Michigan race weekend thread (includes Starting Grid)

luke · 28 Jul 2005, 13:15 (Ref:1365568)

Race 11 of 17 Firestone Indy 400 Michigan International Speedway

Weekend schedule: (ET)

Practice 1 Sat Jul 30 :: 10 - 11:30 a.m.

Practice 2 Sat Jul 30 :: 12:45 - 2:15 p.m.

Qualifications Sat Jul 30 :: 3:45 - 4:50 p.m.

Final Practice Sun Jul 31 :: 10:30 - 11 a.m.

Firestone Indy 400 Sun Jul 31 :: 3:15 p.m.

Weekend weather forcast:

Saturday
84°F (29°C) | 63°F (17°C) Sunny

Sunday
82°F (28°C) | 64°F (18°C) Cloudy

Website: www.mispeedway.com

TV :

U.S. Race Live at 3 p.m. (EDT) on ABC.

U.K. Race Live at 8 p.m. (GMT) on Sky Sports 3

Radio IMS

First IRL race: 2002

Total IRL races: 3

Defending champion: Buddy Rice

Race distance: 200 laps/400 miles

marcus · 28 Jul 2005, 19:17 (Ref:1365882)

PREVIOUS WINNERS

The Michigan 500 has a huge history but since its IRL days has only has 3 events here is the list of Indycar Winners.

2002 Tomas Schekter
2003 Alex Barron
2004 Buddy Rice

will another name be added to this list ???

or can we see the first repeat winnner at Michigan ??

STARTING GRID

1. Bryan Herta 219.141 (3rd Career Pole)

38th Career Start

2. Tomas Schekter 219.100 (3rd time starting 2nd)

55th Career Start

3. Buddy (if thats your real name) Rice 218.909 (3rd time starting 3rd)

44th Career Start

4. Scott Dixon 218.890 (3rd time starting 4th)

42nd Career Start

5. Buddy (possibly Robert) Lazier 218.855 (8th time starting 5th)

87th Career Start

6. Scott Sharp 218.745 (11th time starting 6th)

109th Career Start

7. Dario Franchitti 218.570 (6th time starting 7th)

31st Career Start

8. Danica Patrick 218.479 (1st time starting 8th)

11th Career Start

9. Vitor Meira 217.590 (3rd time starting 9th)

40th Career Start

10. Townsend Bell 217.502 (1st time starting 10th)

11th Career Start

11. Dan Wheldon 217.486 (5th time starting 11th)

43rd Career Start

12. Kosuke Matsuura 217.388 (2nd time starting 12th)

27th Career Start

13. Sam Hornish Jnr 217.373 (5th time starting 13th)

79th Career Start

14. Tony Kanaan 217.167 (3rd time starting 14th)

44th Career Start

15. Jaques Lazier 216.956 (3rd time starting 15th)

46th Career Start

16. Helio Castroneves 216.846 (1st time starting 16th)

58th Career Start

17. Ryan Briscoe 216.513 (1st time starting 17th)

10th Career Start

18. Roger Yasukawa 215.308 (6th time starting 18th)

29th Career Start

19. Patrick Carpentier 215.027 (2nd time starting 19th)

11th Career Start

20. Alex Barron 214.815 (2nd time starting 20th)

53rd Career Start

21. Jimmy Kite 214.095 (2nd time starting 21st)

30th Career Start

22. AJ Foyt IV 214.040 (4th time starting 22nd)

43rd Career Start

23. Ed Carpenter 212.416 (1st time starting 23rd)

29th Career Start

luke · 28 Jul 2005, 20:21 (Ref:1365988)

Penske has always been good at the short track, I would like to see another Penske victory at Michigan this weekend.

macdaddy · 28 Jul 2005, 21:12 (Ref:1366047)

You're not implying Michigan as a "short track", are you?
'Cause it ain't!
Wish I was there. I really miss that grand old place.

luke · 28 Jul 2005, 21:20 (Ref:1366053)

Quote:

Originally Posted by macdaddy

You're not implying Michigan as a "short track", are you?
'Cause it ain't!
Wish I was there. I really miss that grand old place.

Of course not. I was saying I want another Penske victory at Michigan this weekend not that I though at another short track again as Michigan clearly isn't.

climb · 29 Jul 2005, 06:16 (Ref:1366305)

Quite good news!
Townsend Bell back again with Panther; I hope and think he can do something good.

jock25 · 30 Jul 2005, 20:31 (Ref:1367749)

Just been checking qualifying on Live Timing & Scoring - I guess Ganassi's axing of Manning has had something of a positive effect on the thus far lethargic Scott Dixon!!!

Snrub · 30 Jul 2005, 21:38 (Ref:1367802)

Look at who's in each position I get the impression that we shouldn't read too much into the qualifying. Granted they're very close together. On a track like MI, I imagine guys like Kannan, Weldon, Hornish are setup for the race.

Tim Northcutt · 31 Jul 2005, 14:08 (Ref:1368245)

Michigan is a premium placve to draft....Handling in traffic and being stable in the draft are keys to going to the front there....

Expect Hornish, Helio and Wheldon to move up....

drewdawg727 · 31 Jul 2005, 17:00 (Ref:1368345)

Aren't these speeds a little faster than last years?
I mean..by a lot?

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 20:48 (Ref:1368488)

Herta got *smoked* on that restart.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 20:51 (Ref:1368492)

Great racing right now.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 20:53 (Ref:1368497)

Second yellow - Castroneves' engine blew up.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:05 (Ref:1368507)

Scary restart.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:11 (Ref:1368514)

Two Hondas, one Toyota and two Chevrolets in the top five

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:14 (Ref:1368517)

Third yellow out - Danica Patrick just blew her engine.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:25 (Ref:1368529)

The heat is picking up - the end of this race looks to be quite intense.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:27 (Ref:1368531)

Ouch, hard three-car wreck coming out of turn two now.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:31 (Ref:1368535)

This could have been REAL bad. Townsend Bell lost it and as Jaques Lazier checked up he got hit from behind by Matsuura, sending him sideways hard into the spinning Bell. Lazier even caught some air from the impact.

That was a big one.

flexible-flyer · 31 Jul 2005, 21:34 (Ref:1368536)

my goodness. the fact the ganassi car got hit beforehand could have been a blessing in disguise as i think he would have collected bell in the same way tagliani collected zanardi all those years ago...

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:36 (Ref:1368538)

Quote:

Originally Posted by flexible-flyer

my goodness. the fact the ganassi car got hit beforehand could have been a blessing in disguise as i think he would have collected bell in the same way tagliani collected zanardi all those years ago...

Yeah, I was thinking about that too... but then again, Lazier was slowing down, so even if he had been unable to avoid Bell the impact wouldn't have been anywhere near that of the Zanardi/Tagliani one (which happened at absolutely full speed).

Anyhow, thank goodness everyone involved seem ok.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:43 (Ref:1368542)

This is going to be one wild seven-lap shootout.

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:51 (Ref:1368550)

PHEW, that was awesome - congrats to Bryan Herta on picking on the victory!

flexible-flyer · 31 Jul 2005, 21:53 (Ref:1368553)

bout time herta won another race! well done. AGR are just too good. im surprised dario did not make it a 1-2-3-4 for them!

rustyfan · 31 Jul 2005, 21:55 (Ref:1368555)

My bad - the wreck earlier involved four, not three, cars. Roger Yasukawa was the fourth one involved (checking the replays from the wreck at the moment).

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