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Rahal is looking consistently solid this year. as much as you can be with a Honda engine.
 
It'd be a bit less dangerous of the field was respecting each other more than they are.

Forget who it was at the start of the race, who should have been penalized for jumping it btw, but they forced their car up to the front row and nearly wiped out the entire field in the process before the front row had crossed the start/finish line.
 
Congratulations to Bourdais. He had the car all day long and his team made the right calls on pitlane. Shout-outs as well to Helio Castroneves coming from last to finish 2nd and Graham Rahal driving like a PO'ed teenager to take 3rd.
 
That was a great race even though it wasn't all that close at the end.

I just hope that the crowd was enough to keep the race on the calendar as I'm still doubtful that they will get a deal done with Road America.
 
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That was a great race even though it wasn't all that close at the end.

I just hope that the crowd was enough to keep the race on the calendar as I'm still doubtful that they will get a deal done with Road America.
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Early word is that there was enough of a crowd to warrant a return for next year. Past 2016 the Milwaukee race is up in the air.
 
wow, watching the race now, Briscoe unlucky! seems if he didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all, He definitely had the car to win, passing right through his stint,
 
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At least F1 has the brains to DQ a winner if their car violated a rule in inspection.
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It's not unique to F1, every series outside of the US would give an instant DSQ, Blancpain did it to the Lambo's who got DSQ from their win in Monza.
 
Well, I'm glad it wasn't a snoozefest! That's now two good oval races in a row, and we should get a third at Iowa.

On the subject of Bourdais' unusual penalty, if I was the chief of a struggling team, I'd definitely deliberately make the car underweight for the next race since it means getting away with just a fine, while keeping the finish and points.
 
AR1.com has learned that Bourdais' car was three pounds underweight. Donuts can take as much as five pounds off the tires. He has been told never to do donuts again. IndyCar's tech and PR departments could have given the whole truth by telling everyone that he failed by just 3 pounds, and not, say, 100 pounds.

So some people probably figured the team cheated to win, when in fact they just had the car right at the minimum weight and did not count on him doing donuts. Mark C. reporting for AR1.com

I would assume that simply changing the tires at post race tech showed the car was legal so there was no reason to vacate the win.
 
Doing donuts to celebrate probably takes some weight of the tires, because you're burning rubber. That makes sense.
 
Well by rule the car was still light so they had to issue the penalty but as usual Indycar PR didnt elaborate so :banghead: Why bother to tell the full story when the rumor mill and the internet can fill in the blanks.:boggled:

Ticket sales for Iowa long to be strong but the weather forecast for Saturday night looks iffy so hopefully the rain will hold off.
 
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