Indycar: Watkins Glen

[DooberRoni]

Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen
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Qualifying, Saturday July 5
3:30am Eastern
12:30pm Pacific

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RACE - Sunday, July 6
3:30pm EASTERN
12:30pm PACIFIC

We had a good crowd on the board Saturday evening to watch the dismal crashfest that was Richmond. Assuming ½ the field can put their smashed up cars back together, we should see something better from Watkins Glen? 'Bout time for another road course event - kind of tired going in circles.

Join us again on Sunday afternoon for some beer and donuts and to watch the race.

Here's last year's stats and this weekend's schedule:

[LittleAlguy]

While I do think that the CC guys will make a concerted run at a top-5 and have a chance at victory, I think that some of the usual IndyCar frontrunners on streets and roadies will have a slight edge. It will be especially the case if someone gets caught out by the knockout format where the groups are split.

[ÜberDoober]

While I do think that the CC guys will make a concerted run at a top-5 and have a chance at victory, I think that some of the usual IndyCar frontrunners on streets and roadies will have a slight edge. It will be especially the case if someone gets caught out by the knockout format where the groups are split.

Yeah, I tend to agree with that. I don't think Dixon or Helio are suddenly going to fall off the planet or lay down for anybody. I'm thinking Servia might do something and I would be surprised to see Marco at the front.

Who knows? I do know that I'm glad to see some left turns!:)

[LittleAlguy]

Interesting (maybe not necessarily in a good way): http://www.indycar.com/news/?story_id=11892

Top 10 in practice session 1: Wheldon, Dixon, Kanaan, Castroneves, Servia, Rice, Briscoe, Meira, Power, Manning

Gap between 1st and 26th: 7.74 seconds. That should come down a bit as the weekend goes on unless of course there's rain which may be in the forecast.

[LittleAlguy]

Pretty cool, though. I'd rather listen to the radio guys but that ESPN took initiative to produce this is certainly a good sign from the network.

[LittleAlguy]

From stefmeister on Speed:

Group 1:
Tony Kannan
Helio Castroneves
Dan Wheldon
Marco Andretti
Hideki Mutoh
Buddy Rice
AJ Foyt IV
Graham Rahal
Darren Manning
Oriol Servia
Jamie Camara
Bruno Junqueira
Mario Dominguez

Group 2:
Scott Dixon
Ed Carpenter
EJ Viso
Ryan Briscoe
Danica Patrick
Vitor Meira
Justin Wilson
Will Power
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Mario Moraes
Milka Duno
Jay Howard
Enrique Bernoldi

One upset: it appears Helio is in big trouble. He is stopped on course without completing a timed lap.

[LittleAlguy]

Quattro spins it at the heel of the boot. Just two minutes left.

As of now: Kanaan, Junqueira, Manning, Wheldon, Andretti, Servia

[LittleAlguy]

Apparently, Junqueira is credited with the fastest lap due to TK's time came after the yellow came out.

[LittleAlguy]

No remarks on how the track is faster now than in Group 1 qualifying? None.

[LittleAlguy]

Top 6 in Grp 2: Briscoe, Power, Wilson, Meira, Dixon, Hunter-Reay

[LittleAlguy]

Power hits the tire barrier at Turn 7.

Bad move by Coyne's crew to keep Junqueira in the pits. I don't understand why one wouldn't just get a time and hope for the best.

[LittleAlguy]

Fast 6: Wilson, Briscoe, Kanaan, Dixon, Servia, Hunter-Reay.

Missed out: Andretti, Manning, Wheldon, Manning, Junqueira, Power

[LittleAlguy]

deleted. I should wait, lol

[LittleAlguy]

Oh wait, that was ESPN's error. My bad. (maybe?)

Briscoe on pole. He pips Wilson by three-hundreths.

[ÜberDoober]

Oh man! Thanks for the updates and for getting the ball rolling.

I was out all day yesterday and away from a computer so missed everything, dangit. At least the F1 broadcast isn't on at the same time.

[ÜberDoober]

Tuning into the pre-race stuff and have another new video window. Weird but it's okay. Just pulled up the timing screen and see they have the regular flash one back. Cool

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[LittleAlguy]

I like that they have Dixie's visage there. :)

http://www1.indycar.com/scoring/2008/reports/indycarseries/watkinsglen/indycar-results-pf.pdf

Kanaan is driving with an injured wrist after a warm-up accident.

[LittleAlguy]

Those were final practice times I posted, btw.

The Grid: http://www1.indycar.com/scoring/2008/reports/indycarseries/watkinsglen/indycar-results-quals.pdf

[ÜberDoober]

Cool! Thanks for the times and grid.

Did you watch Silverstone? What a wet spin city. At least it looks like a nice day at Watkins Glen. :)

[LittleAlguy]

Yes I did. That was pretty crazy.

Apparently, the series will be back to the Glen next year.

[LittleAlguy]

That's pretty cool what they did with the troops playing Halo 3.

[LittleAlguy]

Gotta love those "road course specialists".

[ÜberDoober]

The engines fire and we're ready to roll. Good luck, everybody! :)

[LittleAlguy]

This is where the Race Control comes in handy.

[ÜberDoober]

Ohhh! Wheldon out!

[LittleAlguy]

Game over Wheldon.

Castroneves up to 20th.

[LittleAlguy]

Moraes up to 6th!!

[ÜberDoober]

Somebody get Helio a screwdriver!

Tough luck. Boy is he pissed!

[LittleAlguy]

Castroneves's gearbox is messed up. Game over for him.

Dixon is loving this.

[ÜberDoober]

Trouble for Wilson. Helio back out.

[LittleAlguy]

This is what you get for trusting Roth Racing.

Meira on down have made a stop. Wilson in trouble.

Castroneves gets the steering wheel changed.

[ÜberDoober]

Briscoe keeping the gap solid over Dixon. Just caught some audio from the TV and they said something about Marco might not making it to the finish??

[LittleAlguy]

I must have missed that.

Manning and Andretti in.

Howard is out of the race.

[LittleAlguy]

Left rear vibration.

Top 2 in.

[ÜberDoober]

Damn bad break for Servia. He was doing good, like I predicted.

[LittleAlguy]

Hmm, Briscoe is trying to make it on 1 more stop.

[ÜberDoober]

Dixon is gaining ground. Nice to see long greens.

[LittleAlguy]

Yes, that's a refreshing change. :D

The people who pitted on the first yellow should be at a slight advantage if there are no yellows the rest of the way.

[LittleAlguy]

Kanaan in.

[ÜberDoober]

They say TK will still have to pit one more time? My video stream is a little choppy today.

[LittleAlguy]

Yes. They short-pitted him in the hopes to leapfrog Hunter-Reay.

Nice short battle there.

[LittleAlguy]

Oh no. Servia. :/

[ÜberDoober]

Meira out!

[LittleAlguy]

Viso helped a little.

There go the alternate strategies.

[ÜberDoober]

This is certainly going to make things interesting! :)

[ÜberDoober]

Big Action! Patrick crashes in the pits. RHR & Dixon beat Briscoe out? Did I see that right?

[LittleAlguy]

You saw that right. Good job by the RLR crew.

[ÜberDoober]

Scary replay on Patrick. Lucky nobody got hurt there.

[ÜberDoober]

Oh. Dixon did get out in front of RHR.

[LittleAlguy]

Never mind, Dixon got ahead.

Gosh, slowed computer.

[ÜberDoober]

Damn! Another yellow. That last one was way longer than it needed to be but man, what a restart!

[LittleAlguy]

Looks like Carpenter tried to let LL cars by and they bottlenecked as a result.

[LittleAlguy]

There's an ambulance out there according to the T&S note.

[ÜberDoober]

Shootout Time!

Oh Dammit. Duno and A.J. crashed. More friggin' yellow.

[ÜberDoober]

Oh holy shit! Dixon & Briscoe crash out under yellow. WTF?

[LittleAlguy]

I spoke too soon.

What is going on? This is plain amateurish.

[ÜberDoober]

Dixon's move makes Milka's not look so stupid.

Loved the shots of Ganassi and Bobby Rahal on tv

[ÜberDoober]

Hahahaha. "Bloody Stupid". :)

[LittleAlguy]

*bangs head against computer*

[ÜberDoober]

I guessed they decided to save all the foolishness until the end. At the rate they're going, we're going to have another finish under yellow. :mad:

Nice move by RHR for the lead.

[LittleAlguy]

Fine start by Hunter-Reay.

[ÜberDoober]

Ryan Hunter-Reay takes the win! :rocker-001:

Good job by Manning to hold onto 2nd!

[LittleAlguy]

Good on ya! RHR wins! Manning with a nice 2nd, Rice with 4th for Dreyer & Reinbold. Coyne gets 6th and 7th. Career best for Moraes and IndyCar best for Junqueira.

[ÜberDoober]

Thanks, LittleAlguy. A pleasure as always.

Need to wash the dog and do chores. See ya next time!

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[LittleAlguy]

Thanks, it's been great. See ya for Nashville. :seeya: