PEAK Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy 300 - Chicagoland Speedway,300 miles/200 laps

Weekend Schedule:
Saturday September 6th, (times eastern)
Practice 1 10:15am-12:00pm
Practice 2 Group 1 1:30pm-2:00pm Group 2 2:00pm-2:30pm
Qualifying 4:15pm-5:30pm

Sunday September 7th,
Indy Lights Race 12:30pm ESPN2
IndyCar Race 3:30pm ABC

http://www.indycar.com/news/2008/chicago/2008_ics_chicago_entrylist.pdf
This Week: 28 cars, Alex Tagliani in for Bernoldi, second car for Foyt #41 Franck Perera, and Sarah Fisher

http://www.indycar.com/community/spotterguide/

GO VITOR!!!!!

neracer - 06 September 2008 05:30 AM

Man, TK's car looks ugly!

I confused it with Carpenter's car more than once.

creanandcrimson - 06 September 2008 05:36 AM

Servia has CDW/Wall Street Journal on his car, looks pretty sweet.

Tagliani has Ubisoft (on the sidepod)/Sennheiser on his car

The Servia CDW car is the best looking car on the grid! Wow!

It is good to see the rumors about Conquest and additional sponsorship come to fruition too.

Apparently, all these new sponsors have not heard about the new TV package.

I missed the announcement about them being there NEXT season. This could be one offs. It could also be the first of the discounted deals. Less ratings or eyes = less money. You just don't know.

BIG ASH - 06 September 2008 07:00 AM

Morgoth - 06 September 2008 06:20 AM

Some interesting theories put forward by the radio crew this session...

a)the series has lost fans by running on road courses.

b)if alms cars can pass at detroit and indycars cannot, it must be a problem with the track.

c)adding optional sections to road courses might be a good thing.

It's nice to hear them talk about actual issues instead of all of the fluff, we hear from the tv crew.

Yeh it's because they have a clue & talk about things that fans want to hear instead of who's in a photo shoot & who's dancing.

Indycar Practice 1 results:


2nd Practice times:

30 minutes prior to quals & there's probably 50 people in the stands.Sheesh.

While watching the qualifying on the internet i have to say that the CDW sponsorship would look better back on Justin Wilson's car. CDW with Wilson and move McDonald's to Rahal's car. That would be great.

Starting Order:
http://www.indycar.com/grid/

Helio 'could' be in trouble as he kept putting his wheels under the white line on the Front/Back straghts, something they were told not to do in the drivers meeting. Penske kept telling Helio to "Stick to the plan".

IRL officials confirm that Helio will be starting from the back due to putting 2 wheels below the white line during all of his qualifying laps.

Well i wondered how long it was gonna take to interview the pole winner. They had to play out their drama with Helio running below the white line first. Congrats to Ryan.

You can bet Helio will carve his way back to the front in short order tomorrow. He had more car than he was showing. He was just jerking BB's leg a little. I'm surprised they didn't interview the 2 hall monitors that came walking up to Brian.

I'm finished with this thread since all the posts are juxtaposed. This website sucks.