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IndyCar St Petersburg grid: Power on pole (12 posts)

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Keith Collantine said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Will Power is on pole position for the IndyCar Grand Prix of St Petersburg for the third year in a row. Here’s the grid:

1. Will Power (Penske-Chevrolet) 1’01.3721
2. Ryan Briscoe (Penske-Chevrolet) 1’01.5357
3. Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti-Chevrolet) 1’01.9321
4. James Hinchcliffe (Andretti-Chevrolet) 1’01.9701
5. Helio Castroneves (Penske-Chevrolet) 1’01.9987
6. Scott Dixon (Ganassi-Honda) 1’01.7636
7. Marco Andretti (Andretti-Chevrolet) 1’01.7895
8. Tony Kanaan (KV-Chevrolet) 1’01.8699
9. Dario Franchitti (Ganassi-Honda) 1’01.9570
10. Graham Rahal (Ganassi-Honda) 1’02.0233
11. Mike Conway (Foyt-Honda) 1’02.5084
12. EJ Viso (KV-Chevrolet) 1’02.5146
13. Rubens Barrichello (KV-Chevrolet) 1’02.2009
14. Takuma Sato (Rahal-Honda) 1’02.6015
15. Simon Pagenaud (Schmidt-Hamilton-Honda) 1’02.1095*
16. Justin Wilson (Dale Coyne-Honda) 1’02.2538
17. Alex Tagliani (Herta-Lotus) 1’02.6506
18. JR Hildebrand (Panther-Chevrolet) 1’02.4426
19. Josef Newgarden (SFHR-Honda) 1’02.7155
20. James Jakes (Dale Coyne-Honda) 1’02.5271
21. Simona de Silverstro (HVM-Lotus) 1’02.8218
22. Charlie Kimball (Ganassi-Honda) 1’03.0437
23. Oriol Servia (Dreyer & Reinbold-Lotus) 1’02.8771
24. Ed Carpenter (Carpenter-Chevrolet) 1’03.3591
25. Katherine Legge (Dragon-Lotus) 1’03.6048
26. Sebastien Bourdais (Dragon-Lotus) 1’05.6858

*10-place penalty.

Bit of a surprise to see Franchitti down in tenth. 13th for Barrichello is a decent first effort.

The highest Lotus-engined car is Tagliani’s in 17th, looks like they’ve got a bit of a performance deficit.

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Victor_RO said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Bourdais was about 1-2 tenths faster than Tagliani I believe, but he spun at the end of the qualifying group he was in and caused a red flag, and they deleted his fastest laptime for that as far as I’m aware.

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Mikemat5150 said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Absolutely great qualifying today. Andretti Autosport and Pagenaud have really risen to the challenge this year. Honda does seem to be a little bit off the pace though.

Fast Six on Youtube

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f1alex said 1 year, 1 month ago:

That video has made me realise how just awful the new cars look…

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DamionShadows said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Isn’t “Dragon-Lotus” the coolest team name ever? Since you have to jump through hoops to watch ALMS nowadays, I’m gonna have to keep up with IndyCar and Rolex Grand-Am, especially since IndyCar is running on more street/road courses than ovals.

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thersquared said 1 year, 1 month ago:

The Lotus performance deficit is likely at least partially because they had the shortest development period for their engines. I also think Chevrolet have a bit of an edge since they’re actually made by Ilmor who made the previous Honda Indycar Engines.

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BasCB said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Really looks as if Chevrolet stole a march on their engine rivals this year, as @thersquared writes. Ganassi is quite a bit further down than one would expect, although it might be different on ovals.
Pagenaud was the fastest Honda engined car, really impressive from him, and the team.

And off course @damionshadows is completely right about the Dragon-Lotus team name. Shame they will need a lot od dragon power and lotus calm to get a good result from making up the back of the field.

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Keith Collantine said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@f1alex I think once you get past the rear construction it’s not so bad. Does look a bit strange, but at least it’s there for a reason, unlike these dreadful stepped noses we have in F1.

The front of the IndyCars look good – much better than the current F1 cars – and there’s a lot of excellent liveries. Sauber need to recruit a car painter from IndyCar…

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Prisoner Monkeys said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@keithcollantine – The stepped noses are there for a reason. It’s just not a very good reason. And, as McLaren (and to a lesser extent, Marussia) have demonstrated, you can be quick with a low nose and a good-looking car, which makes the reason all the more lazy.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 1 month ago:

It’s just the view from behind that bugs me, and that’s only when (like on Pagenaud’s car) they paint those rocket booster things white. If they’re black they blend with the tyres and it’s not so bad.

I’m sure one of the aero kits next year will look better than this. It might be rubbish but it’ll look better.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 1 month ago:

And really, if we get a good race at St. Pete today I won’t give too much thought to what they look like.

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Don said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Obviously, the rear “bumper” is to keep the cars from taking flight on hyper fast ovals. They seem to have eliminated needless rear punctures during the race. Not the best looking, but very functional. The new IndyCars are better looking than those hideous stepped noses.

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