Texas II Weekend Thread

Tim Northcutt · 15 Oct 2004, 19:47 (Ref:1125519)

First practice session is over:

1. Scheckter 214.847
2. Castroneves 214.321
3. Dixon 214.280
4. Herta 213.973
5. Meira 213.588
6. Matsuura 213.522
7. Rice 213.521
8. Wheldon 213.372
9. Bell 213.348
10. Hornish 213.235

Franchitti was 12th, just a hair under 213

Fernandez was 14th

Kanaan was 15th

Slowest was Giaffone, just behind Enge and Takagi

The next session will be qualifications, and they will happen in a little less than two hours from now....

GP Racer · 16 Oct 2004, 00:49 (Ref:1125667)

Hmmm, if I didn't know better, I'd think the Hondas are sandbagging again!

marcus · 16 Oct 2004, 00:58 (Ref:1125670)

Why didnt Greg Ray show up for the race after all ?

I was really looking forward to seeing him having a run now he isnt racing

Refutation · 16 Oct 2004, 03:27 (Ref:1125696)

Quote:

Originally posted by GP Racer
Hmmm, if I didn't know better, I'd think the Hondas are sandbagging again!

I don't know why Helio gets so Excited over winning the Pole,If I were him I'd be exstreamly disappointed to have won 5 and have not won a race,yet.

I think a lot of people were trimmed out for Qualifying,where some are just concentrating on Race Set Ups due to the weird scheduel(I'm looking at you AGR!) I fully exspect Honda to Dominate the final "Race Trim" practice,and the way AGR are set up on the grid,kinda reminds me of a Charging defensive line on a football team

GP Racer · 16 Oct 2004, 04:04 (Ref:1125705)

Hey marcus, I posted something in the silly season thread about Greg Ray's problems this weekend, and also some stuff about his future, which could be pretty good.

I think Helio gets excited over winning poles, because you get a nice fat check for your troubles. I think there are certain tracks, and Texas is certainly one of them, where your qualifying position just doesn't matter. I also expect AGR and the Honda boys to get to the front quickly during the race...

Tomas in second, not to shabby for a Chevy, but will he do anything with it?

GP Racer · 16 Oct 2004, 20:22 (Ref:1126168)

Some new sponsors this weekend to look for.

Dario will be sporting Beechcraft on his front wings.
Carpenter will have the Dallas Mavericks on his rear wing.
Giaffone will have Humana(don't know what they do)
Both Cheever cars will have Chili's Resturants

Nice to see some big companies in there, just to bad Ray couldn't get it done.

Tenoch · 16 Oct 2004, 23:01 (Ref:1126284)

Sounds great, humana is a health care insurance company.

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 14:01 (Ref:1126659)

Just to let you know guys if you don't know yet.

In the U.S. the race shall start at 12.30pm eastern time on ABC sport.

And in the U.K. the race shall start at 5.30pm GMT on Sky sports 3.

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 15:39 (Ref:1126710)

I shall be on the IRL forum durring tha race, will anyone be here to discuse the events durring the race?

hrug:

Kicking-back · 17 Oct 2004, 15:58 (Ref:1126723)

The chatroom's the place for that, luke.

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 19:09 (Ref:1126796)

Well done Helio on winning the last race of the season.

What about Mark Taylor comming home 7th!

What a great race, Toyota and chevy are back.

Sam's going to win it next year!
I can't wait for 2005!

Down F0rce · 17 Oct 2004, 19:15 (Ref:1126801)

Great race, great season

Shame Helio got such a get jump on everyone...could of been a heck of a finish.

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 19:21 (Ref:1126804)

Was Alex O.K.?

rustyfan · 17 Oct 2004, 19:27 (Ref:1126805)

Quote:

Originally posted by Kicking-back
The chatroom's the place for that, luke.

I prefer the forum, since it allows you to do other things and not risking missing any info that's being posted (since I'm not getting the races live on TV).

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 19:30 (Ref:1126807)

rustyfan were you on the forum durring the race?

Because I was looking forward to talking about the events durring the race.

Kicking-back · 17 Oct 2004, 19:33 (Ref:1126811)

Well done to Castroneves.

It's all boding well for a great season in 2005.

Down F0rce · 17 Oct 2004, 19:35 (Ref:1126814)

That was a nasty one ofr Alex, but there wasn't too much concern of his condition so presumably there isn't really much to worry about. I think he'll be fine.

rustyfan · 17 Oct 2004, 19:38 (Ref:1126816)

Quote:

Originally posted by luke
rustyfan were you on the forum durring the race?

Because I was looking forward to talking about the events durring the race.

I wasn't home, actually - I thought the race would be a bit later my time, but as it turns out, it was just finished when I got home.

With a little luck I'll get the races live next year (all depends on whether my cable company is able to negotiate for the channel I need to be included in their package - negotiations have been going on all year long...).

Hazard · 17 Oct 2004, 19:57 (Ref:1126824)

Good race. Not sure it was the best of the season as Paul Cherry said on the UK commentary feed. A shame all the fun elements keep retiring (Scheckter).

Cheever to run three cars? Scheckter to stay with Panther. Dreyer & Panther to run two cars? Plenty of cars, no engines is the story. All very bizarre stories - I'd have expected Tomas to get out of there.

Anyway - on to 2005!

Raven · 17 Oct 2004, 20:03 (Ref:1126829)

We have our own commentary now? Haven't seen an IRL race for a while, but this could tempt me back as I was mighty sick of Lee and Rice.

Down F0rce · 17 Oct 2004, 20:41 (Ref:1126854)

No, we had Rice and Lee as usual. Paul Cherry was in the Sky studio.

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 20:43 (Ref:1126857)

Will Sky do a end of season review if so that would be cool.

Anyway I like Gary Lee and Lary Rice.

luke · 17 Oct 2004, 21:18 (Ref:1126881)

Speaking of coverege, why is there no pit radio comunication any more?

GP Racer · 17 Oct 2004, 21:47 (Ref:1126894)

Another good one from Texas. I think we're going to miss this annual season ender next year!

Nice race for Helio and the Penske guys, who were really on their game today.

I was really excited to see my man Scott Sharp up at the front and dicing with the big boys today. His car was really on today, and if not for a poor restart at the end, who knows how high he could have gotten.

I think Chevy must have given Scheckter a flat out screaming race engine today, that was either going to finish with a win, or blow up. Guess which it did... Incredible! He's just to tough on equipment for my liking.

I hope Barron is OK, he really got that Chevy to the front towards the end of the race, before getting into it with Franchitti's spinning car. Tough break, and a tough year for the Cheever boys.

Is it 05 yet? What am I going to do now?

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