IndyCar: Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

[Charlie Spencer]

Penske wanted Newgarden badly. JPM still gonna do Indy GP + Indy 500 and then IMSA as well starting next year.

Thanks. I hadn't heard JPM was going sport car racing. That should be fun to watch.

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

Bestwick still loves cautions

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

Great run for Sebastian so far.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Why is Power not entering the pits?

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Why is Power not entering the pits?

Trying to make it on fuel.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Power has now received a Penalty for going too slow.
Edit: ..and has retired the car.

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

Had a feeling Bourdais would do good in this car

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

Great Drive. Congrats to Bourdais and Coyne

 

[Reck]

Such a flawless race for Bourdais. Congrats.

Race was quite dull though.

 

[donthaveanickname]

That really was an impressive performance.
Congratulations to Bourdais.

 

[Kiante]

Just realized Juan Pablo is not in the field today.

How does Sato outlives someone like Montoya in this series? It sucks, what a shame.

Sato has Panasonic money and Honda engines come at a discount.

If he finishes like this every week, he will be fine. Michael is not a fan of wrecked cars.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Such a flawless race for Bourdais. Congrats.

Race was quite dull though.

TV can never do racing justice. I don't know if the video feed on ABC was the same we were getting on the video boards at the track but if they were there's always something to be missed. I'm still wondering how RHR got around Sato in the last section.

Sato has Panasonic money and Honda engines come at a discount.

If he finishes like this every week, he will be fine. Michael is not a fan of wrecked cars.

He wrecked in practice earlier in the weekend so he checked off both boxes lol. Sato gonna Sato.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Chevy is on notice, imo. HPD are showing huge gains already and I don't know where they came from.

 

[Marcingak]

Chevy is on notice, imo. HPD are showing huge gains already and I don't know where they came from.

Bourdais used to drive for Chevy as well as Ganassi cars. Now, they are with Honda.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Bourdais used to drive for Chevy as well as Ganassi cars. Now, they are with Honda.

I'm wondering if Bourdais and CGR really brought over a bunch of brilliant setup info or if HPD made some sort of engine gains this offseason. The narrative last year was that Chevy had the better road course/street circuit/short oval aero while Honda had better superspeedway aero. With aero frozen that should still remain the same. But Honda were a lot quicker at the speed traps as noted here: http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/138777-indycar-saturday-notebook-from-st-petersburg

I think that points to some engine gains being made but I'm not sure what all was open for development there.

 

[Hotrod]

Dang these St. Pete stadium trucks are fun.
http://stadiumsupertrucks.com/live-3/

 

[Marcingak]

Looks super cool from that angle. The fans definitely got their money's worth.

 

[RacerrecaR]

Wait...there was an Indycar race this past weekend? Unfortunately, I've said that way too often during the past few years. Oh how far this series has fallen.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Wait...there was an Indycar race this past weekend? Unfortunately, I've said that way too often during the past few years. Oh how far this series has fallen.

Is this post from 2007?