The Alessandro Zanardi IndyCar Thread

Alextrax52 · Post by **Alextrax52** » 02 Jun 2013, 21:07

Sebastien Bourdais has been issued a drive-through for avoidable contact.

What was that about Bourdais forcing Power to eat his words?

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 03 Jun 2013, 23:15

I give my ROTR to A.J again. Two races, two crashes in first lap.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 04 Jun 2013, 00:28

Kimi-ICE wrote:Bourdais for ROTR: To quote Will Power "But Bourdais once was a champ and now he's a chump" says a lot really

That's a little rich considering Power's choked the last 3 titles in a row and is now throwing away every single goddamn race. It looked more like a racing incident to me, anyway.

Which, sadly, leaves ROTR to Allmendinger. That was, well, just plain embarrassing.

Frentzen127 · Post by **Frentzen127** » 04 Jun 2013, 02:34

Here's the Saavedra part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJgaWXbr07Q

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 04 Jun 2013, 05:55

Dj_bereta wrote:I give my ROTR to A.J again. Two races, two crashes in first lap.

Only Saavedra could have given a run for the money of top reject for that comedic display of the fingers at Marco Andretti, but then he avoided the crashes in the second race to yield a tenth place finish. If Saavedra loses sponsorship or gets fined then we have a new reject, but until that happens I concur about A.J. being ROTR.

Jocke1 · Post by **Jocke1** » 04 Jun 2013, 15:31

May 5th - Sato leads championship.
June 2nd - Sato is 6th in the championship.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 05 Jun 2013, 17:26

Pipa Mann gets Coyne seat and bad News for Briscoe, Servia gets Panther seat.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/107867

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/107879

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 05 Jun 2013, 22:03

Pipa Mann full-time? yes please.
also: i never really had positive feelings for Briscoe.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Jun 2013, 22:08

nome66 wrote:also: i never really had positive feelings for Briscoe.

I thought he was pretty good once, but ever since Will Power joined Penske, Briscoe was just utter bleh. Not sorry to see him go.

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 06 Jun 2013, 06:15

nome66 wrote:Pipa Mann full-time? yes please.
also: i never really had positive feelings for Briscoe.

The bad news is that Pippa is pretty mediocre at best, although I don't know how much is equipment and how much of the mediocrity is Pippa. Briscoe is a better driver, but not significantly better at this time.

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 08 Jun 2013, 19:54

At this point, Pippa Mann will be starting one position ahead of her Coyne teammate Justin Wilson at Texas, and she has delivered a laptime good enough to go to P10 in the final practise session whilst Wilson scored another last place due to some technical problems with his car that went on all weekend so far. Yet, Coyne believe they have figured it out by now. They'd better have indeed, otherwise Race Control would park the former Minardi and Jaguar driver after a few laps due to "handling", Lotus style.

Drivers, good luck for the race!

Jocke1 · Post by **Jocke1** » 08 Jun 2013, 20:02

Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 08 Jun 2013, 20:13

Jocke1 wrote:May 5th - Sato leads championship.
June 2nd - Sato is 6th in the championship.

Now Sato has sunken into more trouble and he starts 23rd for the Firestone 550 having failed to set a time. Uh Oh.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Jun 2013, 20:19

Also, WILL POWER IS ON POLE ON AN OVAL WHAT IS THIS

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 09 Jun 2013, 14:15

Boring race. My ROTR goes to Texas Motor Speedway.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 09 Jun 2013, 14:32

Dj_bereta wrote:Boring race. My ROTR goes to Texas Motor Speedway.

My ROTR is Graham Rahal. Nearly won this race last year, and did absolutely piss all all night. Atrocious performance.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 09 Jun 2013, 16:05

Damn it (really quickly)! Sato (one of my personal favorites if you haven't realised) finished 11th and 65 points behind Castroneves but now up to 5th in the championship.

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 10 Jun 2013, 07:10

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
Dj_bereta wrote:Boring race. My ROTR goes to Texas Motor Speedway.

My ROTR is Graham Rahal. Nearly won this race last year, and did absolutely piss all all night. Atrocious performance.

Even outran by Oriol Servia who stalled the car after spinning out and bring out the second caution of the race. Graham was absolutely bad when he was outperformed by a spinning Servia.

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 10 Jun 2013, 16:37

Onxy Wrecked wrote:
BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
Dj_bereta wrote:Boring race. My ROTR goes to Texas Motor Speedway.

My ROTR is Graham Rahal. Nearly won this race last year, and did absolutely piss all all night. Atrocious performance.

Even outran by Oriol Servia who stalled the car after spinning out and bring out the second caution of the race. Graham was absolutely bad when he was outperformed by a spinning Servia.

His dad's team is shite. He should have stayed with Ganassi. My ROTR was Bordais, how many drivers did he block/piss off? Just move over dude.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 10 Jun 2013, 16:38

Wallio wrote:
Onxy Wrecked wrote:
BlindCaveSalamander wrote:My ROTR is Graham Rahal. Nearly won this race last year, and did absolutely piss all all night. Atrocious performance.

Even outran by Oriol Servia who stalled the car after spinning out and bring out the second caution of the race. Graham was absolutely bad when he was outperformed by a spinning Servia.

His dad's team is shite. He should have stayed with Ganassi.

Pretty sure Ganassi kicked him out. Besides, James Jakes is doing fine.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 10 Jun 2013, 22:48

Jocke1 wrote:Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.

Really? Wow. I never knew that... :shock:

You mean it translates into French as 'coucher' or 'baiser'?

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 11 Jun 2013, 05:17

Wallio wrote:His dad's team is shite. He should have stayed with Ganassi. My ROTR was Bordais, how many drivers did he block/piss off? Just move over dude.

Graham seems to be regressing as a driver and if the car is bad then it makes James Jakes all the greater of a talent seeing how he's taking those Rahal cars into reasonably high positions.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 11 Jun 2013, 06:32

Jocke1 wrote:Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.

That explains the RWRS Pippa Mann, then :lol:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 12 Jun 2013, 11:24

Wizzie wrote:
Jocke1 wrote:Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.

That explains the RWRS Pippa Mann, then

That's the reputation that others in the series have brushed her with. That is not how she is at all, as her long-term relationship and imminant marriage to Ben Fleet proves!

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 12 Jun 2013, 15:12

dr-baker wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
Jocke1 wrote:Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.

That explains the RWRS Pippa Mann, then

That's the reputation that others in the series have brushed her with. That is not how she is at all, as her long-term relationship and imminant marriage to Ben Fleet proves!

Cover stories my friend, cover stories. Be not thy innocent flower, but the serpent underneath, or something like that :lol:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 12 Jun 2013, 22:03

Jocke1 wrote:Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.

pasta_maldonado wrote:
dr-baker wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
That explains the RWRS Pippa Mann, then

That's the reputation that others in the series have brushed her with. That is not how she is at all, as her long-term relationship and imminant marriage to Ben Fleet proves!

Cover stories my friend, cover stories. Be not thy innocent flower, but the serpent underneath, or something like that

Is that meant to be some kind of euphemism? Trouser snake kinda thing?

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 12 Jun 2013, 22:31

dr-baker wrote:
pasta_maldonado wrote:
Jocke1 wrote:Every time I see Pippa Mann's name, I can't help but smile.

You see, Pippa is somewhat of a dirty name in Swedish. Translated it means 'screw' or 'shag', naughty bedroom stuff.
Wizzie wrote:
That explains the RWRS Pippa Mann, then
dr-baker wrote: That's the reputation that others in the series have brushed her with. That is not how she is at all, as her long-term relationship and imminant marriage to Ben Fleet proves!
Cover stories my friend, cover stories. Be not thy innocent flower, but the serpent underneath, or something like that
Is that meant to be some kind of euphemism? Trouser snake kinda thing?

Hey, you thought of it, not us!

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 12 Jun 2013, 22:35

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Hey, you thought of it, not us!

Yes, me. And NOT Pippa Mann... :roll:

Geez. Here you have an innocent wallflower in the fictional Pippa Mann, who just happens to have a slightly lewd creator, and people project dirtiness onto her! How shocking!

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 17 Jun 2013, 03:55

I believe Hunter-Reay won the Milwakee race. Sato was in contention at one point. Go Taku!

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 17 Jun 2013, 05:26

go_Rubens wrote:I believe Hunter-Reay won the Milwakee race. Sato was in contention at one point. Go Taku!

I wonder what happened to Marco Andretti?

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 17 Jun 2013, 06:10

Onxy Wrecked wrote:
go_Rubens wrote:I believe Hunter-Reay won the Milwakee race. Sato was in contention at one point. Go Taku!

I wonder what happened to Marco Andretti?

Apparently, it was some sort of electrical problem which put him out of the race.

And looks like it'll be RHR vs Helio for the title now.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 17 Jun 2013, 07:22

go_Rubens wrote:I believe Hunter-Reay won the Milwakee race. Sato was in contention at one point. Go Taku!

Sato was running away with it until later on when Ed Carpenter refused to let him put him a lap down, which kind of ruined Taku's momentum. Then any hope of a Taku win died when Ana Beatriz brought out the yellow at the exact wrong moment for Sato.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 23 Jun 2013, 18:24

The Iowa Corn Indy 250 is underway within an hour and we have Will Power and James Hinchcliffe on the front-row and then there is Marco Andretti in third. The conditions are wet and the start is being delayed.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 23 Jun 2013, 19:13

James Hinchcliffe leads the start of the race.

After a dozen laps, this is the order:

1) Hinchcliffe
2) Power
3) Andretti
4) Kanaan
5) Carpenter
6) Servia
7) Pagenaud
8) Rahal
9) Wilson
10) Hunter-Reay

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 23 Jun 2013, 19:18

Hunter-Reay has cleared Wilson for 9th and Andretti has lost 3rd to Indy 500 winner Kanaan. Then Marco is passed for 4th by Carpenter.

Alextrax52 · Post by **Alextrax52** » 23 Jun 2013, 19:21

good_Ralf wrote:The Iowa Corn Indy 250 is underway within an hour and we have Will Power and James Hinchcliffe on the front-row and then there is Marco Andretti in third. The conditions are wet and the start is being delayed.

good_Ralf wrote:James Hinchcliffe leads the start of the race.

After a dozen laps, this is the order:

1) Hinchcliffe
2) Power
3) Andretti
4) Kanaan
5) Carpenter
6) Servia
7) Pagenaud
8) Rahal
9) Wilson
10) Hunter-Reay

good_Ralf wrote:Hunter-Reay has cleared Wilson for 9th and Andretti has lost 3rd to Indy 500 winner Kanaan. Then Marco is passed for 4th by Carpenter.

There's an edit button for a reason mate

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 23 Jun 2013, 19:23

Castroneves is also past Wilson. Carpenter is now 3rd. I'll just constantly update this post from now.

Power loses 2nd and 3rd to Carpenter and Kanaan respectively. The pole-sitter has lost 3 places or is that just the norm in IndyCar?

Debris from Hunter-Reay's front wing has brought out yellows for the first time and everyone has pitted. Now Power has gained 2nd place back but Kanaan has dropped to 9th. Hinchcliffe still leads on lap 44. The reigning champion is 21st after a nose change, I guess.

Hinchcliffe leads at the restart and Kanaan is down to 10th.

Power has slipped to 5th having been overtaken by Andretti and Pagenaud.

There is a lot of dicing for 5th involving Rahal, Servia, Kanaan and Castroneves. Power, the pole-sitter, is down to 10th!

Hunter-Reay has climbed to 11th from 21st at the restart. Power has lost his 10th to the recovering Hunter-Reay.

Hinchcliffe leads Rahal by 3 seconds on lap 114 out of 250. A lot of front-running drivers have pitted, meaning that Justin Wilson and James Jakes are now 1st and 2nd but momentarily as they too are in the box.

At half-distance, it surprises me that there have been no retirements.

Power is down to 13th and under pressure from Takuma Sato.

Tagliani is in the wall! Out come the yellows for a second time.

I find it very ignominious that Dario Franchitti is in 21st. Some drivers are pitting including Wilson.

Green flag. Rahal passes Andretti and Dixon is up to 5th.

Yellows are back out for debris.

Green flag Number 3. Hunter-Reay shoots into third and Andretti has lost places already.

Sato is out with fuel problems and championship chances are slimming at this rate. Tagliani has finally retired after damaging his car against the wall.

The final round of stops are taking place at Iowa.

Beatriz has retired with a mechanical failure.

Carpenter is yet to pit and leads the race.

Ed Carpenter's stop is a disaster with a problem changing tyres.

ROTR could well go to Will Power because he has slid from pole to 18th.

Kanaan is past Graham Rahal for the final podium position.

James Hinchcliffe scores his third victory of 2013.

Race Classification after 250 laps

1) Hinchcliffe
2) Hunter-Reay
3) Kanaan
4) Carpenter
5) Rahal
6) Pagenaud
7) Servia
8) Castroneves
9) Andretti
10) Viso
11) Wilson
12) Kimball
13) Vautier
14) Bourdais
15) Newgarden
16) Dixon
17) Power :shock:

18) Jakes
19) Saavedra
20) Franchitti
21) de Silvestro

Not Classified

22) Beatriz
23) Sato
24) Tagliani

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 24 Jun 2013, 00:57

I give my ROTR to Alex Tagliani. Was the sole driver that spun off and hit the wall. Also, laps early, he forced Tristan Valtier to run wide in turn 2.

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 24 Jun 2013, 05:30

Dj_bereta wrote:I give my ROTR to Alex Tagliani. Was the sole driver that spun off and hit the wall. Also, laps early, he forced Tristan Valtier to run wide in turn 2.

The other two were unfortunate enough to have mechanical issues thus leaving Tagliani as the only viable ROTR.

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 24 Jun 2013, 05:51

Hinchcliffe winning again? I'm okay with this!

ROTR should be Tagliani. Only one to make a driving error on track.