View Full Version : Foyt Futility Watch: Texas Crash-O-Matic 500k
Fresh from a smashing 5th place win on the road course at Watkins Glen, Foyt Racing and their Brazilian coiled snake Flip Giaffone take on the 24 degree banking of the 1.5 mile Texas Motorspeedway.
Texas is the site of Foyt Racing's greatest success in the IRL when, in 1997, a USAC scoring error put Billy Boat on the top of pylon when the checkered flag waved. After bitch slapping Arie Luyendyk and stealing the winner's trophy, AJ went home convinced that the IRL had vindicated his belief in racing only with American drivers on ovals (see above).
Practice and qualifying observations to follow...
Lux Interior
06-08-06, 10:30 AM
Crash-O-Matic 500 :rofl:
Spicoli
06-08-06, 11:03 AM
This hould be good. :gomer:
racer2c
06-08-06, 11:05 AM
Is it at night? I like it when the fireballs light up the sky. It's like an early 4rth. :gomer:
trauma1
06-08-06, 11:08 AM
saturday night, why do i always dread this race, hope they keep the c wagons out of the catch fence this year :shakehead
Fresh from their smashing 5th place win on the road course at Watkins Glen, Foyt Racing and their Brazilian coiled snake Flip Giaffone take on the 24 degree banking of the 1.5 mile Texas Motorspeedway.
Texas is the site of Foyt Racing's greatest success in the IRL when, in 1997, a USAC scoring error put Billy Boat on the top of pylon when the checkered flag waved. After bitch slapping Arie Luyendyk and stealing the winner's trophy, AJ went home convinced that the IRL had vindicated his belief in racing only with American drivers on ovals (see above).
Practice and qualifying observations to follow...
I prefer the Visible from Space 500. NASA and NORAD are on alert for this one.
-Kevin
CRASH-O-MATIC 500K ODDS RELEASED
With certain Foytility ahead, LAS VEGAS odds-makers have placed the over/under at 45 caution laps for the Crash-O-Matic 500k. All betting windows are now open!
Foyt Racing DFL in their group in Practice 1:
1 Helio Castroneves (3) ... 24.5794 213.105
2 Sam Hornish Jr (6) 0.0250 24.6044 212.889
3 Tomas Scheckter (2) 0.0530 24.6324 212.647
4 Ed Carpenter (20) 0.1392 24.7186 211.905
5 Tony Kanaan (11) 0.1490 24.7284 211.821
6 Eddie Cheever Jr (51) 0.2435 24.8229 211.015
7 Buddy Rice (15) 0.3160 24.8954 210.400
8 Dario Franchitti (27) 0.3903 24.9697 209.774
9 Jeff Simmons (17) 0.4199 24.9993 209.526
10 Danica Patrick (16) 0.4558 25.0352 209.225
11 Felipe Giaffone (14) 1.3805 25.9599 201.773
BTW, the crapwagons are now almost 3 mph slower at TMS than they were at the beginning of the 3.0l NA formula.
Combined Practice Session Results
1 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 24.3782 214.864
10 20 Carpenter, Ed D/H/F 24.7186 211.905
11 16 Patrick, Danica D/H/F 24.7292 211.814
16 51 Cheever Jr, Eddie D/H/F 24.8229 211.015
17 5 Lazier, Buddy D/H/F 24.9215 210.180
18 17 Simmons, Jeff D/H/F 24.9227 210.170
19 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 25.1677 208.124
Qualifying under the lights starting at 8:30 pm ET
Is it at night? I like it when the fireballs light up the sky. It's like an early 4rth. :gomer:
The crew of the International Space Station gears
up to watch the IRL Texas Crash-O-Matic 500K:
http://www.dvddrive-in.com/images/t-z/threestoogesinorbit2.jpg
Texas Crash-O-Matic 500K Qualifying
Foyt Racing admits the futility and makes no attempt!
1 Sam Hornish Jr (6) ... 24.5197 213.624
2 Dan Wheldon (10) 0.0041 24.5238 213.588
3 Helio Castroneves (3) 0.0509 24.5706 213.182
4 Scott Dixon (9) 0.0801 24.5998 212.929
5 Tomas Scheckter (2) 0.0923 24.6120 212.823
6 Tony Kanaan (11) 0.1514 24.6711 212.313
7 Scott Sharp (8) 0.1597 24.6794 212.242
8 Dario Franchitti (27) 0.1957 24.7154 211.933
9 Marco Andretti (26) 0.1968 24.7165 211.923
10 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 0.2410 24.7607 211.545
11 Bryan Herta (7) 0.2425 24.7622 211.532
12 Ed Carpenter (20) 0.2586 24.7783 211.395
13 Vitor Meira (4) 0.2716 24.7913 211.284
14 Buddy Rice (15) 0.2858 24.8055 211.163
15 Danica Patrick (16) 0.3072 24.8269 210.981
16 Jeff Simmons (17) 0.3704 24.8901 210.445
17 Eddie Cheever Jr (51) 0.4930 25.0127 209.414
18 Buddy Lazier (5) 0.5243 25.0440 209.152
19 Felipe Giaffone (14) ... -0.0001 0.000
This race is a tragedy waiting to happen that's for sure. But, it's so damn exciting. It's one of my favorites all year long.
Lux Interior
06-09-06, 06:42 AM
It's arguably the best race on their schedule. My friend lives in Dallas, and he said the cars race really well there. In fact, he was there for the CART practice in 2001 when the guys were getting blackout effects. He said the CART guys were going so fast it was literally scray.
It's arguably the best race on their schedule.
And their most dangerous. :rolleyes:
cameraman
06-09-06, 02:09 PM
It's arguably the best race on their schedule.
A stupidly high probability of killing someone does not make for a good race. :shakehead
Lux Interior
06-09-06, 02:48 PM
A stupidly high probability of killing someone does not make for a good race. :shakehead
Racing is a dangerous business. Still, even with Texas being dangerous, I'd say it's still a lot safer than it was in racing in the 1970's.
where's marty roth? :gomer:
Final Practice
1 6 Hornish Jr, Sam D/H/F 24.4100 214.584
2 3 Castroneves, Helio D/H/F 24.4307 214.402
3 10 Wheldon, Dan D/H/F 24.4379 214.339
4 9 Dixon, Scott D/H/F 24.4847 213.930
5 8 Sharp, Scott D/H/F 24.5402 213.446
6 55 Matsuura, Kosuke D/H/F 24.5793 213.106
7 4 Meira, Vitor D/H/F 24.5822 213.081
8 15 Rice, Buddy D/H/F 24.6079 212.858
9 2 Scheckter, Tomas D/H/F 24.6154 212.794
10 16 Patrick, Danica D/H/F 24.6338 212.635
11 20 Carpenter, Ed D/H/F 24.6492 212.502
12 17 Simmons, Jeff D/H/F 24.6574 212.431
13 11 Kanaan, Tony D/H/F 24.6610 212.400
14 14 Giaffone, Felipe D/H/F 24.7199 211.894
15 27 Franchitti, Dario D/H/F 24.7945 211.257
16 26 Andretti, Marco D/H/F 24.8232 211.012
17 51 Cheever Jr, Eddie D/H/F 24.8523 210.765
18 5 Lazier, Buddy D/H/F 24.9489 209.949
19 7 Herta, Bryan D/H/F 24.9922 209.585
The crew of the International Space Station gears up to
view the action in the Texas Crash-O-Matic 500 from space:
http://www.dvddrive-in.com/images/t-z/threestoogesinorbit2.jpg
Lizzerd
06-10-06, 12:21 AM
Interesting that the AGR teams can't qualify better than P13, yet at Indy...
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmm.
Foyt Racing must be looking forward to getting back on a road course at Sears Point.
1 Helio Castroneves (3) 200 :thumdown:
3 Dan Wheldon (10 200
4 Sam Hornish Jr (6) 200
5 Scott Sharp (8 200
6 Vitor Meira (4) 200
7 Tony Kanaan (11) 200
8 Kosuke Matsuura (55) 200
9 Ed Carpenter (20) 200
10 Tomas Scheckter (2) 1 lap 199
11 Bryan Herta (7) 199 D/H/F
12 Danica Patrick (16) 199
13 Dario Franchitti (27) 199
14 Marco Andretti (26)199
15 Jeff Simmons (17) 2 laps
16 Felipe Giaffone (14) 3 laps
17 Eddie Cheever Jr (51) 197 :rofl:
18 Buddy Rice (15) 130 laps Mechanical
19 Buddy Lazier (5) 144 laps Mechanical
Lux Interior
06-11-06, 06:58 AM
No crashes at all. An engine failure and an electronics failure and that was it. Race did not live up to its "crash o matic" moniker.
EDwardo
06-11-06, 07:50 AM
100% 100% throttle and 4000 pounds of downforce. And the IRL faithful are declaring it a boring snoozer as well as pondering why Texas has lost it's excitement. Nary a timely yellow to keep the postergirl on the lead lap as well.
And the emerging theory of why the field was so spread out was a lack of yellows, which also forced a fuel economy race.
Didn't anyone in race control look at the script?
The post race interview with the postergirl explaining why she was so slow. (no one mentioned how much faster her teammate was running before retiring)
Wheel-Nut
06-11-06, 12:25 PM
The "wave around".
How does Hornish pit from P2, under yellow, field stacked up behind the pace car, and yet he rejoins the field in P2? The "wave around"!
WTF is the "wave around" and is it an earl specific rule?
The "wave around".
How does Hornish pit from P2, under yellow, field stacked up behind the pace car, and yet he rejoins the field in P2? The "wave around"!
WTF is the "wave around" and is it an earl specific rule?
Perhaps a Hornish specific rule?
Full disclosure: I did not watch it. :p
devilmaster
06-11-06, 01:25 PM
Perhaps a Hornish specific rule?
Full disclosure: I did not watch it. :p
Neither did I. I forgot about it but noticed it on TSN when I was channel flipping during a commercial break of 'Deadliest Catch'......
Sorry guys, but the crabs of Alaska won out over the crabs of Danica.
Who knows what lengths the IRL will go to achieve a close finish? I only report the results -- I had better things to do than watch the race.
Neither did I. I forgot about it but noticed it on TSN when I was channel flipping during a commercial break of 'Deadliest Catch'......
Sorry guys, but the crabs of Alaska won out over the crabs of Danica.brutal. Just brutal. :laugh:
TrueBrit
06-11-06, 05:53 PM
Neither did I. I forgot about it but noticed it on TSN when I was channel flipping during a commercial break of 'Deadliest Catch'......
Sorry guys, but the crabs of Alaska won out over the crabs of Danica.
I LOVE 'Deadliest Catch'....those guys are nuts...
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