Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach

[DanicaFan]

Congratulations to Ryan Hunter-Reay for the win!

[Jimmy Magnusson]

Not that she did much anyway, but again I wonder what Kyle Moyer is doing with Danica's strategy. Pitting her that early left her with no chance to make the race on two stops. What could he have hoped to gain? In the end the third stop only cost her a spot or two, as she was already far down by then. Sometimes it seems people make up odd strategies just for the sake of going out of sequence without analyzing the effects of it.

[DanicaFan]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Magnusson

Not that she did much anyway, but again I wonder what Kyle Moyer is doing with Danica's strategy. Pitting her that early left her with no chance to make the race on two stops. What could he have hoped to gain? In the end the third stop only cost her a spot or two, as she was already far down by then. Sometimes it seems people make up odd strategies just for the sake of going out of sequence without analyzing the effects of it.

Tom Anderson is Danica's strategist. They were going off strategy due to the bad starting position, hoping for yellows. It worked last year.

Its good to get Andretti Autosport back in Victory Circle!

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by DanicaFan

Tom Anderson is Danica's strategist. They were going off strategy due to the bad starting position, hoping for yellows. It worked last year.

Its good to get Andretti Autosport back in Victory Circle!

I would have thought staying out later might have been more beneficial as the car gets dialled in. However, considering it was such an early stop I thought it was a handling issue.

[NaBUru38]

Lloyd was an idiot by hitting Wilson, but officials were even more so by not giving him a drive through.

I've made a teams stangings for this first non-oval stage of the season. The best two finishers get the points for the team and the rest are discarded (e.g. Brsicoe today, so Wheldon gets 8th points, Conway gets 9th points, etc.) Single-car entries get double points. Pole and laps lead bonus points are included. Ties are solved by best car finish.

1. Penske, 304
2. Andretti, 248
3. Ganassi, 229
4. Dreyer & Reinbold, 211
5. Luczo Draco de Ferran, 180
6. Foyt, 174
7. Panther, 174
8. Fazzt, 158
9. KV, 138
10. NHL, 134
11. HVM, 124
12. Conquest, 121
13. Sarah Fisher, 102
14. Dale Coyne, 102

[cjent]

Good race, not great, but definitley a deserving winner!

[DanicaFan]

Here are the final results..

1. #37 Ryan Hunter-Reay
2. #22 Justin Wilson
3. #12 Will Power
4. #9 Scott Dixon
5. #11 Tony Kanaan
6. #32 Mario Moraes
7. #3 Helio Castroneves
8. #6 Ryan Briscoe
9. #4 Dan Wheldon
10. #24 Mike Conway
11. #14 Vitor Meira
12. #10 Dario Franchitti
13. #06 Hideki Mutoh
14. #26 Marco Andretti
15. #8 EJ Viso
16. #7 Danica Patrick
17. #78 Simona De Silvestro
18. #5 Takuma Sato
19. #19 Alex Lloyd
20. #2 Raphael Matos
21. #77 Alex Tagliani
22. #67 Graham Rahal
23. #34 Mario Romancini
24. #36 Bertrand Baguette
25. #18 Milka Duno

[bjohnsonsmith]

Nice to see the podium filled with ex-Champcar drivers.

[Belatti]

This Milka thing is even more embarrasing that Life or Andrea Moda teams in F1 in early 90s...

Of course, that was because of the cars, not the drivers

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Belatti

This Milka thing is even more embarrasing that Life or Andrea Moda teams in F1 in early 90s...

Of course, that was because of the cars, not the drivers

I'd completely forgotten about that. Thanks.

[DanicaFan]

Here are the points standings after Long Beach..

Race 4 of 17

1. Will Power 172
2. Helio Castroneves 130 -42
3. Ryan Hunter-Reay 129 -43
4. Justin Wilson 125 -47
5. Dario Franchitti 112 -60
6. Scott Dixon 112 -60
7. Ryan Briscoe 103 -69
8. Tony Kanaan 94 -78
9. Raphael Matos 84 -88
10. Dan Wheldon 83 -89
11. Vitor Meira 81 -91
12. Marco Andretti 78 -94
13. Mike Conway 78 -94
14. Alex Tagliani 72 -100
15. Mario Moraes 69 -103
16. Danica Patrick 67 -105
17. EJ Viso 60 -112
18. Hideki Mutoh 60 -112
19. Mario Romancini 54 -118
20. Simona De Silvestro 53 -119
21. Alex Lloyd 48 -124
22. Graham Rahal 47 -125
23. Milka Duno 46 -126
24. Takuma Sato 46 -126
25. Bertrand Baguette 24 -148
26. Ana Beatriz 17 -155

[JagtechOhio]

Last year, it sucked that Power had good points but couldn't stay in the seat for all the races, even before he got hurt.

It will be even worse if that happens when RHR runs out of $$$.

[Yannick]

Congrats to Ryan Hunter-Reay. It's great to see him winning again. Here's hoping that his full season ride is booked now. He's got a good chance at winning the championship now.

Forza Team Green! Andretti is back. Well done.

Unfortunately, there is no IZOD IndyCar coverage in Germany so I couldn't watch the race, but it would have been interesting to see Danica VS Simona directly fighting for position.

[baclightning]

I was born in Britain, so I generally root for the British drivers, Wilson, Franchitti, and Wheldon, but I was so pleased to see Hunter-Reay win today. It was great to see an American win, and I think the realistic possibility of an American winning is something the series really needs to attract the casual US fan.

[JagtechOhio]

Lloyd tweets:

[alex_lloyd] I honestly didn't even know it happened until I was told after the race!
[alex_lloyd] Want to appologize to Justin. It was the corner after Ryan went by and I just didn't know he was there. Glad he recovered well!

[NaBUru38]

Last win of an American driver in Indycar was also last Hunter-Reay's at Watkins Glen on July 6, 2008. That was a long time!

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Last win of an American driver in Indycar was also last Hunter-Reay's at Watkins Glen on July 6, 2008. That was a long time!

That's an interesting fact.