Star Mazda – Barber Test Day 2: Second Session Times

Doug Patterson

The IZOD IndyCar Series teams and drivers were supposed to have a test from 1000-1200 CDT this morning, but the cold, wet track that the Star Mazda Championship drivers braved earlier this morning, proved too intimidating for them. The track went green as scheduled at 1000, but no one wanted to go out. Absolutely EVERYONE stayed in the pits! As a result, the testing schedule was hastily revised and the Star Mazda teams, which were originally slated to go out from 1300-1400 CDT, went out for a second morning session on a still cool and damp track.

Tristan Vautier picked up where he left off, posting yet another top time, coming close to his time yesterday morning. Sage Karam and Andretti Autosport have definitely found pace and were only four tenths off of Vautier’s fastest time. Sage and the team improved by 2.0 sec over yesterday’s times. Two whole seconds! That’s huge improvement! Scuncio and Horta regained the pace they had yesterday and were back up toward the top. Calderon continued to struggle today, after posting impressive times yesterday. Connor De Phillipi, Nick Andries, and Chris Miller all improved by a little more than half a second over yesterday’s times.

Although, there’s been no official word, I suspect that the impromptu second morning session means that there will be no afternoon session. The final testing session at Barber Motorsports Park should be tomorrow from 0800-0900 CDT. Although after today, we’ll just have to wait and see. Here’s the final times from today’s second session:

















Pos No. DRIVER NAME BESTIME DIFF LAP LAPTIME FL GAP STATUS LSPEED BSPEED ELAPSED
1 5 Tristan Vautier 1:21.000 — 18 1:21.949 8 — Active 101.038 102.222 40:45.515
2 88 Sage Karam 1:21.406 0.406 14 1:21.406 14 0.406 Active 101.712 101.712 40:55.724
3 60 Martin Scuncio 1:21.745 0.745 19 1:22.244 13 0.339 Active 100.676 101.291 40:54.355
4 7 J.V. Horto 1:21.851 0.851 18 1:23.077 7 0.106 Active 99.667 101.159 39:21.482
5 81 Nick Andries 1:22.002 1.002 18 1:27.751 14 0.151 Active 94.358 100.973 41:26.436
6 11 Connor De Phillippi 1:22.013 1.013 11 1:32.353 4 0.011 Active 89.656 100.960 34:56.513
7 85 Chris Miller 1:22.246 1.246 22 1:23.690 15 0.233 Active 98.937 100.674 40:44.966
8 10 Tatiana Calderon 1:22.871 1.871 24 1:39.458 10 0.625 Active 83.251 99.914 41:52.411
9 27 Nick Mancuso 1:23.225 2.225 25 1:25.283 24 0.354 Active 97.089 99.489 41:53.882
10 20 Carlos Linares 1:23.660 2.660 21 1:25.311 8 0.435 Active 97.057 98.972 41:48.152
11 66 Zach Meyer 1:23.699 2.699 17 1:24.662 10 0.039 Active 97.801 98.926 32:16.066
12 39 Richard Heistand 1:24.054 3.054 20 6:42.694 14 0.355 Active 20.562 98.508 41:10.559
13 72 Larry Pegram 1:24.542 3.542 12 1:24.542 12 0.488 Active 97.939 97.939 40:40.219
14 23 Walt Bowlin 1:26.940 5.940 9 1:29.651 8 2.398 Active 92.358 95.238 40:24.819
15 26 Jérimy Daniel 1:28.597 7.597 2 1:28.597 2 1.657 Active 93.457 93.457 41:21.525
16 48 Pactrick McKenna No Time — — –.— — — IN PIT 0.000 — –.—

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2 Thoughts to “Star Mazda – Barber Test Day 2: Second Session Times”

  1. Dominoes
    March 15, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Appears Vautier is the guy!!
    Wow Karam and AA! That’s scary for a newcomer to be this fast, but very exciting!
    What happened to McKenna no times?Computer glitch?
    Andries quicker than De Phillipi??
    Where is the 4th Juncos car?

    Sorry for so many questions.

  2. Doug Patterson
    March 15, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    They rescheduled moved the second session up a couple of hours, so McKenna and Team GDT might have been caught off guard.

    Not sure about Menezes’ car just yet. From his twitter stream, it seems that he’s with family in California this week.
    >> “Chilling in Cali with family trying to get everything ready and sorted out” — @gustavom28
    I’m trying to dig for info and will let you know when we have some solid information.

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