Foytility Day One.

[devilmaster]

As a promise to pchall - who's probably at this moment drinkin German beer, is cuddled up to some braumistress and wearing leiderhosen..... We bring you foytility!

In session at the moment......


Pos Driver Diff Best Time Best Speed Best Lap Last Time Last Speed Last Lap C/E/T Status
1 Townsend Bell (90) ... 40.6539 221.381 25 1:05.3909 137.634 37 P/H/F
2 Michael Andretti (1) 0.0104 40.6643 221.324 8 1:06.9006 134.528 38 D/H/F Pit
3 Marco Andretti (26) 0.1237 40.7776 220.709 21 1:03.7530 141.170 42 D/H/F Pit
4 PJ Chesson (91) 0.8302 41.4841 216.951 6 45.7164 196.866 21 D/H/F Pit
5 Al Unser Jr (31) 0.9958 41.6497 216.088 14 41.7034 215.810 34 D/H/F Pit
6 Thiago Medeiros (18) 1.2670 41.9209 214.690 56 42.4623 211.953 66 P/H/F Pit
7 Arie Luyendyk Jr (61) 1.2921 41.9460 214.562 39 42.2125 213.207 47 P/H/F Pit
8 Larry Foyt (41) 2.8443 43.4982 206.905 14 81:25.4110 1.842 16 P/H/F

Is Larry using his stock car? :confused:

[Don Quixote]

15 mph off the pace. That's par for Larry!

[Wheel-Nut]

He has lots of wing dialed in. He doesn't want to wad one up on the first day!

[NismoZ]

So, in an hour he's only lapped 6 times? That's not too bad.

[gerhard911]

At least they are being honest about the quality of drivers in this year's Farce 500... "Pos Driver" :p :laugh:

[Don Quixote]

Also, note that Chesson is in the top half of the field. I'm guessing we will not see that again for a long time.

[NismoZ]

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[Michaelhatesfans]

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[pchall]

As a promise to pchall - who's probably at this moment drinkin German beer, is cuddled up to some braumistress and wearing leiderhosen..... We bring you foytility!


Is Larry using his stock car? :confused:


Hey, Steve! Lots of beer, good looking German women, but NO LEDERHOSEN! :rolleyes: Watch out for Paulaner Salvator -- a dark beer from Munich with 8% alcohol. ;)

Nice to see that it still sucks to be Foyt and that Buddy Rice is still in love with the Turn 2 wall. The teams with the old ILR Panoz seem to be out of luck and Danicamania must be on the wane...

[FanofMario]

It appears that this rainy May is to be another call for Captain Liverspots and some Ham named Hornish. :gomer:

[pchall]

It still sucks to be Foyt when...

28 Larry Foyt (41) 216.261 D/H/F
29 Marty Roth (25) 211.855 D/H/F
30 Jaques Lazier (21) 210.521 P/H/F
31 Jon Herb (12) 204.104 P/H/F

... on the final day of practice only three cars are slower and two of them are Panoz chassis while the third is driven by Marty Roth!

Update:

25 Jaques Lazier (21) 217.990 P/H/F

Ouch! Jaques must be as special as his brother to make that Panoz go faster. ;)

[trauma1]

31 Jon Herb (12) 204.104 P/H/F
not good 28 mph slower than pole this guy will hurt someone if they let these speeds in, but nothing is surprising with EARL

[KLang]

Not that I really care but, Only 31 cars?

[pchall]

Not that I really care but, Only 31 cars?

Neither Penske entry had turned a lap today when I posted those Futile times.

[Fio1]

Herb is out of the #12 car, replaced by Roger Yasukawa, who after a dozen laps turned laps 10 mph faster then Jon Herb.

Jon Herb after Yasukawa came into the pits after his run, "you mean to tell me that Turn 1 is not a second gear corner." j/k :rofl:

[Racing Truth]

Herb is out of the #12 car, replaced by Roger Yasukawa, who after a dozen laps turned laps 10 mph faster then Jon Herb.

Jon Herb after Yasukawa came into the pits after his run, "you mean to tell me that Turn 1 is not a second gear corner." j/k :rofl:

LOL :laugh: Mercy killing #1. Hopefully, Arie "I'll explore every inch of every turn" Jr. will, in some way, be #2.

[dando]

... on the final day of practice only three cars are slower and two of them are Panoz chassis while the third is driven by Marty Roth!

But he's still aiming for the front row....not sure if that means he hopes to qualify in the front row, or if he thinks he can launch himself and hit the front row. :gomer:

-Kevin

[cart7]

LOL :laugh: Mercy killing #1. Hopefully, Arie "I'll explore every inch of every turn" Jr. will, in some way, be #2.

I understand Arie Sr. was seen over at Meijer's dumping his quarter jar into the change machine so the team could purchase the parts to fix Jr.'s car in time for his next 180mph bobble. :gomer:

[pchall]

25 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 40.9988 219.519 62 81
26 97 Gregoire, Stephan P/H/F 41.1204 218.869 31 34
27 88 Dare, Airton P/H/F 41.1221 218.860 61 61
28 31 Unser Jr, Al D/H/F 41.1601 218.658 54 71
29 12 Yasukawa, Roger P/H/F 41.1964 218.466 40 40
30 41 Foyt, Larry D/H/F 41.2252 218.313 54 55
31 25 Roth, Marty D/H/F 41.7056 215.798 80 80
32 61 Luyendyk Jr, Arie P/H/F 42.9640 209.478 9 18
33 12 Herb, Jon P/H/F 44.0951 204.104 14 14
34 98 Jones, PJ P/H/F 46.2382 194.644 10 13

Larry Futyle has the 12 draw and Flip Giaffone 46. Maybe the little Grundig will pull in WIBC tomorrow while I take the chainsaw up the hill and clear some branches downed in Thursday's storm. I could catch some Futility Live. :gomer:

More tomorrow. Same Foyt thread, same Foyt futility.

[Jervis Tetch 1]

I just hope this idiot doesn't get hurt or worse, hurt somebody else.

[dando]

Apparently the Gomers dint pay the bill for their server hosting, as the site ain't responding. Either that or the Byrd family is handling the Web site as well as the buffet. :gomer:

I guess we'll hafta wait until later to get all the Foytility details.

-Kevin

[dando]

And it would appear that the field is now full. No more qualification attempts needed, please. :gomer:

Pos Driver Diff Best Time Best Speed C/E/T
1 Sam Hornish Jr (6) ... 39.1311 229.996 D/H/F
2 Helio Castroneves (3T) 0.198 39.3291 228.838 D/H/F
3 Scott Dixon (9) 0.3267 39.4578 228.092 D/H/F
4 Dan Wheldon (10) 0.3279 39.459 228.085 D/H/F
5 Tony Kanaan (11) 0.4655 39.5966 227.292 D/H/F
6 Vitor Meira (4T) 0.5019 39.633 227.083 D/H/F
7 Tomas Scheckter (2) 0.5479 39.679 226.82 D/H/F
8 Townsend Bell (90) 0.5949 39.726 226.552 D/H/F
9 Marco Andretti (26) 0.6268 39.7579 226.37 D/H/F
10 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 0.6638 39.7949 226.16 D/H/F
11 Bryan Herta (7) 0.6981 39.8292 225.965 D/H/F
12 Scott Sharp (8) 0.7469 39.878 225.688 D/H/F
13 Dario Franchitti (27) 0.8053 39.9364 225.358 D/H/F
14 Ed Carpenter (20) 0.8342 39.9653 225.195 D/H/F
15 Danica Patrick (16T) 0.9079 40.039 224.781 P/H/F
16 Michael Andretti (1) 0.9361 40.0672 224.623 D/H/F
17 Buddy Rice (15T) 0.9593 40.0904 224.493 P/H/F
18 Max Papis (52) 1.1609 40.292 223.369 D/H/F
19 Eddie Cheever Jr (51) 1.2146 40.3457 223.072 D/H/F
20 Jeff Bucknum (92) 1.3551 40.4862 222.298 D/H/F
21 Buddy Lazier (5) 1.3903 40.5214 222.105 D/H/F
22 Larry Foyt (41) 1.4034 40.5345 222.033 D/H/F
23 PJ Chesson (91) 1.405 40.5361 222.024 D/H/F
24 Felipe Giaffone (14) 1.4312 40.5623 221.881 D/H/F
25 Jaques Lazier (21) 1.4388 40.5699 221.839 P/H/F
26 Jeff Simmons (17T) 1.5656 40.6967 221.148 P/H/F
27 Airton Dare (88) 1.5789 40.71 221.076 P/H/F
28 Roger Yasukawa (12) 1.6497 40.7808 220.692 P/H/F
29 Al Unser Jr (31) 1.8668 40.9979 219.523 D/H/F
30 Marty Roth (25) 1.963 41.0941 219.01 D/H/F
31 Stephan Gregoire (97) 1.9631 41.0942 219.009 P/H/F
32 PJ Jones (98) 2.4907 41.6218 216.233 P/H/F
33 Arie Luyendyk Jr (61) 2.5151 41.6462 216.106 P/H/F


Special Ed ahead of the Danicle and Whinedretti?!? :eek: :laugh:

-Kevin

[DagoFast]

Special Ed ahead of the Danicle and Whinedretti?!? :eek: :laugh:

-Kevin

:gomer: Mikey said it was a deeeep field! :gomer:

[dando]

Well, one T&S source shows Roth in 30th, but another doesn't have him listed. :confused:

-Kevin

[Mike Kellner]

Realize what the grid is telling us....

There are 11 drivers in the race who are worse than Larry Foyt. :laugh:

No wonder The Great Gomer made it rain all month. He wanted to make sure there were enough cars left to have a full field.

Does anyone remember the start of the 82 500? AJ was ranting on about how Kevin Cogan wasn't qualified to be in an IndyCar. Does anyone think Larry is as good a driver as Kevin?

Is it just me, or does it seem to others that the backmarkers start in row 3 this year?

mk

[dando]

Is it just me, or does it seem to others that the backmarkers start in row 3 this year?

mk
No doubt. This has the potential to be a classic race start. :shakehead

-Kevin

[dando]

Holy drama, Batman! One spot still open! Two drivers yet to qualify! iNdy....weEE nOSe dRammA!!!!111!!1 :gomer:

Or FTG's new vision...because it goes to 33! :gomer:

-Kevin

[Wheel-Nut]

I read this on Foyt's racing site.

In the race, it became obvious that things weren't going to get any better so I pulled Larry in and focused on Felipe. I knew we were in trouble but I thought we could work our way out of it. I was wrong. He made 11 pit stops and was fixing to make his 12th when he brushed the wall with ten laps to go.

Why pull in the the namesake and leave the hired hand out?

[Spicoli]

I read this on Foyt's racing site.

In the race, it became obvious that things weren't going to get any better so I pulled Larry in and focused on Felipe. I knew we were in trouble but I thought we could work our way out of it. I was wrong. He made 11 pit stops and was fixing to make his 12th when he brushed the wall with ten laps to go.

Why pull in the the namesake and leave the hired hand out?


Because Larry sucks more.

[devilmaster]

Because Larry sucks more.

And the less consumables you use, the more you get to keep from Tony's handout.....

[Wheel-Nut]

One more question.

Does "handling" in earl speak mean "your too slow, get the hell off the track?"

21 Felipe Giaffone 14 23 laps 42.0505 214.028 177 D/H/F Pit
22 Townsend Bell 90 39 laps 40.9457 219.803 161 D/H/F Suspension
23 Jeff Simmons 17 48 laps 41.2935 217.952 152 P/H/F Accident
24 Al Unser Jr. 31 55 laps 41.49 216.92 145 D/H/F Accident
25 Helio Castroneves 3 91 laps 40.8461 220.339 109 D/H/F Accident
26 Buddy Rice 15 92 laps 41.127 218.834 108 P/H/F Accident
27 Tomas Scheckter 2 135 laps 41.2101 218.393 65 D/H/F Accident
28 Arie Luyendyk Jr. 61 146 laps 42.9311 209.638 54 P/H/F Handling
29 Stephan Gregoire 97 151 laps 43.2512 208.087 49 P/H/F Handling
30 Larry Foyt 41 157 laps 43.4399 207.183 43 D/H/F Handling
31 Thiago Medeiros 18 176 laps 43.3282 207.717 24 P/H/F Electrical
32 Jeff Bucknum 92 199 laps 47.7345 188.543 1 D/H/F Accident
33 P.J. Chesson 91 1.0216 48.7473 184.626 1 D/H/F Accident

[gjc2]

One more question.

Does "handling" in earl speak mean "your too slow, get the hell off the track?"

I'm sure that's what it means. They have to list a reason for retirement rather than say "to slow" they say "handling."

Back in the days of the Buick stock blocks they had a few cases of connecting rods coming out through the side of the engine block and severing a wiring harness, they listed the cause of retirement as "electrical"

[Lizzerd]

I'm sure that's what it means. They have to list a reason for retirement rather than say "to slow" they say "handling."

Back in the days of the Buick stock blocks they had a few cases of connecting rods coming out through the side of the engine block and severing a wiring harness, they listed the cause of retirement as "electrical"

I remember that. Back then, I had a customer (can't remember who, but they were either in Auburn or Ft. Wayne, I want to say Magnavox for some reason) that designed the ignition system for those Buicks. I was actually a Field Applications Engineer with a couple design-ins there, not a salesman. Anyway, he and I were talking during my next visit after the race, late '80's, and he said he about crapped when he heard that it was an electrical failure that took whoever it was out of the race. He had since learned that it was actually a grenade situation, and he could breathe easier.