Indycar: Detroit Belle Isle

[DooberRoni]

Detroit Indy Grand Prix presented by Firestone
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Qualifying
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Saturday, August 30
11:301m EASTERN
8:30am PACIFIC


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Sunday, Aug 31st
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12:30pm PACIFIC

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With only one race to go after Detroit, will Helio stand a chance to catch Dixon in the points? Anything could happen so don't miss the next to the last race of the year for Indycars.

[LittleAlguy]

Something tells me that there won't be just two laps of yellow like there were last week. I think it will go down to Chicago.

[ÜberDoober]

Today's practice session times (top 21)

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[ÜberDoober]

Bernoldi out. Tagliani in! :):):) Go Tags!

Even thought it's an early 6:30 here, MotoGP qualifying just ended up and I'm watching group 1 practice from Belle Isle.

Castroneves 1:12:6237
Wheldon
Servia
Kanaan
Patrick
Briscoe
Andretti

Group 2 is rolling out and they're letting Tagliani run both sessions.

[ÜberDoober]

Morning practice wraps up with Dixon on top. He has brushed the wall about 4 times since yesterday. :ack2:

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[LittleAlguy]

Wheldon with some contact. That was pretty heavy.

I do hope they change the track to how it was later in the CART days where there with an actual passing zone.

Wow, those Renskes were pretty, weren't they?

[ÜberDoober]

The track looks very professional and nicely done.

Briscoe sneaks to the top of the charts.

[ÜberDoober]

Dang, Tags parks it in a bad spot.

[ÜberDoober]

Marty Roth officially out of competition.

Danica makes top 6.

[LittleAlguy]

Yeah, the facility itself does look better than when they last raced there in '01 (before the IRL got there).

Tags around. Manning just squeezes through.

Briscoe, Castroneves, Kanaan, Servia, Wheldon, Patrick through to Q2.

If there's something they should do next year for the qualification is that they should show split times during qualifying runs to add to the excitement.

[LittleAlguy]

I'd like to see Dario back. Just not at Wheldon's expense, though.

Game over for Scheckter in this session.

[ÜberDoober]

Power should have parked it in a runoff area. Junky stuffs it and FCY. Time will prolly run out?

[LittleAlguy]

Junqueira with heavy damage. Power with some damage.

[ÜberDoober]

Wilson bumps Meira! I am surprised they had time to go back out.

[LittleAlguy]

Great lap, Wilson. :)

[LittleAlguy]

That Helio sure knows how to put down a quick lap. Even before he joined Penske, he had his share of quick laps with Hogan in the less than quick Lola-Mercedes package.

[ÜberDoober]

Briscoe bumps RHR for top six. Good run by Rahal.

[LittleAlguy]

I believe this is Rahal's first Fast 6.

Too bad for Will.

[LittleAlguy]

Castroneves, Dixon, Wilson, Servia, Rahal, Briscoe into the Fast 6.

[LittleAlguy]

Incredible laps by Dixon.

[ÜberDoober]

Dixon and Castroneves on the front row. What could be more exciting!

[ÜberDoober]

Here is a picture from indycar.com this morning.

Why is that poor child wearing a lampshade hat? :)

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[LittleAlguy]

Looks as though someone is trying to be ingenious in this economy.

[LittleAlguy]

Who is that in the radio booth in place of Davey?

edit: sounds familiar. Can't put my finger on who the voice belongs to.

[ÜberDoober]

Who is that in the radio booth in place of Davey?

I don't know? I have it on low and splitting my attention with the Grand-Am race. I think they said something about it yesterday but I forgotted.

[ÜberDoober]

S H O W T I M E !!!

[LittleAlguy]

Sweet. :D

I just think all Dixon has to do is finish ahead if they both finish up front. The max one can gain if both start is 43 (53 for win and most laps led, 10 for finishing last). If they are both in the back and Helio leads the most, then it is a 42 point lead.

[LittleAlguy]

That's a ragged start.

[ÜberDoober]

FCY on the first lap. I really hate these strung out starts.

[ÜberDoober]

Junky getting the penalty for spinning Milka.

[LittleAlguy]

Ahh, that's Arie, Jr.

Yeah, they really need to be tighter with the starts. Not too tight to create a mess but better than that. No wonder they asked about standing starts on indycar.com.

[LittleAlguy]

Scheckter, the two Conquest cars, and Duno in pit. Junky in the back for avoidable contact.

Not again. :(

[ÜberDoober]

Duno gets a black flag for no communication with the pits.

[LittleAlguy]

Wow, those two are putting on a clinic.

edit: ah, that explains it partially.

[ÜberDoober]

Dixon's pullling a couple of car lengths ahead. Looks like Wheldon just stopped for fuel only?

[LittleAlguy]

Rice just came in as well on lap 12.

[LittleAlguy]

Nice pass, Power.

[ÜberDoober]

Wheldon and Camara tangle. It sounds like Patrick and Meira are duelling but they aren't showing it.

[LittleAlguy]

Not so much from Wheldon.

I think they want us to just imagine what it looks like, lol.

[ÜberDoober]

Dixon pits and Castroneves stays out. And so the strategy really begins. :)

[ÜberDoober]

Way to cut the video on Dixon's pass.

[LittleAlguy]

Haha, I know. Yeah, people need to see full body shots of the two drivers than actual racing and passing.

[LittleAlguy]

I hear ya, RHR. I thought that returning the fuel mixtures would work but they've just made them even more pit strategy reliant.

[ÜberDoober]

Danica and Meira and Viso all off. :ack2:

[LittleAlguy]

That definitely looked like a block by DP. Meira did get a bit optimistic by going threewide.

[ÜberDoober]

They just said Tagliani in the pits with the engine cover off. :mad:

[ÜberDoober]

Patrick gets a stop and go for coming in when the pits were closed. She had a flat so what was she supposed to do?

[LittleAlguy]

Viso out with damage.

Scheckter back out to get some testing.

Big break for Castroneves on the yellows.

[LittleAlguy]

Not sure why she's upset with Viso. It looked like he just made an opportunistic pass on her while she was on cold tires. The defense she played helped lead to that incident with Meira.

That was definitely a block by Manning.

[LittleAlguy]

Junqueira up to 10th by Andretti. Not sure what has been up with Marco this weekend.

[ÜberDoober]

Black flag for Duno for failure to maintain pace.

[ÜberDoober]

Too bad for Power & RHR. Dixon pits.

[LittleAlguy]

A bit ambitious from Power. Tried backing out from the pass but too late.

[ÜberDoober]

So if Duno got called to the pits for no radio, why not Marco?

Things are getting pretty racy! :)

[LittleAlguy]

It's shaping up just like last year's battle for 2nd.

Here's a yellow. Big break for Dixon.

[ÜberDoober]

Wheldon and Moraes both off. FCY. It's turning into a nailbiter! :ack2:

[ÜberDoober]

Did the TV guys just insinuate that Wheldon's off was intentional to bring out the yellow so Dixon could save fuel? I just caught a bit of it.

[ÜberDoober]

OMG!

Wilson!

[LittleAlguy]

Oh wow, another break for Dixon.

They seemed to insinuate that. I doubt it since he's been struggling all day.

[LittleAlguy]

Even if Helio wins, I still don't think he'll be too ecstatic.

[LittleAlguy]

Penske vs. Newman-Haas-Lanigan

Just like old times, lol.

[ÜberDoober]

Damned timed race. :mad:

[LittleAlguy]

Grr, that stinks. :(

Wow, they are really getting tight with the officiating (sans the start).

[ÜberDoober]

Black flag for Marco. I'll be surprised if Helio gets ahead Wilson.

[ÜberDoober]

Well, this will be one for the conspiracy theorists.

Congrats to Wilson. I am glad to see him win. Not the best for Castroneves but at least Dixon didn't clinch.

[LittleAlguy]

Congrats to Wilson. Not sure if that is the way I would have imagined it.

That one is for Paul.

Good for Helio to control himself.

[ÜberDoober]

A pleasure as always. Thanks for hanging.

I need to bail so see you for the big finale! :)

[LittleAlguy]

Alright, see ya next week. Can't wait. :D