Ex-Open Wheelers' qualifying pathetic at Daytona 500

[ChicagocrewIRL]

Tony Stewart - - - Qualified 6th - - - former IndyCar Champion

Juan Pablo Montoya - - - Qualified 15th - - - Indy 500 Champion, CART Champion Formula 1 World Champion

Sam Hornish Jr. - - - Qualified 19th - - - Indy 500 Champion, 3 Time IndyCar Champion

John Andretti - - - Qualified 22nd - - - CART and Indy 500 driver

Robby Gordon - - - Qualified 26th - - - CART, IRL and Indy 500 driver

J.J. Yeley - - - Qualified 37th - - - IRL and Indy 500 driver

Dario Franchitti - - - Qualified 40th - - IRL Champion, Indy 500 Champion

A.J. Allmendinger - - - DNQ - - - CCWS driver, Atlantics Champion, CCWS Rookie of the Year

Patrick Carpentier - - - DNQ - - - CART driver, IRL and Indy 500 driver

Jacques Villeneuve - - - DNQ - - - Indy 500 Champion, CART Champion, Formula 1 World Champion, CART Rookie of the Year


pretty sad showing for the open wheel guys going from "fighter jets" to "B-52 bombers"

[Wraith]

Put any of them in a Hendrick car, and they'd likely be starting in the first four rows. And Juan Pablo Montoya is a Formula One race winner, not a World Champion. Villeneuve did decently with an almost unsponsored car.

[F1boat]

Tony is still dangerous, do not underestimate him.

[Jimmy Magnusson]

You clearly didn't watch the duels (or understand how NASCAR works) if you think that is pathetic. Carpentier for example was doing a stunning job considering his lack of stock car experience - the only one that really didn't succeed was (unsurprisingly) Allmendinger, and Villeneuve was doing OK before his crash. So stop looking at statistics, learn how the sport works.

[ZzZzZz]

Does USAC could as "open wheel'? I'll go check with Ryan Newman.

The only driver on the above list the didn't impress, *as far as I noticed*, was Yeley.

[nigelred5]

You clearly didn't watch the duels (or understand how NASCAR works) if you think that is pathetic. Carpentier for example was doing a stunning job considering his lack of stock car experience - the only one that really didn't succeed was (unsurprisingly) Allmendinger, and Villeneuve was doing OK before his crash. So stop looking at statistics, learn how the sport works.

What he said. Look at the actual qualifying speeds most of them turned for the Duals. Aside from the Ganassi cars which I'm confident were sand bagging, every one of them would have easily made the field on speed alone. NASCAR doesn't have the nads to scrap their guaranteed provisional system and qualify the field on speed alone and risk their posterboys missing a field as they would have on multiple occasions the past few seasons.