Round 14: Bitnile.Com Grand Prix of Portland, Portland International Raceway, Aug 25.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Grosjean brings out the second FCY and makes a meal of it.


Edit no FCY, I was getting ahead of myself.

[broadrun96]

Ahhh, Romain on his own spins it. But hey, new hybrid starter so that's a plus. But Romain returned to his GT1 roots suddenly it seems

Did I miss the FCY or did the hybrid save us a FCY, even if Grosjean tried to bring it out

[joeb]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Grosjean brings out the second FCY and makes a meal of it.


Edit no FCY, I was getting ahead of myself.

no fcy but yes bad moves by Romain.

I am enjoying the extended green, get to see pit strategies play out.

[broadrun96]

Seems like a reasonable 'unsafe conduct' penalty there on Grosjean. Only a drive thru is getting off light, almost would have considered stop and hold for that nonsense

[joeb]

and completely out of left field, but I really like the Portland International Raceway logo.

[broadrun96]

Wow Malukas, that wasn't even an effort to be in the regs man. Hit that empty slot and gunned it instead of making the corner. At least Sowery was paying attention in the driver's meeting

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

and completely out of left field, but I really like the Portland International Raceway logo.

Is it still the very old school almost Trailblazers like logo

Edit

Must have been thinking older or another but yeah, that's not a bad logo

[joeb]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Wow Malukas, that wasn't even an effort to be in the regs man. Hit that empty slot and gunned it instead of making the corner. At least Sowery was paying attention in the driver's meeting

given the location and speed not sure if he would have been able to put in the steering needed to get to the cones.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

given the location and speed not sure if he would have been able to put in the steering needed to get to the cones.

Yeah, he definitely went in hot and that sign having already been hit opened up a space. But Sowery followed him and made it

But I've never been a fan of that chicane, I get it but meh figure out something else. No idea what though

Penske seems to have IMSA'd pit stops in Indy this year. So much faster than everyone else consistently. And Foyt so far adrift, and as I say that they did a decent one but still not great.

[joeb]

Last stop for Santino. First of the leaders to stop. would be nuts if a caution came before the other leaders stop

[broadrun96]

Colton on the stall leaving but hybrid recovery on pit lane. Supposedly not allowed on pit lane to use hybrid restart, either Indy WTF reg is that's true

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

Last stop for Santino. First of the leaders to stop. would be nuts if a caution came before the other leaders stop

Well it looks like the Foyt crew couldn't pass an 11.6 second stop for Indy's chosen one

Looks like Power gonna be able to make the last 3 rounds interesting now

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Colton on the stall leaving but hybrid recovery on pit lane. Supposedly not allowed on pit lane to use hybrid restart, either Indy WTF reg is that's true

He got a penalty for that.

[broadrun96]

Wait, WTF is this nonsense from Indy??? Penalty for illegal operation of the car is give up a spot to a lap down car?? If that's truly the regulation that hybrid restart isn't allowed then he should be excluded instead of giving up a spot to a lap down car. Drivers who spin another get a drive thru, give him that at least but one spot seems pointless

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

He got a penalty for that.

I'm 100% against the rule as why but if it is the rule that's a technical reg violation and needs more than let Fittapaldi by

[broadrun96]

Not looking great for the forum favorite driver, 18th and lap down with the rookies

[joeb]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Wait, WTF is this nonsense from Indy??? Penalty for illegal operation of the car is give up a spot to a lap down car?? If that's truly the regulation that hybrid restart isn't allowed then he should be excluded instead of giving up a spot to a lap down car. Drivers who spin another get a drive thru, give him that at least but one spot seems pointless





I'm 100% against the rule as why but if it is the rule that's a technical reg violation and needs more than let Fittapaldi by

That hybrid restart isn't supposed to even be available in pit lane. This seems like a programming error. Is it and Indycar error or Andretti error, I don't know.

But look at Sowry! P17 is a great result for him!

[broadrun96]

Uh weren't they discussing earlier this season how Will had been past this sell by not having won in a while. He's got 3 wins, no one else has won 3 yet and he drove away from Palou. In F1 that would have been laps over the field

[bjohnsonsmith]

Congrats to Will Power, that was a dominant performance.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

That hybrid restart isn't supposed to even be available in pit lane. This seems like a programming error. Is it and Indycar error or Andretti error, I don't know.



But look at Sowry! P17 is a great result for him!

Yeah, that's my thing. If Indy regs say no then it's no and outside of the regs full stop and that's on the team so excluded. But I think not allowing it is RIDICULOUS full stop. It's in the system make the driver have to react and refire not the team, that's the more logical system to me

[bjohnsonsmith]

Race Result

Overall that was a good team result for Team Penske, with all three drivers in the top ten and a good result for Will Power. However after Rossi rear ended him at WWTR last weekend, he still has his work cut out if he is going to win the driver's title, though Alex Palou has still yet to win a race on an oval.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Dixie trying to blame Kirkwood instead of Fittapaldi, went too deep and messed up Dixie's line so he was in position to be hit later. That's a stretch sir

Kirkwood did shove him off. That was a bit naughty, IMHO. Fitta finished it off. I think both could share the blame as Scott did absolutely nothing wrong to have his race end before the end of lap 1.

[fieldodreams79]

Bit of a pedestrian race. Most overtaking on pitstops. Cool track. Not that cool of a race.

[NaBUru38]

I don't understand why road races have been so boring this year.

Dixon had partial blame for his crash, as he crossed the track left to right like there was nobody on his side. Rare mistake by him.

[fieldodreams79]

Yeah, someone else hit a curb and plowed into the side of him while overtaking him on lap one, but blame him some, if we must.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Bit of a pedestrian race. Most overtaking on pitstops. Cool track. Not that cool of a race.

It was pedestrian, though on the upside there was just the one caution.

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

I don't understand why road races have been so boring this year.

I can only think they are fuel saving. Davey Hamilton on IndyCar radio mentioned it during the race yesterday, as well as in previous road races this year.