Rounds 6 & 7: Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit, May 30th - June 1st, 2014.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Sato on pole for race 2.

RH-R at the back of the grid again, after another off but this one brought out the red flag.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114235

Pos Driver Team/Engine Time
1. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda 1m16.1371s Group 2
2. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Honda 1m16.3739s Group 1
3. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy 1m16.3624s Group 2
4. Mike Conway Carpenter/Chevy 1m16.8580s Group 1
5. Ryan Briscoe Ganassi/Chevy 1m16.5382s Group 2
6. Carlos Munoz Andretti/Honda 1m16.9340s Group 1
7. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 1m16.8539s Group 2
8. Will Power Penske/Chevy 1m17.0297s Round 1
9. Sebastian Saavedra KV/Chevy 1m17.0688s Group 2
10. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda 1m17.1310s Group 1
11. Sebastien Bourdais KV/Chevy 1m17.1155s Group 2
12. Carlos Huertas Coyne/Honda 1m17.4651s Group 1
13. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 1m17.1660s Group 2
14. Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 1m17.5948s Group 1
15. Juan Pablo Montoya Penske/Chevy 1m17.2979s Group 2
16. Mikhail Aleshin Schmidt/Honda 1m18.1119s Group 1
17. Tony Kanaan Ganassi/Chevy 1m17.3386s Group 2
18. Marco Andretti Andretti/Honda 1m18.1820s Group 1
19. Jack Hawksworth Herta/Honda 1m17.4172s Group 2
20. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Chevy 1m18.1871s Group 1
21. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Honda No time Group 2
22. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Chevy 1m19.4557s Group 1

[bjohnsonsmith]

That was sloppy and quite rightly the start's been waved off.

They get away second time round but we have the first caution as Power touches Newgarden and hw in turn hits Rahal. There wasn't enough room for Power, he should get a stop go for that.

[Speedblood]

I saw what he was trying to do but it was way too ambitious. Now with the full course caution his penalty has been neutralised.

[rwintle]

Which commentator was it that just claimed to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans? Cheever and Goodyear have come 2nd in class...

[bjohnsonsmith]

Helio wins race 2.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114239

Results - 70 laps:

Pos Driver Team/Engine Time/Gap
1. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy
2. Will Power Penske/Chevy 1.6836s
3. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Chevy 2.9746s
4. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Chevy 3.4290s
5. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Honda 4.6528s
6. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 4.9894s
7. Mikhail Aleshin Schmidt/Honda 5.5279s
8. Carlos Munoz Andretti/Honda 5.6906s
9. Tony Kanaan Ganassi/Chevy 6.2501s
10. Ryan Briscoe Ganassi/Chevy 6.5923s
11. Mike Conway Carpenter/Chevy 7.1114s
12. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 7.2822s
13. Juan Pablo Montoya Penske/Chevy 7.9649s
14. Jack Hawksworth Herta/Honda 8.7723s
15. Carlos Huertas Coyne/Honda 9.2906s
16. Marco Andretti Andretti/Honda 27.2464s
17. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda -1 lap
18. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda -1 lap

Retirements:
Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Honda 61 laps
Sebastien Bourdais KV/Chevy 58 laps
Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 43 laps
Sebastian Saavedra KV/Chevy 9 laps

[Purist]

The biggest thing that leaves me wondering a little is why Briscoe didn't get pulled in for sticking his nose in that closing hole heading into Turn 3.

All-in-all, it seemed good, and I was happy to see Helio win.

[NaBUru38]

I'm happy for Penske, of course! (my candidate lost at the primary elections in Uruguay, by the way.) Power and Castroneves drove much better than the rest.

[gomick]

Briscoe should have got a drive thru penalty for that poor move - I hope in Texas someone other than Penske, Ganassi or Andretti win!

[Purist]

I rather suspect that they will not leave the old road in place when they get to work this summer. That's going to be quite a lot of re-paving, as well as a substantial amount of new paving and ripping up of the old back stretch.
http://www.indycar.com/News/2014/06/...s-with-circuit

[JacobP]

Good race weekend. As usual there were a few of the banzai movies typical of Indy street races resulting in accidents. For example, Hinchcliffe's dive on the inside of Aleshin was not good racing, and Hinchcliffe should have gotten a penalty. Power got a penalty for the same on Sunday. However, overall Will Power looked a lot hungrier than Hunter Reay this time.