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IndyCar Series & Firestone Indy Lights Series @ Kansas Speedway

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Circuit Length: 1.5 miles
Banking: Turns: 15º; Frontstretch: 10.4º; Backstretch: 5º
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Weekend & TV Schedule: (Eastern time)
[spoiler]Saturday, April 25

10:00 - 10:45 Firestone Indy Lights Practice
11:00 - 11:30 IndyCar Practice (Rookies & Entrants outside Top 10 in points)
11:30 - 12:30 IndyCar Practice
12:45 - 1:45 Firestone Indy Lights Practice (Split groups)
3:00 - 4:30 IndyCar Qualifying
4:30 - 5:30 Firestone Indy Lights Qualifying

Sunday, April 26

11:00 - 12:00 IndyCar Practice (Split groups)
1:00 Firestone Indy Lights race
5:00 IndyCar race

IndyCar race, live on VERSUS
IndyCar qualifying, SDD (6 ET) on VERSUS
Indy Lights race, Monday, April 27 at 4 ET on VERSUS[/spoiler]
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Road Runner Turbo Indy 300: 200 laps/300 miles
Kansas Lottery 100: 67 laps/100 miles
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IndyCar point standings (after race 2 of 17):

[spoiler]1 Dario Franchitti 84
2 Will Power 69
3 Ryan Briscoe 67
4 Tony Kanaan 65
5 Ryan Hunter-Reay 59
6 Justin Wilson 49
7 Dan Wheldon 46
8 Marco Andretti 45
9 Graham Rahal 45
10 Danica Patrick 44
11 Robert Doornbos 41
12 Alex Tagliani 40
13 Darren Manning 38
14 Vitor Meira 38
15 Raphael Matos 36
16 Stanton Barrett 31
17 Scott Dixon 29
18 Hideki Mutoh 27
19 Hélio Castroneves 26
20 E. J. Viso 25
21 Ed Carpenter 24
22 Mario Moraes 24
23 Mike Conway 24

This drivers will get an extra 30 minutes of practice on saturday, including Sarah Fisher and Milka Duno[/spoiler]

Indy Lights Standings (after race 3 of 15):

[spoiler]1 Junior Strous 107 Leader
2 Jonathan Summerton 104 -3
3 J.R. Hildebrand 100 -7
4 James Hinchcliffe 98 -9
5 Daniel Herrington 76 -31
6 Sebastian Saavedra 71 -36
7 Richard Philippe 71 -36
8 Jay Howard 71 -36
9 Ana Beatriz 69 -38
10 James Davison 63 -44
11 Gustavo Yacaman 62 -45
12 Ali Jackson 57 -50
13 Charlie Kimball 57 -50
14 Mario Romancini 56 -51
15 Martin Plowman 44 -63
16 Wade Cunningham 43 -64
17 Andrew Prendeville 42 -65
18 Pablo Donoso 39 -68
19 Jesse Mason 38 -69
20 Stefan Wilson 38 -69
21 Sean Guthrie 34 -73
22 Pippa Mann 34 -73
23 Rodrigo Barbosa 29 -78
24 Sergey Mokshantsev 28 -79
25 Brandon Wagner 22 -85
26 Jonathan Bomarito 12 -95
27 Logan Gomez 11 -96
28 Duncan Tappy 8 -99[/spoiler]

Entry lists:

IndyCar Entry List: http://www.indycar.com/news/2009/kansas/KaS_IndyCar_Series_Entry_List_4-21-09.pdf

Will Power will not race (#12 will be entered at Indy the next time), Milka Duno will probably drive the #23 for Dreyer & Reinbold and Sarah Fisher will race in the #67.

Indy Lights Entry List: http://www.indycar.com/indylights/news/2009/kansas/KANSAS_FIL_Entry_List_4-21-09.pdf

Will Power should have been entered by Penske in a third car. He had a week to get a third crew drummed up for Power's car.

Yeah...very upset that Power wasn't entered in a third car. It looks like Penske would fund a race out of his pocket because who knows... after Indy Power could lead the championship and have some prize money from Indy to at least run a few more races on.

Speaking of the championship, most seem to think Helio is out of if because he missed the first race. If you say that he's out already then you have to say the same about Dixon. I just don't think we can count either of them out just yet.

Penske is a rat. This should not be a surprise.

But I know him as a genious rat. And letting Power go is not a genious move in my opinion.

Looking at the schedule I must say I find it pretty retarded that the cars only have one practice session before qualy. It's an oval, ffs.

the team that was power's crew will be in virginia for the grand-am race for penske

Looks like Sarah Fisher is going to give it yet another shot.

Milka is confirmed too.
Girlieracing...

KANSAS FEVER!

Couldn't anyone give Power a ride? Put 'em in the #24, Mike Conway is just a rolling road block anyway.

I loled

Yeah, cos after the driving standards of the first couple of rounds, the thing this top international series (j/k lol) really needs is Milka Duno.

It's scary to even think about those drivers getting into an Oval for the first time, especially after St Pete and Long Beach.

Don't they do friday practise?

The only thing Duno is good for is cat fighting with Danica

Sarah would have beaten both Danica & Milka anyway

Talking about Milka's antics on ovals, you have to admit she improved her skills in 2008 (to say she was being lapped 4 times instead of 10), but I don't know how will Mike Conway go, he's had a bad start on the street courses already and ovals shouldn't be his kind of stuff at least so early in the season.

If I remember correctly Duno lead more laps last year than Danica

danicas better than sarah. danicas results are better,and she crashes a lot less than sarah does.
also danica was buddy rices team mate for 2 years at rahal racing and she beat buddy rice both years easily.sarah was buddy rices team mate in 2007 and she never got close to him.

milka duno led 1 more lap than danica last year,however all of milkas laps led were under yellow,all of danicas laps led were under green and she won a race,milkas best finish was 14th 1 lap down.