The Foyt Futility Watch -- Richmond Edition

[pchall]

Can Tex Manning follow up his 5th at Iowa by actually getting a Foyt entry onto the podium at Richmond?


Lovely weather expected. This weekend will have the drivers complaining about their rain tires. Quals and the race will have a 60% chance of rain and temps in the 60s. :tony:


Today
Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning...then numerous showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Not as warm with highs in the upper 80s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Tonight
Mostly cloudy with numerous showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. North winds around 5 mph in the evening... becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Saturday
Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.

Saturday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph in the evening...becoming light and variable.

[extramundane]

Today
Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning...then numerous showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Not as warm with highs in the upper 80s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Tonight
Mostly cloudy with numerous showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. North winds around 5 mph in the evening... becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 60 percent.

They're talking about 1/2-1 inch of rain possible tonight, and the new, sky-high grandstand at RIR is a lightning-magnet.

elECtroCutTIOn amPLIfieD!

[opinionated ow]

They're talking about 1/2-1 inch of rain possible tonight, and the new, sky-high grandstand at RIR is a lightning-magnet.

elECtroCutTIOn amPLIfieD!

pffffft won't be anyone there to get electrocuted.

[eiregosod]

What are the odds for AJ at the steak eatin' contest?

[Wheel-Nut]

Can Tex Manning follow up his 5th at Iowa by actually getting a Foyt entry onto the podium at Richmond?

Only if Danica can take out 1/4 of the field again!

[extramundane]

pffffft won't be anyone there to get electrocuted.

Wrong again. Barely anyone will pay to get in, but Philip Morris HQ will put 15-20K there alone.


What are the odds for AJ at the steak eatin' contest?

As long as he doesn't have to wear a necktie, he's golden.


I always got along with foreign people. And even though I went over there and raced, I just don't like the way they eat and the food they eat. And wearing a necktie at breakfast, that just ain't A.J. Foyt. If I want to eat breakfast, I want to wear a T-shirt. I might have a hot dog, I might have eggs. I don't believe in tuxedos and ties. It's just like putting me in jail when I have one on.

[Andrew Longman]

Milka is supposed to get her own special extra practice session. :rolleyes:

I hope they can fit it in between the rain drops

[eiregosod]

Milka is supposed to get her own special extra practice session. :rolleyes:

I hope they can fit it in between the rain drops

I bet she finishes at the bottom of the time sheets for that session.

[Methanolandbrats]

"""Quote:
Originally Posted by Sammich
I always got along with foreign people. And even though I went over there and raced, I just don't like the way they eat and the food they eat. And wearing a necktie at breakfast, that just ain't A.J. Foyt. If I want to eat breakfast, I want to wear a T-shirt. I might have a hot dog, I might have eggs. I don't believe in tuxedos and ties. It's just like putting me in jail when I have one on. """

Hell, AJ missed his true calling, the diplomatic service. Since he "gets along with foreign people", it's too bad he never learned to talk Jap, Eyetalian or maybe Arab.....the World would probably be a better place. :cry:

[eiregosod]

maybe AJ didn't get "the breakfast of champions " in the furrin' places.

[opinionated ow]

maybe AJ didn't get "the breakfast of champions " in the furrin' places.

they sell Weet-Bix in the USA?:saywhat:

[cameraman]

:rolleyes:


http://www.geocities.com/fredr.geo/foyt.jpg

[Don Quixote]

Duno 6 mph slower than the next to last place in practice 1. :laugh:


1 Dan Wheldon (10) ... 15.6902 172.082 7 23.8305 113.300 67 D/H/F Pit
2 Marco Andretti (26) 0.0146 15.7048 171.922 77 16.6622 162.043 104 D/H/F Pit
3 Sam Hornish Jr (6) 0.0153 15.7055 171.914 11 25.0947 107.592 72 D/H/F Pit
4 Tony Kanaan (11) 0.0156 15.7058 171.911 74 25.3870 106.354 82 D/H/F Pit
5 Dario Franchitti (27) 0.0641 15.7543 171.382 7 22.9978 117.403 43 D/H/F Pit
6 Scott Sharp (8) 0.1111 15.8013 170.872 80 22.9751 117.519 108 D/H/F Pit
7 Danica Patrick (7) 0.1723 15.8625 170.213 45 24.0628 112.206 55 D/H/F Pit
8 Ed Carpenter (20) 0.2308 15.9210 169.587 60 23.0253 117.262 67 D/H/F Pit
9 Scott Dixon (9) 0.2326 15.9228 169.568 16 26.3334 102.531 82 D/H/F Pit
10 Vitor Meira (4) 0.2505 15.9407 169.378 8 16.7022 161.655 35 D/H/F Pit
11 Tomas Scheckter (2) 0.2513 15.9415 169.369 7 26.2389 102.901 100 D/H/F Pit
12 Helio Castroneves (3) 0.2538 15.9440 169.343 8 22.6885 119.003 82 D/H/F Pit
13 Buddy Rice (15) 0.2639 15.9541 169.235 7 24.0614 112.213 68 D/H/F Pit
14 AJ Foyt IV (22) 0.3903 16.0805 167.905 67 16.4278 164.356 79 D/H/F Pit
15 Jeff Simmons (17) 0.4076 16.0978 167.725 57 16.7729 160.974 79 D/H/F Pit
16 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 0.4602 16.1504 167.179 9 17.4263 154.938 74 D/H/F Pit
17 Sarah Fisher (5) 0.5006 16.1908 166.761 64 17.2216 156.780 72 D/H/F Pit
18 Darren Manning (14) 0.5649 16.2551 166.102 24 25.4197 106.217 78 D/H/F Pit
19 Milka Duno (23) 1.2102 16.9004 159.760 9 17.8125 151.579 71 D/H/F Pit

[extramundane]

Milkers done crashed again... (http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/videos/player.php?v=674)

[Rosco]

Richmond is one track that once you get in the marbles, there is no saving the car, even when you get in the marbles exiting turn 4, then when you enter turn 1 your car goes straight into the wall it will not turn

[pchall]

Combined Practice Results

1 11 Kanaan, Tony D/H/F Practice 2 15.6093 172.974 152
2 6 Hornish Jr, Sam D/H/F Practice 2 15.6721 172.281 130
3 26 Andretti, Marco D/H/F Practice 2 15.6894 172.091 155
4 10 Wheldon, Dan D/H/F Practice 1 15.6902 172.082 113
6 27 Franchitti, Dario D/H/F Practice 1 15.7543 171.382 108
7 7 Patrick, Danica D/H/F Practice 2 15.7683 171.230 111
5 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F Practice 2 15.7525 171.401 149
8 8 Sharp, Scott D/H/F Practice 1 15.8013 170.872 166
9 22 Foyt IV, AJ D/H/F Practice 2 15.8537 170.307 161
10 20 Carpenter, Ed D/H/F Practice 2 15.8758 170.070 129
11 17 Simmons, Jeff D/H/F Practice 2 15.9368 169.419 155
12 4 Meira, Vitor D/H/F Practice 1 15.9407 169.378 35
13 2 Scheckter, Tomas D/H/F Practice 1 15.9415 169.369 142
14 3 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F Practice 1 15.9440 169.343 154
15 15 Rice, Buddy D/H/F Practice 1 15.9541 169.235 119
16 14 Manning, Darren D/H/F Practice 2 16.1152 167.544 128
17 55 Matsuura, Kosuke D/H/F Practice 1 16.1504 167.179 127
18 5 Fisher, Sarah D/H/F Practice 1 16.1908 166.761 114
19 23 Duno, Milka D/H/F Practice 2 16.8380 160.352 102


Foyt Racing reverts to fine futililty.

Duno's practice crash was pretty pathetic. How can anyone lapping so slowly get into the grey and hit the wall? :tony:

The grid was set from driver points due to rain.

[pchall]

First Yellow for debris on lap 60. Just in time for the first pitstops keeping it from being a Franchitti runaway. :tony:

Duno retires with terminal talent troubles on lap 79.

[Methanolandbrats]

I actually watched that. I feel like I've been sedated. In fact the only other time I felt like this was when I woke up after surgery. No wonder nobody buys tickets. Must turn channel before idiot Ashley Judd blathers on about Dario being the Ghost of Jimmy Clark.

[pchall]

If the "race" was as stunningly dull as the T&S I kept running in the background this evening I'd expect most small crowd there to be comatose right now.

[JohnHKart]

Must turn channel before idiot Ashley Judd blathers on about Dario being the Ghost of Jimmy Clark.


Yeah she is very annoying. "My husband is very gifted"......blah blah blah shut up!

John

[pchall]

In the end our Futility Heroes returned to form and slipped back to mid field or worse. Mr. Ed comes home 10th without having shown the anything near the almost competitive speed of his teammate Scheckter (7th). AJ IV limps home in 13th. Tex Manning brought his Foytmobile home in 14th.

Marco Andretti finished 12th, raising the question "What's wrong with that boy ?" and why is he being touted for the Seabass seat at Newman-Haas-Lannigan for 2008? Patrick ran consistently at the end of the train of fast cars and only came in 6th because of a late pit stop with too few racing laps following for her to slip back to the 9th place for which she was clearly headed. And finally, Duno again had trouble maintaining anything near the race pace and quit for the usual "handling" reasons. :shakehead

1. Dario Franchitti GB Andretti-Green Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
2. Scott Dixon NZ Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
3. Dan Wheldon GB Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
4. Tony Kanaan BRA Andretti-Green Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
5. Buddy Rice USA Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
6. Danica Patrick USA Andretti-Green Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
7. Tomas Scheckter RSA Vision Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
8. Scott Sharp USA Rahal Letterman Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
9. Vitor Meira BRA Panther Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
10. Ed Carpenter USA Vision Racing Dallara-Honda 250 laps
11. Helio Castroneves BRA Marlboro Team Penske Dallara-Honda 249 laps
12. Marco Andretti USA Andretti-Green Racing Dallara-Honda 249 laps
13. AJ Foyt IV USA Vision Racing Dallara-Honda 249 laps
14. Darren Manning GB AJ Foyt Enterprises Dallara-Honda 249 laps
15. Sam Hornish Jr USA Marlboro Team Penske Dallara-Honda 248 laps
16. Sarah Fisher USA Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Dallara-Honda 247 laps
17. Kosuke Matsuura JPN Super Aguri Panther Racing Dallara-Honda 236 laps-Accident
18. Jeff Simmons USA Rahal Letterman Racing Dallara-Honda 153 laps-Accident
19. Milka Duno* VEN Samax Motorsport Dallara-Honda 79 laps-Too Slow