Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

[Mark in Oshawa]

I hate agreeing with you, but your 100% correct

You like agreeing me at times....just not a lot lately! Come to the dark side tho...lol

[SUBARUTEAM]

I hate agreeing with you, but your 100% correct

yip, hard to argue with that, unless he puts it in the wall

[SUBARUTEAM]

Briscoe looked great at St. Pete last year, so I'm betting on him. Power will be top 5, as well as Dixie and Dario. Look for RHR to be the top Andretti driver.

Good looking field for IndyCar.

It'll be interesting to see how Graham does in a small team car. He should do well if he gets through lap 1..............Same goes for Sato and Moraes

someone needs to remind sato that he dosen't have those fancy f1 brakes!!!
he'll be quick

guys, this is a decent field.

there is one thing for sure, this will be a better race then f1 will put on this weekend.

[harvick#1]

You like agreeing me at times....just not a lot lately! Come to the dark side tho...lol

neva

[DanicaFan]

Here are the pit lane assignments..

[DanicaFan]

Practice Session 1 is over.

Here are the results...

Rank / Car# & Driver / Lap Time

1. #12 Will Power / 1:03.6471
2. #10 Dario Franchitti / 1:03.6503
3. #6 Ryan Briscoe / 1:03.7836
4. #3 Helio Castroneves / 1:03.8211
5. #06 Hideki Mutoh / 1:04.0107
6. #11 Tony Kanaan / 1:04.0742
7. #9 Scott Dixon / 1:04.1544
8. #37 Ryan Hunter-Reay / 1:04.2322
9. #22 Justin Wilson / 1:04.4940
10. #5 Takuma Sato / 1:04.6610
11. #67 Graham Rahal / 1:04.7353
12. #26 Marco Andretti / 1:04.7539
13. #77 Alex Tagliani / 1:04.7849
14. #4 Dan Wheldon / 1:04.8431
15. #24 Mike Conway / 1:04.9805
16. #19 Alex Lloyd / 1:05.0150
17. #7 Danica Patrick / 1:05.1765
18. #14 Vitor Meira / 1:05.1765
19. #8 EJ Viso / 1:05.1937
20. #34 Mario Romancini / 1:05.2430
21. #2 Raphael Matos / 1:05.3002
22. #78 Simona De Silvestro / 1:05.4215
23. #32 Mario Moraes / 1:05.5910
24. #18 Milka Duno / 1:11.7450

[DanicaFan]

The next practice session we should see the speeds up and the lap times go down. Im suprised that Matos and Moraes didnt do better than they did.

[TURN3]

So it is only practice 1 but what do we all think of Graham at SFR being 11th and pretty well on pace? I'd say given their time together that is a pretty good accomplishment. Good job to team and driver. Looks like they will be competitive and that is good news in every way.

What bleep is KV's deal though....they have been off pace ALL year so far. Sato was supposedly some savior, we've seen Moraes be fast everywhere last year, and Viso is usually pretty quick. I see all the signs of a team stretching their resources too far already.

[DanicaFan]

EJ Viso had car problems early in the practice so he didnt get much time in so I expect better results next session.

[TURN3]

EJ Viso had car problems early in the practice so he didnt get much time in so I expect better results next session.

That is true I should've clarified, he only ran the last 10 minutes of the session. His car problems were driver spins in T1. But he has been off pace at Barber and was way off pace in Brazil. My comments were as a whole so far, KV is not up to their pace from last year.