The Foyt Futility Watch -- St. Petersburg Edition

[pchall]

The IRL is street racing on April Fool's Day!

For Jack Arute's benefit, let's review the major stories for the weekend:

• Sarah Fisher's NASCAR West road racing experience makes her a contender
• Kia is negotiating to supply engines to the IRL in 2008
• Marty Roth is the greatest Canadian Indycar driver since Scott Goodyear
• Helio Castro-Neves is engaged to be married
• Craftsman supplies Foyt with special metric 3 kg. lead mallet for road racing

The Futility begins at 10:40 am ET. Enjoy!

[extramundane]

1 Scott Dixon (9) 1:03.5815
--
#6-P2 (Porsche RS Spyder) Sascha Maassen 1:05.331
#7-P2 (Porsche RS Spyder) Romain Dumas 1:05.356
--
13 Danica Patrick (7) 1:05.7765
16 A J Foyt IV (22) 1:06.2354
17 Ed Carpenter (20) 1:06.5140
18 Sarah Fisher (5) 1:06.9481

[pchall]

1 Scott Dixon (9) 1:03.5815
--
#6-P2 (Porsche RS Spyder) Sascha Maassen 1:05.331
#7-P2 (Porsche RS Spyder) Romain Dumas 1:05.356
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13 Danica Patrick (7) 1:05.7765
16 A J Foyt IV (22) 1:06.2354
17 Ed Carpenter (20) 1:06.5140
18 Sarah Fisher (5) 1:06.9481

:rofl: That's the Futility Watch Spirit!

With an half an hour or so left in first practice everybody sucks as usual. Manning must be credited with a very stiff upper lip in a very British way as he struggles to keep a Foytmobile in the top ten.

9 Darren Manning (14) 1.4067 1:04.4688 100.514
10 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 1.5959 1:04.6580 100.220
11 Dan Wheldon (10) 1.6275 1:04.6896 100.171
12 Marco Andretti (26) 1.7835 1:04.8456 99.930
13 Scott Sharp (8) 2.0811 1:05.1432 99.473
14 Danica Patrick (7) 2.4014 1:05.4635 98.986
15 Jeff Simmons (17) 2.6144 1:05.6765 98.665
16 A J Foyt IV (22) 3.1733 1:06.2354 97.833
17 Ed Carpenter (20) 3.4519 1:06.5140 97.423
18 Sarah Fisher (5) 3.8860 1:06.9481 96.791

[rosawendel]

for those keeping score at home:

IRL car (curb wt. 1550lbs): 1:03.5815

Porsche spyder (curb wt. 1708lbs): 1:05.331
Audi R10 (curb wt. 2,039lbs): 1:07.006

IRL car weight from CART website http://www.champcarworldseries.com/Tech/Car_Comparisons.asp - couldn't find weight specs on irl page. does not include fuel
ALMS from ACO specs http://www.lemans.org/sport/sport/reglements/ressources/auto_2007/regl_2007_prototype_ACO_fr_gb.pdf - includes all fluids

[pchall]

Ten minutes left and Tony Kanaan is getting his nose down to work and looking for something better thatn 1:03.2.

In 2003 Seabass qualified at 1:00.9.

Even though the course was slightly reconfigured for the crapwagons...

[pchall]

Ten minutes left and Tony Kanaan is getting his nose down to work and looking for something better than 1:03.2.

In 2003 Seabass qualified at 1:00.9.

Even though the course was slightly reconfigure for the crapwagons...

[Chief]

It's great to have Miss Piggy back, DFL.

Ed Crapenter YOU SUCK.

AJIV, please this guy blows so bad Moptop is kicking his *** in FOYT equipment.


Looks like an indirect result of the IRL creation was to show how good Brazilians are and how hand picked female American PR puppets (AJIV, Special ED, Mrs. Hospenthal, and Mrs. Piggy all included) SUCK. Talk about KILLING American interest in open wheel in this country.....good Job ToNy, you killed two bird with one vision! :(

[pchall]

Practice 1 Results

1 Scott Dixon (9) ... 1:02.347 103.933
2 Tony Kanaan (11) 0.7143 1:03.0621 102.756
3 Dario Franchitti (27) 0.7686 1:03.1164 102.667
4 Sam Hornish Jr (6) 0.7844 1:03.1322 102.642
5 Helio Castroneves (3) 0.8024 1:03.1502 102.613
6 Darren Manning (14) 0.8738 1:03.2216 102.497
7 Dan Wheldon (10) 1.0006 1:03.3484 102.291
8 Marco Andretti (26) 1.2744 1:03.6222 101.851
9 Tomas Scheckter (2) 1.4029 1:03.7507 101.646
10 Vitor Meira (4) 1.4342 1:03.7820 101.59
11 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 1.6336 1:03.9814 101.279
12 Danica Patrick (7) 1.7397 1:04.0875 101.11213
13 Jeff Simmons (17) 1.7970 1:04.1448 101.021
14 Scott Sharp (8) 1.8513 1:04.1991 100.936
15 Buddy Rice (15) 2.0851 1:04.4329 100.570
16 Ed Carpenter (20) 2.6760 1:05.0238 99.656
17 A J Foyt IV (22) 3.8876 1:06.2354 97.833
18 Sarah Fisher (5) 4.4399 1:06.7877 97.024

[Wheel-Nut]

It's great to have Miss Piggy back, DFL.

Ed Crapenter YOU SUCK.

AJIV, please this guy blows so bad Moptop is kicking his *** in FOYT equipment.

Quickly scanning the commentary she had 3 off course excursions for 3 full course yellows.

[G.]

Nobody will show up to watch anyway.



ST. PETERSBURG - A truck driver hauling diesel fuel to Sarasota apparently took the wrong exit Wednesday night before crashing into a wall on the ramp to Interstate 375, igniting an explosion that turned the sky purple and rained fire 30 feet below.

Ronald Kennedy, 47, was ferrying 12,000 gallons of fuel southbound on I-275. About 10:40 p.m., he entered the ramp to I-375, which would have taken him to downtown St. Petersburg, according to Fire & Rescue Chief Jim Large.



bad crash affects traffic to track (http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/30/Southpinellas/Driver_s_wrong_turn_l.shtml)

Real shame about the truck driver.:(

[pchall]

bad crash affects traffic to track (http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/30/Southpinellas/Driver_s_wrong_turn_l.shtml)

Real shame about the truck driver.:(

Yes. :(

But that newswriter is IRL capable, having buried the fatality in 'graph 7. :flame:

And the IRL has their attendence excuse for 2007.

[extramundane]

McNish cranked off a 1:04.094 in the Audi, a mere .007 seconds off the blistering pace set by Teh Danicle. :rofl:

[dando]

Lost in all of this is that Sham is in 4th? :eek: Does the rest of the field suck THAT much? :gomer:

-Kevin

[BobN]

McNish cranked off a 1:04.094 in the Audi, a mere .007 seconds off the blistering pace set by Teh Danicle. :rofl:

Dumas (in a P2) at 1:13.039!!!:eek:

[Wheel-Nut]

Lost in all of this is that Sham is in 4th? :eek: Does the rest of the field suck THAT much? :gomer:

-Kevin


Traction control.

[rabbit]

traction control,,,,,,,
Fixed it. :p

[Chief]

PATHETICA!

[pchall]

PATHETICA!

:rofl: I owe you a yet another six of Twelve Horse for that laugh. ;)

[Jervis Tetch 1]

Lost in all of this is that Sham is in 4th? :eek: Does the rest of the field suck THAT much? :gomer:

-KevinSham doubled that. He's 8th now.

[Opposite Lock]

Foyt. Carpenter. Vision.

:rofl:

[formulaben]

Foyt. Carpenter. Vision.

:rofl:

How appropo. :shakehead

[Spicoli]

Foyt. Carpenter. Vision.

:rofl:


just wait till Mrs. Chabbez shows up. :p

[Don Quixote]

I see that the princess finished behind all three of her teammates. That will be a recurring theme.

[Methanolandbrats]

Somehow, a heavy impact with a wall, a big fireball and carnage seem appropriate for an IRL race. It's sad it was a civilian this time :(

[stroker]

I see that the princess finished behind all three of her teammates. That will be a recurring theme.

and you could well ask what might have happened if Dashley and TK had not tangled on the first lap. Dashley made a lap back and still finished ahead of her.