Honda Indy Toronto

[DanicaFan]

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Race - Honda Indy Toronto

Location - Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date - July 12th

TV Schedule - 1pm Eastern - ABC

Course Type - 1.721 Mile Road Course

Distance - 85 Laps / 146.285 Miles

Qualifications - July 11th - 2:05-3:35 pm Eastern

Indy Car Inaugural Event

[DanicaFan]

A little track history...

This will be the inaugural event for the IndyCar Series. The first time for the series at this track. This track was used by ChampCar from 1986-2007. Andretti Green Promotions purchased the assets to this race back in May, 2008 and Honda came aboard in September. This allowed the race to be part of the 2009 schedule.

There will be 4 former winners at this track in this race. Those drivers and the years they won are..

1. Paul Tracy - 1993, 2003
2. Dario Franchitti - 1999
3. Justin Wilson - 2005
4. Will Power - 2007

Now, Michael Andretti, Danica's race strategist won here 7 times. This will be a big help to her. Michael won here in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2000, and 2001.

[the bro]

Even though this is the first IRL race at the track, some of the drivers have raced in Toronto before.

Castroneves, Dixon, Doornbos, Kanaan, Tagliani, Hunter-Reay, Patrick (Atlantics). My count is 11.

[NickFalzone]

It's going to be a very impressive driver lineup at Toronto. DF, I wouldn't count on Michael's experience playing into DP's favor. If he has any tips they will probably get to Marco as well, and while Danica has shown improvement on the road courses, she's still pretty bad on the street circuits (Belle Isle 07 notwithstanding).

[TURN3]

It's going to be a very impressive driver lineup at Toronto. DF, I wouldn't count on Michael's experience playing into DP's favor. If he has any tips they will probably get to Marco as well, and while Danica has shown improvement on the road courses, she's still pretty bad on the street circuits (Belle Isle 07 notwithstanding).

Yes, impressive driver lineup to say the least. You have PT coming back and I think he'll be more competitive than last week, especially if they give him a trick car for a good showing (ala Danica). The big problem for the big guns though is Will Power in Penske equipment. Is Schekter racing this week or is it Milka? Thomas is pretty stout on streets too and with Conway's showing last week I think D&R can hang. I look for Danica to have a hard time cracking p15 this week for sure, unless Mikey is actually driving the car for her.

Then again, D&R doesn't have a shock program like the big teams and Toronto is notorious for bumps...put a ? by D&R.

[NickFalzone]

Power, PT, and Tags will all be there with something to prove.

I would not be surprised to see any of these drivers in victory lane:

Helio
Dario
TK
Dixon
PT
Tag
Doornbos
Rahal
Power
Wilson

with possible longshots of:

Marco
Wheldon
RHR

[NickFalzone]

Scheckter is racing in Toronto in the 23.

[DanicaFan]

Here is the entry list for this race..

Car # & Driver / Car Name / Team

#2 Raphael Matos / US Marines Luczo Dragon Racing / Luczo Dragon Racing
#3 Helio Castroneves / Team Penske / Team Penske
#4 Dan Wheldon / National Guard Panther Racing / Panther Racing
#5 Mario Moraes / KV Racing Technology-Votorantim / KV Racing Technology
#6 Ryan Briscoe / Team Penske / Team Penske
#7 Danica Patrick / Boost Mobile-Motorola / Andretti Green Racing
#9 Scott Dixon / Target Chip Ganassi Racing / Target Chip Ganassi Racing
#10 Dario Franchitti / Target Chip Ganassi Racing / Target Chip Ganassi Racing
#11 Tony Kanaan / Team 7-Eleven-Nestle Pure Life / Andretti Green Racing
#12 Will Power / Penske Truck Rental / Penske Racing
#13 EJ Viso / PDVSA HVM Racing / HVM Racing
#14 Ryan Hunter-Reay / ABC Supply Co. AJ Foyt Racing / AJ Foyt Enterprises
#15 Paul Tracy / Ontario Honda Dealers-woundedwarriers.ca / KV Racing Technology
#18 Justin Wilson / Z-Line Designs / Dale Coyne Racing
#20 Ed Carpenter / Vision-Williams Rast-Lilly Racing / Vision Racing
#23 Tomas Scheckter / Mona Vie-Dreyer & Reinbold Racing / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
#24 Mike Conway / Valspar-Dreyer & Reinbold Racing / Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
#26 Marco Andretti / NYSE-ishares / Andretti Green Racing
#27 Hideki Mutoh / Formula Dream / Andretti Green Racing
#34 Alex Tagliani / King Tut-Conquest Racing / Conquest Racing
#98 Richard Antinucci / Novicomm LED Lighting Technology / CURB-Agajanian Team 3G
#02 Graham Rahal / McDonald's Racing Team / Newman-Haas-Lanigan Racing
#06 Robert Doornbos / Newman-Haas-Lanigan Racing / Newman-Haas-Lanigan Racing

[BobGarage]

my money is on the back to back win for wilson/dcr.

[DanicaFan]

My money is on Danica Patrick to win this race.