The Alessandro Zanardi IndyCar Thread

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 13 Apr 2014, 22:05

OMFG Saavedra leading (fluke, I know but...) :shock:

Post by **Londoner** » 13 Apr 2014, 22:07

WHAT THE BATHPLUG WAS THAT HUNTER-REAY?!

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 13 Apr 2014, 22:20

RHR... you're one of the best and most experienced drivers in this field. You of all people should know that was never gonna work.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 13 Apr 2014, 22:50

Well done to Munoz on his first podium finish in IndyCar bar the 500.

Not to mention he pipped his legendary compatriot Montoya to it as well.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 13 Apr 2014, 22:59

good_Ralf wrote:Well done to Munoz on his first podium finish in IndyCar bar the 500. Not to mention he pipped his legendary compatriot Montoya to it as well.

Who cares? MIKE CONWAY WON FOR ED CARPENTER!!!

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 14 Apr 2014, 06:15

Salamander wrote:
good_Ralf wrote:Well done to Munoz on his first podium finish in IndyCar bar the 500. Not to mention he pipped his legendary compatriot Montoya to it as well.

Who cares? MIKE CONWAY WON FOR ED CARPENTER!!!

I care

Happy to see both Colombians doing well.... (wait, Saavedra also a Colombian isn't he

)

For me, Dixon's move to crash Justin Wilson is more for ROTR than RHR crashing Newgarden

W12 · Post by **W12** » 14 Apr 2014, 14:35

Townsend Bell is confirmed to be driving a KV car at the Indy 500.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 15 Apr 2014, 10:34

W12 wrote:Townsend Bell is confirmed to be driving a KV car at the Indy 500.

I swear every time you think Townsend Bell is gone from the sport, he pops back up in some capacity or another

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 19 Apr 2014, 08:30

Congrats to Mike Conway for the win. Looks like having a specialist for each type of track sharing a season really does work.

Recent news are that Mikhail Aleshin's sponsor SMP Racing had their European bank accounts frozen due to the partial occupation of Ukraine http://www.motorsport-total.com/usracin ... ga_from=bn

And in the article, it is mentioned that a certain Sergey Zlobin is sport director of SMP. I remember that name from the F1Rejects podcast. Isn't that the guy who used to drive for Team Russia in A1-GP?

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 20 Apr 2014, 15:06

Yannick wrote:Congrats to Mike Conway for the win. Looks like having a specialist for each type of track sharing a season really does work.

Recent news are that Mikhail Aleshin's sponsor SMP Racing had their European bank accounts frozen due to the partial occupation of Ukraine http://www.motorsport-total.com/usracin ... ga_from=bn

And in the article, it is mentioned that a certain Sergey Zlobin is sport director of SMP. I remember that name from the F1Rejects podcast. Isn't that the guy who used to drive for Team Russia in A1-GP?

Looks like Aleshin's gonna lose his ride if that happens. What a shame given his run at Long Beach.

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 24 Apr 2014, 13:43

Franck Montagny who used to be the test driver for the Renault F1 Team during their successful Alonso/Fisichella years and is most prominent on this website for his several race starts with the SuperAguri F1 team, has been announced as the man to pilot the #26 car of Andretti Autosport in the Indycar USGP, pardon, the Grand Prix of Indianapolis on the 10th of May.
The team will field the car in the next race after that, too, the Indy 500, albeit with another driver, NASCAR's very own Kurt Bush, as has been widely publicised already. Hence, Montagny is cast once again as tester for the stars.
In spite of this, I guess you all agree with me when I say he is very much a star in his own right and it's good to see him make another cameo in IndyCar.

madmark1974 · Post by **madmark1974** » 01 May 2014, 10:57

A lap or three of the new Indianapolis infield circuit :

http://youtu.be/MEoSax3BEms

Looks better!

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 01 May 2014, 11:44

madmark1974 wrote:A lap or three of the new Indianapolis infield circuit :

http://youtu.be/MEoSax3BEms

Looks better!

But I would still have them go through the banking towards the end of the lap though...

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 01 May 2014, 11:57

I tried to type using an old Nokia phone

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 01 May 2014, 12:50

RonDenisDeletraz wrote:I tried to type using an old Nokia phone

Looks like the damage my first mobile might have caused (the Philips on the left):

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 01 May 2014, 21:02

RonDenisDeletraz wrote:I tried to type using an old Nokia phone

Are you sure this is the right thread :roll:

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 01 May 2014, 21:56

How the bathplug did I manage that

Was meant to be in the type reject names with your nose thread. Would have made more contextual sense there.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 01 May 2014, 22:12

RonDenisDeletraz wrote:How the bathplug did I manage that

Was meant to be in the type reject names with your nose thread. Would have made more contextual sense there.

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 05 May 2014, 10:11

From reading preliminary entry lists on the web, we are to expect the following drivers of various relevance to this website to appear in qualifying and the race of the 98th running of the "Indianapolis International 500-Mile Sweepstakes" on Sunday, 25th of May, 2014 (in order of relevance and car number ... F1 rejects first):

Car # - Driver Name - associated with these F1 teams - F1 Reject status - current position on the "Reject Of the Race" leaderboard - Verizon IndyCar Series entrant

#11 - Sebastien Bourdais - former Scuderia Toro Rosso driver - eligible to this site - joint 50th - KV / SH Racing
#19 - Justin Wilson - former Minardi and Jaguar F1 driver - eligible to this site - Dale Coyne Racing
# 8 - Ryan Briscoe - former Toyota F1 test driver - not eligible - Chip Ganassi Racing
#14 - Takuma Sato - former Jordan, BAR / Honda and SuperAguri driver - not eligible - joint 11th - AJ Foyt Racing
# 2 - Juan Pablo Montoya - former Williams and McLaren driver - not eligible - 14th - Team Penske
# 5 - Jacques Villeneuve - former F1 WDC and Williams, BAR / Honda and BMW / Sauber driver - not eligible - 17th - Sam Schmidt Motorsports

There are some true champions amongst those guys. Here's wishing them all the best and good luck for the event.

Additionally, someone else of relevance for this website will start on the upcoming weekend in the lawful successor of the USGP at Indy, the so-called "Grand Prix of Indianapolis":

#26 - Franck Montagny - former Renault F1 test driver and SuperAguri driver - eligible - Andretti Autosport
#20 - Mike Conway - former Honda F1 test driver - not eligible - Ed Carpenter Racing

Both are, however, not scheduled to start at the 500 Mile Sweepstakes.

girry · Post by **girry** » 05 May 2014, 11:46

Franck Montagny will start the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the #26 Andretti. And if Conway gets mentioned, so deserves to be Briscoe.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 May 2014, 12:04

giraurd wrote:Franck Montagny will start the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the #26 Andretti. And if Conway gets mentioned, so deserves to be Briscoe.

... but he mentioned Briscoe... not that Briscoe has done anything worth mentioning this year. I actually forgot he was back in IndyCar this year at all, he's been so anonymous.

girry · Post by **girry** » 05 May 2014, 12:26

Tells a lot about his anonymousness (and my eagerness to be a smartass) that I forgot Yannick mentioned him. Often wondered how Briscoe lands a seat after seat in top teams, having ever shown little to deserve them and more importantly, bringing no money.

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 05 May 2014, 17:09

giraurd wrote:Franck Montagny will start the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the #26 Andretti. And if Conway gets mentioned, so deserves to be....

Oh, yes, I forgot that. I'll fix my original posting with the info. Thanks guys.

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 09 May 2014, 02:22

giraurd wrote:Tells a lot about his anonymousness (and my eagerness to be a smartass) that I forgot Yannick mentioned him. Often wondered how Briscoe lands a seat after seat in top teams, having ever shown little to deserve them and more importantly, bringing no money.

He must provide good info in the terms of information to teams.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 09 May 2014, 23:51

Saavedra/Hawksworth on the front row

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 10 May 2014, 00:09

Saavedra in the Pole is already the most surprising fact of the year.

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 10 May 2014, 05:37

I have not seen any particularly revealing shots of the track yet. Yes, onboard footage but I am still not clear on how the track will do with the whole field jamming down into the new first and second corners. Also, the chicane everybody wanted in 2005. That is all I need to say about the final section of the track.

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 10 May 2014, 09:54

Dj_bereta wrote:Saavedra in the Pole is already the most surprising fact of the year.

Yes, that's quite the big news. Looks like he's good at the Brickyard. After all, he already is in the history books for being the guy who qualified for the Indy 500 whilst doing his mandatory check in hospital, because 2 competitors who had already bumped him, voluntarily pulled their time and failed to better it in their next run.

Too bad the new qualifying format at Indy doesn't allow for those things to happen anymore.
Have I said I don't like the new qualifying format? I hope, one of the days of qualifying for the Indy 500 this year gets rained out completely so they revert back to the old format for next year.

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 10 May 2014, 19:55

wow... um... that was EXACTLY what i thought would happen.

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 10 May 2014, 21:21

30 laps left.... restarts suck so far. grid standing start ruined by launch control gaff. jpm becoming a midfielder.
herta cars up front. not everything is negative about this race, i suppose

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 10 May 2014, 21:26

nome66 wrote:30 laps left.... restarts suck so far. grid standing start ruined by launch control gaff. jpm becoming a midfielder.
herta cars up front. not everything is negative about this race, i suppose

Those new restart rules are pretty stupid. Not entirely sure what JPM was doing there.

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 10 May 2014, 21:37

just learned that Dixon is a lap down! never thought i would see that at 16th and Georgetown!

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 10 May 2014, 21:39

nome66 wrote:just learned that Dixon is a lap down! never thought i would see that at 16th and Georgetown!

Well, he was in the gravel for a while...

Meanwhile, Martin Plowman is running in the top 10, after getting launched on a kerb and taking out Franck Montagny's rear wing!

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 10 May 2014, 21:55

Salamander wrote:
nome66 wrote:just learned that Dixon is a lap down! never thought i would see that at 16th and Georgetown!

Well, he was in the gravel for a while...

Meanwhile, Martin Plowman is running in the top 10, after getting launched on a kerb and taking out Franck Montagny's rear wing!

And Saavedra is certainly Reject of the Race.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 10 May 2014, 21:56

Onxy Wrecked wrote:
Salamander wrote:
nome66 wrote:just learned that Dixon is a lap down! never thought i would see that at 16th and Georgetown!

Well, he was in the gravel for a while...

Meanwhile, Martin Plowman is running in the top 10, after getting launched on a kerb and taking out Franck Montagny's rear wing!

And Saavedra is certainly Reject of the Race.

Pagenaud and Hunter-Reay on their last legs. Shame that Servia had to pit.

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 10 May 2014, 21:59

woohoo!! good for pagenaud there! what a nail biter fuel strategy he had!

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 10 May 2014, 22:22

I give my ROTR to "restarts". Both seems wrong with Indycar. F1 style start don't combine with IndyCar and often we have someone stalled. The Nascar rolling start is somewhat dangerous, like Graham Rahal said.

Special Mention for Servia and Hawksworth strategists.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 10 May 2014, 22:38

Onxy Wrecked wrote:
Salamander wrote:
nome66 wrote:just learned that Dixon is a lap down! never thought i would see that at 16th and Georgetown!

Well, he was in the gravel for a while...

Meanwhile, Martin Plowman is running in the top 10, after getting launched on a kerb and taking out Franck Montagny's rear wing!

And Saavedra is certainly Reject of the Race.

How!? That was a technical failure. ROTR is definitely the restart procedure - it was clearly flawed at St. Pete yet they haven't changed it.

Still, it was an awesome nail-biter right at the end. Great to see Pagenaud win again, he's cemented himself as a very serious title contender now, alongside RHR and Power. And given Power's propensity to choke titles away...

Hawksworth would've won the race had his team not called him into pit lane after he had already passed pit entry. A shame for him given that he was the class of the field, but it's very encouraging for him and Bryan Herta Autosport. As for Servia's strategy... that was an easy top 5 they threw away right there. Though maybe Servia just couldn't match the other guys for fuel saving? I dunno why everyone was gambling on a caution at the end there, once the field got a couple laps under their belt, the odds were pretty low.

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 10 May 2014, 22:47

i just like watching penske bet wrong on fuel. :twisted:

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 10 May 2014, 22:53

nome66 wrote:i just like watching penske bet wrong on fuel.

You and me both. :twisted: