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2010 IZOD IndyCar Series - Round 12

Honda Indy 200, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, OH USA


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As the IZOD IndyCar series begins the final third of the season this Sunday at Mid-Ohio, the natural focus is on leader Will Power as he tries to hold off Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon and teammate Ryan Briscoe. Power, with four wins and six poles, owns a 50-point lead over Franchitti and is 71 up on Dixon with two road races remaining in the closing six shows. Briscoe, second here a year ago, is 96 back.

One of the interesting things to watch in Sunday's race is how drivers protect their lines. Castroneves was called for taking the inside lane, known as the passing lane, away from Team Penske teammate Will Power entering Turn 1. Mid-Ohio is one of the narrowest tracks on the circuit. Because there are 27 entries, the pit boxes have been shortened from 40 to 35 feet, which could really make things dicey during yellow flag stops.


Circuit Information:

Circuit Length: 2.4mile/3.9km road course
Race Distance: 85 laps, 186.2mile/297.9km
Turns: 13


View race highlights and onboards from Mid-Ohio:
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Honda Indy 200 Entry List:

Car  Driver               Country  Team                     Car Name
#2   Raphael Matos        BRA      Luczo Dragon/de Ferran   HP Luczo Dragon
#3   Helio Castroneves    BRA      Team Penske              Team Penske
#4   Dan Wheldon          GBR      Panther Racing           National Guard
#5   Takuma Sato          JPN      KV Racing Technology     Lotus-KV Racing Technology
#6   Ryan Briscoe         AUS      Team Penske              Team Penske
#7   Danica Patrick       USA      Andretti Autosport       Team GoDaddy.com
#8   EJ Viso              VEN      KV Racing Technology     PDVSA-Jet Aviation
#9   Scott Dixon          NZL      Chip Ganassi Racing      Target Chip Ganassi
#10  Dario Franchitti     GBR      Chip Ganassi Racing      Target Chip Ganassi
#11  Tony Kanaan          BRA      Andretti Autosport       Team 7-Eleven
#12  Will Power           AUS      Team Penske              Verizon Team Penske
#14  Vitor Meira          BRA      A.J.Foyt Enterprises     ABC Supply Co.
#18  Milka Duno           VEN      Dale Coyne Racing        CITGO
#19  Alex Lloyd           GBR      Dale Coyne Racing        Boy Scouts of America
#22  Justin Wilson        GBR      Dreyer & Reinbold        Team Z-Line Designs
#24  JR Hildebrand        USA      Dreyer & Reinbold        Roll Coater
#26  Marco Andretti       USA      Andretti Autosport       Meijer
#27  Adam Carroll         GBR      Andretti Autosport       Team AFS
#32  Mario Moraes         BRA      KV Racing Technology     KV Racing Technology
#34  Francesco Dracone    ITA      Conquest Racing          Conquest Racing
#36  Bertrand Baguette    BEL      Conquest Racing          Conquest Racing RACB
#37  Ryan Hunter-Reay     USA      Andretti Autosport       Team IZOD
#66  Jay Howard           GBR      Sarah Fisher Racing      Service Central
#77  Alex Tagliani        CAN      FAZZT Race Team          CV Logistics
#78  Simona de Silvestro  CHE      HVM Racing               Team Stargate Worlds HVM
#02  Graham Rahal         USA      Newman/Haas Racing       National Tire & Battery
#06  Hideki Mutoh         JPN      Newman/Haas Racing       Formula Dream/Panasonic

Twenty-seven cars entered. All cars use Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tires.

View the official IndyCar entry list here
View the car liveries/spotter guide here

Indy Lights Entry List:

Car  Driver               Country  Team
#2   James Hinchcliffe    CAN      Team Moore Racing
#4   Carmen Jorda         SPA      Anderson Racing 
#5   Giancarlo Vilarinho  BRA      Anderson Racing
#7   Jean-Karl Vernay     FRA      Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#8   Juan Pablo Garcia    MEX      Michael Crawford Motorsports
#10  Gustavo Yacaman      COL      Colombia Cape/Wayne Taylor
#18  Rodrigo Barbosa      BRA      PDM Racing
#22  Adrian Campos        ESP      Team Moore Racing 
#26  Charlie Kimball      USA      AFS/Andretti Autosport
#27  Martin Plowman       GBR      AFS/Andretti Autosport
#28  Stefan Wilson        GBR      Bryan Herta Autosport
#29  Sebastian Saavedra   COL      Bryan Herta Autosport
#36  David Martinez       MEX      Genoa Racing
#40  Dan Clarke           GBR      Walker Racing
#49  Philip Major         CAN      Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#77  James Winslow        GBR      Sam Schmidt Motorsports

Sixteen cars entered. All cars use Dallara chassis and Firestone tires.

View the official Indy Lights entry list here

Weekend Schedule:

Friday 6th August
Indy Lights Practice 1 - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
IndyCar Practice 1 - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function

Saturday 7th August
Indy Lights Practice 2 - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
IndyCar Practice 2 - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
Indy Lights Qualifying - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
IndyCar Qualifying - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
ALMS Race - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function

Sunday 8th August
Indy Lights Warmup - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
IndyCar Warmup - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
Indy Lights Race (40 laps) - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function
Honda Indy 200 (85 laps) - You need JavaScript to be activated to be able to use the timer function

View the complete schedule here


Streams & Live Timing
Indycar Video Ondemand - IndyCar.com youtube channel featuring session and race highlights.
Indycar Race Control - live raceday footage and multiple onboard cameras including access to live timing.
Indycar IMS Radio Network - Audio commentary during practice sessions and race.
American Le Mans Series Official Livestream - This weekend ALMS.com is offering free streaming of all LeMans Series activities.

Televised streams of the race will likely be posted by forum members shortly before the race.
Links to some of the common streams will be shown on the MyP2P links page nearer the time.


Sources and links:
IZOD Indycar Series Homepage
Honda Indy 200 Homepage

This will hopefully be a good one!!

A massive 27-car grid!! Practice is in a few hours; ALMS praccy is on atm, avaliable to view here:
http://www.americanlemans.com/live

great grid in Mid Ohio, remember at the best IndyCar times. I wish JR Hildebrandt a good race and hope he can find a ride for the other races this season yeah

hope also for Ana Beatriz, i'm glad to see she has not run many races this season that's bad for Ana

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2010 Indycar Series Pick'em up Champion with 104 points

IndyCar Fan since 1996
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Milka Duno is once again in everyones way.

Shes currently 2.5 seconds off Dracone who is in an Indycar for the first time ever.

yeah Milka is bad today.. Dracone had an mistake with #2 Matos, he must goes off.

#27 Carroll car spins for few minutes but all ok.

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2010 Indycar Series Pick'em up Champion with 104 points

IndyCar Fan since 1996
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Its not just that shes slow..I've seen her badly block Hunter-Reay, Wheldon, and Kanaan already.

I think this is the last year with Milka. IndyCar is in the next year no longer dependent on the money from her / CITGO.

Bad for Dale Coyne, but he survived without her money even if only with one car or an other pay driver.

If i watching the cars, not many cars without sponsors. That's good, we have a 27 cars grid, perfect.


10 Minutes to go, Dracone is only one second behind of Danice *smile*

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2010 Indycar Series Pick'em up Champion with 104 points

IndyCar Fan since 1996
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Well she's not as slow as she was but Mid Ohio tends to be less fair for passing. Remember this is where she had the spat with Danica

Tags and Carroll both ran off in the last lap of practice.

Graham Rahal is fastest of the session.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS




:sprutsprutsprut: There is hope.

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That is a really naive statement. You can always use more money.

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IndyCar Free Practice 1 Times:

Pos  Driver               Team               Time        Gap
 1.   Graham Rahal         Newman/Haas        1m08.3061s
 2.   Will Power           Penske             1m08.3301s  + 0.0240s
 3.   Helio Castroneves    Penske             1m08.3779s  + 0.0718s
 4.   Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti           1m08.4692s  + 0.1631s
 5.   Ryan Briscoe         Penske             1m08.5437s  + 0.2376s
 6.   Ernesto Viso         KV                 1m08.6244s  + 0.3183s
 7.   JR Hildebrand        Dreyer & Reinbold  1m08.6340s  + 0.3279s
 8.   Mario Moraes         KV                 1m08.6386s  + 0.3325s
 9.   Tony Kanaan          Andretti           1m08.6495s  + 0.3434s
10.  Dan Wheldon          Panther            1m08.6527s  + 0.3466s
11.  Bertand Baguette     Conquest           1m08.7154s  + 0.4093s
12.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi            1m08.7281s  + 0.4220s
13.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM                1m08.7752s  + 0.4691s
14.  Justin Wilson        Dreyer & Reinbold  1m08.7971s  + 0.4910s
15.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi            1m08.8376s  + 0.5315s
16.  Hideki Mutoh         Newman/Haas        1m09.0533s  + 0.7472s
17.  Adam Carroll         Andretti           1m09.1088s  + 0.8027s
18.  Marco Andretti       Andretti           1m09.1325s  + 0.8264s
19.  Danica Patrick       Andretti           1m09.1579s  + 0.8518s
20.  Takuma Sato          KV                 1m09.1824s  + 0.8763s
21.  Raphael Matos        De Ferran Dragon   1m09.2168s  + 0.9107s
22.  Alex Tagliani        Fazzt              1m09.2814s  + 0.9753s
23.  Vitor Meira          Foyt               1m09.3351s  + 1.0290s
24.  Alex Lloyd           Dale Coyne         1m09.3594s  + 1.0533s
25.  Francesco Dracone    Conquest           1m11.0931s  + 2.7870s
26.  Milka Duno           Dale Coyne         1m12.8372s  + 4.5311s
27.  Jay Howard           Sarah Fisher       1m14.9038s  + 6.5977s

Rahal fastest with his new sponsorship/livery:

24 cars within a second more or less. Has Hildebrand raced in Indycar before? I know it's only practice but that's a good effort.

in the last years the IndyCars has more problems how in this year with sponsors and full grids. let's hope to continue they recover year for year. Then it is (Milka & of course - unfortunately - CITGO money) no longer needed as field filler.
of course, more and more money is good for this series and the teams. perfect is Milka is gone and CITGO remains in the series.

BUT, 4.5 seconds are good for Milka =) *big smile*

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2010 Indycar Series Pick'em up Champion with 104 points

IndyCar Fan since 1996
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1992 Mid-Ohio Race

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IndyCar practice 2 is about to go green.

Is that Power in the tyres

Big Crash!! Power!!!

That was a rough ride and a nasty hit.