IndyCar Series & Indy Lights @ Toronto (Jul 16-18)

Raikkon · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:52 pm

2010 IZOD IndyCar Series - Round 10

Honda Indy Toronto, Ontario, Canada

It’s a dangerous mix of asphalt and concrete surfaces, melded together in bumpy, truncated, random ways that Toronto motorists know all too well. It’s a series of tight turns where cars will make dangerous passes. It’s driving on Lake Shore Blvd. in downtown Toronto, and starting Friday, some of the world’s greatest drivers are going to give it a try as the Honda Indy Toronto returns to Exhibition Place.

Circuit Information:

Circuit Length: 1.76mile/2.82km street course
Turns: 11
Race Distance: 85 laps, 149.6mile/239.7km
2009 Winner: Dario Franchitti, Team Penske

View the official circuit map here

View race highlights and onboards from Toronto:
[spoiler]2009 IndyCar Race Highlights:

Onboard lap of the circuit:
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Honda Indy Toronto Entry List:

Code:

Car  Driver               Country  Team                     Car Name
#2   Raphael Matos        BRA      Luczo Dragon/de Ferran   HP Luczo Dragon
#3   Helio Castroneves    BRA      Team Penske              Team Penske
#4   Dan Wheldon          GBR      Panther Racing           National Guard
#5   Takuma Sato          JPN      KV Racing Technology     Lotus-KV Racing Technology
#6   Ryan Briscoe         AUS      Team Penske              Team Penske
#7   Danica Patrick       USA      Andretti Autosport       Team GoDaddy.com
#8   EJ Viso              VEN      KV Racing Technology     PDVSA-Jet Aviation
#9   Scott Dixon          NZL      Chip Ganassi Racing      Target Chip Ganassi
#10  Dario Franchitti     GBR      Chip Ganassi Racing      Air Wick
#11  Tony Kanaan          BRA      Andretti Autosport       Team 7-Eleven
#12  Will Power           AUS      Team Penske              Verizon Team Penske
#14  Vitor Meira          BRA      A.J.Foyt Enterprises     ABC Supply Co.
#15  Paul Tracy           CAN      KV Racing Technology     Make-A-Wish Foundation
#18  Milka Duno           VEN      Dale Coyne Racing        CITGO
#19  Alex Lloyd           GBR      Dale Coyne Racing        Boy Scouts of America
#22  Justin Wilson        GBR      Dreyer & Reinbold        Team Z-Line Designs
#24  Tomas Scheckter      RSA      Dreyer & Reinbold        MonaVie
#26  Marco Andretti       USA      Andretti Autosport       Team Venom Energy
#32  Mario Moraes         BRA      KV Racing Technology     KV Racing Technology
#34  Mario Romancini      BRA      Conquest Racing          Conquest Racing
#36  Bertrand Baguette    BEL      Conquest Racing          Conquest Racing RACB
#37  Ryan Hunter-Reay     USA      Andretti Autosport       Ethanol USA-Team IZOD
#77  Alex Tagliani        CAN      FAZZT Race Team          Bowers & Wilkins/Hot Wheels
#78  Simona de Silvestro  CHE      HVM Racing               Team Stargate Worlds HVM
#02  Graham Rahal         USA      Newman/Haas Racing       QuikTrim
#06  Hideki Mutoh         JPN      Newman/Haas Racing       Formula Dream/Panasonic

Twenty-six cars entered. All cars use Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tires.

View the official IndyCar entry list here
View the car liveries/spotter guide here

Indy Lights Entry List:

Code:

Car  Driver               Country  Team
#2   James Hinchcliffe    CAN      Team Moore Racing
#4   Carmen Jorda         SPA      Anderson Racing 
#7   Jean-Karl Vernay     FRA      Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#10  Gustavo Yacaman      COL      Colombia Cape/Wayne Taylor
#11  Pippa Mann           GBR      Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#18  Rodrigo Barbosa      BRA      PDM Racing
#22  Adrian Campos        ESP      Team Moore Racing 
#26  Charlie Kimball      USA      AFS/Andretti Autosport
#27  Martin Plowman       GBR      AFS/Andretti Autosport
#28  Stefan Wilson        GBR      Bryan Herta Autosport
#29  Sebastian Saavedra   COL      Bryan Herta Autosport
#40  Dan Clarke           GBR      Walker Racing
#49  Philip Major         CAN      Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#77  James Winslow        GBR      Sam Schmidt Motorsports

Fourteen cars entered. All cars use Dallara chassis and Firestone tires.

View the official Indy Lights entry list here

Weekend Schedule:

View the complete schedule here

Television Information:

ABC (USA) - LIVE race coverage Sunday 18th July at 12:30 USA ET

Streams & Live Timing
Indycar Video Ondemand - IndyCar.com youtube channel featuring session and race highlights.
Indycar Race Control - live raceday footage and multiple onboard cameras including access to live timing.
Indycar IMS Radio Network - Audio commentary during practice sessions and race.

Televised streams of the race will likely be posted by forum members shortly before the race.
Links to some of the common streams will be shown on the MyP2P links page nearer the time.

Sources and links:
IZOD Indycar Series Homepage
Honda Indy Toronto Homepage

This will be a good one!! :thumbsup:

Raikkon · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:55 pm

autosport.com wrote:

Dixon fastest in first practice
Friday, July 16th 2010, 15:00 GMT

Scott Dixon was quickest in opening practice for this weekend's IndyCar street race in Toronto, despite tangling with Takuma Sato at the end of the hour.

Contact between Dixon and Sato at Turn 6 saw the KV car spin around in front of Dixon's Ganassi Dallara and come to a halt blocking it. The following Bertrand Baguette (Conquest) then slid into the rear of Dixon's car in the traffic jam. The incident brought the session to a slightly early end, with the officials deciding to throw the chequered flag as well as a yellow to allow the three cars to be restarted. Sato had also been at the centre of the morning's other yellow, when he crashed at the final turn on what would have been his first lap. The incident neatly removed Sato's rear wing, but he was soon back on track with a new one.

Dixon and the rest of the Ganassi and Penske contingent had sat out most of the morning, letting the underdogs clean the circuit and only joining in with 20 minutes to go. It did not take Dixon long to go fastest on a 1m03.9149s, just 0.0655s ahead of Justin Wilson's Dreyer & Reinbold car.

Alex Tagliani got his home race weekend off to a great start with third for Fazzt, followed by Penske's Helio Castroneves, Ganassi's Dario Franchitti and Andretti Autosport duo Tony Kanaan and Ryan Hunter-Reay. Championship leader Will Power was back in eighth for Penske. KV's EJ Viso was one of a host of drivers who had a turn on top during the opening 40 minutes and ended up ninth. Returnees Tomas Scheckter (Dreyer & Reinbold), Graham Rahal (Newman/Haas) and Paul Tracy (KV) were 11th, 13th and 15th respectively.

Code:

Pos  Driver               Team               Time        Gap
 1.   Scott Dixon          Ganassi            1m03.9149s
 2.   Justin Wilson        Dreyer & Reinbold  1m03.9804s  + 0.0655s
 3.   Alex Tagliani        Fazzt              1m04.0220s  + 0.1071s
 4.   Helio Castroneves    Penske             1m04.0354s  + 0.1206s
 5.   Dario Franchitti     Ganassi            1m04.3344s  + 0.4195s
 6.   Tony Kanaan          Andretti           1m04.4004s  + 0.4856s
 7.   Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti           1m04.4111s  + 0.4963s
 8.   Will Power           Penske             1m04.4444s  + 0.5295s
 9.   EJ Viso              KV                 1m04.4786s  + 0.5637s
10.  Raphael Matos        De Ferran Dragon   1m04.5822s  + 0.6673s
11.  Tomas Scheckter      Dreyer & Reinbold  1m04.6085s  + 0.6937s
12.  Vitor Meira          Foyt               1m04.7159s  + 0.8010s
13.  Graham Rahal         Newman/Haas        1m04.7488s  + 0.8339s
14.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske             1m04.8761s  + 0.9613s
15.  Paul Tracy           KV                 1m05.0083s  + 1.0935s
16.  Marco Andretti       Andretti           1m05.4021s  + 1.4873s
17.  Hideki Mutoh         Newman/Haas        1m05.6601s  + 1.7452s
18.  Bertrand Baguette    Conquest           1m05.6714s  + 1.7565s
19.  Dan Wheldon          Panther            1m05.8653s  + 1.9505s
20.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM                1m05.9338s  + 2.0189s
21.  Mario Moraes         KV                 1m06.0202s  + 2.1053s
22.  Danica Patrick       Andretti           1m06.1770s  + 2.2621s
23.  Takuma Sato          KV                 1m06.4394s  + 2.5246s
24.  Alex Lloyd           Dale Coyne         1m07.0909s  + 3.1760s
25.  Mario Romancini      Conquest           1m07.6783s  + 3.7635s
26.  Milka Duno           Dale Coyne         1m11.9951s  + 8.0803s

cradle · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:13 pm **Posts:** 38

Practice 1 highlights from Toronto :flag:

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Omega · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:55 pm

How on earth can Duno still be soooo sloooow!

Raikkon · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:23 pm

Oops that was a bigger hit into the back of Dixon's car than I was expecting!

Gaara · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:22 pm

Omega wrote:

How on earth can Duno still be soooo sloooow!

Because they give her a car that isn't set up properly.

ellis · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:36 pm

Toronto rocks. Love this track.

Raikkon · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:05 pm

autosport.com wrote:

Hunter-Reay pips Wilson in practice
Friday, July 16th 2010, 18:54 GMT

Ryan Hunter-Reay snatched the top spot from Justin Wilson in the closing moments of Friday's second IndyCar practice session in Toronto.

Dreyer & Reinbold driver Wilson had led most of the hour, holding a half-second advantage for much of the session. But his rivals began closing in on the Briton's 1m02.1839s lap late on, with Andretti Autosport's Hunter-Reay finally sneaking ahead by 0.0406 seconds.

Penske's Helio Castroneves and Will Power were third and fourth, ahead of a strong fifth place from Raphael Matos (De Ferran Dragon). Alex Tagliani was again a frontrunner in his home country, the Fazzt driver holding a top three spot for much of the afternoon and eventually taking sixth. A late improvement earned EJ Viso seventh for KV, with Ganassi's Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti next up and Penske's Ryan Briscoe completing the top ten. Local hero Paul Tracy completed only eight laps and spent much of the session in the KV Racing pit.

Despite countless visits to the run-off areas and some minor brushes with the wall by various drivers, there was only one significant accident - when Newman/Haas' Hideki Mutoh lost control on acceleration out of Turn 1 and spun into the Turn 2 wall, mangling his car's rear end.

StefMeister · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:11 pm

You know what I hate about the fact Milka is still been allowed to run in the series?

It isn't the fact she's so slow, Its the fact that the IRL prevented Marty Roth from running & basically told him to go away.

ellis · PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:15 pm

StefMeister wrote:

You know what I hate about the fact Milka is still been allowed to run in the series?

It isn't the fact she's so slow, Its the fact that the IRL prevented Marty Roth from running & basically told him to go away.

They told Roth to replace himself as a driver. Roth was the one who had a hissy fit and packed up and left. Pretty insulting to his team really.

cradle · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:13 pm **Posts:** 38

FIL Practice1 Highlights Toronto
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cradle · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:13 pm **Posts:** 38

Practice 2 Highlights from Toronto :flag:

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codename_47 · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:43 am

Some interesting new camera angles in the practice highlights vid, I wonder if it means a new production crew is covering the race domestically for Verses...

Or maybe they're just trying things out in practice and normal service will be resumed.

I echo the sentiments of others, always a great race guaranteed here. I'm struggling to remember back through the years if I can remember a bad one. (Aside from 1996 which was a terrible race, but for different reasons than just excitement..)

Nope! Even through the low periods like 2004, it was always a great spectacle in Toronto. (2004 was the year Tracy got a random BS penalty and ended up overtaking something like 3 cars a lap to drag himself up the field, was awesome..)

Look for Paul to be a factor this weekend. If not for the outright win then he'll be generating the headlines somehow!

ellis · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:42 am

Woah, look at the speed difference of the onboard car and Milka exiting the final corner. That's messed up.

Scirocco · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:24 am

this track is pretty cool. hopefully it produces a good race.

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:16 pm

Matos is hard into the tyres.

Joe A · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:37 pm

I'll echo those sentiments too. Exhibition Place Toronto is an awesome circuit, and I'm glad it's on the IRL calendar.

Raikkon · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:33 pm

No.. I don't understand why theres some shitty music at the start or some very random quiet commentary in places either..

StefMeister · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:36 pm

Final practice times:

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:44 pm

I really wish they confiscate Duno's car and put a top driver in it just to see how bad it really is. I really don't think she's 6 seconds slower then Lloyd on (lack of) talent alone.

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