2021 R7 & R8 - Detroit

[MonteCristo]

The usual meh double header at Detroit this weekend.

In the news:

Everyone's favourite racist is back at RLL: https://racer.com/2021/06/07/ferrucci-c ... bleheader/

Meanwhile, the likes of Grosjean and Johnson are back in their cars.

[John]

Imagine a team with Stroll and Ferrucci.

[DoubleFart]

Imagine a team with Stroll and Ferrucci.

I just threw up a little.

[MonteCristo]

Imagine a team with Stroll and Ferrucci.

Ticktum and Ferrucci

[MonteCristo]

IndyCar officials have announced a six grid-spot penalty for the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing entry driven by Alex Palou for the opening race of this weekend’s NTT IndyCar Series doubleheader at Detroit’s Belle Isle. The penalty was assessed for an unapproved engine change prior to the start of the Indianapolis 500, in which Palou went on to finish second.

https://racer.com/2021/06/09/palou-cgr- ... it-race-1/

I wonder why such a penalty doesn't apply for the I500 race itself?

[Everso Biggyballies]

Interesting article : Power would like to punch ‘wanker’ who held him up and do him over "Toowoomba style"

(For those furreners, Will hails from Toowoomba, an inland city in Queensland. @MonteCristo might know something more about Toowoomba, but the only thing I know is I seem to think it has steep aboriginal heritage. I have no idea what Toowoomba style means. In fact I thought style and Toowoomba were two words not often seen in the same sentence!

Will Power has suggested he would like to punch the “wanker” who kept holding drivers up during practice for IndyCar’s Detroit double-header, in an off-the-wall press conference.

The Team Penske pilot was fastest in the 75-minute session around the Bell Isle street circuit but took umbrage at one driver in particular.

This weekend’s races are the first since what was a tough month of May for Power, who barely qualified for the Indianapolis 500.

Asked about that experience, Power, who is 12th in the series standings, triggered a colourful exchange in the post-practice press conference.

“Yeah, Indy was a massive disappointment,” admitted the Queenslander.

“I was a little bit down for a few days. Certainly got back in training. Very determined this weekend to get back on track.

“This is kind of the halfway point. If I’m not moving forward here, it just makes it impossible to have a shot at being a championship contender at the end of the year.

“It’s not a big deal, man. I just want to get out there, be running at the front, have a shot to win.

“I can’t stand the last few races running back there, getting stuck behind wankers through exchanges that shouldn’t be even out there. I want to get up the front, man.”

Asked if he was upset about anyone specific, Power pointed out that he had been held up during practice at Detroit.

It led to the following back-and-forth between the 2018 Indianapolis 500 winner, Pato O’Ward, and Alexander Rossi.

Power: “Yeah, there was one wanker out there this time that held me up. Lucky, I didn’t see him when I got out of the car.”

O’Ward: “That was me.”

Power: “It wasn’t you. It was another driver. Just kept backing everyone up. If you could punch someone…”

O’Ward: “Actually when I was going over on the first baseline, I think you were on your first or second lap. I saw him behind, I was like… I had to do the corner, get out of the way.”

Power: “It wasn’t Jimmie [Johnson].”

O’Ward: “Jimmie is actually really good about it.”

Power: “Yeah, Jimmie… This dude, how many times you want to back up? You eventually have to do a lap time.

“Don’t worry, I’ll get him. Not on the track. I don’t get people on the track. I’ll get him off the track.

O’Ward: “Lift up his visor.”

Rossi: “Piss in his bus or something?”

Power: “No.”

Rossi: “Good, alright.”

Power: “It’s how we do stuff in Toowoomba.”

Moderator: “Must be something else.”

Power: “Look it up on YouTube.”

The freewheeling vibe continued when the aforementioned trio were asked if they will be watching this weekend’s opening event of SRX.

Created in part by Tony Stewart, the ‘Superstar Racing Experience’ is a new series which pits retired/semi-retired drivers against each other in identical cars on dirt and tarred short tracks.

Among the field this weekend are Marco Andretti, last month’s Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves, and regular NBC IndyCar commentator Paul Tracy.

Rossi said he will be keeping an eye on the action and, asked what he wanted to see, the Andretti Autosport driver replied, “Fights. Fights, yeah.”

At that point, Power added, “Fights. All the stuff people watch racing for, nothing to do with the technicality.

“All the training you do, take someone out, crash and fight, for crying out loud.

“I just think it would be awesome if we had fights afterwards, no?”

The Penske driver then seemingly referenced last week’s bout between world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather and YouTube star Logan Paul, when he said he would like to get involved in celebrity fighting.

Power claims he would like to see IndyCar drivers taking on their NASCAR peers.

“I would be down to fight after races. I think it would be awesome,” he declared.

“I’ve been watching really with interest these celebrities, YouTube celebrities, fighting people. Man, I got to get in on this.

“A couple of drivers, one IndyCar driver should do it with a NASCAR driver. I’d put my hand up for the IndyCar driver, to be the one.”

Power cautioned, however, that he “Probably wouldn’t go for [Kevin] Harvick because I think he can fight pretty well.”

Qualifying and the first race of the Detroit event take place tomorrow morning (AEST).

https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/06/12/po ... ld-him-up/

[MonteCristo]

Times for the lone practice session. There will be qualifying and then racing.

Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Diff Gap Best Lap Total Laps
1 12 Power, Will D/C/F 01:17.2768 109.477 --.---- --.---- 26 26
2 14 Bourdais, Sebastien D/C/F 01:17.4291 109.261 0.1523 0.1523 24 27
3 5 O'Ward, Pato D/C/F 01:17.5143 109.141 0.2375 0.0852 18 22
4 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 01:17.6178 108.996 0.3410 0.1035 19 20
5 27 Rossi, Alexander D/H/F 01:17.6587 108.938 0.3819 0.0409 18 23
6 26 Herta, Colton D/H/F 01:17.8121 108.723 0.5353 0.1534 20 21
7 8 Ericsson, Marcus D/H/F 01:17.9728 108.499 0.6960 0.1607 22 25
8 2 Newgarden, Josef D/C/F 01:18.0329 108.416 0.7561 0.0601 22 23
9 21 VeeKay, Rinus D/C/F 01:18.1459 108.259 0.8691 0.1130 24 32
10 28 Hunter-Reay, Ryan D/H/F 01:18.2033 108.180 0.9265 0.0574 23 27
11 29 Hinchcliffe, James D/H/F 01:18.4961 107.776 1.2193 0.2928 16 22
12 30 Sato, Takuma D/H/F 01:18.5177 107.746 1.2409 0.0216 23 23
13 51 Grosjean, Romain (R) D/H/F 01:18.5852 107.654 1.3084 0.0675 27 29
14 7 Rosenqvist, Felix D/C/F 01:18.7542 107.423 1.4774 0.1690 17 23
15 10 Palou, Alex D/H/F 01:18.7996 107.361 1.5228 0.0454 20 31
16 15 Rahal, Graham D/H/F 01:18.8195 107.334 1.5427 0.0199 20 23
17 20 Daly, Conor D/C/F 01:18.8739 107.260 1.5971 0.0544 19 24
18 59 Chilton, Max D/C/F 01:18.8773 107.255 1.6005 0.0034 20 26
19 22 Pagenaud, Simon D/C/F 01:18.8930 107.234 1.6162 0.0157 16 21
20 18 Jones, Ed D/H/F 01:19.0809 106.979 1.8041 0.1879 11 19
21 60 Harvey, Jack D/H/F 01:19.3133 106.666 2.0365 0.2324 14 19
22 45 Ferrucci, Santino D/H/F 01:19.3407 106.629 2.0639 0.0274 15 22
23 4 Kellett, Dalton D/C/F 01:20.8071 104.694 3.5303 1.4664 26 28
24 3 McLaughlin, Scott (R) D/C/F 01:21.1254 104.283 3.8486 0.3183 5 5
25 48 Johnson, Jimmie D/H/F 01:22.7353 102.254 5.4585 1.6099 17 26

https://racer.com/2021/06/11/power-pace ... n-detroit/

Johnson soooo slow. I mean, at least McLaughlin only had 5 laps... But even then he was 1.6sec faster! What gives?

Anyhow, nice to see a 25 car grid.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Pato O'Ward snags pole (for race 1) from Rossi and RoGro 3rd (RG was fastest with under a minute left).

Scotty Mac ahead of only Kellet and JJ due to his lap robbing practice shunt restricting him to just 5 laps before qualy. Power looked like he had pole coming his way, only to clip the rear on a wall a couple of turns from the lap, limping home like a crab with damaged rear suspension for 7th..

Results./ grid for race 1


1. Pato O’Ward
1:15.5776

2. Alexander Rossi
1:15.6584

3. Romain Grosjean
1:15.7433

4. Ed Jones
1:15.8119

5. Josef Newgarden
1:15.8697

6. Colton Herta
1:16.0832

7. Will Power
1:16.0877

8. Ryan Hunter-Reay
1:16.1293

9. Simon Pagenaud
1:16.6606

10. Sebastien Bourdais
1:17.4333

11. Scott Dixon
1:17.8680

12. Rinus VeeKay
1:17.8776

13. James Hinchcliffe
1:17.0691

14. Felix Rosenqvist
1:16.4620

15. Marcus Ericsson
1:17.1579

16. Takuma Sato
1:16.4713

17. Conor Daly
1:17.2904

18. Max Chilton
1:16.6093

19. Jack Harvey
1:17.4180

20. Graham Rahal
1:16.6694

21. Alex Palou*
1:17.5190

22. Santino Ferrucci
1:16.6880

23. Scott McLaughlin
1:17.5569

24. Jimmie Johnson
1:19.0944

25. Dalton Kellett
1:19.0998

*Alex Palou will serve a 6 grid spot penalty following a violation at Indianapolis.

[PTRACER]

What time is the race?

[John]

What time is the race?

Starting now.

Pato/Rossi front row.

[PTRACER]

What time is the race?

Starting now.

Pato/Rossi front row.

Thanks, watching the stream you just posted.

[PTRACER]

Why are they pitting for tyres after 2 laps

[John]

Why are they pitting for tyres after 2 laps

The reds fall off the cliff without a warning so they wanna get rid of them.

Sato is racey!

[PTRACER]

Why are they pitting for tyres after 2 laps

The reds fall off the cliff without a warning so they wanna get rid of them.

Sato is racey!

Sato still drives like a 20 year old fresh out of Formula 3 lol

So that would be why they are 3-4 seconds slower now than they were just a few laps ago. Bit of a weird start to the race.

[PTRACER]

Isn't Viasat showing this without ad breaks? I used to watch those streams for Indycar and it was so much better.