IndyCar 2012

[Guerrilla]

Couldn't see a thread for this years IndyCar and as it's starting in an hour and a half thought I'd throw one together...

Date    Venue 
Mar 25   Streets of St. Petersburg 
Apr 1    Barber Motorsports Park 
Apr 15   Streets of Long Beach 
Apr 29   Streets of Sao Paulo 
May 27   Indianapolis 500 
Jun 3    Streets of Belle Isle 
Jun 9    Texas Motor Speedway 
Jun 16   Milwaukee Mile 
Jun 23   Iowa Speedway 
Jul 8    Streets of Toronto 
Jul 22   Streets of Edmonton 
Aug 5    Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course 
Aug 19   Streets of Qingdao 
Aug 26   Infineon Raceway 
Sep 2    Streets of Baltimore 
Sep 15   Auto Club Speedway

Drivers

Looking forward to this, hopefully it'll be entertaining. Will be interesting to see how Rubens gets on in his first race.

 

[Guerrilla]

Not really seen much of the new car, but it's not a looker is it?

Could have been worse, they could have gone with the Delta Wing.

Yea the 'closed in' wheels don't look the best, still it's for safety so can't be so bad.

 

[Guerrilla]

Yea Sky Sports 3 Red Button on Virgin, not sure if that's the same for Sky.

 

[Guerrilla]

1, 2 for Lotus sponsored cars in the GP2 race 2 though! If they sponsor enough stuff they are bound to get success

 

[Guerrilla]

Haha yea

Seemed to just die on her.

 

[Guerrilla]

It sure was

TK stopped now... These cars aren't proving too reliable at the moment.

 

[Guerrilla]

Lotus are maybe doing the feed too

 

[Guerrilla]

They don't look too bad looking at them head on... But from the side

 

[Guerrilla]

Yep that was pretty daft opening it up when that's where the issue was!

 

[Guerrilla]

Results for St Petersburg

Car	Driver Gap	
1	 Helio Castroneves	
2	 Scott Dixon	 5.5292	
3	 Ryan Hunter-Reay	 7.5824	
4	 James Hinchcliffe	 10.6526	
5	 Ryan Briscoe	 11.7854	
6	 Simon Pagenaud	 31.2623	
7	 Will Power	 34.6582	
8	 EJ Viso	 35.5943	
9	 Charlie Kimball	 43.1425	
10	 Justin Wilson	 44.3141	
11	 Josef Newgarden	 44.8275	
12	 Graham Rahal	 45.1080	
13	 Dario Franchitti	 45.8468	
14	 Marco Andretti	 1 LAPS	
15	 Alex Tagliani	 1 LAPS	
16	 Oriol Servia	 1 LAPS	
17	 Rubens Barrichello	 2 LAPS	
18	 Ed Carpenter	 2 LAPS	
19	 JR Hildebrand	 4 LAPS	 Off Course
20	 Mike Conway	 25 LAPS	 Mechanical
21	 Sebastien Bourdais	 27 LAPS	 Off Course
22	 Takuma Sato	 27 LAPS	 Electrical
23	 Katherine Legge	 41 LAPS	 Off Course
24	 Simona de Silvestro	 78 LAPS	 Mechanical
25	 Tony Kanaan	 79 LAPS	 Electrical
26	 James Jakes	 81 LAPS	 Contact

 

[Guerrilla]

So typical IndyCar then

It will be interesting to see the first oval race though. This new car is meant to stop them being processional.

Any news on if any other IndyCar races are going to be shown on SSF1?

Looking forward to the first oval, see how that goes.

I think Sky have all the races, but not sure if they are putting them on SSF1 or SS3 or 4.

 

[Guerrilla]

Don't forget y'allD) Indy GP of Alabama this weekend... Sunday 7.30pm on Sky Sports 4.
Help you get a racing fix in the gap between F1 races

 

[Guerrilla]

I'm not sure, don't know if they are just taking it race by race or if it was jsut a one off on SSF1 for the first race.

 

[Guerrilla]

Gutted I couldn't watch this last night, hoping to catch up with it at some point today.

 

[Guerrilla]

It's still early days but Bourdais does look to be doing a good job considering the Lotus' havn't looked very strong.

 

[Guerrilla]

27th May, Indy 500 I think.

 

[Guerrilla]

Looking forward to this, would like to see Justin Wilson go well, hoping he can get a good result from there.

 

[Guerrilla]

Cars dropping out all over the place!

More caution running than not so far

 

[Guerrilla]

Sato, Wilson and Barrichello would be a nice 1-2-3 *don't mind what order either*


A couple of laps ago all 3 of them were in the top 5.

I'd be happy with that, but I'm not sure it's gonna happen.

 

[Guerrilla]

Could be close.