pending wrote:
Bourdais' livery is awesome.
Pretty epic indeed.
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| Author: | pending [ Sun May 12, 2013 8:30 pm ] |
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Bourdais' livery is awesome. |
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| Author: | Fish88 [ Sun May 12, 2013 9:05 pm ] |
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pending wrote: Bourdais' livery is awesome. Pretty epic indeed.
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| Author: | Juihi [ Mon May 13, 2013 10:14 am ] |
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Gotta say this is one badass intro |
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| Author: | westracing01 [ Mon May 13, 2013 3:57 pm ] |
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^^^ Had the hair on my arms standing up watching that. Damn I love this place. |
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| Author: | chimp [ Mon May 13, 2013 6:13 pm ] |
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Hmm Kimball just said that we might be reaching 230 mph laps this year  Looks like Chevy and Honda added some serious bhp.
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| Author: | Chris A [ Mon May 13, 2013 7:09 pm ] |
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I find that a bit lofty. I know they're probably all in race trim at the moment but it seems really optimistic to gain 8 mph in just a few days. Maybe I'm looking at it incorrectly though. |
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| Author: | pending [ Mon May 13, 2013 7:26 pm ] |
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The weather might play a big part. |
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| Author: | westracing01 [ Mon May 13, 2013 8:38 pm ] |
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More boost for qualifying too. |
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| Author: | Chris A [ Mon May 13, 2013 9:20 pm ] |
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They had more boost on pole day last year as well and the gain throughout the week was about 6 mph in the end. Of course they have a lot more experience and comfort established with the cars this year. |
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| Author: | chimp [ Mon May 13, 2013 9:45 pm ] |
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Well Chevy and Honda also made some changes to their engines since last year. I checked qualifying laps from this and last year races we had so far: St Pete 0.2 sec faster than last year Barber 3 sec faster than last year Long Bech 1.5 sec faster than last year I can't compare Brazil because they changed chicane and made it faster. |
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| Author: | Fish88 [ Mon May 13, 2013 9:50 pm ] |
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God dammit just found the Indy 500 is 1 day before exams. |
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| Author: | chimp [ Mon May 13, 2013 9:52 pm ] |
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Half the field on track and looks like a race  EDIT: Hinch almost caused a crash. It's not a good thing to slow down in the corner when you are running in a group. |
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| Author: | sennadesillva [ Tue May 14, 2013 5:55 pm ] |
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hinch just hit 224. a bit of drafting helped that out but still the speeds are picking up a bit today also he did that lap in marco's car haha they went out in each other cars for a few laps |
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| Author: | Beezle [ Tue May 14, 2013 7:10 pm ] |
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They seem to keep swapping cars. |
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| Author: | Gael [ Tue May 14, 2013 9:00 pm ] |
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Quote: James Hinchcliffe @Hinchtown
I jumped in @MarcoAndretti's car cuz I wanted to see if I looked good in blue & red. He wasn't happy, so he jumped in mine in pursuit |
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| Author: | westracing01 [ Tue May 14, 2013 9:06 pm ] |
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Marco ripped off a 225 lap... Or so said Indycar.com. More boost and the right conditions and at least a lap at 230 on Pole Day might be in play. Personally I say open them up and let'em go for the track record. |
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| Author: | pending [ Tue May 14, 2013 9:18 pm ] |
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That was yesterday... The track record is somewhere over 237, that's imposibile for these cars, tbh, |
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| Author: | chimp [ Tue May 14, 2013 9:33 pm ] |
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It's possible for the cars but they would need 700 bhp instead of 600 bhp they get for qualifying. |
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| Author: | Chris A [ Tue May 14, 2013 10:12 pm ] |
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Quite the heated bit of race practice going on for the past 15 minutes or so. |
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| Author: | Chris D [ Tue May 14, 2013 11:49 pm ] |
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And Saavedra has the prettiest car at the track.  Check out the American Openwheel Racing 1911-Present Facebook page for more pics. |
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