"The Watch" continues....

[IlliniRacer]

1st Practice
Rank Car Driver C/E/T Time
1 3 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 01: 30.9112
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17 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 01: 35.1044
18 51 Cheever Jr, Eddie D/H/F 01: 35.1132
19 20 Carpenter, Ed D/H/F 01: 35.8856

[pchall]

Practice 1 Results

Rank Car Driver C/E/T Speed Best Lap Total Laps Time

1 3 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 133.449 19 19 01:30.9112 :
2 11 Kanaan, Tony D/H/F 132.919 22 22 01:31.2734 :
3 9 Dixon, Scott P/H/F 132.307 30 30 01:31.6956 :
4 6 Hornish Jr, Sam D/H/F 132.090 20 30 01:31.8463 :
5 27 Franchitti, Dario D/H/F 132.061 14 25 01:31.8669 :
6 26 Andretti, Marco D/H/F 131.235 14 25 01:32.4445 :
7 15 Rice, Buddy P/H/F 130.878 33 33 01:32.6968 :
8 7 Herta, Bryan D/H/F 130.806 26 26 01:32.7477 :
9 10 Wheldon, Dan P/H/F 130.420 13 29 01:33.0226 :
10 5 Briscoe, Ryan D/H/F 130.174 27 28 01:33.1985 :
11 4 Meira, Vitor D/H/F 130.059 28 33 01:33.2805 :
12 17 Simmons, Jeff P/H/F 129.830 30 35 01:33.4455 :
13 55 Matsuura, Kosuke D/H/F 129.569 20 26 01:33.6336 :
14 8 Sharp, Scott P/H/F 129.516 24 28 01:33.6719 :
15 16 Patrick, Danica P/H/F 129.236 32 33 01:33.8748 :
16 2 Scheckter, Tomas D/H/F 129.021 23 28 01:34.0311 :
17 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 127.565 26 28 01:35.1044 :
18 51 Cheever Jr, Eddie D/H/F 127.553 35 35 01:35.1132 :
19 20 Carpenter, Ed D/H/F 126.526 25 26 01:35.8856 :

Larry stays parked.
The #14 car still sucks.
Mr. Ed should stay in the barn.

Nothing new, even the continuing degradation of whatever roadracing skills the Princess every had...

[chop456]

Cheever. Redefining the Peter principle since the early 80's. :laugh:

[Andrew Longman]

They are listing speed not time on the charts? Even on a road course? How is that useful? :rolleyes:

Parking Larry makes sense. Practice won't help. AJ can put him in the back of the grid, run him a few laps until they agree they can't get the car to handle (or can't handle the turns), park it and collect last place prize money. If he feels brave and a little more greedy maybe he waits until a few cars drop out so he gets more than the last place money.

What's DPs excuse? The Panoz should not be a disadvantage on a road course. Dixon is p3

[dando]

They are listing speed not time on the charts? Even on a road course? How is that useful? :rolleyes:


The time is listed:


Rank Car Driver C/E/T Speed Best Lap Total Laps Time

-Kevin

[Andrew Longman]

The time is listed:



-Kevin

doyh! :gomer:

[Car-B-Q]

I see Brisco County is trying to regain his prior earl greatness. :shakehead

[Jervis Tetch 1]

I see Brisco County is trying to regain his prior earl greatness. :shakeheadIt's better than Buddy Lazier trying to beat out Foyt for DFL.

[pchall]

Friday Practice 2

Cheever outspeeds Patrick! Carpenter slips past Giaffone!


16 51 Cheever Jr, Eddie D/H/F 128.827 13 13 01:34.1726 :
17 16 Patrick, Danica P/H/F 127.639 4 11 01:35.0493 :
18 20 Carpenter, Ed D/H/F 127.602 10 11 01:35.0767 :
19 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 127.540 9 10 01:35.1233 :

Quals scrubbed!

Grid to be set from combined practice times.

[pchall]

An interesting observation: in 2006 it sucks to have a Panoz unless you're on a road course. And then there's the Princess Factor...


4 9 Dixon, Scott P/H/F 132.973 01:31.2363

17 16 Patrick, Danica P/H/F 127.639 01:35.0493

[Joelski]

http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/shaving-beaver-710312.jpg

[pchall]

Wet Warm Up at Watkins Glen

Cheever is eating grass in Turn 9 like a horse/
Flip Giaffone and Mr. Ed are slowest, of course.

Flight conditions at Elmira:

Aviation Flight Rule: MVFR (KELM)
Wind Speed: 8 mph / 13 km/h
Wind Dir: 20° (NNE)
Ceiling: 1900 ft / 579 m

Just in case. ;)

This might be the weekend the IRL really takes off! :gomer:

[Fio1]

A wet race will be fun to watch, too bad they couldn't get the 33 'best drivers in the world' to show up. :rofl: It would be like watching jc france racing in the wet in grand-am but with more damage....

[pchall]

Flip and Mr. Ed still on track after 46 of 60 laps!

Attrition will guarantee them Top 10 finishes if they don't screw up.

Kanaan and Herta just gave Flip a couple more places. We might be looking at a podium if the wrecking' continues!

BTW, the race looks like an underpopulated Formula Vee event. :shakehead

[pchall]

Giaffone and Carpenter finish 5th and 6th! :eek:

[rabbit]

Giaffone and Carpenter finish 5th and 6th! :eek:
Congratulations to them and all the other drivers who didn't **** up today. :gomer:

[coolhand]

Giafone held of that Penske car. He is nto a bad driver, he just drives for foyt too much.