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2022 R7 Detroit Grand Prix

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Last time at Belle Isle before we return to @Antonov's favourite downtown Detroit track in 2023.

No double header either (thank heavens).

Ilott got injured at Indy. Ferruci is subbing for him.

On to the race!

And...

It seems that my man Kyle loves the place:
Kyle Kirkwood claimed some early bragging rights for A.J. Foyt Racing in Detroit on Friday by putting the team’s No.14 Chevy at the top of the timesheets for the opening NTT IndyCar Series practice session.

Quirkily, the result came not long after Kirkwood also topped the GTD class times in the second IMSA WeatherTech Series practice session on a weekend where the 23-year-old is pulling double-duty in his IndyCar and Vasser Sullivan’s Lexus RC F GT3.
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Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Diff Gap Best Lap Total Laps
1 14 Kirkwood, Kyle (R) D/C/F 01:16.1345 111.119 --.---- --.---- 19 20
2 5 O'Ward, Pato D/C/F 01:16.1556 111.088 0.0211 0.0211 9 13
3 27 Rossi, Alexander D/H/F 01:16.5146 110.567 0.3801 0.3590 10 14
4 60 Pagenaud, Simon D/H/F 01:16.6177 110.418 0.4832 0.1031 6 13
5 8 Ericsson, Marcus D/H/F 01:16.6574 110.361 0.5229 0.0397 13 14
6 26 Herta, Colton D/H/F 01:16.6992 110.301 0.5647 0.0418 16 16
7 06 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 01:16.8230 110.123 0.6885 0.1238 5 17
8 3 McLaughlin, Scott D/C/F 01:16.9552 109.934 0.8207 0.1322 18 19
9 28 Grosjean, Romain D/H/F 01:17.0272 109.831 0.8927 0.0720 18 19
10 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 01:17.1444 109.664 1.0099 0.1172 8 13
11 51 Sato, Takuma D/H/F 01:17.2187 109.559 1.0842 0.0743 16 17
12 10 Palou, Alex D/H/F 01:17.2524 109.511 1.1179 0.0337 11 15
13 29 DeFrancesco, Devlin (R) D/H/F 01:17.3088 109.431 1.1743 0.0564 22 22
14 12 Power, Will D/C/F 01:17.4831 109.185 1.3486 0.1743 17 20
15 21 VeeKay, Rinus D/C/F 01:17.4948 109.169 1.3603 0.0117 11 11
16 2 Newgarden, Josef D/C/F 01:17.5562 109.082 1.4217 0.0614 10 19
17 18 Malukas, David (R) D/H/F 01:17.6107 109.006 1.4762 0.0545 6 17
18 30 Lundgaard, Christian (R) D/H/F 01:17.6968 108.885 1.5623 0.0861 20 20
19 15 Rahal, Graham D/H/F 01:17.7188 108.854 1.5843 0.0220 12 21
20 45 Harvey, Jack D/H/F 01:18.2212 108.155 2.0867 0.5024 16 18
21 20 Daly, Conor D/C/F 01:18.2984 108.048 2.1639 0.0772 16 16
22 4 Kellett, Dalton D/C/F 01:18.4071 107.898 2.2726 0.1087 14 14
23 77 Ferrucci, Santino D/C/F 01:19.3177 106.660 3.1832 0.9106 9 17
24 11 Calderon, Tatiana (R) D/C/F 01:19.4001 106.549 3.2656 0.0824 14 22
25 48 Johnson, Jimmie D/H/F 01:19.5794 106.309 3.4449 0.1793 21 23
26 7 Rosenqvist, Felix D/C/F 01:21.6946 103.556 5.5601 2.1152 2 2
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Will miss this race. :(
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MonteCristo wrote: 1 year ago Good news for the Swedes...
Autosport: Arrow McLaren SP: Rosenqvist “doing what he needs” to retain IndyCar seat
... While having a light crash in practice:

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He did rebound to 7th in P2 though.
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JoNew
Sato
Pags
Helio
Pato
Malukas

is your top-6.
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John wrote: 1 year ago JoNew
Sato
Pags
Helio
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Malukas

is your top-6.
Is that JoNew's first pole of the year?

Malukas is impressing me a bit the last few weeks. He has sort of slipped in under my radar, and hadnt really heard much about him before the Indy run in, but he seems to be quite handy.

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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 1 year ago
John wrote: 1 year ago JoNew
Sato
Pags
Helio
Pato
Malukas

is your top-6.
Is that JoNew's first pole of the year?

Malukas is impressing me a bit the last few weeks. He has sort of slipped in under my radar, and hadnt really heard much about him before the Indy run in, but he seems to be quite handy.
We'll see if the car was setup for qualy though. If he starts chewing through the tyres too quickly it could well have been a glory run.
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Probably the wrong thread, but I thought, its about Detroit and @MonteCristo planted the seed here mentioning a new venue for 2023.



MonteCristo wrote: 1 year ago Last time at Belle Isle before we return to @Antonov's favourite downtown Detroit track in 2023.
Not quite the same as @Antonov's favourite, but.....


This is what you have to look forward to next year.... notice run-offs everywhere. :sick:

JoNew has however given it his seal of approval

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More "We love Detroit" pretty drawings.....

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More on what JoNew thinks..... (remind me who he drives for again, asks "Are you serious"...? ). Vomits again. :sick: :tearful:
Newgarden: 2023 downtown Detroit layout is “fantastic for racing”

Josef Newgarden says the new IndyCar/IMSA street course for downtown Detroit will be a hit for race fans as well as local businesses given the layout.

Earlier this month, Detroit City Council approved moving the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix from Belle Isle, where the race has been held since 2007, back to downtown, where it originated back in 1982 as a Formula 1 event, before evolving into an IndyCar race in 1989.

The new track will use some of the original course, and Team Penske-Chevrolet’s two-time champion Josef Newgarden says he approves the 1.7-mile layout which appears fast, the emphasis on straightline speed as per the now-defunct IndyCar street course in Sao Paulo.

“I’m just so excited,” said Newgarden during a presentation to local media. “I got to drive the track for about an hour this morning with pretty much everyone, and it really is a great layout.

“I think it’s going to be fantastic for racing. As a driver, that’s the most important part – how good the race is gonna be. I think they’ve done a really good job.

“I’ve given them a couple of notes, couple of things that I want personally to my liking, give me an advantage!

“As a driver I’m super-excited about the unique challenge to try something new. I’ve had the great opportunity of racing on Belle Isle for the last 10 years. Always love coming to Detroit. It’s one of my favourite events out of the year.

“Certainly personally, being a representative of Chevrolet, racing cars with their engines in the back, but also being a Team Penske, Detroit’s very special to all of us. We had an opportunity to win two years ago, we have one more opportunity to win on Belle Isle, and then hopefully in 2023 we can have a shot at winning this race.”


And then the PR spin from the Mayor, Event Chairman etc... oh who happens to be President of Penske. :suspicious: :whistling:
Bud Denker, chairman of the event as well as president of Penske Corp., said that he and Michael Montri, VP of Penske Entertainment, had been inspired to move the Detroit race back downtown race after attending Nashville’s inaugural IndyCar street race in August. Newgarden agreed the Motown shift made sense having seen the effect IndyCar had on his home event.

“I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, it’s my home, and I could never have dreamed, as a young kid, running a race in my home streets,” he said. “So I can imagine growing up in the Detroit area and maybe making it to IndyCar one day and running a race here. That would be the equivalent.

“It was just amazing to see what it did for [Nashville]. I know what the impact was on our communities, and the energies and vibrancy was really palpable, and I think that exact same thing will happen here for Detroit. It can be very, very beautiful to engage the community like that and to help small businesses – and also have a fun time in the summer months.

“There was a study done by the University of Michigan – $77m of positive impact to the economy, a 20 percent increase on the race currently on Belle Isle.

“So there are only good things to come.”

Denker explained: “After I was in Nashville, Josef’s home town, in August and saw the first ever race there, Michael and I went to quick speed and said, ‘How can we possibly do this in Detroit?’ But we had to find the right place to do it, the right circuit to do it, the right partners to do it. I took it to Roger Penske the day before I saw Mayor Duggan, and he said, ‘If you think it’s a good idea and everybody else does, then make it happen’.

“And now’s the time to do that. The engagement with business and the communities, is what excites me the most. All seven districts that I’ve been to and spoken with [are] engaged about this.

“To think that we can have half of our circuit open to the public for free is also unprecedented, but it’s going to happen here in Detroit in 2023…”

Mike Duggan, mayor of Detroit said that he “never understood why the race ever left downtown” and that Denker had been “two minutes into his presentation and I said I’m onboard.”

Brenda Jones, president of Detroit City Council, showed similar enthusiasm, saying: “I want to thank you for reaching out to me, giving me the opportunity to reach out to the community, to let the community know they are valued and what they say is valued. Thank you for being a great partner to the city of Detroit.

“All of my colleagues agree that the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix needed to come back downtown, and I am so excited.”

Jim Campbell, VP of performance and motorsports for General Motors, said the company was fully behind the move.

“As a car company, we love racing; it’s what we do,” he said. “It’s a chance for us to learn on the track, prove ourselves on the track and take those learnings back into the showroom and build better cars and better propulsion systems for our customers.

“We’re going to have a lot of customers here at the races, cheering our teams on, but we’re also going to have community members that maybe haven’t seen our products or maybe are prospective customers. It’s a great chance for us to show them our stuff.

“So we couldn’t be prouder to have the race back in the city of Detroit… We will use this opportunity to display our products on the track. We’ll race them, we’ll show our vehicles in the midway, have displays in and around town, it’s a chance for us to interact with our customers today, and also prospective customers. That goes not only for Chevrolet and Cadillac, but also Buick and GMC, and then our partners, suppliers will be here, representing the products they have in our vehicles.”

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Qualifying results:
Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Session
1 2 Newgarden, Josef D/C/F 01:15.2153 112.477 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
2 51 Sato, Takuma D/H/F 01:15.3490 112.278 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
3 60 Pagenaud, Simon D/H/F 01:15.3951 112.209 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
4 06 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 01:15.4538 112.122 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
5 5 O'Ward, Pato D/C/F 01:16.3301 110.834 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
6 18 Malukas, David (R) D/H/F 01:16.6104 110.429 Round 3 / Firestone Fast Six
7 26 Herta, Colton D/H/F 01:15.1043 112.643 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
8 8 Ericsson, Marcus D/H/F 01:15.2279 112.458 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
9 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 01:15.4057 112.193 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
10 3 McLaughlin, Scott D/C/F 01:15.8670 111.511 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
11 27 Rossi, Alexander D/H/F 01:16.2179 110.998 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
12 28 Grosjean, Romain D/H/F 01:16.9740 109.907 Elimination Round 2 / Top 12
13 20 Daly, Conor D/C/F 01:16.0154 111.293 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
14 21 VeeKay, Rinus D/C/F 01:15.5482 111.981 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
15 14 Kirkwood, Kyle (R) D/C/F 01:16.1255 111.132 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
16 12 Power, Will D/C/F 01:15.5731 111.945 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
17 77 Ferrucci, Santino D/C/F 01:16.1390 111.113 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
18 10 Palou, Alex D/H/F 01:15.6121 111.887 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
19 30 Lundgaard, Christian (R) D/H/F 01:16.3068 110.868 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
20 45 Harvey, Jack D/H/F 01:16.8347 110.107 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
21 29 DeFrancesco, Devlin (R) D/H/F 01:16.3374 110.824 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
22 48 Johnson, Jimmie D/H/F 01:17.5499 109.091 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
23 15 Rahal, Graham D/H/F 01:16.4265 110.695 Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
24 11 Calderon, Tatiana (R) D/C/F 01:18.3657 107.955 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
25 4 Kellett, Dalton D/C/F No Time No Speed Elimination Round 1 / Group 1
26 7 Rosenqvist, Felix D/C/F 01:18.6291 107.594 Elimination Round 1 / Group 2
Report: https://racer.com/2022/06/04/last-lap-m ... newgarden/

Old guard of Sato and Fence Climber doing rather well.

Some other heavy hitters doing poorly: Power, Palou. Grosjean so-so (see crash below).

Not so good news for Felix. I assume something happened. Rahal as well. Johnson in 22nd!

Nice work by Malukas!

Grosjean qualifying crash:


Kirkwood practice 2 crash:


Kellett practice 2 crash:
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Qualifying highlights

I know @MonteCristo posted some of the biffs from the event, but here are short 4 minute qualy highlights


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Felix was slapped with a penalty for impeding JJ out of the pits. Team didn’t communicate it to him that JJ was coming.
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MonteCristo wrote: 1 year ago Grosjean qualifying crash:
Oof that second hit
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PTRACER wrote: 1 year ago Oof that second hit
Must be thankful for the soft wall.
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erwin greven wrote: 1 year ago
PTRACER wrote: 1 year ago Oof that second hit
Must be thankful for the soft wall.
Not sure that wall is soft :dunno:
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PTRACER wrote: 1 year ago
erwin greven wrote: 1 year ago
PTRACER wrote: 1 year ago Oof that second hit
Must be thankful for the soft wall.
Not sure that wall is soft :dunno:
It was a bit of a sarcastic comment.
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