2023 R13 Nashville

[John]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Red flag still out. Three lap shootout incoming.

[John]

Pace car still leads.

OOOOOORRRRRIIIIIIIOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL

[John]

Kirkwood sprints away. Canapino bins it. Still green.

[John]

KK wins ahead of Scottie and Palou. JoNew fourth.

[MonteCristo]

Nice.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Cla Driver # Laps Time Interval Mph Pits Points
1
United States
KYLE KIRKWOOD
Andretti Autosport
27 80 1:58'02.3028 85.396 3 53

2 SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN
Team Penske
3 80 +0.7633 0.7633 85.387 3 42

3 ALEX PALOU
Chip Ganassi Racing
10 80 +1.7221 0.9588 85.375 3 36

4 JOSEF NEWGARDEN
Team Penske
2 80 +3.1416 1.4195 85.358 3 32

5 SCOTT DIXON
Chip Ganassi Racing
9 80 +4.1655 1.0239 85.346 3 30

6 ROMAIN GROSJEAN
Andretti Autosport
28 80 +5.9518 1.7863 85.324 3 29

7 MARCUS ERICSSON
Chip Ganassi Racing
8 80 +6.4148 0.4630 85.319 4 27

8 PATRICIO O'WARD
Arrow McLaren
5 80 +6.6966 0.2818 85.315 3 24

9 CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
45 80 +8.0168 1.3202 85.299 4 22

10 WILL POWER
Team Penske
12 80 +9.0456 1.0288 85.287 3 21

11 HELIO CASTRONEVES
Meyer Shank Racing
06 80 +9.8718 0.8262 85.277 4 19

12 CALLUM ILOTT
Juncos Hollinger Racing
77 80 +10.6859 0.8141 85.267 4 18

13 MARCUS ARMSTRONG
Chip Ganassi Racing
11 80 +11.4056 0.7197 85.259 4 17

14 RINUS VAN KALMTHOUT
Ed Carpenter Racing
21 80 +11.8172 0.4116 85.254 6 16

15 GRAHAM RAHAL
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
15 80 +14.2271 2.4099 85.225 4 15

16 RYAN HUNTER-REAY
Ed Carpenter Racing
20 80 +14.6874 0.4603 85.219 5 14

17 STING RAY ROBB
Dale Coyne Racing
51 80 +15.1158 0.4284 85.214 5 13

18 SANTINO FERRUCCI
A.J. Foyt Enterprises
14 80 +16.5253 1.4095 85.197 5 12

19 ALEXANDER ROSSI
Arrow McLaren
7 78 +2 Laps 2 Laps 82.941 5 11

20 AGUSTIN CANAPINO
Juncos Hollinger Racing
78 77 +3 Laps 1 Lap 84.992 6 10

21 COLTON HERTA
Andretti Autosport
26 76 +4 Laps 1 Lap 85.239 4 9

22 FELIX ROSENQVIST
Arrow McLaren
6 73 +7 Laps 3 Laps 90.391 4 8

23 BENJAMIN PEDERSEN
A.J. Foyt Enterprises
55 73 +7 Laps 23.2274 90.048 5 7

24 JACK HARVEY
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
30 71 +9 Laps 2 Laps 90.088 3 6

25 LINUS LUNDQVIST
Meyer Shank Racing
60 69 +11 Laps 2 Laps 92.076 3 5

26 DEVLIN DEFRANCESCO
Andretti Autosport
29 65 +15 Laps 4 Laps 90.578 3 5

27 DAVID MALUKAS
Dale Coyne Racing
18 11 +69 Laps 54 Laps 85.962 1 5




LAPS LED

Laps Led Driver
1 - 24
New Zealand
SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN
25 - 27
France
ROMAIN GROSJEAN
28 - 28
United States
KYLE KIRKWOOD
29 - 32
Sweden
MARCUS ERICSSON
33 - 44
Spain
ALEX PALOU
45 - 50
United States
KYLE KIRKWOOD
51 - 51
New Zealand
SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN
52 - 52
France
ROMAIN GROSJEAN
53 - 53
Australia
WILL POWER
54 - 80
United States
KYLE KIRKWOOD

[Vassago]

Kirkwood takes the 2nd win of the season while Herta hit the wall before that RF pile-up and it seems like he's really lost most of his mojo ever since his father was transferred away from the race engineer role. Herta is heading the same path Rossi went before. The longer he goes at AA the results get worse but he's still very young for ICS standards so nothing to worry about. He shouldn't end like Graham Rahal who kinda doesn't have it anymore but will stick around for a few years thanks to his family name.

[John]

[MonteCristo]

Herta is heading the same path Rossi went before. The longer he goes at AA the results get worse but he's still very young for ICS standards so nothing to worry about. He shouldn't end like Graham Rahal who kinda doesn't have it anymore but will stick around for a few years thanks to his family name.

I don't think Graham ever truly had "it". 6 wins in 17 years isn't exactly a great return (and he spent much of his time around when American openwheel was plumbing the depths). Colton has 7 wins in 5 seasons - nothing remarkable either, but I think that it shows he's wasted at AA.

That said, Graham is no bad driver. And at his height was a perfectly respectable driver.

(Interesting to note - Dixon 'only' has 9 wins in the last 5 seasons, but hasn't finished outside the top 4 in the standings. Herta's been 7th, 3rd, 5th, 10th and is currently 10th. Goes to show how much consistency pays.)

[Vassago]

Yeah, Rahal had a better career start and then even had this one season when he was a genuine title challenger but overall I'd rate Herta's prospects as better than Rahal with Marco Andretti obviously down in third place among these racing sons.

AA remains a curious place since Mikey getting involved in multiple forms of racing seems to have hampered the IndyCar team results since the days of Dario Franchitti carrying the squad. I was somewhat surprised Rossi flamed out rather fast and like I said, Herta is heading the same path but maybe he can still recover. If not then I believe it's a team structure problem regardless of the fact half of AA are still basically pay drivers.

[MonteCristo]

Yeah, Rahal had a better career start and then even had this one season when he was a genuine title challenger but overall I'd rate Herta's prospects as better than Rahal with Marco Andretti obviously down in third place among these racing sons.

AA remains a curious place since Mikey getting involved in multiple forms of racing seems to have hampered the IndyCar team results since the days of Dario Franchitti carrying the squad. I was somewhat surprised Rossi flamed out rather fast and like I said, Herta is heading the same path but maybe he can still recover. If not then I believe it's a team structure problem regardless of the fact half of AA are still basically pay drivers.

Yeah, they're a bit of a curious beast.

And their unreliability in previous seasons was rather famous. But it's not just them - Will Power's car for some reason seemed cursed as well as Rossi's (and to a certain extent Herta's).

As much as Rossi could run hot and cold, he lost a lot of points at AA through the car breaking on him.