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(AN UPDATE) It's a washout Fast
Friday practice has been cancelled. They will have the
qualifying order draw later in the day, but be prepared for a
shocker, it won't be like any draw we have ever seen before. Yes
there will be a draw for both cars for every driver and team
that has two, put they won't be able to run both without an
engine change. While there will be the option of pulling either
the "T" or primary car out of line (in principal) and
moving it to the back, to actually do that will be impossible.
To physically do that a car would have to have passed initial
tech, and without an engine, or with an engine spacer, that
can't happen.
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Dennis says 100 of these trucks
won't get the track dry today.
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IMS/IndyCar Photo
by Ron McQueeney
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Last year it was so much about
making the mirrors bigger to gain some aero advantage that after
Nashville, where AGR had an almost perfect copy of the Panther
Racing mirrors, IndyCar had to make a Mirror spec. Yesterday
MTP, who actually started the mirror stuff at Indy last year,
brought out a set of very small mirrors. My guess is that in
this all-equal Indy 500, you will need to eliminate as much drag
as possible. I'm thinking that the most slick car out with these
equal engines will run the best race speed and perhaps win the
race. Teams will try to compensate with less wing angles and
wickers, but those that screw that up will find their cars
running slower or crashing.
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This is one of my shots of the
Penske mirrors from last year at Indy
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This used to be known as the
"Main Gate," this year it has become the "Rain
Gate," But you can no longer blame it on me, I left. You
know that you are a true IndyCar addict when you can spell Terre
Haute every May without looking it up or using the spell
checker.
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Once they do start to practice I'll
update the results here, along with posting any new pictures from
Dennis Sylvia at the track. In the meantime, I'll post a few more of
Dennis' car photos.
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O/IRR Photo by Dennis
Sylvia
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The Andretti Green Racing/Bryan Herta #7
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O/IRR Photo by Dennis
Sylvia
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The Andretti Green Racing/Marco Andretti #26
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O/IRR Photo by Dennis
Sylvia
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The Rahal Letterman Racing #16 Panoz Honda
of Danica Patrick.
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