2022 R10 Toronto

[John]

https://racer.com/2022/07/11/foyt-parks ... -payments/

Foyt parks the 11 this weekend. Meaning that their highest ranked car (owner’s points) won’t run. Big oof.

[John]

https://racer.com/2022/07/14/cgr-confir ... n-toronto/

Palou to race in Toronto, CGR looking for a replacement driver for the rest of the season.

[Everso Biggyballies]

https://racer.com/2022/07/14/cgr-confir ... n-toronto/

Palou to race in Toronto, CGR looking for a replacement driver for the rest of the season.

I read elsewhere that TK was going to be asked to drive this weekend but was unable to because he is committed to race elsewhere this weekend.... the SRX racing event in Missouri,
(After running four SRX races in 2021, Tony Kanaan will run all SRX events in 2022 with the exception of Stafford.)

[MonteCristo]

https://racer.com/2022/07/14/cgr-confir ... n-toronto/

Palou to race in Toronto, CGR looking for a replacement driver for the rest of the season.

I wonder also what the car sponsor implications would be.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Rossi leads Pagenaud in opening practice


Alexander Rossi topped the times in first practice at Toronto ahead of defending race-winner Simon Pagenaud, A bit of a change from Rossi's biff and bash Mid-Ohio outing. (Although Power had his best lap hindered inadvertently by Rossi, and ended up ninth.)

Graham Rahal was also within a tenth of the outright pace in third, with championship leader Marcus Ericsson (Chip Ganassi Racing) and two-time Toronto winner Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) completing the top five.

Mr "How many contracts do you need" Palou was tenth.

With too many people then hitting the track in the closing minutes, there wasn’t enough time for anyone to improve, preserving Rossi's position atop the times.


Cla Driver Team Time Gap
1Alexander Rossi United States Andretti Autosport 1'00.6090
2Simon Pagenaud United States Meyer Shank Racing 1'00.6991 0.0901
3Graham Rahal United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'00.7031 0.0941
4Marcus Ericsson United States Chip Ganassi Racing 1'00.7262 0.1172
5 Josef Newgarden United States Team Penske 1'00.7650 0.1560
6 Felix Rosenqvist United States Arrow McLaren SP 1'00.7936 0.1846
7 Colton Herta United States Andretti Autosport 1'00.8689 0.2599
8 Scott Dixon United States Chip Ganassi Racing 1'00.9854 0.3764
9 Will Power United States Team Penske 1'00.9932 0.3842
10 Alex Palou United States Chip Ganassi Racing 1'01.0522 0.4432
11 Christian Lundgaard United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'01.1749 0.5659
12l Helio Castroneves United States Meyer Shank Racing 1'01.2454 0.6364
13 Takuma Sato United States Dale Coyne Racing 1'01.2604 0.6514
14 David Malukas Dale Coyne Racing with HMD 1'01.2627 0.6537
15 Scott McLaughlin United States Team Penske 1'01.3171 0.7081
16 Romain Grosjean United States Andretti Autosport 1'01.3535 0.7445
17 Devlin DeFrancesco United States Andretti Autosport 1'01.5252 0.9162
18 Jack Harvey United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 1'01.6580 1.0490
19 Rinus van Kalmthout United States Ed Carpenter Racing 1'01.6766 1.0676
20 Patricio O'Ward United States Arrow McLaren SP 1'01.6906 1.0816
21 Kyle Kirkwood United States A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'01.8350 1.2260
22 Conor Daly United States Ed Carpenter Racing 1'02.1501 1.5411
23 Callum Ilott Juncos Hollinger Racing 1'02.6874 2.0784
24 Jimmie Johnson United States Chip Ganassi Racing 1'03.0238 2.4148
25 Dalton Kellett United States A.J. Foyt Enterprises 1'03.0873 2.4783




Separate issue:

IndyCar drivers slam ‘dangerous’ Toronto pit lane

IndyCar drivers have criticised Toronto’s crowded pit lane, with Graham Rahal branding it “dangerous”.

Exhibition Place’s winding pit lane is an even tighter squeeze this weekend, with 25 cars to fit in compared to the 22 that were entered in the last visit, in 2019.

While the boxes are 35 feet (10.7m) long, the same as the previous Toronto event and also the previous event of the current season at Mid-Ohio, the situation is far from ideal, and would have been even worse if not for AJ Foyt Racing shedding an entry due to sponsorship trouble.

Graham Rahal is perhaps most affected given, until the race, the pit wall behind his box has been left open in order to provide access for vehicles, meaning his timing stand is not visible from the seat of the #15 car.

Full story. https://www.speedcafe.com/2022/07/16/in ... -pit-lane/

[MonteCristo]

Rather eventful session.

[John]

20 drivers within one second. Qualifying will be a mess.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Herta leads eventful second Toronto practice


IndyCar Toronto - FP2 results

Cla Driver Team Laps Time Gap Mph
1 Colton Herta United States Andretti Autosport 27 1'00.0471 107.076
2 Marcus Ericsson United States Chip Ganassi Racing 21 1'00.2082 0.1611 106.789
3 Will Power United States Team Penske 26 1'00.3322 0.2851 106.570
4 Scott McLaughlin United States Team Penske 26 1'00.3389 0.2918 106.558
5 Christian Lundgaard United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 27 1'00.3954 0.3483 106.458
6 Scott Dixon United States Chip Ganassi Racing 19 1'00.4547 0.4076 106.354
7 Graham Rahal United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 28 1'00.5009 0.4538 106.273
8 David Malukas United States Dale Coyne Racing 20 1'00.6834 0.6363 105.953
9 Felix Rosenqvist United States Arrow McLaren SP 29 1'00.6854 0.6383 105.950
10 Alexander Rossi United States Andretti Autosport 22 1'00.6924 0.6453 105.937
11 Simon Pagenaud United States Meyer Shank Racing 29 1'00.7251 0.6780 105.880
12 Patricio O'Ward United States Arrow McLaren SP 25 1'00.7574 0.7103 105.824
13 Rinus van Kalmthout United States Ed Carpenter Racing 29 1'00.7847 0.7376 105.777
14 Takuma Sato United States Dale Coyne Racing 20 1'00.8726 0.8255 105.624
15 Conor Daly United States Ed Carpenter Racing 21 1'00.8927 0.8456 105.589
16 Jack Harvey United States Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 28 1'00.9055 0.8584 105.567
17 Devlin DeFrancesco United States Andretti Autosport 27 1'00.9374 0.8903 105.512
18 Callum Ilott United States Juncos Hollinger Racing 26 1'00.9380 0.8909 105.511
19 Romain Grosjean United States Andretti Autosport 12 1'00.9964 0.9493 105.409
20 Helio Castroneves United States Meyer Shank Racing 27 1'01.1110 1.0639 105.212
21 Kyle Kirkwood United States A.J. Foyt Enterprises 27 1'01.2315 1.1844 105.005
22 Jimmie Johnson United States Chip Ganassi Racing 28 1'01.8323 1.7852 103.984
23 Alex Palou United States Chip Ganassi Racing 7 1'01.9120 1.8649 103.851
24 Dalton Kellett United States A.J. Foyt Enterprises 29 1'02.1370 2.0899 103.475
25 Josef Newgarden United States Team Penske 1 1'21.9432 21.8961 78.464


The first casualty of the session was Josef Newgarden, who felt his Chevrolet go into “engine protection mode” so that he had to cruise back to the pits and was done for the session.


Palou hits the wall (both sides)

Grosjean also, but one side only

With just a minute remaining, Takuma Sato struck the wall hard in Turn 6 and had to stop, which effectively ended the session early.


Report:
https://racer.com/2022/07/16/herta-lead ... -practice/



Edit: Added video highlights

[Everso Biggyballies]

IndyCar drivers want Toronto track to revert to pre-2016 layout


More on the drivers thoughts of the track.....
Alexander Rossi, Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal are all hoping next year’s Toronto street course around Exhibition Place can return to its ‘classic’ layout.

Rossi compared the current Toronto layout unfavourably with other street courses on the IndyCar schedule saying that “the last three corners is what makes it tough from an enjoyment standpoint,” while Rahal said: “the track was significantly more fun the other way. Not even close. Yeah, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I wish we could go back tomorrow and run the old track. I understand there are challenges there.

Construction work for the Toronto X hotel in 2016 obliged organisers to substantially alter the final sector of the course, as well as shifting the pitlane from driver’s right to driver’s left.

The result is a pitlane that arcs sharp left on entry at Turn 9, then right at Turn 10, then left at pit exit off the final corner.
Construction work for the Toronto X hotel in 2016 obliged organisers to ask track designer Tony Cotman to substantially alter the final sector of the course, as well as shifting the pitlane from driver’s right to driver’s left.

The result is a pitlane that arcs sharp left on entry at Turn 9, then right at Turn 10, then left at pit exit off the final corner.

“Pitlane under yellow, where everybody is stopping at the same time. [It] could be hell.”


More comment and thoughts here: https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news ... /10339028/

[MonteCristo]

Qualifying:

Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Session
1 26 Herta, Colton D/H/F 59.2698 108.480 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
2 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 59.3592 108.317 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
3 2 Newgarden, Josef D/C/F 59.5257 108.014 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
4 27 Rossi, Alexander D/H/F 59.5544 107.962 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
5 18 Malukas, David (R) D/H/F 59.6140 107.854 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
6 3 McLaughlin, Scott D/C/F 59.9558 107.239 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
7 77 Ilott, Callum (R) D/C/F 59.6352 107.816 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
8 7 Rosenqvist, Felix D/C/F 59.6630 107.765 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
9 8 Ericsson, Marcus D/H/F 59.8527 107.424 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
10 30 Lundgaard, Christian (R) D/H/F 59.9151 107.312 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
11 28 Grosjean, Romain D/H/F 01:00.0819 107.014 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
12 29 DeFrancesco, Devlin (R) D/H/F 01:14.8882 85.856 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
13 45 Harvey, Jack D/H/F 01:00.0212 107.122 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
14 15 Rahal, Graham D/H/F 01:00.6805 105.958 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
15 5 O'Ward, Pato D/C/F 01:00.1193 106.947 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
16 12 Power, Will D/C/F 01:00.7974 105.755 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
17 06 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 01:00.2712 106.678 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
18 60 Pagenaud, Simon D/H/F 01:00.7974 105.755 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
19 51 Sato, Takuma D/H/F 01:00.5324 106.217 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
20 21 VeeKay, Rinus D/C/F 01:01.0870 105.253 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
21 48 Johnson, Jimmie D/H/F 01:00.9817 105.435 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
22 10 Palou, Alex D/H/F 01:03.0514 101.974 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
23 4 Kellett, Dalton D/C/F No Time No Speed Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
24 14 Kirkwood, Kyle (R) D/C/F 01:03.2511 101.652 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
25 20 Daly, Conor D/C/F 01:05.2593 98.524 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2

Report: https://racer.com/2022/07/16/herta-stor ... -in-fifth/

[MonteCristo]

[Everso Biggyballies]

Qualifying:

Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Session
1 26 Herta, Colton D/H/F 59.2698 108.480 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six

First repeat pole of the year I heard mention of. I thought they meant first repeat pole for Palou, at first but then I realised he had not got a pole this year until today.

[John]

Palou's engine grenading itself was surely a coincidence.

Surely.

[MonteCristo]

Palou's engine grenading itself was surely a coincidence.

Surely.

[John]

On a different note it's time to have a closer look at how we got about qualifying. It was bad with 22 full time cars, with 26 it's mayhem.