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Round 9: Firestone 600, Texas Motor Speedway, 5th - 6th June, 2015.
Round 9: Firestone 600, Texas Motor Speedway, 5th - 6th June, 2015.
On June 7th 1997, the Indy Racing League held the "1997 True Value 500", the 6th round of the fledgling series at the Texas Motor Speedway, or TMS. It was the first night race in the history of American Open Wheel Racing and was won by Arie Luyendyk, driving a Panoz G-Force-Oldsmobile for Treadway Racing. Since then it has been a perennial event on the IndyCar series calendar. From 1998-2004, the track hosted a second race in October and in 2007, the race distance was increased from 500 to 550 km. In 2011, the 'Firestone Twin 275s' were held, made up of two 275km races, separated by a "halftime", with half points awarded for each race. The grid for the second race was decided by a random draw, which proved so unpopular the twin race format was scrapped for 2012. In 2014, the race was further extended to 600 kilometers. In 2001, CART scheduled the "Firestone Firehawk 600" at TMS for April 29th but after practice and qualifying, the race was cancelled as most drivers reported vertigo like symptoms and vision problems, after sustaining high lateral forces of 5.5G, due to driving in excess of 230 mph or 370 km/h on the 24 degree banking. TMS sued CART, after it emerged CART officials had ignored repeated requests to test their cars before the race. This resulted in a settlement estimated to have been around $5–7 million, which CART paid to TMS. Many pundits have cited the law suit and settlement as a key reason for CART's eventual demise. The introduction of aero-kits this season has not been without its problems, particularly with cars taking off during accidents, which happened in practice at the Indy 500. Modifications have been made to the aero-kits to prevent this happening at Superspeedways. However, with the increase in downforce generated by the aero-kits, will track speeds increase sufficiently with a recurrence of the problems faced by drivers in the 2001 CART "Firestone Firehawk 600"? Some Trivia: The driver with the most wins is Hélio Castroneves: 2004, 2006, 2009, 2013. The team with the most wins is Team Penske: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013. Track Layout: Length: 1.5 mi (2.4 km) Turns: 4 Lap record: April 28 2001. Paul Tracy, 0:22.542, 239.552 mph-385.521 kmh. Team Green, Reynard 01i-Honda HR-1 V8t, CART FedEx Championship Series. Last year's winner: Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing, Dallara DW12-Chevrolet. Laps: 248 Distance: 372 Mi-598.676 Km. Time: 2:01:25.5758. Average speed: 178.301 Mph-286.947 kmh. TV Coverage: NBCSN Green flag at 8:00pm ET. Last edited by bjohnsonsmith; 5 Jun 2015 at 15:30. |
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Briscoe, Mann and Vautier are added to the Texas entry list.
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The race is on NBC Sports Network.
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Why on earth Youtube Live has those awful graphics?
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IndyCar are streaming qualifying at 4:15 pm ET.
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I might be, being all "health & safety" here but is it wise to have so many cars, people & equipment on pitlane during qualifying?
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Starting grid:
1 Will Power Dallara-Chevrolet 47.9140 218.519 MPH 2 Simon Pagenaud Dallara-Chevrolet 47.9580 218.441 MPH 3 Helio Castroneves Dallara-Chevrolet 48.0398 218.069 MPH 4 Carlos Munoz Dallara-Honda 48.0923 217.831 MPH 5 Juan Pablo Montoya Dallara-Chevrolet 48.1589 217.530 MPH 6 Graham Rahal Dallara-Honda 48.1792 217.438 MPH 7 Scott Dixon Dallara-Chevrolet 48.1853 217.411 MPH 8 Tony Kanaan Dallara-Chevrolet 48.2016 217.337 MPH 9 Charlie Kimball Dallara-Chevrolet 48.2047 217.323 MPH 10 Sage Karam(R) Dallara-Chevrolet 48.2942 216.920 MPH 11 Marco Andretti Dallara-Honda 48.3042 216.876 MPH 12 James Jakes Dallara-Honda 48.3067 216.864 MPH 13 Takuma Sato Dallara-Honda 48.3465 216.686 MPH 14 Josef Newgarden Dallara-Chevrolet 48.4530 216.210 MPH 15 Ed Carpenter Dallara-Chevrolet 48.4558 216.197 MPH 16 Tristan Vautier Dallara-Honda 48.5160 215.929 MPH 17 Jack Hawksworth Dallara-Honda 48.5853 215.621 MPH 18 Sebastien Bourdais Dallara-Chevrolet 48.6569 215.303 MPH 19 Ryan Briscoe Dallara-Honda 48.6888 215.162 MPH 20 Gabby Chaves (R) Dallara-Honda 48.6926 215.146 MPH 21 Ryan Hunter-Reay Honda 48.7198 215.026 MPH 22 Pippa Mann Dallara-Honda 48.8041 214.654 MPH 23 Stefano Coletti(R) Dallara-Chevrolet 49.4315 211.930 MPH |
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Not a greatt crowd, most of the spectators are in the central section of the main stand.
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The start's been waved off but they go again and it's a clean start.
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Huh? Yellow for "track inspection". Sounds like NASCAR-like BS to me.
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The first yellow of the race but no indication as to why.
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I am sure no answers will be forthcoming. It said "track inspection" in the commentary notes at the top of the Timing & Scoring screen - that's the only mention of any reason I found. Certainly the announcers have said nothing - unless I missed it.
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I didn't hear them say why.
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Kanaan just flew past to take the lead from Montoya.
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It's been a great race so far, except that pointless NASCAR yellow. No take-offs or flying debris this time.
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Wow, both CFH cars out with unidentified drive/engine issues.
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Again, a close call at the pit lane.
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Congrats to Dixon. What an interesting race. Not one major incident, except for that phoney yellow.
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http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...otor-speedway/
There was debris on the frontstretch (probably a piece of someone's bodywork). |
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