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Schedule of events (all times ET)
Friday July 6, 2012
7:00 am - 5:00 pm Credentials
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Gates Open
8:00 am - 8:30 am Star Mazda Practice
8:45 am - 9:25 am Ferrari Practice
9:45 am - 10:45 am Firestone Indy Lights Practice
11:05 am - 12:05 pm IZOD Indy Car Practice
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm VIP Pit Walk-Thru
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm Ferrari Practice
1:05 pm - 1:35 pm Star Mazda Practice
1:55 pm - 2:55 pm IZOD IndyCar Practice
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Firestone Indy Lights Practice
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Ferrari Qualifying #1

Saturday July 7, 2012
7:00 am - 5:00 pm Credentials
8:00 am - 5:30 pm Gates Open
8:00 am - 8:30 am Star Mazda Qualifying
8:45 am - 9:30 am Firestone Indy Lights Qualifying
9:45 am - 10:45 am IZOD Indy Car Practice
10:45 am - 11:15 am Star Mazda Driver Autograph Session
11:00 am - 11:40 am Ferrari Qualifying #2
11:40 am - 12:10 pm Firestone Indy Lights Driver Autograph Session
11:45 am - 12:05 pm VIP Pit Walk-Thru
12:10 pm - 12:50 pm Star Mazda Race #1
1:05 pm - 2:25 pm IZOD IndyCar Qualifying
2:40 pm - 3:30 pm Ferrari Race #1
3:45 pm Indy Lights Pre-Race
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Firestone Indy Lights Race – 50 Laps
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm IndyCar driver autograph session

Sunday July 8. 2012
7:00 am -11:00 am Credentials
8:00 am - 4:00 pm Gates Open
8:00 am - 8:20 am On-track Activities
8:30 am - 9:00 am IZOD IndyCar Warm-Up
9:10 am - 9:30 am On-track Activities
9:50 am - 10:30 am Star Mazda Race #2
10:50 am - 11:40 am Ferrari Race #2
11:40 am - 12:00 pm VIP Pit Walk-Thru
12:00 pm IZOD IndyCar Pre-Race
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm Honda Indy Toronto – 85 Laps
Driver's Start Your Engines at 12:53 pm
Green Flag at 1:00 pm
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Post-Race

Be prepared to bitch about TV coverage because ABC's broadcasting the race.

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I love ABC.

^^shut your filthy mouth! lol

Compared to TNT, Fox, and NBC Sports on channel 1000 they are fucking fantastic.

Yeah, if you don't mind dull commentary and production crew missing key battles.

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I just hate the commercials.

Then you will never enjoy a televised race ever.

F1 doesn't have commercials If Indy had some sort of PPV set up or something where I could pay to watch it without commercials it would be worth the few bucks...

Where IndyCar comes from there's commercials, F1 and all other forms of racig and sports all have commercials. Kinda just get used too it.

I had the idea on my own quite a few years ago that NASCAR (or some top-tier racing series) should offer a PPV/Subscription service through the TV companies that would show just the raw broadcast with no ads and no 5 second delays of any kind.

I would pay for something like that.

The Jeff Krosnoff 4 piece story written by Marshall Pruett last year is being put up again this year since he lost part 4 last year.

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... ay-hungry/
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... ngry-pt-2/

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Sweet!

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I'm off work so was browsing the web and thought I'd see what kind of times the new car was doing at Toronto. Will Power got the pole last year with a time of 59.5771 /106.047 mph.

1st lap of the day, Newgarden's car stalls just after T1 - red flag.
They momentarily went green but after an installation lap, coming into the pits, Justin Wilson locked up, crashed hard into Bourdais and ran over a crew member. 2nd red flag -- long one as they had to evacuate the injured crew member to hospital and needed cross track access.

Can they have 1 weekend without something getting messed up?

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Hearing (from a chat room from someone who has friends at the track, great source I know...) that there has been a bit of a nasty accident at Toronto already.

Someone has lost control of their car in the pit lane and hit Bourdais parked car and injured one of his mechanics, anyone else getting info on this?

*edit* Timing, as it just comes through above....scary...

Actually it may have been no brakes, not locked up.

Dragon crew member got neck brace but reporter says he saw "full movement".

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F'ing idiots on IndyCar radio broadcast - they keep saying that Simon Pagenaud has never turned laps at Toronto before and how fantastic it is he's in the Top 5 so far. They did it earlier they just did it again... and again -- 4x now.

Pagenaud raced in Toronto in Atlantics in 2006 and in Champ Car in 2007.

<IDIOTS>

God, 20 seconds later they go on to talk about some RHR stat and the one guy answers how correctly how many poles he has. "You're looking at the stats book aren't you?" says the one guy. "Yeah", he replies.

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3rd red flag of the session - Tagliani spun and Justin Wilson came around corner and spun into tires to avoid him.

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Event organizer Charlie Johnstone is on tv news doing an interview from the track. I'm looking for spectators.. not seeing even 1.

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not race related: <sailboat> just capsized across street from track.

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End of session.

Wilson confirmed the pit incident the car wouldn't go into neutral and just kept going at speed and then his brakes did nothing. He decided to try to hit the pit wall to scrub off speed but at the last minute saw the crew man. Feels bad for the injured crew guy Chuck.

Practice 1 for the Honda Indy Toronto at the Streets of Toronto

Rank Car Driver Engine Diff. BL LL Gap TL BL#
1 Car In Pit Dario Franchitti Honda Logo 0 1:00.8972 1:01.4117 0 14 7
2 Car In Pit Scott Dixon Honda Logo 0.0443 1:00.9415 1:01.6697 0.0443 13 7
3 Car In Pit Simon Pagenaud Honda Logo 0.1528 1:01.0500 1:01.9447 0.1085 20 13
4 Car In Pit Tony Kanaan Chevy Logo 0.1576 1:01.0548 1:03.5760 0.0048 14 5
5 Car In Pit Will Power Chevy Logo 0.1792 1:01.0764 1:01.6886 0.0216 14 8
6 Car In Pit EJ Viso Chevy Logo 0.2242 1:01.1214 1:01.4831 0.0450 15 11
7 Car In Pit Ryan Briscoe Chevy Logo 0.3288 1:01.2260 1:01.3943 0.1046 14 10
8 Car In Pit Ryan Hunter-Reay Chevy Logo 0.3508 1:01.2480 1:01.2480 0.0220 12 12
9 Car In Pit Helio Castroneves Chevy Logo 0.5230 1:01.4202 9:35.4895 0.1722 15 12
10 Car In Pit Takuma Sato Honda Logo 0.5442 1:01.4414 1:01.6858 0.0212 18 12
11 Car In Pit Graham Rahal Honda Logo 0.5681 1:01.4653 1:02.0470 0.0239 15 7
12 Car In Pit Oriol Servia Chevy Logo 0.6375 1:01.5347 1:01.5414 0.0694 20 16
13 Car In Pit Alex Tagliani Honda Logo 0.7345 1:01.6317 5:31.2284 0.0970 15 12
14 Car In Pit Charlie Kimball Honda Logo 0.8281 1:01.7253 1:01.7253 0.0936 22 22
15 Car In Pit James Hinchcliffe Chevy Logo 1.0300 1:01.9272 1:02.4492 0.2019 14 8
16 Car In Pit Mike Conway Honda Logo 1.0534 1:01.9506 1:02.6678 0.0234 19 6
17 Car In Pit Sebastien Bourdais Chevy Logo 1.0633 1:01.9605 1:03.1408 0.0099 12 8
18 Car In Pit Marco Andretti Chevy Logo 1.0701 1:01.9673 1:04.0091 0.0068 15 12
19 Car In Pit JR Hildebrand Chevy Logo 1.1049 1:02.0021 1:02.0021 0.0348 19 19
20 Car In Pit James Jakes Honda Logo 1.1344 1:02.0316 1:03.5444 0.0295 23 18
21 Car In Pit Simona de Silvestro Lotus Logo 1.2977 1:02.1949 1:02.1949 0.1633 17 17
22 Car In Pit Ed Carpenter Chevy Logo 1.3240 1:02.2212 1:02.5476 0.0263 25 21
23 Car In Pit Rubens Barrichello Chevy Logo 1.5677 1:02.4649 1:05.0307 0.2437 26 16
24 Car In Pit Justin Wilson Honda Logo 6:57.4925 7:58.3897 6:47.8733 6:55.9248 3 2
25 Car In Pit Josef Newgarden Honda Logo 0.0000 0 0 0 0 0

Lotus > rubens

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