Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 20 May 2017, 23:19
Good run. I hope it will be enough for top 9 for tomorrows pole qualifications.... I expect Sato and Marco Andretti to be very quick
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Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 20 May 2017, 23:24
Yeah Alonso did say that he wasn't happy with the laps and it was about 90%, very impressive nonetheless to be third so far, so it will be interesting to see how much more time can be extracted from the car.
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 20 May 2017, 23:32
Huge accident! I was just thinking how Bourdais is much quicker than anyone else (also in practice)...
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 01:42
From - http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-20-Indy-500-Live:
The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:
1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph
9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph
How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?
Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.
The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:
1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph
How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?
Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 04:49
Even Flavio turned up for qualifying
If Eric and Zac are going to be at Indy next week, wonder who will be at Monaco
If Eric and Zac are going to be at Indy next week, wonder who will be at Monaco
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 07:53
Fred will bring a ton of international audience that would have never tuned in. I'm really happy he is doing this. I actually hope this parlays into a drive in Indycar when he leaves F1. It will give me a reason to start watching American open wheel racing again and will extend his open wheel racing career - which is only a good thing in my opinion.
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 07:56
yeah I think I'd start watching again too... just to see him wipe the floor on road courses!Chuckjr wrote: ↑21 May 2017, 07:53Fred will bring a ton of international audience that would have never tuned in. I'm really happy he is doing this. I actually hope this parlays into a drive in Indycar when he leaves F1. It will give me a reason to start watching American open wheel racing again and will extend his open wheel racing career - which is only a good thing in my opinion.
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 08:25
Saw this on a Facebook feed, made me lol:
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 18:29
How close is this? I'm not used to average speeds so I don't know if that's super close or not.It looks it though.Cannonballer wrote: ↑21 May 2017, 01:42From - http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-20-Indy-500-Live:
The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:
1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph
How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?
Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 19:21
4 laps, 10 miles, 16 left turns
1 Carpenter, 02:36.2036
2 Sato, Takuma +0.0585
3 Dixon, Scott +0.0917
4 Hildebrand +0.1786
5 Rossi, Alexander +0.2172
6 Power, Will +0.2691
7 Alonso, Fernando +0.2949
8 Kanaan, Tony +0.3134
9 Andretti, Marco +0.3701
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 19:40
I had the same problem, so I converted mph into miles per second, and divide track lenght / miles per second. And time gap is less then one tenth of secondSiLo wrote: ↑21 May 2017, 18:29How close is this? I'm not used to average speeds so I don't know if that's super close or not.It looks it though.Cannonballer wrote: ↑21 May 2017, 01:42From - http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-20-Indy-500-Live:
The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:
1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph
How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?
Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.
- Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph - 39.050 s
- Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph - 39.065 s
- Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph - 39.074 s
- JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph - 39.095 s
- Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph - 39.105 s
- Will Power - 230.072 mph - 39.118 s
- Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph - 39.124 s
- Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph - 39.129 s
- Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph - 39.143 s
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 20:55
Engine change for Alonso, LOL
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 21:35
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 21:46
It's fine, because teams get 2 for the 500.
Re: Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar
Posted: 21 May 2017, 21:54
So will he qualify later? will the track be faster? does he get a penalty? .... so many questions 