Round 10 Race thread :Road America (Race Spoilers) - Page 4

Rockmunky · 12 Aug 2007, 20:16 (Ref:1986928)

Will Power out of the car, and out of the race. Sorry Marcus

marcus · 12 Aug 2007, 20:16 (Ref:1986930)

power now officially out

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:17 (Ref:1986933)

Will said it was stuck in 4th. Would that be an ECU issue?

OJB · 12 Aug 2007, 20:19 (Ref:1986935)

Is it quite a dull race? They seem pretty spread out now.

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:22 (Ref:1986939)

Quote:

Originally Posted by OJB

Is it quite a dull race? They seem pretty spread out now.

Yeah, the race is pretty much all but set. Although the first 3/4 of the race was worth it. Road America always seems to make every overtaking move a risky move.

Rockmunky · 12 Aug 2007, 20:27 (Ref:1986944)

Yeah, but it looks great when they try and go for it!

luke · 12 Aug 2007, 20:28 (Ref:1986945)

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcus

power now officially out

And the championship race to.

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:28 (Ref:1986946)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockmunky

Yeah, but it looks great when they try and go for it!

I have to admit that pass Dan made on Tagliani into Canada Corner did look pretty cool.

Rockmunky · 12 Aug 2007, 20:30 (Ref:1986949)

Yeah, two wheels on the dirt too if i remember!!

OJB · 12 Aug 2007, 20:32 (Ref:1986950)

Least Clarke has kept it on the straight and narrow today! On a more random note, Jan Heylen in 7th is doing well too - Oriol Servia as well from 14th on the grid.

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:36 (Ref:1986958)

Guys in the booth talking about how Dan walks around with a hat with his name in giant letters on it. Rick Benjamin saying it might be a "British" thing.

No, really, we're not that ignorant.

And awesome battle with Gommendy and Wilson!

OJB · 12 Aug 2007, 20:37 (Ref:1986960)

I can happily say it says more about Clarke than it doesn't about the British nation thankfully! Its all him!

marcus · 12 Aug 2007, 20:40 (Ref:1986967)

oops , I fell asleep

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:41 (Ref:1986968)

Legge is out, looks like. Extinguisher residue.....

OJB · 12 Aug 2007, 20:45 (Ref:1986979)

She's had an awful weekend - she'd probably do last year all over again if she could, including the crash.

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:47 (Ref:1986983)

Sebastien Bourdais wins his first, his last, his only win at Road America. Going out with a bang indeed.

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:49 (Ref:1986991)

And Tracy's race goes from bad to worse, runs wide and Pagenaud overtakes him on the last lap.

Also big note: This is SeaBass' penultimate race in the States.

OJB · 12 Aug 2007, 20:51 (Ref:1986997)

Wasn't the walkover I expected it to be, but you don't get points for the margin you win by, just the win itself. Good drives by Clarke, Rahal and Servia.

Best result yet for Heylen too?? Bad, bad race for Doornbos and Power. What happened to Doornbos in the end?

chemhead1 · 12 Aug 2007, 20:53 (Ref:1986999)

Quote:

Originally Posted by OJB

Bad, bad race for Doornbos and Power. What happened to Doornbos in the end?

A bit after he replaced his front wing, apparently he had some suspension issues from his contact.

marcus · 12 Aug 2007, 21:05 (Ref:1987011)

Full Race results and Championship points posted earlier in this thread

luke · 12 Aug 2007, 22:12 (Ref:1987105)

I'm suprised Dan came 2nd well done to him. Good to see Rahal 3rd.

I guess I won't mind Bourdais winning as we know it won't be for much longer!

mountainstar · 13 Aug 2007, 01:55 (Ref:1987209)

I'm surprised about dangerous dan today. 2nd place. Wow.

Looks like Gommendy is a hard charger. People totally wrote him off at the beginning of this year, but I think he is doing well for a rookie.

blueflagger · 13 Aug 2007, 15:21 (Ref:1987597)

I think Doornbos had issues just before his contact at Turn 5. He was falling back on the straightaway just before that. It looked like he was already having a handling issue. Perhaps some unnoticed contact from a previous pass.

Rahal was using up his push-to-pass on the straights, once to avoid being passed but the other times I saw it, it seemed like wasted usage.

Four cars ran out of fuel on the cool-down lap. That's good fuel planning.

OJB · 13 Aug 2007, 16:31 (Ref:1987612)

Doornbos was struggling on black tyres - he says he was flying on reds but he couldn't get the blacks to work like Rahal and Clarke. He says he was beginning to get to grips with them when he hit Clarke (apparently he was more unhappy with Clarke about that than the Minardi quote let on....)

blueflagger · 13 Aug 2007, 17:17 (Ref:1987653)

That's one problem with working the race. I know what is happening everywhere on the track, but I have no idea what they are saying in the pits. Doornbos looked like he was struggling as he came by me (at 4) just before his incident at 5.

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