Silvestro on Fire in Texas Simona de Silvestro’s effort at Texas came to an inglorious end on Saturday night. After an accident that left her stranded on track with the right sidepod spouting flames, it took the IndyCar travelling safety crew 40 seconds to extract her from the car. Apparently, the fire hose that they have attached to the safety truck failed and the fire bottles that they brought to bear on the blaze proved insufficient for the task. This resulted in one of the crew members forcefully yanking Simona…
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IndyCar – Here is Your Pole Day Qualifying Order
Here is your Pole Day qualifying order from IndyCar.com. Keep in mind that T cars that have not set a time will be withdrawn from the order in favor of primary cars later in the order. That said, AJ Foyt IV will be first on track tomorrow when the gun goes off at 11 am. Paul Tracy, Alex Tagliani and Marco Andretti look to have prime early pill draws to take advantage of a cool morning track before the temps start to rise. Look for those guys to put in…
Read MoreIndyCar – Indy Final Aggregate Time Sheet and Qual Predictions
Here are your final aggregate practice times for the month. And with that, we can make our predictions on who will not make the show. Tomorrow will see a whole host of non-to-3 teams trying to break into the fast 9. Alex Tagliani, Paul Tracy, Dan Wheldon, Hideki Mutoh, Mario Moraes, Graham Rahal and even Davey Hamilton have all put up consistently good times this past week and may play a part in the fast 9 session, especially if they benefit from an early pill draw. Good luck gentlemen. The…
Read MoreIndyCar – Fast Friday Recap
Here are your practice times for fast Friday. Amazingly, the track stayed mostly dry today except for the occasional yellow for moisture in turn X. And while the track was green, a whole slew of faces made their way to the top of the timesheets for today. Helio, Tagliani and Power all put in 226+ times, while Townsend Bell and Graham Rahall mixed up the status quo by placing 10th and 11th respectively. Dan Wheldon and Mike Conway chose to sit out today’s session though, most likely because today’s conditions…
Read MoreIndyCar – Indy 500 Aggregate Practice Times Through Thursday
Tony Kanaan, Paul Tracy, Marco Andretti, Dan Wheldon & Hideki Mutoh put in their quickest times of the month yesterday, and all of them are firmly in the top 10. Here is your aggregate timesheet. . Pos Driver # Team Best Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur . 1 Castroneves 3 Penske 227.046 226.603 227.046 – 224.833 225.563 226.08 . 2 Dixon 9 Ganassi 226.971 226.237 226.202 – 226.549 226.971 225.035 . 3 Kanaan 11 Andretti 226.775 224.685 225.524 – 225.171 225.66 226.775 . 4 Briscoe 6 Penske 226.633 224.384…
Read MoreIndyCar – Wednesday Indy 500 Practice Recap
Scott Dixon continued to impress at Indy today, once again setting quick time. This is becoming a trend. Action on the track was pretty heavy today with several of the contenders working on race setups. At times today there were 10 or 12 cars running together in packs on the track. EJ Viso did not make it on the track today after being released from Methodist last night and being cleared by IMS medical staff today. While EJ was a bit sore, he seemed no worse for wear, which is…
Read MoreIndyCar – Aggregate Indy 500 Practice Times After Wednesday
Here are your aggregate practice times updated through Wednesday practice. Things are starting to look clear up at the top as Dixon has so far been the class of the field during all practice sessions, save for Helio’s staggering weekend performance. Kudos to Hideki Mutoh for moving from 17th up to 6th on the aggregate speed chart. . Pos Driver # Team Best Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed . 1 Castroneves 3 Penske 227.046 226.603 227.046 – 224.833 225.563 . 2 Dixon 9 Ganassi 226.971 226.237 226.202 – 226.549 226.971…
Read MoreIndyCar – Aggregate Times for Indy 500 Practice Sessions So Far
Here are your combined aggregate times for practice sessions so far. Note that we are not making a distinction between “T” cars and regular entries. Also, note that we are not keeping track of Kanaan’s herculean effort taking laps in all 5 Andretti entries on Saturday. At this point, financing for Bruno Juniquiera’s seat at FAZZT has not yet come through. I am starting to get concerned that it isn’t going to happen for Bruno this year. This was a class A move by FAZZT and Alex to bring Bruno…
Read MoreIndyCar – Indy 500 Tuesday Practice Results
Rain held off on Tuesday to allow a full day of practice for the IZOD IndyCar Series, in preparation for The Greatest Spectacle In Racing. But it did have a little bearing on today’s procedures as they didn’t go green until shortly after 1:00 PM EST since the track was drying from earlier rain. Scott Dixon put up quick time today, which isn’t much of a surprise given his affiliation with one of the big dog teams. But the results sheet behind him was an appealing surprise and hopefully a…
Read MoreIndyCar – Green For Practice At Indy
This was the scene earlier this morning as track crew worked to dry out the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in time for practice. With rain washing out yesterday’s activities and rain threatening for most of the remaining week, practice time is at a premium as everybody prepares for qualifying this weekend. Throw in the fact that the schedule this month is severely compressed and qualifying has been shortened from four days to two. That said, at 1:07 PM EST and the track went green. Ambient temperature is only 55F and there is a…
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