2022 R15: Boommarito whatever 500

[John]

It's race week, my dudes.

Will miss the race myself. Boo.

[Ayrton Sr.]

Hope I won't miss that one.

[MonteCristo]

Practice 1 times:

Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Diff Gap Best Lap Total Laps
1 12 Power, Will D/C/F 00:24.9254 180.539 --.---- --.---- 46 47
2 10 Palou, Alex D/H/F 00:24.9712 180.208 0.0458 0.0458 43 51
3 7 Rosenqvist, Felix D/C/F 00:24.9910 180.065 0.0656 0.0198 36 43
4 3 McLaughlin, Scott D/C/F 00:24.9935 180.047 0.0681 0.0025 35 42
5 8 Ericsson, Marcus D/H/F 00:24.9942 180.042 0.0688 0.0007 41 42
6 5 O'Ward, Pato D/C/F 00:24.9984 180.012 0.0730 0.0042 30 36
7 15 Rahal, Graham D/H/F 00:25.0399 179.713 0.1145 0.0415 37 42
8 2 Newgarden, Josef D/C/F 00:25.0473 179.660 0.1219 0.0074 9 42
9 51 Sato, Takuma D/H/F 00:25.0657 179.528 0.1403 0.0184 46 46
10 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 00:25.0744 179.466 0.1490 0.0087 40 41
11 29 DeFrancesco, Devlin (R) D/H/F 00:25.1274 179.087 0.2020 0.0530 23 30
12 26 Herta, Colton D/H/F 00:25.2212 178.421 0.2958 0.0938 33 38
13 18 Malukas, David (R) D/H/F 00:25.2227 178.411 0.2973 0.0015 41 57
14 27 Rossi, Alexander D/H/F 00:25.2385 178.299 0.3131 0.0158 37 40
15 45 Harvey, Jack D/H/F 00:25.2439 178.261 0.3185 0.0054 46 48
16 14 Kirkwood, Kyle (R) D/C/F 00:25.2957 177.896 0.3703 0.0518 38 47
17 20 Daly, Conor D/C/F 00:25.3217 177.713 0.3963 0.0260 41 41
18 28 Grosjean, Romain D/H/F 00:25.3661 177.402 0.4407 0.0444 37 46
19 30 Lundgaard, Christian (R) D/H/F 00:25.4416 176.876 0.5162 0.0755 53 54
20 06 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 00:25.5199 176.333 0.5945 0.0783 43 47
21 60 Pagenaud, Simon D/H/F 00:25.5204 176.330 0.5950 0.0005 43 47
22 77 Ilott, Callum (R) D/C/F 00:25.5603 176.054 0.6349 0.0399 7 51
23 21 VeeKay, Rinus D/C/F 00:25.7175 174.978 0.7921 0.1572 42 47
24 33 Carpenter, Ed D/C/F 00:25.8343 174.187 0.9089 0.1168 31 35
25 4 Kellett, Dalton D/C/F 00:25.8780 173.893 0.9526 0.0437 7 52
26 48 Johnson, Jimmie D/H/F 00:25.9753 173.242 1.0499 0.0973 51 53

Session report: https://racer.com/2022/08/19/power-lead ... -practice/

RoGro has a 9-spot grid penalty from an engine change: https://racer.com/2022/08/19/grosjean-h ... -for-wwtr/

[MonteCristo]

Qualifying, and some news:

RANK DRIVER CAR NO. LAP 1 TIME LAP 2 TIME STATUS TOTAL TIME AVERAGE SPEED
1 Will Power 12 24.6757 24.5782 00:49.2539 182.727
2 Marcus Ericsson 8 24.7387 24.6929 00:49.4316 182.07
3 Josef Newgarden 2 24.8967 24.6548 00:49.5515 181.629
4 Scott McLaughlin 3 24.8303 24.7823 00:49.6126 181.406
5 Alex Palou 10 24.8321 24.8125 00:49.6446 181.289
6 Scott Dixon 9 24.8681 24.8683 00:49.7364 180.954
7 Pato O'Ward 5 25.0059 24.9101 00:49.9160 180.303
8 Takuma Sato 51 24.9341 25.0525 00:49.9866 180.048
9 Romain Grosjean 28 24.9972 25.0237 00:50.0209 179.925
10 Devlin DeFrancesco 29 25.0201 25.1104 00:50.1305 179.531
11 Alexander Rossi 27 25.1104 25.0513 00:50.1617 179.42
12 Colton Herta 26 25.0346 25.1474 00:50.1820 179.347
13 David Malukas 18 25.1646 25.0701 00:50.2347 179.159
14 Simon Pagenaud 60 25.1603 25.1815 00:50.3418 178.778
15 Jack Harvey 45 25.1626 25.1800 00:50.3426 178.775
16 Conor Daly 20 25.1575 25.2135 00:50.3710 178.674
17 Graham Rahal 15 25.2192 25.1568 00:50.3760 178.657
18 Helio Castroneves 06 25.2793 25.1815 00:50.4608 178.356
19 Christian Lundgaard 30 25.3216 25.1935 00:50.5151 178.165
20 Kyle Kirkwood 14 25.3211 25.2184 00:50.5395 178.079
21 Jimmie Johnson 48 25.5457 25.4839 00:51.0296 176.368
22 Callum Ilott 77 25.5697 25.5132 00:51.0829 176.184
23 Rinus VeeKay 21 25.5858 25.5491 00:51.1349 176.005
24 Dalton Kellett 4 25.9029 25.8503 00:51.7532 173.902
25 Ed Carpenter 33 25.9511 25.8721 00:51.8232 173.667
26 Felix Rosenqvist 7 - - DNQ No Time -

Power now has as many poles as Mario Andretti! Woo!

Felix starts at the back after this close call:

[MonteCristo]

As long as the stream stays alive - first live race of the season!

(Damn you Foxtel/Stan!)

[MonteCristo]

Man, Felix's start was awesome.

[Vassago]

VeeKay out with electrical problems.

Power still leads.

[MonteCristo]

Harvey really unimpressive with Rahal this year. In the wall (nothing bad though).

[MonteCristo]

JoNew turns up the dial to 11 and finds 7th gear.

[Vassago]

Newgarden build 7 secs lead. McLaughlin up to second place. These two don't have to save fuel or anything.

[Vassago]

Josef got held up behind Lundgaard coming in the pits and McLaughlin takes the virtual lead.

[Vassago]

Yellow for rain.

[MonteCristo]

Definetely no more stops for the leaders now.

[Vassago]

Lightning in the area. This will probably be game over.

[Everso Biggyballies]

It seems they are going for a restart....

Latest update says lightning hold lifted.

Looking at a restart in 10 minutes according to our local press


Update 11:27 AEST

Restart target time now 21:00 ET/
12:00 AEST.