Richmond Weekend Thread

[Mad_Hatter]

Rookie Practice (Yesterday) results:


1 Oriol Servia 16.1392 167.295
2 Will Power 16.3453 165.185
3 EJ Viso 16.3765 164.870
4 Enrique Bernoldi 16.5689 162.956
5 Jaime Camara 16.5726 162.920
6 Townsend Bell 16.6655 162.011
7 Graham Rahal 16.6930 161.744
8 Ryan Hunter-Reay 16.6962 161.713
9 Justin Wilson 16.8878 159.879
10 Mario Moraes 16.9209 159.566
11 John Andretti 17.1200 157.710
12 Marty Roth 18.0990 149.180

Practice 1(currently running):
Top 5

Buddy Rice
EJ Viso
Servia
Danica
TK

Scott Dixon and Helio just took to the track.

Shakeup apparently barreling down on the AJFoyt #14 team. "Heated discussions" between Manning and Larry Foyt during practice, AJ didn't come to the track today and reportedly won't even turn his cell phone on.

[Mad_Hatter]

Enrique Bernoldi into the wall.

Top 5:
Dixon 166.463
Buddy Rice 165.962
EJ Viso 165.935
Servia 165.887
TK 165.836

[Mad_Hatter]

1 Ryan Hunter-Reay (17) 166.664
2 Scott Dixon (9) 166.463
3 Buddy Rice (15) 165.962
4 EJ Viso (33) 165.935
5 Oriol Servia (5) 165.887
6 Tony Kanaan (11) 165.836
7 Danica Patrick (7) 165.742
8 Marco Andretti (26) 164.646
9 Hideki Mutoh (27) 164.589
10 Ryan Briscoe (6) 164.366
11 Dan Wheldon (10) 164.313
12 Helio Castroneves (3) 163.846
13 Townsend Bell (23) 163.638
14 Will Power (8) 163.495
15 A.J. Foyt IV (2) 163.159
16 Ed Carpenter (20) 163.030
17 John Andretti (24) 162.549
18 Enrique Bernoldi (36) 161.777
19 Jaime Camara (34) 161.760
20 Mario Moraes (19) 161.285
21 Bruno Junqueira (18) 161.088
22 Graham Rahal (06) 160.623
23 Vitor Meira (4) 160.589
24 Justin Wilson (02) 158.836
25 Darren Manning (14) 158.335
26 Marty Roth (25) 155.631

[coogmaster]

Interesting qualifying order for this one. Rahal in 3rd, Rice 5th, Foyt 8th, Bruno 9th (??) and Servia 10th.

My boy John is back there in 12th.

[gm99]

Wow, there seem to be an awful lot of empty seats around RIR. Seems like only the front stretch is occupied at all...

[FormerFF]

Roth last in the running order - I guess that qualifying speed was just because the track was fast at the end of the session.

[mlittle]

Wow, there seem to be an awful lot of empty seats around RIR. Seems like only the front stretch is occupied at all...

Unless I'm mistaken, only the sections from around turn 4 through to the start of turn 1 are open(essentially the stands along the frontstretch); the rest of the stands are closed off unless they need them for extra seating or something like that.

[ChicagocrewIRL]

It was a good crowd especially for a race in the heart of NASCAR country. Richmond holds 112,000 and looked like about that the front stretch was full so I would guestimate aroung 50,000 to 60,000.

I look forward to the day when IndyCar will be able to fill the whole seating bowl like the cabs do. Would be an incredible sight.

[seppefan]

That was some kind of a joke....crash, yellow, ...please let these cars and drivers race sensible tracks not a 16/18 second short oval.

[Spiderman]

That was not, was i was hoping for. Here in europe the race was at 2.00 am, at i didn't go top bed to watch it live. I thought it would be very interesting with the leaders has to overtake lapped drivers all over the race. But everytime when the leaders reached the back of the field, thy brought out another yellow...