 3.4 km, to 2.36 mi - 3.80 km.

The race was revived from 2007-2008, as part of the IRL's IndyCar Series, using the original CART layout but was cancelled from 2009-2011, only to be revived again in 2012. Since 2014 the track has reverted to the 1998-2001 CART layout.

Some Trivia:
Hélio Castroneves got his first CART win at Detroit in 2000, driving a Reynard 2Ki-Honda HR-0 V8t, for Marlboro Team Penske and has won the Detroit Grand Prix the most times: 2000, 2001 and 2014.

The team with the most wins is, Team Penske: 1991, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2014, Race 1 and 2.

1982-1988 F1 track layout:


Original 1992-1997 CART track layout:


Current and 1998-2001 CART track layout:


Length: 2.36 mi - 3.80 km
Turns: 14

Lap record:
17 Jun 2000. Juan Pablo Montoya, 115.604 mph-184.966 kmh, 1 minute, 13.056 seconds. Target Chip Ganassi, Lola B2K/00-Toyota RVA, CART FedEx Championship Series.

Race 1
Last year's winner:
Will Power.
Team Penske,
Dallara DW12-Chevrolet.

Laps: 70
Distance: 164.22 mi - 264.286 km
Race Time: 1:49:29.9323
Average Speed: 90.138.

Race 2
Last year's winner:
Hélio Castroneves,
Team Penske,
Dallara DW12-Chevrolet.

Laps: 70
Distance: 164.22 mi - 264.286 km
Race Time: 1:45:53.3410
Average Speed: 93.211.

TV Coverage:
ABC are televising the event, with the Green flag at 3:30pm ET, also for both races.

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Old 28 May 2015, 02:08 (Ref:3541954)   #2
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Have to miss Saturday, but really excited to be going on Sunday, not only for the Indy Race but also the Pirelli World Challenge race.

First of two Indy races this year for me, with Mid-Ohio in August my 2nd.

Can't wait. Hope Conor Daly does well this weekend.
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Old 28 May 2015, 21:33 (Ref:3542261)   #3
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http://www.indycar.com/News/2015/05/...-at-Belle-Isle

The run up to turn 7 has been changed, so the layout won't be exactly the same as 2014.
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Old 29 May 2015, 19:43 (Ref:3542651)   #4
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Qualifying is currently under way, with Round 1.

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Old 30 May 2015, 13:42 (Ref:3542852)   #5
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A few observations from final practice:

- Luca Filippi on top by a couple of hundredths over Helio
- slowest driver Rodolfo Gonzalez two seconds (!) off the leader's pace
- Kimball and Newgarden absolutely nowhere in 19th and 20th places
- good runs for Hawksworth in 6th and Jakes in 11th
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Old 30 May 2015, 14:05 (Ref:3542868)   #6
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Honda looked a lot better in qualifying than the initial practice.
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Old 30 May 2015, 14:21 (Ref:3542877)   #7
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Race 1 Grid:

1 Will Power, Team Penske, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m16.0941s -
2 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m16.1200s - 0.0259s
3 Juan Pablo Montoya, Team Penske, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m16.4428s - 0.3487s
4 Takuma Sato, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Dallara/Honda. 1m16.5363s - 0.4422s
5 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m16.6656s - 0.5715s
6 Sebastien Bourdais, KVSH Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m17.0406s - 0.9465s
7 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m16.9768s -
8 Stefano Coletti, KV Racing Technology, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m17.3638s -
9 Marco Andretti, Andretti Autosport, Dallara/Honda. 1m17.3785s -
10 James Jakes, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Dallara/Honda. 1m17.5158s -
11 Tristan Vautier, Dale Coyne Racing, Dallara/Honda. 1m17.8140s -
12 Sage Karam, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m17.9046s -
13 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan, Dallara/Honda. 1m18.2239s -
14 Jack Hawksworth, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Dallara/Honda. 1m18.7504s -
15 Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m18.3144s -
16 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport, Dallara/Honda. 1m19.3634s -
17 Charlie Kimball, Chip Ganassi Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m18.3303s -
18 Josef Newgarden, CFH Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m21.4632s -
19 Luca Filippi, CFH Racing, Dallara/Chevrolet. 1m18.4404s -
20 Carlos Munoz, Andretti Autosport, Dallara/Honda. 1m21.4796s -
21 Conor Daly, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Dallara/Honda. 1m18.4937s -
22 Rodolfo Gonzalez, Dale Coyne Racing, Dallara/Honda. 1m21.8208s -
23 Gabby Chaves, Bryan Herta Autosport, Dallara/Honda. 1m19.2306s -
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Old 30 May 2015, 19:15 (Ref:3543011)   #8
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How's the weather at the moment? It started to rain before the end of TUSCC race.
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Old 30 May 2015, 19:25 (Ref:3543012)   #9
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Oh this will be fun. That lovely white Corvette is comfortably going to be leading most laps today.
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wow - how can they see? 3 laps in before first caution.
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Damn, missed the start but the yellow's out after only 3 laps and Kanaan and Jakes have an off at the restart. Just as well I've got a bad feed, don't seem to have missed much racing action.
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A costly stop for Power.
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Man, the audio mix is horrible. LOUD commentary, engine noise sounds like it's under a feather pillow in the next room.
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Old 30 May 2015, 20:25 (Ref:3543033)   #15
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Glad Vautier managed to get back into the race, I don't think I could have handled another yellow so soon.

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What was the time limit with the race? 2 hours?
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So nervous for Hawksworth, best run for a long time.
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I think they came in for wets way too early.
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Fascinating race.
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Fascinating race.
Ugree! This is fun. Pulling for Marco to end his draught.
Would not mind Munoz.
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Oh, the rain is quite bad now, I hope we get some more racing. Feel bad for Munoz though, 26 second lead down the drain.
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Red flag.
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These commentators are so bad. First they tell us that the race is over half distance, and that might come into play.

Come into play how? Is half distance considered a complete race? Even if I knew the answer, 99% of the viewers wouldn't. Explain, guys.

Then in the race recap they tell us all about "him" without pointing out that it's Marco they're talking about (although it was captioned on screen).

Just two little examples in a procession of them.

EDIT: add "The weather forecast calls for the possibility of some weather". Sigh.

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It's coming up for 2 hours.
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That's the end of Race 1. So Munoz wins his first IndyCar race.
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