Sato in Indycar

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 11 Apr 2010, 21:46

Sato really did have a promising weekend - until the car realized it was enssentially a Lotus and broke down.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 11 Apr 2010, 22:00

Bad lucky for sato

Also, reject of the race: Milka Duno :lol:

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 12 Apr 2010, 07:43

Simona De Silvestro >>>>>>>> Danica Patrick > Milka Duno.
That is all.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 12 Apr 2010, 17:19

Just thought about that caption: "Milka goes into Baguette forcing the leader out". Anyway...

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 12 Apr 2010, 19:09

Simona de Silvestro is awesome. She's done a fantastic job in that car... which by the way, is the former Minardi Team USA car! We'll see how she copes with the ovals, though!

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 01 May 2010, 21:16

Whoa, another crash for sato, now with your compatriot hideki mutoh.

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 01 May 2010, 22:18

Until that point, though, he was having an astonishingly strong first oval race, despite Milka Duno doing her best to take him out of contention.

LucaPacchiarini · Post by **LucaPacchiarini** » 01 May 2010, 22:18

Who was to blame?

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 01 May 2010, 22:20

I'd say it was a racing accident - but if you want to appropriate blame, I believe Mutoh's spotter desrves a bit more of that then Sato's.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 02 May 2010, 06:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-IfeBtGQHU

3:00 - Sato/Mika contact in pit exit
5:05 - Sato/Mutoh crash

frongor · Post by **frongor** » 03 May 2010, 10:34

Great debut oval race from Takuma and the feeling when he crashed was exact the one you got after he clashed with Barrichello at Nurnburgring in 2004. Taku could have got a respectable top 10 by taking it easy and just finishing the race, instead he gives it all and loses everything. A true racer, a weak tactician - just the kind of guys we want more of in F1

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 03 May 2010, 19:26

frongor wrote:Great debut oval race from Takuma and the feeling when he crashed was exact the one you got after he clashed with Barrichello at Nurnburgring in 2004. Taku could have got a respectable top 10 by taking it easy and just finishing the race, instead he gives it all and loses everything. A true racer, a weak tactician - just the kind of guys we want more of in F1

I think it's not about being a great tactician all alone-in fact, that'd be a minor part of it. Theoretically racing is about giving it all out there; then, you can be lucky or unlucky. It's also about the ability, but I'm not going to discuss Taku's ability, especially considering he's still a rookie.

bduddy · Post by **bduddy** » 09 May 2010, 21:31

P_Friesacher wrote:I'd say it was a racing accident - but if you want to appropriate blame, I believe Mutoh's spotter desrves a bit more of that then Sato's.

That restart was a complete disaster all around. If I had to apportion blame, I'd give most of it to de Silvestro (in the orange car, to the right of them both)-she squeezed Mutoh up the track...

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 23 May 2010, 21:19

Urgent Sato-appeal: He's struggling to qualify for the Indy 500 and there are only 40 Minutes left of Bump Day. So cross your fingers!

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 23 May 2010, 22:04

That was close, but he's in.
Sad Reject of Bump Day: Paul Tracy who had qualified for the race, but tried to go for another run, thus deleting his time. And then didn't manage to set the time he had set before.
Also quite sad for Jay Howard and Sarah Fischer Racing.... - But WOW, what a great Bump Day that was!

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 24 May 2010, 07:29

That was about as hectic as 1995's Bump Day. Okay, maybe not, but it was still a surprise to see Tracy and Howard go home after Saavedra crashed... just imagine if they both beat Kanaan and sent Kanaan home!

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 24 May 2010, 08:21

Kanaan would have most likely started anyway, taking John Andretti's car and last spot in the grid. After all he is full-time driver while Andretti is not.

Anyway, nice to see that Sato managed to do it. Hoping him to have good race and taking Rookie of the Year award home. Actually, would have liked to see anyone from the back end of the grid go fast enough on Saturday to clinch place in 21, because then we would have had entire row of female drivers!

Justin Wilson is already done few races. Sebastian Saavedra is also F1Rejects related driver since he was mentioned in the podcast as replacement driver for Toro Rosso! (somewhere in 2008)

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 31 May 2010, 00:37

Takuma Sato finished 20th and 2 laps down in the Indy 500. And the IRL shows F1 how to handle a misunderstood passing under yellow situation: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_ ... 0_review_4

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 31 May 2010, 01:56

This being the IndyCar discussion thread (essentially), Sato had a big crash in quali for the 500 and was put at 100-1 odds to win. Also, reject connection, Mike Conway, drove in GP2 and was a teammate of Chinese F1 idol winner Ho-Pin-Tung, had that huge crash near the end of the race.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 31 May 2010, 04:25

tristan1117 wrote:This being the IndyCar discussion thread (essentially), Sato had a big crash in quali for the 500 and was put at 100-1 odds to win. Also, reject connection, Mike Conway, drove in GP2 and was a teammate of Chinese F1 idol winner Ho-Pin-Tung, had that huge crash near the end of the race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CCWoF-DCU

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 31 May 2010, 08:42

Dj_bereta wrote:
tristan1117 wrote:This being the IndyCar discussion thread (essentially), Sato had a big crash in quali for the 500 and was put at 100-1 odds to win. Also, reject connection, Mike Conway, drove in GP2 and was a teammate of Chinese F1 idol winner Ho-Pin-Tung, had that huge crash near the end of the race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CCWoF-DCU

And 'just' a broken leg, thankfully - could have been so much worse...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84058

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 31 May 2010, 08:53

dr-baker wrote:
Dj_bereta wrote:
tristan1117 wrote:This being the IndyCar discussion thread (essentially), Sato had a big crash in quali for the 500 and was put at 100-1 odds to win. Also, reject connection, Mike Conway, drove in GP2 and was a teammate of Chinese F1 idol winner Ho-Pin-Tung, had that huge crash near the end of the race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CCWoF-DCU

And 'just' a broken leg, thankfully - could have been so much worse...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84058

What the hell was he thinking? Everyone involved was really lucky.

Post by **mario** » 31 May 2010, 09:02

They weren't the only lucky ones - thank goodness that there was a reasonably large gap behind them, given how far the wreckage was spread (we saw that something hit the camera of one of the drivers behind those two - thankfully it didn't fly a bit lower), otherwise that could have been very nasty indeed.

LionZoo wrote:Takuma Sato finished 20th and 2 laps down in the Indy 500. And the IRL shows F1 how to handle a misunderstood passing under yellow situation: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_ ... 0_review_4

Well, given that it was his first race, and the crash that he'd had, he was always going to have a tough time of it. As for the yellow flag situation, well, over in the Indy car series, the rules allow you to simply switch the positions like that - if F1 had a similar rule, it'd have saved us all from a lot of acrimony (and the stewards from a lot of hate mail...)

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 31 May 2010, 09:19

Dj_bereta wrote:
tristan1117 wrote:This being the IndyCar discussion thread (essentially), Sato had a big crash in quali for the 500 and was put at 100-1 odds to win. Also, reject connection, Mike Conway, drove in GP2 and was a teammate of Chinese F1 idol winner Ho-Pin-Tung, had that huge crash near the end of the race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CCWoF-DCU

He's lucky to be alive. How often do you see an engine shear from the rest of the monocoque? I really hope there's black box data for this crash. I'm curious as to what kind of force it took to destroy that car the way it was.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 31 May 2010, 10:42

Apparently Ryan Hunter-Reay ran out of fuel and that made him to slow down, causing Conway to crash into him.

rdbextreme · Post by **rdbextreme** » 02 Jun 2010, 19:24

Takuma needs some more time in an IndyCar. People often under appreciate the talent that the sport has. It would be difficult for ANY F1 driver to make the switch, not only to a different car... but to the ovals as well.

frongor · Post by **frongor** » 22 Jun 2010, 04:31

Takuma on ovals is an emotional roller coaster

He qualify good and race right at the top for 100-150 laps (P5 at Kansas and P3 yesterday at Iowa)...
And then throws the Lotus into the wall.

He is nowhere close to being the ROTY, but he obviously has potential and hopefully KV will keep him for at least another season.

JohnMLTX · Post by **JohnMLTX** » 22 Jun 2010, 05:01

Still, his (lack of) success didn't stop me from going to the race at Texas wearing an Super Aguri hat and also shirt.
I think there's just a large electromagnet in his car, and race control turns it on around 75% through the race. At texas, some new guy just turned it on a bit too early.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 08 Aug 2010, 20:23

Bump.

Sato qualifies 3rd at Mid-Ohio Raceway!

F1000X · Post by **F1000X** » 08 Aug 2010, 20:57

I'm watching the race right now, Sato is doing well.

Edit: And he just crashed. F*ck....

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 09 Aug 2010, 01:22

F1000X wrote:Edit: And he just crashed. F*ck....

Typical Sato, IMO.

captainhappy · Post by **captainhappy** » 09 Aug 2010, 15:37

Takuma looked great in that green Lotus! His exit from the race was Classic Sato.

frongor · Post by **frongor** » 10 Aug 2010, 23:06

Looking only at the race results, Takuma seems just slightly better than Milka Duno as he hardly ever finishes. However, he qualify strongly (especially on road courses) and run in the top until something like yesterday happen....
He will get a strong finish sooner or later, and i think his second year might be very good. And the Lotus-Indycar look much better than the Lotus-F1.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 11 Aug 2010, 02:15

frongor wrote:And the Lotus-Indycar look much better than the Lotus-F1.

That's 'coz its a Lotus-Dallara-Honda! There's only a 95% chance of failure with that combo.

watka · Post by **watka** » 14 Aug 2010, 11:14

captainhappy wrote:Takuma looked great in that green Lotus! His exit from the race was Classic Sato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgG88OjKlqg - Slightly ambitious overtake by the look of it.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 14 Aug 2010, 12:13

watka wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgG88OjKlqg - Slightly ambitious overtake by the look of it.

Yep, classic Takuma. That's the way, ahaha, I like it. :mrgreen:

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 14 Aug 2010, 12:57

Klon wrote:
watka wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgG88OjKlqg - Slightly ambitious overtake by the look of it.

Yep, classic Takuma. That's the way, ahaha, I like it.

Brilliant! :lol:

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 03 Oct 2010, 06:33

Indy 2010 season is over, franchitti gets the title by 5 points (A strategic error in Chicago cost Power's Title)! Sato finished in 21st position in your first indy season. Also justin wilson, another Ex-F-1 in indy, finished in 11th.

In overall sato did a god job, but crashed so much! Because of this, considering only those who ran the whole season, he only finished ahead of Milka Duno (2010 Indy ROTY so far).

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 03 Oct 2010, 06:48

Dj_bereta wrote:Indy 2010 season is over, franchitti gets the title by 5 points (A strategic error in Chicago cost Power's Title)! Sato finished in 21st position in your first indy season. Also justin wilson, another Ex-F-1 in indy, finished in 11th.

In overall sato did a god job, but crashed so much! Because of this, considering only those who ran the whole season, he only finished ahead of Milka Duno (2010 Indy ROTY so far).

There are far too many walls on ovals for Bonsai, not Banzai to thrive...

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 03 Oct 2010, 09:55

Dj_bereta wrote:Indy 2010 season is over, franchitti gets the title by 5 points (A strategic error in Chicago cost Power's Title)! Sato finished in 21st position in your first indy season. Also justin wilson, another Ex-F-1 in indy, finished in 11th.

In overall sato did a god job, but crashed so much! Because of this, considering only those who ran the whole season, he only finished ahead of Milka Duno (2010 Indy ROTY so far).

Will Power lost the title? He was MILES ahead of everyone just a couple of months ago. Man!