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pchall
06-30-06, 02:54 PM
Enjoy your picnic sammiches, AJ, but hold the mayo and please stay away from the potato salad. The local weather forecast:

Saturday
94° F | 73° F
34° C | 23° C
[Partly Cloudy]

Sunday
93° F | 70° F
34° C | 21° C
[Partly Cloudy]

No need for those those rain tires, Vitor!

http://www.indycar.com/news/2006/kansas/images/ethanol-300-06302006.jpg

Or is that just some of your leftover hand cut rubber from those dirt tracking days in SudAm F3? Meira was there for the KC school district Alternate Career Day program demonstrating one of the many opportunities available in delivering ethanol fuel to hurried Kansas commuters. Oh, and please note Jeff Simmons sitting there imagining being a bus driver.

The IRL was involved in ethanol consumption promotions in Kansas City as well.

http://store.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/images/products/large/3821007000.jpg

A must have for corn fueled advocates everywhere! Available from the Brickyard Authentics Online Store for only ¥687 (that's US $6.00 for those Greensburg, IN residents just learning to bring the right currency).

Stay tuned for more news from the KC Heatstroke Lottery 300 as it develops.

Weekend Schedule (all times Local Time):
Practice 1 Sat, 1 Jul @ 8 a.m.
Practice 2 Sat, 1 Jul @ 10:15 a.m.
Qualifying Sat, 1 Jul @ 12:45 p.m.
Final Practice Sun, 2 Jul @ 8:15 a.m.
Race Sun, 2 Jul @ 12:15 p.m.

pchall
07-01-06, 11:26 AM
Practice 1 Results

1 10 Wheldon, Dan D/H/F 25.7194 212.758

19 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 26.4368 206.984


Sammich and Flip must not be early birds.

pchall
07-01-06, 01:00 PM
Foyt Racing is just sandbagging it in practice and saving the nitrous bottle for quals. ;)


Practice 2 Results

16 Danica Patrick (16) 26.1366 209.362
17 Jeff Simmons (17) 26.1578 209.192
18 Ed Carpenter (20) 26.2218 208.681
19 Felipe Giaffone (14) 26.3571 207.610

SurfaceUnits
07-01-06, 01:17 PM
Danicle must be preparing for her next photo shoot to concern herself with driving :laugh:

pchall
07-01-06, 02:34 PM
Flip presses the button and outqualifies Cheever! :rofl:

Qualifying Results

1 Dan Wheldon (10) ... 25.6257 213.536

12 Danica Patrick (16) 26.1199 209.495

16 Ed Carpenter (20) 26.2284 208.629
17 Jeff Simmons (17) 26.2300 208.616
18 Felipe Giaffone (14) 26.3825 207.410
19 Eddie Cheever Jr (51) 26.4321 207.021

pchall
07-02-06, 03:09 PM
Futility Amplified!

Why does old AJ even bother? :rolleyes:

1 Sam Hornish Jr (6) 200
2 Dan Wheldon (10) 200
3 Vitor Meira (4) 200
4 Scott Dixon (9) 200
5 Tony Kanaan (11) 200
6 Helio Castroneves (3) 200
7 Tomas Scheckter (2) 200
8 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 200
9 Marco Andretti (26) 199
10 Jeff Simmons (17) 199
11 Danica Patrick (16) 198
12 Dario Franchitti (27) 198
13 Bryan Herta (7) 197
14 Eddie Cheever Jr (51) 196
15 Buddy Lazier (5) 194
16 Ed Carpenter (20) 184
17 Buddy Rice (15) 175 Accident
18 Scott Sharp (8) 35 165 Accident
19 Felipe Giaffone (14) 66 Mechanical

I caught the end of the race and it boiled down to Hornish holding the inside line and occasionally just going wide enough to keep Wheldon from keeping his momentum up on the outside. All this in front of a crowd nearly as thin as Bobby Rahal's hair. ;)