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16 Jul 2004, 15:36 (Ref:1038270)
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Practice is underway this morning...
Since they are racing at night, qualifying in the heat of the day, and doing their first shakedowns this morning, teams probably won't learn much until their full-tank sessions this evening.... But early results show Vitor meira with the top time of 199.881 Mark Taylor is the slowest thus far at 192.975 Only 11 of the cars have even taken the track in this session and it is about 30 minutes old... Penske hasn't taken to the track yet...nor has Kanaan, Dixon, Scheckter, Fernandez, or Rice Top Five in this session thus far: 1. Meira 199.881 2. Manning 198.897 3. Wheldon 197.214 4. Matsuura 196.896 5. Giaffone 196.660 Four of the next five are all over 196: Herta Franchitti J. Lazier Takagi Bell is in the 195 range Live Timing & Scoring is on the IRL site... |
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16 Jul 2004, 15:52 (Ref:1038282)
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Giaffone now topped 198, and Takagi is fourth in the high 197s
Everyone has been on the track now and the drivers mentioned earlier as not being outthere are now getting up to speed |
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16 Jul 2004, 15:56 (Ref:1038287)
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Rice is 2nd, Kanaan 4th...
Fernandez in top 6 Dixon only car not to take the track thus far.... |
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16 Jul 2004, 16:25 (Ref:1038309)
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With less than 10 minutes left in the session:
1. Meira 2. Scott Dixon 3. Rice 4. Manning 5. Kanaan 6. Giaffone the Penske cars are 15th (hornish) and 17th... Cheever team near the bottom...AJ IV is slowest of the session... Speeds range from 199 to 194.... |
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16 Jul 2004, 16:28 (Ref:1038311)
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That's the way the session ended...
The top 15 are all over 196 mph. and aw within about 4 tenths of a second of each other.... Like I said earlier, this session is like night & day from what the race will be (no pun intended), but the 2nd session should tell us a little about how qualifying will go... Ganassi finally stepped up.... |
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16 Jul 2004, 20:01 (Ref:1038517)
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Nice to see Giaffone have a good session. He's overdue, and he's a better driver than his car has let him show.
Also good for Takagi, who has looked miserable and downright scared to be in an IRL car since Motegi. Maybe this will give him some confidence again. Good show for Dixon, and Manning. Could this be their breakout race? The times seem to be almost as quick as last year though. I wonder if the teams are finding new ways to get some speed out of these new 3.0 engines? |
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16 Jul 2004, 20:12 (Ref:1038534)
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The 2nd session saw some teams gain and others stay the same....
Let's see how hot the track is for qualifying..... |
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16 Jul 2004, 21:36 (Ref:1038610)
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Vitor still leads the way...
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16 Jul 2004, 21:36 (Ref:1038611)
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here is the line up for nashville
1. Buddy Rice 201.231 (4th Career Pole) Rahal-Letterman Racing 26th Career start  2. Vitor Meira 200.967 (1st time starting 2nd) Rahal-Letterman Racing 21st Career start  3.Bryan Herta 200.955 (1st time starting 3rd , Career best qualifying) Andretti Green Racing 19th Career start  4. Dan Wheldon 199.992 (2nd time starting 4th) Andretti Green Racing 24th Career start  5. Tony Kanaan 199.804 (4th time starting 5th) Andretti Green Racing 25th Career start  6. Darren Manning 199.108 (2nd time starting 6th , equal best Career qualifying) Target Chip Ganassi Racing 8th Career start  7. Dario Franchitti 199.089 (4th time starting 7th) Andretti Green Racing 12th Career start  8. Scott Dixon 199.027 (1st time starting 8th) Target Chip Ganassi Racing 24th Career start  9. Sam Hornish Jnr 199.003 (1st time starting 9th) Marlboro Team Penske 60th Career start  10. Tomas Scheckter 198.829 (3rd time starting 10th) Panther Racing 36th Career start  11. Helio Castroneves 198.801 (3rd time starting 11th) Marlboro Team Penske 41st Career start  12. Townsend Bell 198.747 (1st time starting 12th) Panther Racing 2nd Career start  13. Adrian Fernandez 198.701 (2nd time starting 13th) Fernandez Racing 7th career start  14. Kosuke Matsuura 198.381 (1st time starting 14th) Super Aguri Fernandez Racing 8th Career start  15. Scott Sharp 198.162 (2nd time starting 15th) Kelley Racing 90th Career start  16. Alex Barron 197.993 (2nd time starting 16th) Red Bull Cheever Racing 34th career start  17. Jaques Lazier 197.400 (3rd time starting 17th) Patrick Racing 38th Career start  18. Mark Taylor 197.237 (1st time starting 18th) Access Motorsports 7th Career start  19. Felipe Giaffone 197.237 (3rd time starting 19th) Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 44th career start  20. Tora Takagi 196.653 (2nd time starting 20th) Pioneer Mo Nunn Racing 24th Career start  21 Ed Carpenter 196.399 (1st time starting 21st) Red Bull Cheever Racing 11th Career start  22. A J. Foyt IV 193.125 (1st time starting 22nd) AJ Foyt Enterprises 24th Career start 
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16 Jul 2004, 21:37 (Ref:1038612)
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Lets hope VM can get his first win
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16 Jul 2004, 21:39 (Ref:1038613)
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And thats pooooooooooooooooooooole for Buddy Rice!
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16 Jul 2004, 21:45 (Ref:1038619)
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18 Mark Taylor (13) 0.4710 23.7278 197.237
19 Felipe Giaffone (24) 0.4710 23.7278 197.237  That's close.
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16 Jul 2004, 22:15 (Ref:1038632)
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Buddy Rice does it again
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16 Jul 2004, 22:32 (Ref:1038651)
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Im gonna merge this thread into the grid thread
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16 Jul 2004, 22:36 (Ref:1038653)
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And this will be Scott Sharp's 90th start!
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16 Jul 2004, 22:48 (Ref:1038665)
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yep he is the most capped IRL driver , has competed in almost all of them 9he actually missed quite a few due to injury but 90 is pretty good.
closing in fast on 100 , well done Scott
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16 Jul 2004, 22:54 (Ref:1038668)
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in actual fact i just did a quick calculation and this is the 94th Indy Racing League event since its inception , so Scott has only missed 4 races since 1996 , now that is impressive
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16 Jul 2004, 23:52 (Ref:1038698)
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those rahal-letterman cars are definitely flying at the moment.... good for g-force too
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Man, there isn't a tighter, closer, more competitive series out there. Look at how close those times are, incredible!
Rahal/Letterman, and AGR are really the teams to beat now, there's no doubt left. But the Ganassi boys look like there ready this time, can they upset them? Should be a great one! I hope TagHeuer is ready! 
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You want to watch the pit stops. That's where Rahal teams shine. Miera lost some time last race when he killed his engine and lost the lead. The pit crews are extremely good.
Most of the guys in Rice's crew are from the Craftsman pit crew challenge winners in the Cart series. Miera's crew is mostly new, but the crew chief was the leader of the challenge winners and is working hard to hone the edge. They will win one soon. |
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ummmmm in response to the post above mine.
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The right front changer signaled Vitor to take off before the hose was disconnected on the "killer" stop, which casued him to kill the engine... Then he raced hard to return to the top five, only to have another slow stop on the last yellow that moved him back to ninth.... Vitor had the best car on the track ....but has nothing to show for it... I hope that this crew will be practicing stops all week long.... Vitor deserves a win....and his crew let him down at Nashville.... Last edited by Tim Northcutt; 19 Jul 2004 at 13:49. |
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BTW....
They had a big crowd there....the bleachers looked really full....a good note for the Series to draw like that in the heart of NASCAR country... |
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I agree Tim. I saw some photos of the race and the main grand stand, which is huge, looked very full.
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When I called for tickets to Nazareth, the girl had a tough time finding me any decent seats,(although she finally did) and told me there was more interest this year, than she could ever remember. Figures, its the last year there! 
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