2008 92nd Indianapolis 500 Thread

Well, the latest entries for the Indy 500 are..

Roger Yasukawa - Driving the #98 car CURB Records/HHGregg/Real Power with Curb/Agajanian Beck Motorsports

Phil Giebler - Driving the #88 car -Gardner Trucking with American Dream Motorsports
 
Well, I made it through another day of the track. I will be back again today. Another good day hanging out in Danica's pit area. We got a full day of practice in on Thursday, the rain held off thank goodness. It got rather windy and cool late in the afternoon though.

Here are the top 10 practice speeds yesterday...

1. #6 Ryan Briscoe 223.708
2. #3 Helio Castroneves 223.284
3. #9 Scott Dixon 223.192
4. #11 Tony Kanaan 222.880
5. #12 Tomas Scheckter 222.804
6. #8 Will Power 222.657
7. #24 John Andretti 222.474
8. #27 Hideki Mutoh 222.411
9. #10 Dan Wheldon 222.378
10. #18 Bruno Junqueira 222.303

Danica Patrick was 18th quickest with a speed of 221.129
 
Ok folks, we have 33 cars qualified for the Indy 500. This is your starting field. Below is your starting grid for this year's Indy 500!

Row 1
1. #9 Scott Dixon 226.366 2. #10 Dan Wheldon 226.110 3. #6 Ryan Briscoe 226.080

Row 2
4. #3 Helio Castroneves 225.733 5. #7 Danica Patrick 225.197 6. #11 Tony Kanaan 224.794

Row 3
7. #26 Marco Andretti 224.417 8. #4T Vitor Meira 224.346 9. #27 Hideki Mutoh 223.887

Row 4
10. #20 Ed Carpenter 223.835 11. #12 Tomas Scheckter 223.496 12. #99 Townsend Bell 222.539

Row 5
13. #06 Graham Rahal 222.531 14. #14 Darren Manning 222.430 15. #18 Bruno Junqueira 222.330

Row 6
16. #02 Justin Wilson 222.267 17. #15 Buddy Rice 222.101 18. #22 Davey Hamilton 222.017

Row 7
19. #16 Alex Lloyd 221.788 20. #17T Ryan Hunter-Reay 221.579 21. #24 John Andretti 221.550

Row 8
22. #67 Sarah Fisher 221.246 23. #8 Will Power 221.136 24. #41 Jeff Simmons 221.103

Row 9
25. #5 Oriol Servia 220.767 26. #33 EJ Viso 220.356 27. #23 Milka Duno 220.305

Row 10
28. #19 Mario Moraes 219.716 29. #36 Enrique Bernoldi 219.422 30. #34 Jaime Camara 219.345

Row 11
31. #2 AJ Foyt IV 219.184 32. #91 Buddy Lazier 219.015 33. #25 Marty Roth 218.965
 
Sounds like it was quite the eventful weekend! I wasn't able to watch, but did hear the end where the last driver was thankful to not get bumped. I'm going to take a peek at that list again.
 
Well, yesterday at CarbDay was a washout. Those pagoda suites are very nice. I got to eat some nice food all day.

The IndyCars only got out for 12 minutes for practice. The Freedom 100 race (Firestone Indy Lights) was cancelled due to rain, as well as the pit-stop challenge and the vintage car laps. I still got to see Danica twice yesterday though.:beerbang:

The only thing that went on as scheduled was the concert...Stone Temple Pilots. Pretty good show. I seen a lot of people get pulled out of the crowd and hauled away by the police. Crazy.

They are going to try and run the Freedom 100 race today.
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Indy pre-race is already on ESPN2, moving to ABC at the top of the hour.

I LOVE today, 3 series of racing, from sun up past sun down whoo hoo! :bounce:
 
I have never had any respect for Danica Patrick for any reason, but seeing her looking down and listening to her iPod during the national anthem seals it for me.

Maybe she'll wreck enough people and then throw her teammates under the bus again so that she'll lose her sponsorship and be relegated to softcore porn on Skinemax Friday nights.

Go AJ-IV!


EDIT: Seems she couldn't slow down race prop for Taps, either.
 
RaceIpsaLoquitur said:
I have never had any respect for Danica Patrick for any reason, but seeing her looking down and listening to her iPod during the national anthem seals it for me.

Maybe she'll wreck enough people and then throw her teammates under the bus again so that she'll lose her sponsorship and be relegated to softcore porn on Skinemax Friday nights.

Go AJ-IV!
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I'm glad I got the most ridiculous post of the day out of the way this early.

:rolleyes:
 
Soomeone needs to kick Ryan Briscoe's ass a few times. :mad:

Too bad Tony Stewart's not in IRL to do it. :eek:

He crashes somebody every race, whether its himself or wrecking someone else. :rolleyes:
 
Scott Dixon, for Chip Gannassi, wins the Indianapolis 500 from the pole.
 
AndyMarquisLIVE said:
Scott Dixon, for Chip Gannassi, wins the Indianapolis 500 from the pole.
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Congrats to Dixon :beerbang: Ganassi's cars were fast all month.
Congrats also to (single car operation) Panther Racing's Vitor Meira coming in second. Marco Andretti finished 3rd, good finish for AGR.
 
I have to say I thought ABC's coverage of the race was horrible. The start was covered badly, they missed quite a few incidents on the track and I felt like we saw 5 laps and then a commercial--usually during green while we could watch all the yellow laps :rolleyes:. The commentating was OK, I like Cheever better in the booth than on the track.
 
Somebody PLEASE!

Tell Fisher there is no CRYING in IRL RACING! I nearly laughed myself out of my chair seeing someone in a protective fire suit crying and sobbing on national TV!!
Betsy:rolleyes:
 
Betsy said:
Tell Fisher there is no CRYING in IRL RACING! I nearly laughed myself out of my chair seeing someone in a protective fire suit crying and sobbing on national TV!!
Betsy:rolleyes:
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I feel so bad for her. She put damn near her life savings into that team to run that race and had her car and everything wiped out because Marco Andretti pulled his head off his shoulders.
 
Betsy said:
Tell Fisher there is no CRYING in IRL RACING! I nearly laughed myself out of my chair seeing someone in a protective fire suit crying and sobbing on national TV!!
Betsy:rolleyes:
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Man, I feel so bad for Sarah, she put everything she had into this race, and did it on her own. Not only does she have the right to cry, I'd have to say I'd even have cried after all she went to.

Glad you fell out of your chair, hope you hurt yourself.
 
Can someone PLEASE tell me why Jack Arute still gets to ruin Indy 500 victory lanes? Jesus! That idiot has completely ruined every single victory lane I've ever seen him in (and that's quite a few) with his stupid comments and questions. And now, he's even pushing the guy with the milk out of the way.

WHY DOES THE IRL STILL LET HIM IN THE GATE?!?!?!?!

Damn, I HATE that guy!
 
VaDirt said:
Man, I feel so bad for Sarah, she put everything she had into this race, and did it on her own. Not only does she have the right to cry, I'd have to say I'd even have cried after all she went to.

Glad you fell out of your chair, hope you hurt yourself.
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Agreed. I felt so bad for her. I almost cried myself, she went through so much and had her dreams dashed because someone wanted to make a bonehead move. It's a shame because I like Marco.

The Andretti's are usually very classy. I've almost got the feeling that Michael will help out Sarah. You could tell he and Marco both felt bad for her. Of course everyone, except Betsy, felt bad for Sarah.
 
Good job for miera going against odd for a good finish.

Briscoe and Wild Thing should hook up reallllllly well out at eldora next month........
 
What a boring race. I stopped watching it before the halfway point, then picked it up with 13 laps to go when ABC decides to go to a commercial.
 
I had a great time at the track. I got to hang out with Danica before the race in the green room before they announced the drivers. I also escorted some celebrities and hung out with them in the celebrity suites. I also ate very well. Ate all day. The ones I met are Patricia Heaton, Jenna Elfman, Kristi Yamaguchi, Julianne Hough, Slash, Allison Sweeney.

After the race, I hung out in the Pagoda suite with Vision Racing. The team, drivers, and Tony George was there. That was pretty cool.

Here are my highlights of the race..

Danica Patrick was crashed out by Ryan Brisco. This upset me. She ran solid all day, had a good car and was in a position to win this race.Boy was she mad, the top IRL security guy(my boss) had to make her leave th pits because she was going over to his pit area.

Kudos to Scott Dixon for winning the 500.

Vitor Meira made the pass of the century when he passed on lap 160 going from 3rd to 1st. I was hoping he would of won since Danica was out.

Sarah Fisher had a bad day. Her car didnt start at the beginning, Spun out on a caution lap and struck Kanaan's car later in the race.

I was also impressed with Townsend Bell.

There were quite a few yellow flags in the race.
 
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