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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2012 2:33:00 GMT -5
GP of Alabama was an awesome race. Was really impressed with Marco Andretti, he was making some great moves. There was a lot of action the whole race and it was for the most part clean and exciting. Bourdais somehow gets Lotus into the top-ten, Barrichello gets a top-ten. NBC Sports did a much better job than ABC with race coverage as well.
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Post by Steveweiser on Apr 14, 2012 7:22:23 GMT -5
Mercedes 1-2 in China tomorrow with Rosberg on pole and Schumacher second, promoted due to Hamilton's five place penalty for changing his gearbox. Vettel starts 11th.
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Post by hawkfan44 on Apr 14, 2012 22:26:59 GMT -5
Greg Biffle wins at Texas
kind of a personal announcement- for the first time ever, I'll be going to next week's STP 400 at Kansas, my first ever Cup race! (Turn 4 side about 18 rows up if anyone's wondering). never been to a nascar race before, so can't wait for next Sunday at Kansas
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Post by That Mickie Fan on Apr 14, 2012 22:31:45 GMT -5
That was kind of a boring race.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2012 23:33:07 GMT -5
Ryan Briscoe wins the pole for the Grand Prix of Long Beach, but after penalties will start 11th, with Franchitti leading the field.
Top-ten (before penalties):
1 - Briscoe
2 - Power
3 - Hunter-Reay
4 - Franchitti
5 - Viso
6 - Hinchcliffe
7 - Newgarden
8 - Castroneves
9 - Wilson
10 - Kanaan
Top-ten (after penalties):
1 - Franchitti
2 - Newgarden
3 - Wilson
4 - Pagenaud
5 - Dixon
6 - Sato
7 - Conway
8 - Rahal
9 - Kimball
10 - Tagliani
Without the penalties Chevrolet would have seven of the top-ten spots. With the penalties Honda has nine, and Lotus has one.
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Post by Steveweiser on Apr 15, 2012 3:20:00 GMT -5
13 laps to go in China, and Jenson Button kinda stuffed it up with a poor pit stop. Nico Rosberg leading by about 20 seconds or so.
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Post by Steveweiser on Apr 15, 2012 3:44:10 GMT -5
Rosberg wins, ahead of Button and Hamilton. Webber finishes ahead of Vettel.
Hamilton now leads the championship by two points from Button.
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Post by That Mickie Fan on Apr 15, 2012 17:25:10 GMT -5
Will Power Wins the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
The 30 Second Penalty to Hunter Rhay was a bit unfair
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2012 18:29:19 GMT -5
Power is on a mission this year. After finishing 7th in the opening race, he went from 9th to 1st in Alabama and now from 12th to 1st in Long Beach. Incredible performances both times, and I have no idea how he possibly saved enough fuel for his final stretch today. Thought for sure Pagenaud was going to catch him, but he would have needed just one more lap.
Chevrolet continues to dominate despite the 10-spot penalty for all their teams this week:
1 - Power (Chevrolet)
2 - Pagenaud (Honda)
3 - Hinchcliffe (Chevrolet)
4 - Kanaan (Chevrolet)
5 - Hildebrand (Chevrolet)
6 - Hunter-Reay (Chevrolet)
7 - Briscoe (Chevrolet)
8 - Sato (Honda)
9 - Barrichello (Chevrolet)
10 - Wilson (Honda)
We'll see if Honda can turn things around on the ovals, cause Chevy is looking unbeatable on the roads and streets.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2012 13:28:57 GMT -5
Entry list is out for the Indianapolis 500. 34 entries, a few drivers TBA.
2 Ryan Briscoe / Team Penske / Chevrolet / Australia
3 Helio Castroneves (W)/ Team Penske / Chevrolet / Brazil
4 JR Hildebrand / Panther Racing / Chevrolet / United States
5 E.J. Viso / KV Racing Technology / Chevrolet / Venezuela
6 Katherine Legge (R)/ Lotus Dragon Racing / Lotus / England
7 Sebastien Bourdais / Lotus Dragon Racing / Lotus / France
8 Rubens Barrichello (R) / KV Racing Technology / Chevrolet / Brazil
9 Scott Dixon (W) / Target Chip Ganassi Racing / Honda / New Zealand
10 Dario Franchitti (W) / Target Chip Ganassi Racing / Honda / Scotland
11 Tony Kanaan / KV Racing Technology w/SH / Chevrolet / Brazil
12 Will Power / Team Penske / Chevrolet / Australia
14 Mike Conway / A.J. Foyt Enterprises / Honda / England
15 Takuma Sato / Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing / Honda / Japan
17 Sebastian Saavedra / AFS Racing/Andretti Autosport / Chevrolet / Colombia
18 Justin Wilson / Dale Coyne Racing / Honda / England
19 James Jakes (R) / Dale Coyne Racing / Honda / England
20 Ed Carpenter / Ed Carpenter Racing / Chevrolet / United States
21 TBA / Ed Carpenter Racing / Chevrolet
22 Oriol Servia / Lotus Dreyer & Reinbold Racing / Lotus / Spain
25 Ana Beatriz / Andretti Autosport/Conquest Racing / Chevrolet / Brazil
26 Marco Andretti / Andretti Autosport / Chevrolet / United States
27 James Hinchcliffe / Andretti Autosport / Chevrolet / Canada
28 Ryan Hunter-Reay / Andretti Autosport / Chevrolet / United States
38 Graham Rahal / Chip Ganassi Racing / Honda / United States
39 Bryan Clauson (R) / Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing / Honda / United States
41 Wade Cunningham (R) / A.J. Foyt Enterprises / Honda / New Zealand
45 TBA / Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing / Honda
67 Josef Newgarden (R) / Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing / Honda / United States
77 Simon Pagenaud (R) / Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports / Honda / France
78 Simona de Silvestro / Lotus HVM Racing / Lotus / Switzerland
83 Charlie Kimball / Chip Ganassi Racing / Honda / United States
98 Alex Tagliani / Bryan Herta Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian / Lotus / Canada
99 TBA / Sam Schmidt Motorsports / Honda
TBA TBA / Newman/Haas Racing / Lotus
TBA for Ed Carpenter Racing could be Buddy Rice
TBA for RLLR is likely Michel Jourdain Jr.
TBA for Schmidt is likely Townsend Bell
TBA for Newman/Haas is likely Jean Alesi
Country breakdown
United States: 8 (10)
Brazil: 4
England: 4
France: 2 (3)
Australia: 2
Canada: 2
New Zealand: 2
Colombia: 1
Japan: 1
Scotland: 1
Spain: 1
Switzerland: 1
Venezuela: 1
Mexico: (1)
Decent rookie class: Alesi (maybe), Barrichello, Clauson, Cunningham, Jakes, Legge, Newgarden, Pagenaud
Three former winners - Castroneves, Dixon, Franchitti, potentially Rice for four.
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Post by Steveweiser on Apr 21, 2012 7:05:35 GMT -5
Vettel on pole in Bahrain, from Hamilton, Webber, Button and Rosberg. Ricciardo sixth in his Toro Rosso.
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Post by Steveweiser on Apr 22, 2012 8:45:42 GMT -5
Vettel gets his first win of the season, ahead of Raikkonen and Grosjean. Amazing performance by both Lotus cars. Vettel leads the championship by four points from Hamilton.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Apr 22, 2012 12:19:31 GMT -5
BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY!!!! LET'S GO RACING BOYS!!!!!!!
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Post by That Mickie Fan on Apr 22, 2012 12:37:49 GMT -5
Impressed with Allmendinger so far.
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on Apr 22, 2012 15:26:45 GMT -5
Hamlin holds off Truex in Kansas!
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Post by That Mickie Fan on Apr 22, 2012 15:40:10 GMT -5
Congrats to Denny Hamlin. Hendrick's 200th waits ANOTHER Week.
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Post by BR329 on Apr 23, 2012 14:13:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2012 14:54:44 GMT -5
It's a good deal for everyone involved as far as I can tell. Dreyer & Reinbold and Bryan Herta Autosport go to the stronger engines, and now Lotus has a bit more breathing room in regards to supply. Hopefully it means they can turn it up a little, do some testing, and figure out how to go faster before the season is over.
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Post by Richard on Apr 25, 2012 23:32:19 GMT -5
So every week on Twitter, Jimmie Johnson gives away his race hat from that week's race to the 48th person to retweet a certain tweet he posts.  I won for the Texas spring race. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2012 15:31:10 GMT -5
Will Power makes it 4 for 4 for Team Penske and Chevrolet in pole positions, setting a new track record for Sao Paulo. Honda's turbo change seems to have helped as Chevrolet didn't dominate the qualifying this week. Lotus still sucks. Takuma Sato had to change engines and didn't put a time in during qualifying. Katherine Legge was the slowest of those who did at 107.910 mph (1:24.6042). The next slowest was Simona de Silvestro at 109.106 mph (1:23.4509), while Power's pole speed was 112.151 mph (1:21.4045).
1 - Will Power / Penske / Chevrolet
2 - Dario Franchitti / TCGR / Honda
3 - Scott Dixon / TCGR / Honda
4 - James Hinchcliffe / Andretti / Chevrolet
5 - Ryan Hunter-Reay / Andretti / Chevrolet
6 - Justin Wilson / Coyne / Honda
7 - Graham Rahal / CGR / Honda
8 - Mike Conway / Foyt / Honda
9 - Josef Newgarden / SFHR / Honda
10 - Ryan Briscoe / Penske / Chevrolet
11 - Marco Andretti / Andretti / Chevrolet
12 - Tony Kanaan / KV / Chevrolet
13 - Rubens Barrichello / KV / Chevrolet
14 - E.J. Viso / KV / Chevrolet
15 - JR Hildebrand / Panther / Chevrolet
16 - Charlie Kimball / CGR / Honda
17 - Simon Pagenaud / Schmidt/Hamilton / Honda
18 - James Jakes / Coyne / Honda
19 - Sebastien Bourdais / Dragon / Lotus
20 - Helio Castroneves / Penske / Chevrolet
21 - Ana Beatriz / Andretti / Chevrolet
22 - Ed Carpenter / ECR / Chevrolet
23 - Simona de Silvestro / HVM / Lotus
24 - Oriol Servia / D&RR / Lotus
25 - Katherine Legge / Dragon / Lotus
26 - Takuma Sato / RLLR / Honda
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