IndyCar 2012

Evolve said:
I think so, Simona de Silvestro. Surely only a matter of time before she bails out too.
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No word from HVM on that yet though. If they get in some more clean practice runs without engine\ECU problems then I don't see why they would withdraw.

Skeeter said:
What about Bourdais?
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Edit: My mistake, Dragon have switched to Chevy and ran in the 4th day of practice.
 
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http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ruggles-might-lead-to-3rd-cars-for-some-teams

HVM are struggling to make the cut, Simona's best time was outside of the 105% mark.

Newgarden's looked fast throughout the practice sessions so far, looks like Sarah Fisher's tenure as a team owner has been a lot more successful than her own driving career :p

Moving on, today's 'Pole Day', with the top 24 spots up for grabs including a $100,000 prize for pole position. So far Helio Castroneves has the fastest lap at 227.7mph.

Some footage of Day 6 practice, including an interview with Katherine Legge:

 
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The first 24 drivers have qualified for the Indy 500, with Ryan Briscoe taking pole by just 0.003mph from James Hinchcliffe, the closest margin in Indianapolis history. Both drivers exceeded an average speed of 226.4mph. Ryan Hunter-Reay was third with 226.2mph.

Championship leader Will Power showed that he's not just a road course master with a 225.4mph run to take 5th. Josef Newgarden qualifies 7th for his first Indy 500, confirming his quick pace all week. Ana Beatriz takes up 13th spot, proving her competitive race in Sao Paulo was not a fluke.

Dario Franchitti is just 16th, Takuma Sato 19th and Justin Wilson 21st. Sebastian Bourdais did not make the top 24 and proceeds to "Bump Day" which will determine the remaining 9 entries.

The detailed qualifying results are available here: http://media.indycar.com/pdf/2012/INDY-pole_qualifying.pdf
 
Jean Alesi has qualified. :eek:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/99741

Code: 
Pos  Driver               Team/Car                      Speed
 1.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske DW12-Chevy             226.484
 2.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti DW12-Chevy           226.481
 3.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti DW12-Chevy           226.240
 4.  Marco Andretti       Andretti DW12-Chevy           225.456
 5.  Will Power           Penske DW12-Chevy             225.422
 6.  Helio Castroneves    Penske DW12-Chevy             225.172
 7.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher DW12-Honda             224.037
 8.  Tony Kanaan          KV DW12-Chevy                 224.751
 9.  EJ Viso              KV DW12-Chevy                 224.422
10.  Rubens Barrichello   KV DW12-Chevy                 224.264
11.  Alex Tagliani        Herta DW12-Honda              224.000
12.  Graham Rahal         Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.959
13.  Ana Beatriz          Andretti/Conquest DW12-Chevy  223.920
14.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.868
15.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.684
16.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi DW12-Honda            223.582
17.  James Jakes          Dale Coyne DW12-Honda         223.482
18.  JR Hildebrand        Panther DW12-Chevy            223.422
19.  Takuma Sato          Rahal DW12-Honda              223.392
20.  Townsend Bell        Schmidt DW12-Honda            223.134
21.  Justin Wilson        Dale Coyne DW12-Honda         222.929
22.  Michel Jourdain Jr   Rahal DW12-Honda              222.893
23.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt DW12-Honda            222.891
24.  Sebastian Saavedra   AFS/Andretti DW12-Chevy       222.811
25.  Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon DW12-Chevy             223.760
26.  Wade Cunningham      Foyt DW12-Honda               223.258
27.  Oriol Servia         Panther/DRR DW12-Chevy        222.393
28.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter DW12-Chevy          222.324
29.  Mike Conway          Foyt DW12-Honda               222.319
30.  Katherine Legge      Dragon DW12-Chevy             221.624
31.  Bryan Clauson        Fisher DW12-Chevy             214.455
32.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM DW12-Lotus                214.393
33.  Jean Alesi           Fan Force DW12-Lotus          210.094
 
Suprised he has managed to qualify, still way off the pace though... That Lotus engine really is ****, and it's been unreliable to boot!
 
Bourdais' new car colour scheme looks nice too...

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Just checked the time if anyone is wondering for this, it'll be on Sky Sports 4 at 4:30pm on Sunday.
Doesn't look like this one will be on the Sky Sports F1 channel for those who only have that :(
 
Impressive time from Barrichello.
Lotus are just embarrassingly bad. No engines, not enough spares, safety limits set too low so any slight incident causes them to shut off and worst of all, just slow.

Isn't Dany Bahar is doing a great job marketing the brand? :D

Guerrilla said:
Bourdais' new car colour scheme looks nice too...

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Certainly does. They no longer have to have the black and gold - oh look, we're Lotus. No, we are... Honestly! Stop laughing... we are Lotus. Aaaah, but the paint scheme has nothing to do with tobacco advertising. it's just retro. But, still. It's it nice that we're Lotus and we're back in Indycar, especially after our last attempt when you banned our car the week before it was due to be started for the first time. It's nice for us to come back and grace you with Dany Bahar's presence in this most important of markets... err... motorsports.

*for those going eh? to the banned car. It was a variant of the Lotus 95T F1 program done especially for Indy and was pretty much pushed out by the other teams. Strangely, similar things happened at Le Mans...*

Oh, and there may be some sarcasm in this post. ;)
 
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Lotus offered half-hearted support to the Judd engine program at best, at worst they simply didn't pay up.

As for bans, half of the field was pulled up over illegal brake modifications before the Indy practice began :p

Edit: Just so you get an idea of how big IMS actually is...

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Guerrilla said:
Woah, I knew it was big, but not quite THAT big!
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It actually looks huge up close as well. Unlike Silverstone which is a large field with things dotted about the place, Indy is concentrated. The rears of the grandstands are massive, and back onto what starts off as a normal almost residential street (well it was when I was there back in '00). It is just easier to get a sense of scale of the place.
 
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