Round 1: revised calendar. Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway, June 6. - Page 4

**Adam43** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:24 (Ref:3980622)

Rosenqvist looks the quickest, but just based on how they got past Newgarden earlier on, Dixon has the oval race craft experience.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Jun 2020, 01:26 (Ref:3980624)

50 to go!! Laps are clicking off!

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Originally Posted by broadrun96

That's what it felt like, claimed debris but not mentioned again and never shown. Long caution too

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

I think they've really brought the SC out to sanitise the pitstop. The first stop was a little hectic, with everyone coming it and out at the same time.

Its hot as hell. Thought they'd have a complimentary caution at some point.

**Adam43** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:32 (Ref:3980625)

You’d think they’d be more injuries in Indycar pitstops. They have always seemed so frantic and out of control.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Jun 2020, 01:33 (Ref:3980626)

Is Felix faster than Dixie or is he getting a little more leeway from traffic?

Rossi racing Dixon hard from -2 laps...

**Adam43** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:38 (Ref:3980627)

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Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Is Felix faster than Dixie or is he getting a little more leeway from traffic?

Rossi racing Dixon hard from -2 laps...

I think he’s slightly faster, based on how he closed earlier. Traffic is difficult today, but in the end I think Dixon’s experience will win out.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Jun 2020, 01:39 (Ref:3980628)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

You’d think they’d be more injuries in Indycar pitstops. They have always seemed so frantic and out of control.

Its nuts and really tight!! Too bad the last round of green flag stops was side by side with ads. Last dig at NBC tonight...

**Adam43** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:44 (Ref:3980629)

Blast. All got too busy for him.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Jun 2020, 01:45 (Ref:3980630)

Lapped traffic has been very tough tonight.

**Adam43** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:45 (Ref:3980631)

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Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Its nuts and really tight!! Too bad the last round of green flag stops was side by side with ads. Last dig at NBC tonight...

Bloody awful coverage. It’s not like they make up for it when there aren’t ads!

**bjohnsonsmith** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:46 (Ref:3980632)

Rosenqvist loses it at Turn 2. It looks like Hinchcliffe pushed him up into the grey and into the wall.

**joeb** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:48 (Ref:3980633)

Does live timing exist on the indycar website? I can't find it.

NM, found it, but the link was hard for me for some reason. It has been a long day.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Jun 2020, 01:51 (Ref:3980634)

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Rosenqvist loses it at Turn 2. It looks like Hinchcliffe pushed him up into the grey and into the wall.

Green flag stops with 15 left made it jumbled as hell. Marco played a part, too. A single grove on a high bank track makes it tough to pass and to hide but seems like the others racing for a spot in the teens jumbled it up for Felix a bit unnecessarily but I think it was just racing

**joeb** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:53 (Ref:3980635)

Wow, veach, Daly and Kanaan I'm there top 10!

**bjohnsonsmith** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:53 (Ref:3980636)

Congrats to Dixon, that was a dominant performance. Shame about Rosenqvist, as that would have been a great fight to the finish.

fieldodreams79 · 7 Jun 2020, 01:55 (Ref:3980637)

Not the greatest race but a race it was!! I'll take it!!

**Adam43** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:56 (Ref:3980639)

Yeah, racing. Shame I was rooting for Felix.

These cars look decent from the side. Front on I’m not used to them yet.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 7 Jun 2020, 01:59 (Ref:3980640)

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Not the greatest race but a race it was!! I'll take it!!

I thought it was a good race and I enjoyed the actual racing, it was just that NBC's coverage was pretty dire.

broadrun96 · 7 Jun 2020, 02:25 (Ref:3980641)

I couldn't finish it, between the commercials in worse that ABC times and lack of competition on a super speedway I was bored. The NASCAR imposed compound causing an Indy single line is garbage and they know it at the track but NASCAR demands it. And there's more fans at either Cup race then have been at the last 10 Indycar races sadly so Eddie knows how he gets paid.

RWill2073 · 7 Jun 2020, 04:57 (Ref:3980646)

I'll say this for the commercials. For the majority of them, it was side by side coverage, so you could still see the race. I'll take that at least. Oc course less ads overall would be better, though.

One of the Penskes just barely missed a crew member of another car in the pits.

As for wondering about Penske pit stop mistakes, with power, that seems to happen somewhat often, for some reason.

Dixon is a machine. He's the best out there, without being the fastest, ths best overtaker, or best at any one thing other than fuel save. He's just always there. I have spent years kinda not liking him for some reason unknown to even me, but I'm beginning to appreciate just how amazing he is. It's just annoying, lol.

I hope ganassi does not chew up and spit out rosenqvist for mistakes like tonight. He is really good, but ganassi seems to be in penny pinching mode if someone is either slightly mistake prone or not in contention for the championship. Parking Kanaan unnecessarily comes to mind.... if he does that with rosenqvist, I'll be disappointed. Just like Penske and pagenaud.

Field is so deep, anything in top 14 seems like an accomplishment nowadays.

S griffin · 7 Jun 2020, 07:57 (Ref:3980650)

Well done Dixon. After all these years he's still top dog. Still Felix was a good threat till he crashed, so it should be an interesting season ahead

Armco Bender · 7 Jun 2020, 09:21 (Ref:3980655)

Can't wait for the other Scott from NZ to turn up for a drive.
He should blow the doors off Scotty D....

MagVanisher · 7 Jun 2020, 13:40 (Ref:3980681)

It's nice that Indycar has returned with the first race of the year, so I'm hoping that it'll get better on the next round.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 7 Jun 2020, 13:43 (Ref:3980682)

Result:

All things considered, I don't think that was too bad a start to the season.

1 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara-Honda. 200, 1:38'37.7648
2 Simon Pagenaud, Team Penske. Dallara-Chevrolet. 200, 4.4109
3 Josef Newgarden, Team Penske. Dallara-Chevrolet. 200, 5.8064
4 Zach Veach, Andretti Autosport. Dallara-Honda. 200, 6.5778
5 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara-Chevrolet. 200, 6.9481
6 Conor Daly, Carlin, Dallara-Chevrolet. 200, 7.5762
7 Colton Herta, Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport. Dallara-Honda. 200, 8.0553
8 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport. Dallara-Honda. 200, 8.3105
9 Oliver Askew, Arrow McLaren SPM. Dallara-Chevrolet. 200, 8.6943
10 Tony Kanaan, AJ Foyt Racing. Dallara-Chevrolet. 200, 8.9630
11 Charlie Kimball, AJ Foyt Racing. Dallara-Chevrolet. 199
12 Patricio O'Ward, Arrow McLaren SPM. Dallara-Chevrolet. 199
13 Will Power, Team Penske. Dallara-Chevrolet. 199
14 Marco Andretti, Andretti Herta with Marco & Curb-Agajanian. Dallara-Honda. 199
15 Alexander Rossi, Andretti Autosport. Dallara-Honda. 199
16 Jack Harvey, Meyer Shank Racing. Dallara-Honda. 199
17 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Dallara-Honda. 198
18 James Hinchcliffe, Andretti Autosport. Dallara-Honda. 198
19 Marcus Ericsson, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara-Honda. 196
20 Felix Rosenqvist, Chip Ganassi Racing. Dallara-Honda. 190
21 Santino Ferrucci, Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan. Dallara-Honda. 156
22 Rinus VeeKay, Ed Carpenter Racing. Dallara-Chevrolet. 36
23 Alex Palou, Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh. Dallara-Honda. 36
DNS Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Dallara-Honda.

BudLightJaguar · 7 Jun 2020, 14:54 (Ref:3980690)

Quite a dull race but better than nothing. Aeroscreen didn't bother me.

Formulahistory · 7 Jun 2020, 15:21 (Ref:3980693)

boring race, unfortunately. Seems that cars have problem with overtaking.

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