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20 May 2018, 23:25 (Ref:3823663) | #51 | |
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I can’t wait to hear what happens in this year’s great race
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Ed Carpenter denied Penske, what might have been their first front row shut out since 1988 when Rick Mears, Danny Sullivan and Al Unser took the first three places on the grid, by claiming Pole for the third time. The Fast 9 was dominated by Chevrolet; good to see Danica in 7th. Top Honda was Bourdais with a creditable 5th place, considering his devastating accident at Indy last year, with Dixon 9th. Unusually, leading Honda team Andretti Autosport appear to have had trouble finding form, with Marco Andretti 12th and 100th 500 winner Alexander Rossi last but one. 1 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 229.618. 2m36.7818s 2 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 228.761. 0.5878s 3 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 228.607. 0.6939s 4 Josef Newgarden, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 228.405. 0.8333s 5 Sebastien Bourdais, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 228.142. 1.0147s 6 Spencer Pigot, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 228.107. 1.0390s 7 Danica Patrick, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 228.090. 1.0508s 8 Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Dallara/Chevrolet. 227.859. 1.2106s 9 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Honda. 227.262. 1.6258s 10 Tony Kanaan, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Chevrolet. 227.664. 1.3460s 11 Matheus Leist, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Chevrolet. 227.571. 1.4104s 12 Marco Andretti, Andretti Herta. Dallara/Honda. 227.288. 1.6076s 13 Zachary Claman, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 226.999. 1.8090s 14 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 226.788. 1.9571s 15 Charlie Kimball, Carlin. Dallara/Chevrolet. 226.657. 2.0486s 16 Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 226.557. 2.1185s 17 Kyle Kaiser, Juncos Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 226.398. 2.2301s 18 Robert Wickens, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 226.296. 2.3017s 19 James Davison, AJ Foyt Enterprises. Dallara/Chevrolet. 226.255. 2.3310s 20 Max Chilton, Carlin. Dallara/Chevrolet. 226.212. 2.3612s 21 Carlos Munoz, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 226.048. 2.4767s 22 Gabby Chaves, Harding Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 226.007. 2.5056s 23 Stefan Wilson, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 225.863. 2.6071s 24 Sage Karam, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 225.823. 2.6353s 25 Zach Veach, Andretti Autosport. Dallara/Honda. 225.748. 2.6878s 26 Oriol Servia, Scuderia Corsa. Dallara/Honda. 225.699. 2.7226s 27 J.R. Hildebrand, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. Dallara/Chevrolet. 225.418. 2.9214s 28 Jay Howard, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Dallara/Honda. 225.388. 2.9427s 29 Ed Jones, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara/Honda. 225.362. 2.9615s 30 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Dallara/Honda. 225.327. 2.9861s 31 Jack Harvey, Michael Shank Racing. Dallara/Honda. 225.254. 3.0375s 32 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Autosport Dallara/Honda. 224.935. 3.2644s 33 Conor Daly, Dale Coyne Racing. Dallara/Honda. 224.429. 3.6255s Last edited by bjohnsonsmith; 21 May 2018 at 02:54. Reason: Typo, should be 1988 not 1989 |
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Dang it! I missed it all!! 229?!! Holy Smokes!!!
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If a team buys out another ride - that is a business deal outside of what happens during qualifying. The fastest 33 are those who qualify on pole day. What you are proposing is promoting slower cars into the field because they are full timers - that is very different. I can't see Shank giving up his entry - so that only really leaves Jay Howard Last edited by D.R.T.; 21 May 2018 at 02:38. |
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1989 was also exceptional, with three Penske cars on the front row but Emmo's Penske PC-18, was entered by Patrick Racing; Emmo went on to win the first of his two 500 victories. Last edited by bjohnsonsmith; 21 May 2018 at 08:25. |
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21 May 2018, 08:25 (Ref:3823707) | #56 | |
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Those were the days, great spectacle. Three great American racers on the front row. How good was 89? Emmo certainly shock things up when he went over to America.
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Rahal sucked it up when he missed out, so did Penske. Contriving the rules to guarentee people a start in the race just cheapens the Indianapolis 500 as a whole. Everyone has been howling for years about how bad it is that the 500 could only attract 33 entries, how poor the quality of the field was because to get to 33 they relied on talent-less ride-buyers, how great it would be to have more than 33 cars again. I doubt Hinchcliffe not racing will have that much effect on the viewing numbers either. |
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How passionate are the Canadians about the great race?
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His first CART season was in '84 but it was in '89 when he won both Indy and the Driver's Championship. He won Indy again in '93 getting the jump on Mansell on the restart and was runner up in the Driver's Championship in '93 and '94. He won 22 races, iirc.
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21 May 2018, 20:17 (Ref:3823834) | #61 | |
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He made the switch to Indycars after a failed attempt to return to F1. Certainly he seemed to find that old spark that had been missing in his final years of F1. But he beat an all star race in 93 and could have added more. Made everyone remember what a great driver he always was
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I vaguely recall, possibly incorrectly, that he either tested or was at least heavily linked with the Spirit(?) team for the 1984 F1 season, but the team folded before the season started.
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Yes, he did try and race with the little known Spirti team in 84 and in the end they went with Mauro Baldi. So Emmo decided for himself to move to America
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I didn't know Emmo was involved with the Spirit team. It must have been very brief, as I saw the Spirit-Honda make its debut, at the 1983 Race of Champions and saw it again later that year at the European Grand Prix; both races were at Brands Hatch. On each occasion it was driven by Stefan Johansson. I saw it for the last time at the 1984 British GP at Brands but with the Hart engine and driven by Huub Rothengatter
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23 May 2018, 11:57 (Ref:3824194) | #66 | |
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He was only a possible driver. But it must have been interesting seeing Spirit turn up at the 83 ROC, especially with the Honda lump. Certainly they achieved something that many people could only dreamed of. Must have been something to see them race
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Listening to morning edition on NPR interviewing Janet Guthrie about her first time qualifying for her first 500. At some point on her last lap, she looked down to find that she had no oil pressure! 41 years ago yesterday.
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She was certainly one who stood out. Those things were no easy beasts. Seems strange how times change since then
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It retired after a few laps at the ROC but faired better at the European GP, finishing the race but well down the order. Not the most ominous beginning, for an engine manufacturer who would go onto become a major force in F1 and CART/IndyCar.
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Well a lot of manufacturers have had a bad start, but it wasn’t going anywhere with Spirit. Still it was amazing how well they did in both F1 and Indycars
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They had one decent result and Honda switched to a number of teams in 1995, the most notable being Ganassi, who won the Driver's Championship four times in row, with Jimmy Vasser in '96, Alex Zanardi in '97 and '98 and Montoya in '99. Honda had further success in 2000 and 2001 with Gil de Ferran winning the Drivers Championship, though Honda didn't win the Manufacturer's Cup in 2000, Ford-Cosworth did. |
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James Hinchcliffe says Schmidt Peterson Motorsports is no longer pursuing any method of getting him onto the Indianapolis 500 starting grid.
http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/136263 I personally think that's the right thing to do. Last edited by bjohnsonsmith; 23 May 2018 at 19:38. |
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And apparently ARROWS is fine with the situation and has made statements supporting the 'that's racing' attitude.
I'm hoping ARROWS has sponsor commitment stuff with him early and we get him in the ABC booth to make their last 500 worthy of watching. I know NBC would already be calling him and have a contact ready to go. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk |
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Sometimes even the best fail to qualify. We usually expect them to qualify with no trouble. I’m sure even the sponsors understand. Who knows what Hinch will do on raceday? Maybe he will be in the box
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