re: 2022 IndyCar Season Thread - Last Race: Laguna Seca 9/11 3:00 PM ET (NBC)

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:56 pm to TheArrogantCorndog

Dixon on pole! The first four rows:

Row 1
P01 234.046 Scott Dixon (Ganassi / Honda)
P02 233.499 Alex Palou (Ganassi / Honda)
P03 233.385 Rinus VeeKay (Carpenter / Chevy)

Row 2
P04 233.080 Ed Carpenter (Carpenter / Chevy)
P05 232.764 Marcus Ericsson (Ganassi / Honda)
P06 232.372 Tony Kanaan (Ganassi / Honda)

Row 3
P07 232.705 Pato O'Ward (McLaren / Chevy)
P08 232.182 Felix Rosenqvist (McLaren / Chevy)
P09 231.999 Romain Grosjean [R] (Andretti / Honda)

Row 4
P10 231.670 Takuma Sato (Coyne / Honda)
P11 231.534 Will Power (Penske / Chevy)
P12 231.264 Jimmie Johnson [R] (Ganassi / Honda)

This post was edited on 5/22/22 at 5:00 pm

Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/23/22 at 1:44 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Week 1 of the Indy 500 had a ton of practice plus qualifying last weekend. The only incidents were Jimmie Johnson and Takuma Sato brushing the wall, but both were very minor.

This week there are two practice sessions for teams to tune-up their race setups; a two-hour session today (going on right now), and a two-hour session for Carb Day on Friday.

They just had their first real accident. A half-hour before the end of today's session, Dalton Kellett lost the rear end entering Turn 1. His car is pretty smashed up but they have plenty of time to rebuild it for Friday. He had just been passed on the inside and was slightly off-line, and James Hinchcliffe mentioned that he probably lifted the throttle, transferring weight to the front of the car, which increases front grip and reduces rear grip. So it was probably a rookie mistake (Kellett is in his 2nd year of IndyCar).

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Posted on 5/23/22 at 11:54 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

The first of two 2-hr practice sessions this week shows a familiar pattern. Four of the top 5 speeds were Chip Ganassi cars, and the 5th car was Takuma Sato. These top 5 cars are all Hondas and they were all more than 1 mph faster than the first Chevy on the list. A scary sign of how confident Ganassi is with their cars is that four of the five Ganassi drivers ran fewer than 40 laps. Only Indy 500 rookie Jimmie Johnson ran more, but even his 67 laps was a lot less than most drivers. With all five Ganassi cars on the first four rows, and with two former Indy 500 winners on the team to spread their wisdom to their teammates, I think it will be a colossal upset if a Ganassi car doesn't win the race. Among the four highest-starting Chevys (two McLarens and two Carpenters), there are zero former Indy 500 winners. Strangely, the five highest-starting Chevys are all way down in the practice order. The fastest Chevy in practice, Josef Newgarden, starts on the 5th row. I have more faith that he and his Penske teammate Will Power (starting on 4th row) will prove to be a bigger threat to win the race for Chevy than the McLaren and Carpenter cars starting ahead of them.

Practice 8, Monday May 23

P01 229.441 Alex Palou (Ganassi / Honda) - 31 laps
P02 229.000 Scott Dixon (Ganassi / Honda) - 32 laps
P03 228.467 Jimmie Johnson [R] (Ganassi / Honda) - 67 laps
P04 228.381 Takuma Sato (Coyne / Honda) - 106 laps
P05 228.017 Marcus Ericsson (Ganassi / Honda) - 38 laps
P06 226.962 Josef Newgarden (Penske / Chevy) - 98 laps
P07 226.895 Conor Daly (Carpenter / Chevy) - 96 laps
P08 226.776 Marco Andretti (Andretti / Honda) - 77 laps
P09 226.699 Sage Karam (Dreyer & Reinbold / Chevy) - 86 laps
P10 226.360 Simon Pagenaud (Meyer Shank / Honda) - 83 laps
P11 225.996 Romain Grosjean [R] (Andretti / Honda) - 101 laps
P12 225.616 Christian Lundgaard [R] (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) - 100 laps
P13 225.420 Hélio Castroneves (Meyer Shank / Honda) - 88 laps
P14 225.372 David Malukas [R] (Coyne / Honda) - 91 laps
P15 225.266 Scott McLaughlin (Penske / Chevy) - 102 laps
P16 225.075 Santino Ferrucci (Dreyer & Reinbold / Chevy) - 85 laps
P17 225.011 Colton Herta (Andretti / Honda) - 100 laps
P18 224.974 Callum Ilott [R] (Juncos Hollinger / Chevy) - 97 laps
P19 224.829 Alexander Rossi (Andretti / Honda) - 89 laps
P20 224.779 Will Power (Penske / Chevy) - 82 laps
P21 224.667 Pato O'Ward (McLaren / Chevy) - 79 laps
P22 224.517 Tony Kanaan (Ganassi / Honda) - 31 laps
P23 224.463 Jack Harvey (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) - 85 laps
P24 224.439 Ed Carpenter (Carpenter / Chevy) - 78 laps
P25 224.398 Rinus VeeKay (Carpenter / Chevy) - 74 laps
P26 224.389 Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) - 77 laps
P27 224.363 JR Hildebrand (AJ Foyt / Chevy) - 82 laps
P28 224.305 Stefan Wilson (DragonSpeed / Chevy) - 88 laps
P29 224.193 Juan Pablo Montoya (McLaren / Chevy) - 40 laps
P30 224.084 Kyle Kirkwood [R] (AJ Foyt / Chevy) - 91 laps
P31 223.587 Felix Rosenqvist (McLaren / Chevy) - 78 laps
P32 222.856 Dalton Kellett (AJ Foyt / Chevy) - 65 laps
P33 222.553 Devlin DeFrancesco [R] (Andretti / Honda) - 85 laps

Only one more session, the 2-hr Carb Day practice on Friday, before the race.

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 12:35 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

It's Carb Day, the last chance to check out the cars before the race. I think the rain delay has cut the total track time from the scheduled 2 hours to 1.5 hours.

At the moment, three Ganassi cars plus Sato are at the top of the speed chart, as they have been for the last two weeks.

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 12:58 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

They've just had the 2nd crash of the two-week lead-up to the race. David Malukas passed Santino Ferrucci on the inside approaching Turn 1. He had almost completely cleared Ferrucci when Ferrucci turned into Turn 1 and his front wing end plate cut Malukas's right rear tire, sending him into the wall. Three corners are smashed up, so Malukas's mechanics are going to be busy getting the car back in shape.

There's no way Ferrucci was unable to see Malukas, Malukas was almost completely past him when it was time to turn.

Ferrucci has just been penalized with a black flag, he is parked for the rest of the session.

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Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 1:09 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Damn, Colton Herta just got upside down. The car slid to a stop still upside down on the track. Herta was on the radio saying he was fine before it even came to a stop.

On the radio his dad said to stay strapped in and wait for the safety crew. The announcers noted that this is the first time an IndyCar has come to rest upside down since the windscreen has been installed, and how it would be very difficult for the driver to get out on his own.

There's in-cockpit video of Colton sliding upside down. It should be on YouTube and Twitter soon.

This post was edited on 5/27/22 at 1:18 pm

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 1:21 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Twit link to it

https://mobile.twitter.com/Formula1arg1/status/1530251880219258881

LINK

Another one

LINK

Beat video here:

LINK

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Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 1:51 pm to OU Guy

None of the clips I've seen so far show the extended footage from the cockpit as it slid to a stop. Some clips show the cockpit just as he goes upside down, but the signal then goes out so they cut away. But the signal actually came back and they showed the rest of the cockpit view later. Someone just needs to splice the whole thing together.

Edit: Here's the cockpit view:

twitter.com/IndyCar/status/1530269985624543238

This post was edited on 5/27/22 at 3:07 pm

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Posted on 5/27/22 at 3:46 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82

quote:
“It’s my mistake,” Ferrucci acknowledged. “I just misjudged.”

Racer.com article

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 3:30 am to Twenty 49

OK we've got a full day of racing with F1, IndyCar and NASCAR.

After the fancy Monaco GP parade, it's time for some real racing.

The Indy 500 pre-race show and race will be on NBC, as well as the NBC Sports and Peacock apps.

11:00 am ET - Pre-race show
12:30 pm ET - Indy 500

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 4:28 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82

Headed to the track now. Lets go racin boys. Green green green!

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 6:40 am to rattlebucket

Good day for racin

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Posted by fightin tigers

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 6:42 am to rattlebucket

Looks like you beat the crowd

Posted by TheArrogantCorndog

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 8:55 am to rattlebucket

Lord help us if it drizzles

Posted by Chucktown_Badger

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:11 am to rattlebucket

Some of my buddies just got there. I'm missing the festivities because I'm headed to Key West. It's such a fun weekend in indy.

Yes, the wardrobe is ironic.

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Posted by SwayzeBalla

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Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:59 am to Chucktown_Badger

Dad and I are here for the first time. My grandfather used to go to the race in the 30’s. Pretty sentimental trip for my dad.

We’ll be back. Amazing experience