IndyCar 2012

Franchitti's boost isn't working. Rahal has a look but doesn't get through.

Edit: Simona about to lose a lot of time to blue flags. Oh wait, the Lotus engine will take care of that on the straights :p

Looks like James Jakes has a terminal problem, pitted twice in the last few laps.

Will Power up to 6th past Ryan Briscoe.
 
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Hildebrand passes Carpenter. de Silvestro makes an early 2nd stop, emerging a lap down on most of the field.

Edit: Pitstops aplenty so the live timing is struggling to keep up.
 
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Castroneves has emerged ahead of Tagliani, followed by Sato, Rahal, Franchitti, Briscoe, Hunter-Reay, Kanaan and Wilson. Will Power finally makes his stop.

Edit: James Jakes' trouble confirmed as suspension failure. Will Power re-joins in 4th.

Takuma Sato is on a charge, takes second place and goes after Helio Castroneves. Oriol Servia leaves the pits but he's 6 laps down.

Edit2: Power and Tagliani side-by-side fighting for third place.
 
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James Hinchcliffe having a mediocre race in 13th, just lost a spot to Mike Conway.

Sato and Castroneves gradually opening a gap to the rest of the pack.
 
Guerrilla said:
Sato looking quick.
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Hopefully he keeps his head and doesn't banzai\cause a caution at the last minute or something :p

Edit: Conway on the move again, up to 11th ahead of Simon Pagenaud. Most improved driver award? :)

Helio Castroneves with a new fastest lap, maintaining a sub-second gap to Takuma Sato.

Edit2: Dario Franchitti with another fastest lap, down to under 1:17.5. Tyres getting quicker as they wear in, other drivers have set close lap times.
 
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Takuma Sato sets another fastest lap (I guess RLL's coaching over the radio is working :p ), and Helio responds by defending with push-to-pass.

Simona de Silvestro entering the pits for a late stop, re-emerges 2 laps down. At this rate she'll have the distinction of being lapped by everyone but Servia :p

Edit: Both Sato and Castroneves using the P2P heavily now. Only 3 laps left. Oriol Servia retires with mechanical problems.
 
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Castroneves had to work for that one. :D
Him and Sato were very closely matched.

Still great to see Sato doing well as well.
 
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Well, that's Helio's second win of the season. The championship's gotten a lot more interesting these last few races.

Hunter-Reay now on 361 points, Castroneves second with 339 then Power with 336.
 
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That was an oppotunistic move there from Kimball... Deserves the 30 second penalty.

Although, that the way it should work, before the trophys have been handed over - penalties have been sorted.
 
Flibster said:
That was an oppotunistic move there from Kimball... Deserves the 30 second penalty.

Although, that the way it should work, before the trophys have been handed over - penalties have been sorted.
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So that's what happened to Pagenaud on the last lap. :p

Obviously it's not ideal when it happens, but I'd rather see a justified post-race penalty than the F1 situation where Maldonado gets off very lightly.
 
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Yea it didn't quite pay off for him went for it caused a collision and gets penalised for it as per the rules much more straight forward... Although it sometimes isn't quite so straight forward.
 
Guerrilla said:
Yea it didn't quite pay off for him went for it caused a collision and gets penalised for it as per the rules much more straight forward... Although it sometimes isn't quite so straight forward.
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Yeah, they got the calls wrong in Toronto for example. Generally speaking though Indycar do penalise reckless moves.
 
Didn't realise that a season of Indy running a team only costs something like $20 million for a top team...

HRT and Marussia spend around double that...

Ferrari & Red Bull - 20 times that. :eek:
 
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