St. Pete Practice 2

St. Pete Practice 2

Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Session 2

Pos Car Driver Team Time Gap To 1st Speed
1. 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:01.6016 105.192
2. 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:01.6892 0.0876 0.0876
105.043
3. 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:01.8767 0.1875 0.2751 104.724
4. 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.0060 0.1293 0.4044
104.506
5. 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.5648 0.5588 0.9632
103.573
6. 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.6648 0.1000 1.0632 103.407
7. 55 Kosuke Matsuura Super Aguri Panther Racing 1:02.7769 0.1121
1.1753 103.223
8. 6 Sam Hornish Jr Team Penske 1:02.7824 0.0055 1.1808 103.214
9. 2 Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 1:02.7835 0.0011 1.1819 103.212
10. 14 Darren Manning AJ Foyt Enterprises 1:02.8449 0.0614 1.2433
103.111
11. 4 Vitor Meira Delphi Panther Racing 1:02.9049 0.0600 1.3033
103.013
12. 7 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 1:03.0078 0.1029 1.4062
102.844
13. 15 Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:03.7456 0.7378 2.1440
101.654
14. 17 Jeff Simmons Rahal Letterman Racing 1:04.0690 0.3234 2.4674
101.141
15. 8 Scott Sharp Rahal Letterman Racing 1:04.2465 0.1775 2.6449
100.862
16. 22 A J Foyt IV Vision Racing 1:04.7126 0.4661 3.1110 100.135
17. 20 Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 1:04.7866 0.0740 3.1850 100.021
18. 5 Sarah Fisher Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:06.8229 2.0363 5.2213
96.973

Re: St. Pete Practice 2


"." <.@dot,com > wrote in message news:O_gPh.17403$nh4.10600@newsfe20.lga...
> Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Session 2
>
> Pos Car Driver Team Time Gap To 1st Speed
> 1. 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:01.6016 105.192
> 2. 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:01.6892 0.0876 0.0876
> 105.043
> 3. 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:01.8767 0.1875 0.2751
> 104.724
> 4. 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.0060 0.1293 0.4044
> 104.506
> 5. 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.5648 0.5588 0.9632
> 103.573
> 6. 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.6648 0.1000 1.0632
> 103.407




My guy Helio on top and Marco comes alive! Sweeeeet!

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

Somewhere on planet earth..... on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:48:18 GMT, "Von
Fourche" <Khonakong@hotmail,com > types:

>
>"." <.@dot,com > wrote in message news:O_gPh.17403$nh4.10600@newsfe20.lga...
>> Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Session 2
>>
>> Pos Car Driver Team Time Gap To 1st Speed
>> 1. 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:01.6016 105.192
>> 2. 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:01.6892 0.0876 0.0876
>> 105.043
>> 3. 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:01.8767 0.1875 0.2751
>> 104.724
>> 4. 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.0060 0.1293 0.4044
>> 104.506
>> 5. 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.5648 0.5588 0.9632
>> 103.573
>> 6. 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.6648 0.1000 1.0632
>> 103.407
>
>
>
>
> My guy Helio on top and Marco comes alive! Sweeeeet!
>

Helio on top?...who wooood had thunk? ;-)

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

2112 wrote:
> Somewhere on planet earth..... on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:48:18 GMT, "Von
> Fourche" <Khonakong@hotmail,com > types:
>
>> "." <.@dot,com > wrote in message news:O gPh.17403$nh4.10600@newsfe20.lga...
>>> Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Session 2
>>>
>>> Pos Car Driver Team Time Gap To 1st Speed
>>> 1. 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:01.6016 105.192
>>> 2. 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:01.6892 0.0876 0.0876
>>> 105.043
>>> 3. 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:01.8767 0.1875 0.2751
>>> 104.724
>>> 4. 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.0060 0.1293 0.4044
>>> 104.506
>>> 5. 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.5648 0.5588 0.9632
>>> 103.573
>>> 6. 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.6648 0.1000 1.0632
>>> 103.407
>>
>>
>>
>> My guy Helio on top and Marco comes alive! Sweeeeet!
>>
>
> Helio on top?...who wooood had thunk? ;-)

Is Marco of legal age?

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

On Mar 30, 8:48 pm, retired <reti...@retired.ca> wrote:
> 2112 wrote:
> > Somewhere on planet earth..... on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:48:18 GMT, "Von
> > Fourche" <Khonak...@hotmail,com > types:
>
> >> "." <....@dot,com > wrote in messagenews:O gPh.17403$nh4.10600@newsfe20.lga...
> >>> Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Session 2
>
> >>> Pos Car Driver Team Time Gap To 1st Speed
> >>> 1. 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:01.6016 105.192
> >>> 2. 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:01.6892 0.0876 0.0876
> >>> 105.043
> >>> 3. 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:01.8767 0.1875 0.2751
> >>> 104.724
> >>> 4. 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.0060 0.1293 0.4044
> >>> 104.506
> >>> 5. 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.5648 0.5588 0.9632
> >>> 103.573
> >>> 6. 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.6648 0.1000 1.0632
> >>> 103.407
>
> >> My guy Helio on top and Marco comes alive! Sweeeeet!
>
> > Helio on top?...who wooood had thunk? ;-)
>
> Is Marco of legal age?

To drink? No. To get drafted? Yes.

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

Von Fourche wrote:

> My guy Helio on top and Marco comes alive! Sweeeeet!

Sounds like a celebrity feature story on the rainbow boy's channel.

And that gets you all excited?

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

On Mar 30, 7:25 pm, "." <....@dot,com > wrote:
> Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Session 2
>
> Pos Car Driver Team Time Gap To 1st Speed
> 1. 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:01.6016 105.192
> 2. 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:01.6892 0.0876 0.0876
> 105.043
> 3. 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:01.8767 0.1875 0.2751 104.724
> 4. 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.0060 0.1293 0.4044
> 104.506
> 5. 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:02.5648 0.5588 0.9632
> 103.573
> 6. 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.6648 0.1000 1.0632 103.407
> 7. 55 Kosuke Matsuura Super Aguri Panther Racing 1:02.7769 0.1121
> 1.1753 103.223
> 8. 6 Sam Hornish Jr Team Penske 1:02.7824 0.0055 1.1808 103.214
> 9. 2 Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 1:02.7835 0.0011 1.1819 103.212
> 10. 14 Darren Manning AJ Foyt Enterprises 1:02.8449 0.0614 1.2433
> 103.111
> 11. 4 Vitor Meira Delphi Panther Racing 1:02.9049 0.0600 1.3033
> 103.013
> 12. 7 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 1:03.0078 0.1029 1.4062
> 102.844
> 13. 15 Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:03.7456 0.7378 2.1440
> 101.654
> 14. 17 Jeff Simmons Rahal Letterman Racing 1:04.0690 0.3234 2.4674
> 101.141
> 15. 8 Scott Sharp Rahal Letterman Racing 1:04.2465 0.1775 2.6449
> 100.862
> 16. 22 A J Foyt IV Vision Racing 1:04.7126 0.4661 3.1110 100.135
> 17. 20 Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 1:04.7866 0.0740 3.1850 100.021
> 18. 5 Sarah Fisher Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:06.8229 2.0363 5.2213
> 96.973



Well several things hit me right off the bat with these times, and
they aren't pretty. It really is what I expected though. The speed
difference from front to back is WAY too big to be safe. Front to
back of the field is nearly a 10 mph speed difference. With the top at
105 and change and the back at 96 almost 97, that is huge. Sarah is in
way over her head. She is even 3 full mph behind the next fastest,
Mr. Ed. Ed at 100.021 to Buddy at 101 and change you are still
looking at 2 second s lap slower. With the leader running a 61 sec
lap, thats getting lapped every 30 laps. Danica at 12 cuts that to
about a second an a half so that brings it up to about 45 laps before
going a lap down. At about 6ths with Dan it has dropped to about a
second a lap which means he gets lapped at about 61. That leaves at
best 4 cars on the lead lap. Figure one or two of them might have a
problem in the pits, have the yellow come out at the wrong time, cut
down a tire, or any of a host of reasons a car goes a lap down and at
best you have a stinker of a race. A worst you have a bad accident
with the closer rate of fast to slow cars.

The good news is that it won't be yellow free. Outside of maybe Scott
Sharp, the back of the field will be off track more than the safety
team. If they manage to go slow enough to stay on track, the debris
caution Nascar style would likely come out just as Danica was about to
get lapped.

I thought the IRL was going to start like 22 cars this year. What
happened to the others? Did some that showed at Homestead not make
the trip to St Pete? Is the championship so unimportant a team would
skip a race if it isn't an oval?

Ending with the theme music and raising my glass to a chorus of "I am
Indy". TGFTG

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

FWIW, Fisher won't automatically be the major safety hazard she'd be
if she were honestly that far off the pace on an oval.

Re: St. Pete Practice 2

On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "scottscottscott" <scottrevis...@yahoo,com > wrote:
> FWIW, Fisher won't automatically be the major safety hazard she'd be
> if she were honestly that far off the pace on an oval.


On that I totally disagree. There is more going on around her on a
road course than an oval. The only thing working to the advantage of
a road course is the lower overall average speeds, but the changing of
the speeds in my opinion would make it worse not better.