Indycar Chicagoland Finale

[DooberRoni]

Peak Indy 300 Season Finale

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Qualifying
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Qualifying, Saturday September 6th
4:15pm Eastern
1:15pm Pacific

Race Broadcast on
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Sunday July 20
3:30pm EASTERN
12:30pm PACIFIC

Come join us for live posting during the race. Let's end this great year of open wheel racing with a bang!

Schedule info courtesy of (clicks)
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Event Schedule (Central Time?)
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[LittleAlguy]

This will be fun indeed.

Entry list: http://www.indycar.com/news/2008/chicago/2008_ics_chicago_entrylist.pdf

[ÜberDoober]

Morning practice times:

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[LittleAlguy]

Some honesty from Bob, lol.

I do like the liveries that Buddy Rice and Oriol Servia have on their cars this weekend. Not sure if I love TK's new one for today.

[LittleAlguy]

P2 Results: http://www1.indycar.com/scoring/2008/reports/indycarseries/chicago/indycar-results-p2.pdf

Dixon says he got a tow on that quick lap. Could be gamesmanship, though.

[LittleAlguy]

Qualifying has begun!

Rahal with the first run. Avg of 213.523.

[LittleAlguy]

Hmm, nice hair, Kevin. :p

Dale Coyne hopes to have both Junqueira and Moraes back for '09 according to the broadcast.

[LittleAlguy]

Roth in P1 with a 214.794.

Hmm, John Dick has joined KVRT.

[LittleAlguy]

Scheckter now on pole. 214.855 4-lap average.

[LittleAlguy]

215.553 4-lap average for Dixon. That will be tough to beat.

[LittleAlguy]

Danica just missed out on pole. Provisional 2nd at a 215.548.

[LittleAlguy]

Wow, this is fishy. "Are we sticking with 'the plan'?"

edit: apparently, Helio either did not or chose not to listen in the drivers' meeting.

[LittleAlguy]

Briscoe wins pole with a 215.818 4-lap average. Congrats to them.

[LittleAlguy]

Helio to the back for his line-crossing (literally) : http://www.indycar.com/news/?story_id=12479

[ÜberDoober]

I had stuff to do and only saw the first lap of qualifying. The guys were saying that TPTB were closely watching for cars dipping under the white line so when I got caught up, I wasn't too surprised to see someone have their times thrown out, but HELIO?? Damn. :mad:

[LittleAlguy]

Should be interesting how they play the strategy as a result. Could have just done that from the top 5 and see what happens from there but no!!

[LittleAlguy]

Talk about ducking the question. :ack2:

[LittleAlguy]

Did you know Dixon ran out of fuel on the last lap at Chicagoland last year? :p

[ÜberDoober]

With all this pre-race stuff, will they call it a timed race so they can fit it in?

[LittleAlguy]

I don't think so. They don't tend to do that unless there's rain. End early, that is.

[LittleAlguy]

That 2nd start was the best of the season, perhaps.

Helio up to 18th.

[ÜberDoober]

Helio is a man on a mission. Nice to see multiple grooves.

[LittleAlguy]

Good stuff so far.

Carpenter to 5th. Nice start of the race for him. Now 4th by DP.

[LittleAlguy]

Viso is making a nice run up to the front as well. He's towing Helio.

Danica slipping slightly.

[LittleAlguy]

Rahal making a good run.

Here's Viso and Scheckter. Hopefully, they will remember what happened at Kansas.

Now they're settling a little.

[LittleAlguy]

Viso to 11th.

Carpenter heavy in the wall.

[ÜberDoober]

Carpenter provides the first yellow and some pretty flames.

[LittleAlguy]

Haha. Good thing he's ok.

[LittleAlguy]

Stop making me nervous, Reid.

[ÜberDoober]

Danica whining about being blocked. How ironic.

[LittleAlguy]

Big momentum loss. The 2nd pack is pretty dicey.

[LittleAlguy]

Meira into the wall. Not the way to end his season. :(

[ÜberDoober]

Caution is out. Who is it? Meira. Dang!

[ÜberDoober]

Castroneves out first! :)

[LittleAlguy]

Sorry, I can't write. This is way too insane, lol.

[ÜberDoober]

Sorry, I can't write. This is way too insane, lol.

I totally know what you mean. :ack2: Can't stop watching. Caution out for debris.

[ÜberDoober]

Oopsie. Rahal takes our Rice. No root beer for you today. :)

[LittleAlguy]

Rice cocked up in the pits with Rahal. That's a lot of damage for a pit lane collision.

[ÜberDoober]

Oh too bad for Sarah. Poop. :(

[LittleAlguy]

Dixon is really cutting it close. Now it looks as though he's getting the handle back.

[ÜberDoober]

There goes Viso's good run.

[LittleAlguy]

Milka leads (staying out)!! This should be an interesting restart.

[ÜberDoober]

Moraes in the wall. There goes the fuel issues. What an amazing race.

[LittleAlguy]

Moraes out. :( He was running so well.

[LittleAlguy]

Again with the first pit stall helping them out, lol.

[LittleAlguy]

A little too quick with the yellow there, I guess?

[LittleAlguy]

What an amazing race!

[ÜberDoober]

Congratulations to Scott Dixon and TCG.

That was a fantastic nail biter. On the replay it looked like Helio won.

[ÜberDoober]

Oh crap! They did give the win to Castroneves! How cool is that! :)

[LittleAlguy]

Oh crap! They did give the win to Castroneves! How cool is that! :)

Haha, it's the day of win reversal. :D