Homestead Testing Wrapup- Final Times and Thoughts

First, no info on Rahal but I don't think it was too serious based on cleanup time etc...

Final Combined Results:

Pos. Time Behind Speed Gap Driver
1 25.062 0.000 213.312 0.000 D. Wheldon
2 25.066 0.004 213.277 0.035 S. Dixon
3 25.077 0.015 213.182 0.130 D. Patrick
4 25.092 0.030 213.056 0.256 R. Briscoe
5 25.106 0.044 212.938 0.374 AJ Foyt
6 25.120 0.058 212.818 0.494 M.Roth
7 25.121 0.059 212.809 0.503 H. Castroneves
8 25.123 0.061 212.796 0.516 T. Kanaan
9 25.146 0.084 212.596 0.716 H. Mutoh
10 25.246 0.184 211.752 1.560 M. Andretti
11 25.256 0.194 211.672 1.640 J. Howard
12 25.269 0.207 211.563 1.749 E. Carpenter
13 25.352 0.290 210.871 2.441 V. Miera
14 25.372 0.310 210.708 2.604 B. Rice
15 25.393 0.331 210.527 2.785 R. Hunter-Reay
16 25.436 0.374 210.175 3.137 O. Servia
17 25.447 0.385 210.084 3.228 E. Bernouldi
18 25.484 0.422 209.779 3.533 W. Power
19 25.492 0.430 209.713 3.599 G. Rahal
20 25.493 0.431 209.705 3.607 J. Wilson
21 25.556 0.494 209.188 4.124 F. Perera
22 25.560 0.498 209.152 4.160 M. Duno
23 25.568 0.506 209.089 4.223 E. Viso
24 25.593 0.531 208.884 4.428 D. Manning
25 25.646 0.584 208.454 4.858 B. Junqueira
26 25.842 0.780 206.873 6.439 M. Moraes

Opinion:

I think the main thing for our RFCCD's (Recently Former Champ Car Drivers) is to get experience and be safe and conservative. OVAL driving is deceptive and car setup. particularly dampers is extremely important. RC drivers in an uncomfortable setup will be amazed how thin the line between, it's good, it's good, it's in the wall is.

Certainly not the foot flat on the floor anyone can drive art some think it is.

I think our guys have aquitted themselves well under the condition and let;s hope they get some good race laps under their belts.

rh

One thing that stood out for me was Bernoldi's pace relative to the other ex-CCWS team cars considering how late his deal came together and the fact he has never driven on an oval before - as far as I know anyway. I always thought he was underrated in F1 and his record in junior categories is better than the likes of Castroneves and Kanaan for example.

I'm surprised Newman-Haas weren't quicker (again relative to the ex-CCWS bunch) although they missed the first test and with everyone getting up to speed actual times probably don't mean much at this point, as you say it's probably just about getting experience and seat time...

Have to agree the CC boys did well,It should be a interesting season. Will be pulling hard for all the CC teams.I really hope Bruno and DC show well. Have tickets for long Beach and have mixed feeling,but will have a great time with that whole scene.

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Originally Posted by elan 02

Have to agree the CC boys did well,It should be a interesting season. Will be pulling hard for all the CC teams.I really hope Bruno and DC show well. Have tickets for long Beach and have mixed feeling,but will have a great time with that whole scene.

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I wasn't going to LB because it's hard to get from SAE Conference week in Detroit to LB but ya know, might be worth the effort to be there, chat up the guys in the paddock.

So maybe I'll cya there :)

rh

To be honest, I'm more worried about the drivers getting up to speed than the teams. With the exception of Bruno and Servia who were in CART, most of them have little to no experience on ovals.

I think they would've been a little faster last night if the weather was better. Even then, they were still slower than Team Roth for the most part.

Not bad for a having fully assembled cars for a week, huh?

We'll (CC Teams) will have a decent shot on the roadies, but we'll get our butts handed to us for awhile on the ovals.

I'll take this over the alternative of not being unified, any day of the week.

I'll see you guys at Long Beach.

Car scraps, and spare parts for former Champcar drivers. Plus, only five drivers from Champcar.

Sad......

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Originally Posted by jimispeed

Car scraps, and spare parts for former Champcar drivers. Plus, only five drivers from Champcar.

Sad......

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Champcars fault for going bankrupt maybe? And a lot of the Champcar drivers aren't good enough to be in Indycar, with the exception of Paul Tracy whose missing out due to GF.

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Originally Posted by Alfa Fan

Champcars fault for going bankrupt maybe? And a lot of the Champcar drivers aren't good enough to be in Indycar, with the exception of Paul Tracy whose missing out due to GF.

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Oh please! I really have to stop drinking diet Coke at the keyboard while I read these threads. Not good enough to be in IndyCar? As compared to those all time greats like the racing dentist or Milka Duno or Ed Carpenter, etc. etc. etc. Please name a SINGLE CCWS driver from last season that wouldn't be a prime candidate to replace Ms. Duno.

Gary

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Oh please! I really have to stop drinking diet Coke at the keyboard while I read these threads. Not good enough to be in IndyCar? As compared to those all time greats like the racing dentist or Milka Duno or Ed Carpenter, etc. etc. etc. Please name a SINGLE CCWS driver from last season that wouldn't be a prime candidate to replace Ms. Duno.

Gary

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You're having to stretch pretty far to find some duds.

The dentist raced over ten years ago.

Milka is hard to defend although it's fair to say she has more oval experience than much of the former CC field, many who have never had to race wheel to wheel at 200 MPH for 2 1/2 hours.

Ed is much better than you give him credit for. He'll outpace 90% of the former CC drivers this season.