Infineon Raceway Motorola Indy 300

[NAC]

Infineon Raceway Motorola Indy 300

Practice 1 top ten
1 Castroneves Time 01:16.5298, speed 108.193
2 Franchitti
3 Dixon
4 Kanaan
5 Hornish Jr
6 Andretti
7 Wheldon
8 Rice
9 Hunter-Reay
10 Scheckter


Practice 2 top ten
1 Castroneves Time 01:16.5548, speed 108.158
2 Franchitti
3 Kanaan
4 Andretti
5 Hornish Jr
6 Dixon
7 Patrick
8 Wheldon
9 Hunter-Reay
10 Rice

Castroneves well and truly in charge of P1 & 2 with Franchitti hot on his heals. Lets hope the Flying Scot keeps it on the ground this week.

Dixon was struggling a bit with set up, hope he manages to hook it up and give Dario a run for his money

Quote Scott Dixon
“This morning we were pretty decent and had typical problems. This afternoon we went with an aggressive setup and were pretty bad.”

[OpenWheel4ever]

Hope Dixon won't win this week...

[NAC]

Originally Posted by OpenWheel4ever

Hope Dixon won't win this week...

Let me guess, you want Franchitti to win. The thing i dont get is Marco for pole ???????????

[luke]

Franchitti got pole, Danicar 2nd. Dixon 6th or 7th.

[NAC]

Bugger. Yea he got pole - good on him, was a good effort.

Dixon ended up 5th. I suppose it will give Scotty something to really fight for now. Just hope he finally gets the car hooked up, sound like it’s still not right, and what has happened to Weldon the week?

Danica, that will give the other thread something to talk about for a while

Qualifying top ten
1. Franchitti Time 01:16.7017, speed 107.951
2. Patrick
3. Kanaan
4. Castroneves
5. Dixon
6. Hornish Jr
7. Hunter-Reay
8. Andretti
9. Rice
10. Wheldon

[luke]

I believe Dario will win and Dixon will have trouble and cement him as champion (well he needs cementing down so he doesn't flip ) because this year could be written as a Hollywood film for him, what with winning the Indy 500, suddenly becoming a consistent winner and contender in this series, then flipping twice dodging death and then bouncing back.

[Knowlesy]

Danica is qualifying really well on the road courses lately. Kudos to her.

[Alwaysfirst]

Qualifying is one thing. She needs results right now. She has come close a few times this season & has been unlucky at a couple of races, but she has still never finished higher than 2nd since FFord & no higher than 3rd in IRL. A good result could work wonders for her. Another bad result, dropping well away from the high quali position, will do her no favours whatsoever.

[deejay]

Originally Posted by Alwaysfirst

Another bad result, dropping well away from the high quali position, will do her no favours whatsoever.

Well duh.

Why not just give her credit for a good result or be quiet?

[luke]

She did qualify well but alwaysfirst has a point.

[OpenWheel4ever]

I just hope she wont put dario out of race on the first turn....I wish her a good race.

[drdisque]

My dish was supposed to be installed today, but the guy hasn't showed up yet. So I'm forced to listen to IMSRN on IndyCar.com

[NAC]

drdisque you could go to

https://www.iseesports.tv/indy/secur...aspx?sid=34669

Live streaming off IRL site, it's in car only. Dont read the chat, all they talk about is I love Danica

[drdisque]

yeah, I'm on that, at least I just saw the replay, other than the replays though the video is pretty worthless.

[luke]

Crazy few laps then.

Dixon should be black flagged for his blocking today, swerving and later forcing Kanaan on the dirt like that.

And Dario tipped Marco...No radio comunication, I don't think you can blame Andretti, it wasn't Dario's fault either as he was there and had to pass.
I am suprised Marco made up so much ground.

[NAC]

Wow lap 67, Marco is going to be in big trouble

[luke]

Well this sucks. Dario dominated this race. Oh well, each Sears Point IRL race seems to change a lot in the last faze of a race and it's certainly got exciting in what was an unexciting first 60 laps.

This caution really will help him out, I just hope Helio has a go at Dixon!

[Adam43]

Far from ideal!

[luke]

That was quite funny seeing Kanaan hold up everyone. Oh well have to hope Dixon gets a dnf at Belle Ilse.

[NAC]

Dario put in a good race but he must be cursed.

My money on Dixon to take out the championship

[Knowlesy]

I'm unsure who was at fault there really. Marco must have known Dario was close and must have been aware of the team play situation.

But Dario seemed a bit panicced in his move.

Total disaster and look who is picking up the pieces again.

[Davhut]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

But Dario seemed a bit panicced in his move.

It looked to me, and granted it was on TV, that Dario maybe assumed he wouldn't be closed upon. I didn't see any panic, just a for sure move to the right and possibly the thought that no teammate could be dumb enough not to give him room, to hit the only guy on his 4 car team with a shot at the championship. He must have been going 50 mph faster and if he had slowed, Dixon would have pounced right then.
AGR and Mikey for certain screwed the pooch big time.

[luke]

I guess if Dixon wins the title atleast he hasn't made any notable mistakes.

Just looking back at those blocks, Dixon should have been black flagged.

[Purist]

When will ESPN be showing the replay of this race?

[NAC]

Points table
1. Scott Dixon 560 points
2. Dario Franchitti 556
3. Tony Kanaan 498


Race results
1. Scott Dixon
2. Helio Castroneves
3. Dario Franchitti
4. Tony Kanaan
5. Sam Hornish Jr
6. Danica Patrick
7. Dan Wheldon
8. Tomas Scheckter
9. Vitor Meira
10. Kosuke Matsuura
11. Buddy Rice
12. Darren Manning
13. Ed Carpenter
14. Scott Sharp

DNF
15. AJ Foyt IV
16. Marco Andretti
17. Sarah Fisher
18. Ryan Hunter-Reay