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Photo courtesy of
Toyota Motorsports
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Spiderman's back, gettin' good air
too, not bad for a guy with an injured shoulder. A little over a
week before Saturday's SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond
International Raceway, Helio Castroneves crashed hard in a test
at the track he just won at. Jack Marahrens was going to cover
the race for us, but he had a chance to attend the race with his
father, who can blame him for doing that? Jack's race recap can
be found here...
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(The O/IRR Recap) Helio
Castroneves got to scale another fence after winning, and Roger
Yasukawa managed to single handedly alleviate any traffic
congestion at RIR last night, here is an excerpt from my race
ending summation,
"The race would be
restarted with two laps remaining, but there was no change in
the finishing order, Helio would get to climb the fence, Dario
Franchitti would again be denied a RIR victory, and Patrick
Carpentier, in finishing 3rd, got his best IndyCar finish ever,
showing that if given a good car, he could be a series winner.
Should Carpentier manage a win, he could do for IndyCar in
Canada something similar to what Danica has done here.. Read the
full race recap and view more Jim Wilke photo's here...
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O/IRR photo by
Jim Wilke
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(6-25-05)
I was at the 2004 SunTrust Indy Challenge, and while Helio
Castroneves won the pole position (find
2004 "Q" results here), Dario Franchitti, who
started 12th, was the driver that was on the way to dominating
the race when he made contact with the lapped car of Mark
Taylor. The detailed "last lap" report of the race
tells most of the tale, and can be found here,
(check the boxes at the bottom of
the page). In
addition, my O/IRR race recap is posted here
as well. Dario was furious at Taylor, the recap is worth a
read.
Read
the rest of my very brief SunTrust preview here...
It is a work in progress, as I am awaiting further news and
pictures, I'll try to get them posted before race time.
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O/IRR
photo by Jim Wilke
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The
Panther Racing engineers have been busy working on aero
enhancements, and spending time in the wind tunnel as well. It
appears to have paid dividends, Tomas Enge has been fast all day
Friday at RIR, and I suspect Tomas Scheckter worked on race
setups all day. Jim Wilke is at RIR, and he sent us a batch of
front wing pictures that can been seen here...
The Friday recap can be seen here...
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(6-24-05)
There is almost no chance for rain in the next two days at RIR,
but the temperatures will be in the 90's, here is the
weekend outlook.
All
Friday SunTrust Indy Challenge coverage can be found here...
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Because of
work issues, I will be unable to attend this years SunTrust Indy
Challenge, but Jack Marahrens and Jim Wilke will be at RIR and
sending back news and pictures. I'll use whatever information I
can get from the internet to cover the race from home. Here are two links to my RIR
reports...
The O/IRR coverage
on the 2004 SunTrust Indy Challenge.
RIR,
too small for IndyCars, and too fast, a preview...
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The news and
pictures from last week's Toyota test can be found here...
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