The Foyt Futility Watch -- 7/2 - 7/3 2005

[pchall]

Next session - IndyCar Series Practice :: July 2 :: 9 a.m. (EDT)

Please feel free to start the thread.

Tomorrow morning I'll still be busy mixing ether, MEK, and castor oil with unleaded to keep the old McCollough running strong enough to finish cleaning up last night's storm damage in the neighborhood.

BTW, it's an ancient 50s 5.4 ci McCollough with a 20" bar. It scares the dogs, fascinates the children, and makes the neighbors request that I start working after 8 am.

I'm possibly the last guy in Ohio running a saw with a condenser and points. :)

[TKGAngel]

Jayski (http://www.jayski.com) is reporting the following....

A.J. Foyt IV to NASCAR for Evernham? IndyCar Series [IRL] regular A.J. Foyt IV, grandson of A.J. Foyt, recently tested an ARCA car for Evernham Motorsports and might be in the team's plans for the future. "A.J. was very fast in the car, and we were very impressed with him," team owner Ray Evernham said. "He's probably going to run some Busch races for us later this year, and we'll do some further testing." The 21-year-old Foyt is in his third IndyCar season, but hasn't finished higher than ninth. "The kid's been struggling a little bit in the IRL," Evernham said. "He has a lot of people who believe in him. Who knows what's going to happen in the IRL shuffle? But he could be a guy who ends up in my driver-development program."

You know that if IV ends up in NASCAR, Gramps is going to want to be involved, and I picture Ray Evernham getting smacked with a sammich the first time IV drops out of a race.

Oh, and "struggling a little bit?" Master of the understatement there.

[JohnHKart]

Jayski (http://www.jayski.com) is reporting the following....

A.J. Foyt IV to NASCAR for Evernham? .

You're late with this already covered HERE (http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8177)

John

[TKGAngel]

You're late with this already covered HERE (http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8177)

John

That's what happens when I post from work on a Friday before a long weekend. :)

[pchall]

Combined practice results:

20 66 20 Carpenter, Ed D/T/F 211.039 20 1 25.9289
21 77 91 Kite, Jimmy D/T/F 210.196 21 2 26.0328
22 101 14 Foyt IV, AJ D/T/F 209.715 22 2 26.0925

Our faves are the bottom end as usual.

Looks like the gIRL got a spinner once more. Should we expect another retreat to mid-pack immediately tomorrow?

[pchall]

Qauls:

19 Ed Carpenter (20) 0.6226 26.1131 209.550 1 33.6926 162.410 2 D/T/F Pit
20 Patrick Carpentier (83) 0.6675 26.1580 209.190 2 26.1580 209.190 2 D/T/F Pit
21 Jimmy Kite (91) 0.6685 26.1590 209.182 2 26.1590 209.182 2 D/T/F Pit
22 A.J. Foyt IV (14) 0.6968 26.1873 208.956 1 26.1873 208.956 1 D/T/F Pit

And who's your favorite daughter, now?

[cart7]

Gawd, slower than Kite in the Hemelgarn anchor. Un-frickken believable. :shakehead

[extramundane]

Forget Foyt, when does the Patreek Futility Watch begin?

[pchall]

Forget Foyt, when does the Patreek Futility Watch begin?

After morning practice:

1 Tomas Enge (2) 25.6141 213.632 49 37.6189 145.459 50 D/C/F Pit

14 Patwreck Carbender (83) 0.2742 25.8883 211.370 39 26.0224 210.280 44 D/T/F Pit

17 A.J. Foyt IV (14) 0.4607 26.0748 209.858 42 26.0748 209.858 42 D/T/F Pit
18 Bryan Herta (7) 0.4788 26.0929 209.712 29 44.3554 123.367 30 D/H/F Pit
19 Jimmy Kite (91) 0.5374 26.1515 209.242 42 26.1515 209.242 42 D/T/F Pit
20 Darren Manning (10) 0.6582 26.2723 208.280 39 27.9948 195.465 40 P/T/F Pit
21 Ed Carpenter (20) 0.6825 26.2966 208.088 7 29.2902 186.820 35 D/T/F Pit
22 Roger Yasukawa (24) 2.6293 28.2434 193.744 6 42.0386 130.166 10 D/H/F Pit

[FailureByDesign]

Did you see Danica almost take out the entire Panther crew :eek:

[pchall]

Well, looks like the famous Charge-to-the-Rear strategy is at work again today. And the Chevworth drivers obviously didn't listen at the script review session.

[pchall]

Results:

1 Tony Kanaan (11) ... 25.8033 212.066 196 26.3552 207.625 200 D/H/F Pit
2 Danica Wheldon (26) 0.0120 25.7537 212.474 184 26.3493 207.672 200 D/H/F Pit
3 Vitor Meira (17) 0.0242 25.8076 212.031 25 26.2367 208.563 200 P/H/F Pit
4 Dario Franchitti (27) 0.3819 25.7335 212.641 195 25.8572 211.624 200 D/H/F Pit
5 Tomas Scheckter (4) 1.4734 25.8518 211.668 65 26.1008 209.649 200 D/C/F Pit
6 Scott Sharp (8) 1.6114 25.7440 212.554 192 25.9441 210.915 200 P/H/F Pit
7 Darren Manning (10) 1.8286 25.7722 212.322 190 26.3549 207.627 200 P/T/F Pit
8 Helio Castroneves (3) 2.0052 25.7202 212.751 192 26.0751 209.855 200 D/T/F Pit
9 Danica Patrick (16) 2.1666 25.7618 212.408 45 26.0448 210.100 200 P/H/F Pit
10 Buddy Rice (15) 3.8824 25.7199 212.754 43 25.8120 211.994 200 P/H/F Pit
11 Tomas Enge (2) 6.0479 25.8159 211.962 173 26.1304 209.411 200 D/C/F Pit
12 Sam Hornish Jr. (6) 9.5733 25.9021 211.257 26 26.1493 209.260 200 D/T/F Pit
13 Alex Barron (51) 12.3305 25.8517 211.669 170 26.6238 205.530 200 D/T/F Pit
14 Patwreck Carbender (83) 12.3462 25.8678 211.537 171 26.6102 205.635 200 D/T/F Pit
15 Bryan Herta (7) 21.3160 25.9401 210.948 70 26.5250 206.296 200 D/H/F Pit
16 A.J. Foyt IV (14) 21.6197 26.2392 208.543 185 26.3806 207.425 200 D/T/F Pit
17 Ed Carpenter (20) 23.2662 25.8984 211.287 170 26.5480 206.117 200 D/T/F Pit
18 Scott Dixon (9) 23.5128 25.7900 212.175 90 26.5175 206.354 200 P/T/F Pit
19 Jimmy Kite (91) 5 laps 26.1201 209.494 194 26.2579 208.394 195 D/T/F Pit
20 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 66 laps 26.0668 209.922 89 4:45.5265 19.165 134 P/H/F Mechanical
21 Ryan Briscoe (33) 87 laps 25.6518 213.318 98 27.0825 202.049 113 P/T/F Mechanical
22 Roger Yasukawa (24) 147 laps 26.2058 208.809 30 26.5961 205.744 53 D/H/F Accident

[NismoZ]

Congrats TK! You AGR haters must be unhappy, 1-2-4 No need to talk about the crowd. "The bigger nose win!" :laugh:

[NismoZ]

Congrats TK! You AGR haters must be unhappy, 1-2-4 No need to talk about the crowd. "The bigger nose win!" :laugh:(White line talk, anyone?)

[pchall]

(White line talk, anyone?)

Don't ask me. I just run the Live T&S in the background to grab the results.

Who did what and was the officiating honest about it?

By the way, I think it is very appropriate that IRL drivers get penalized for diving under the white line. After all, their boss did, too. ;)

[cameraman]

200 laps, 300 miles and all but one car running is on the lead lap?
That isn't a race it is a high speed traffic jam.

[Winston Wolfe]

Is Scott Dixon's career slowly vanishing before his eyes ? As well as ours ?

Does Cheep even care about the .1rl any longer ? Does he actually attend any of these dronefests any more, except for maybe the irl500 ?

And what about Manning and Briscoe ? Certainly both are capable road racers and they are twirling as well....

TCGR in Open wheel certainly aint what it used to be....

[Ziggy]

Who said Dixon ever had a career? He's just waiting till Frank gets that Repco deal and he's in like Flynn. He's gonna be bangin' wheels with Herr Schumi and Freddy because he's that good, like Brisco good :gomer:

Rawhore didnt even make it to Danicafest Kansas City Style. We can only hope with the help of racial profileing, some Greek Custom's agent is getting, uhm, "Mid-evil on his ass" :)

Traffic Jam city looking at the box scores

[RusH]

Lets welcome all our guests

[Insomniac]

Lets welcome all our guests

eh?

[RusH]

eh?

too late, we had 50+ here, they left after my post :laugh:

[cart7]

They were all here trying to see if the secret to Danica's lousy racing performance lies within the pages of threads here. :laugh:

BTW, I understand Danica's Daddy was beetchin at the RLR crew for their stellar pit performance today and second guessing fuel strategy. :gomer:

[Insomniac]

too late, we had 50+ here, they left after my post :laugh:

Ohhhh. lurkers, probably from TF?

[pchall]

Ohhhh. lurkers, probably from TF?

It's nice to know the infamy of our Foyt Futility Watch has spread far and wide. :gomer:

[NismoZ]

Yeah, yeah, you're all famous, or infamous or whatever, but those of you doom and gloom-wishing fans better stick to criticism of the the nuts and bolts of the series framework and the "vision" because the race itself will do nothing to further your wishes. In that regard it disappointed me too, but it was fast, close, safe and exciting. Now, I enjoyed the Star Mazda race from Atlanta aired earlier on Speed more, but, see, that was ME! As far as cookie cutters go I think Kansas is the best. The stands, though not full, will be viewed as a very good gate, WAY better than Phoenix or certainly Milwaukee. No, this one HELPS the League, I think it encourages a prolonging of the pain and I can only hope that manufacturer defections can accomplish what a lot of us here try to do with simple unproductive and often baseless mean-spirited criticism. Up with ChampCar!

[pchall]

Yeah, yeah, you're all famous, or infamous or whatever, but those of you doom and gloom-wishing fans better stick to criticism of the the nuts and bolts of the series framework and the "vision" because the race itself will do nothing to further your wishes. In that regard it disappointed me too, but it was fast, close, safe and exciting. Now, I enjoyed the Star Mazda race from Atlanta aired earlier on Speed more, but, see, that was ME! As far as cookie cutters go I think Kansas is the best. The stands, though not full, will be viewed as a very good gate, WAY better than Phoenix or certainly Milwaukee. No, this one HELPS the League, I think it encourages a prolonging of the pain and I can only hope that manufacturer defections can accomplish what a lot of us here try to do with simple unproductive baseless and mean-spirited criticism. Up with ChampCar!


Gee, you're no fun at all.

And now back to our regularly scheduled thread of unabashed comments on Futility!

[Steve99]

but it was fast, close, safe and exciting.
From what I saw it looked really boring. Nice managed finish by AGR, going side-by-side so no one could pass. Reminds me of left-lane bandits on the freeway, not very exciting.


Now, I enjoyed the Star Mazda race from Atlanta aired earlier on Speed more,
That was a good race. I'm gonna have to watch for more Star Mazda broadcasts this year.


The stands, though not full, will be viewed as a very good gate, WAY better than Phoenix or certainly Milwaukee.
NASCAR ticket package to the rescue. Lot's of NASCAR fans here in Kansas, and it seems all of them are trying to give away the IRL tickets. I've had to turn down multiple sets. There were more people there for the NASCAR truck race than there were for earl.

[cameraman]

From what I saw it looked really boring. Nice managed finish by AGR, going side-by-side so no one could pass. Reminds me of left-lane bandits on the freeway, not very exciting.

After 200 laps the 18 of 22 are still on the lead lap and only 1 of the remaining 4 is still on the track. No matter how slow the car nor how inept the driver everybody is in a 25 second clump of traffic. That is not a race, that is freeway traffic going in a circle.

[NismoZ]

Steve, you object to "Team Strategy?" :D You expected maybe they'd fall in line to give the guy in 3rd a sporting chance? I don't think so. I see and appreciate all the points you guys are making, I'm just of the opinion that this was NOT one of your average FTG disasters, in fact it probably helped them along a little. To WHAT, I don't know. As far as being no fun?...I guess I'll have to work on that! :)