Alex Tagliani was the last car to be bumped from the field, by one of my favorites, Ryan Hunter-Reay. An emotional Tagliani, who had turned laps of 221+ earlier pulled his car out of tech two or three times as he gambled on other teams not finding the speed. But, his team own pulled some shinanigans late Sunday as they announced Tagliani would actually drive the car qualified by Junqueira.
Bruno had made an amazing qual run earlier in the weekend by getting the car up to a solid speed after just 15 laps in the machine. Now, Tags will start from 33rd since he didn't qualify the car.
John Andretti, a long-time favorite of mine was extremely emotional after bumping RHR out of the field...Reay turned right around and bumped the aforementioned Tagliani out as the gun sounded.
Andretti whose bloodline comes by way of the lesser-known Aldo Andretti, has never been one of the fastest at Indy, but he's a humble guy, which is pretty refreshing in this sport. He dedicated the improbable qualification effort to his Dad. His pal Tony Stewart called to help him with his technique and his team did some amazing work to get him in. He gained about 2.5 mph by a wing adjustment and a couple other tweeks as the clock neard 6:00 at the 100 year old oval.
This is an interesting field to me...a lot of very experienced drivers are in the field and many of the under-experienced people are still fast and have long resumes. But, Milka Duno is in, so there are exceptions to every rule.
I'm not a fan of hers for a myriad of reasons...but one of the main ones is that she has a knack of being about 5-7 mph off of the pace during the race and driving with an inconsistent line...She's cleaned up more than one contender with her lack of skill and I don't want to see any more than that.
And let's be real honest- without Chavez's backing, she wouldn't have a job...there's the rub. Dictator-backed race car drivers can suck it. Plus, it looks to me like she's had a few too many plastic surgeries...which is unfortunate, she'd probably be pretty good looking without them.
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You know what's even more exciting than Indy car racing? Indy car qualifying, wherein they race around the track by themselves.
Isn't this like watching guys run the 40 at the combine?
I could go for an RC Cola.
It was actually a good day at the track yesterday. The wife and I went and met up with my sister and her family since it was a my nephew's birthday. From what we saw in turn two, Hunter-Reay barely kept it together on lap one of his last attempt. He was bottoming out so much sparks were flying.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS WEEKEND! sorry for the yelling, I'm that excited (and my fiance is tired of hearing me talk about).
Oh, and Milka and Chavez can suck it! At least Marty Roth didn't try and do something stupid, like qualify.
Supposedly some ex-driver helped Milka get up to speed by giving her some pointers...that same person needs to tell her to stay out of everyone's way on Sunday.
Milka needs to run the "Dr. Jack Miller provisional line" in which she drops down to the pit lane in corners 2 and 3 to simply avoid the traffic that is actually, you know, racing...
My personal favorite description of her comes from my brother, who ever since her first appearance at the speedway has referred to her as a "mobile schicane". And yes I'm sure I spelled that wrong.
By the way, big thumbs down from putting Tagliani in Junqueira's seat. Don't know why I feel strongly about it, but it bugs me.
Anyways, always enjoy the race talk around here and thought I'd finally put my 2 cents in as well.
Hoping to see Kanaan take this one after his "teammate" Marco took him out last year when he likely had the strongest car in the field... and yes I still haven't let it go.
I agree with you on the Tags/Junqy switcheroo, it just doesn't feel right (though apparently they are still going to have a hard enough time making it to Milwaukee).
Not sure that I want TK to win but I wouldn't be upset. I would like to see Graham win. My really dark horse would have to be Scheckter (if he doesn't drive it into the wall while leading).
I think Rahal will be a huge factor Sunday. Like you said Scheckter reminds me of the old Stewart/Ray/Bettenhausen Menards cars where the question was always would those guys actually make it 500 miles?
I'd have to go with Vitor Meira as my dark-horse. The guy has done pretty much everything right and can flat out drive, it'd be really cool to see him finally bring one home.
Yeah, I think if anyone 'deserves' to win a race, it is Vitor. Only a couple of days left, I can't wait!
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