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ALL AUSSIE FRONT ROW FOR INDY OPENER
It's an all Australian front row for the "Grand Prix" of St Petersburg with Queensland's Will Power lining up alongside team-mate and fellow aussie Ryan Briscoe for the opening round of the 2012 Indy Car season. Power set a new circuit-qualifying record of 1 minute, 1.3721 seconds on his way to his third pole in consecutive years. He won the race in 2010 and was runner-up to Dario Franchitti in 2011. Briscoe will start alongside his Team Penske teammate on the front row, while Andretti Autosport's Ryan Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe will occupy Row 2. It's the best start in the race for all three (Hinchcliffe didn't compete in 2011). Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud qualified fifth and sixth, respectively, in the Firestone Fast Six. But because Pagenaud's Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports team made an unauthorised engine change after practice, he will be penalised 10 spots on the starting grid.
Continue reading...FRANCHITTI TIES UP INDYCAR FIGHT
Monday, June 20, 2011
Dario Franchitti has joined Will Power at the top of the Indycar championship standings with a win at the historic Milwaukee Mile. Franchitti took the lead on lap 200 of the 225 lap race after Helio Castroneves was forced into the pits with a deflating left rear tyre. "That was a hell of a run today," said Franchitti. "The first part of the race I thought I had a bit of an advantage on everybody. Very tough, as usual here. Tough on your own just balancing the car, but then you get in traffic and it gets really difficult. It's the same for everyone. "Then Tony (Kanaan) came marching along and he looked really, really strong, and he gave me a hard time as usual. Great day. To win here at Milwaukee is always special. It's such hard work and a such a hard race. It's a delight for the Target Team and we got the Downy colors in Victory Lane." Power, who jumped into the series lead after last weekends controversial Texas Lottery debacle started from back in 17th place but recovered to finish fourth.
Continue reading...POWER ON TOP AFTER TEXAS LOTTERY WIN
Monday, June 13, 2011
Indycar championship contenders Dario Franchitti and Will Power shared the wins in the controversial Texas Twin 275 races at Texas Motor Speedway. Power who finished third in the first race drew the third starting position for the second 114-lap race. Power overtook Tony Kanaan on Lap 39, and after cars cycled through two pit stops (the latter [...]
Continue reading...FULL POWER IN ALABAMA
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
After sweeping to the pole for the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, Australia's Will Power was emphatic that this was a race he wanted to win ... badly. Power, who also started on the pole in the inaugural IZOD IndyCar Series race on the 2.38-mile, 17-turn Barber Motorsports Park course, finished fourth last April. It cost him points in the championship race over the course of the 17-event season, and he believed he let it slip away. So the Aussie put an exclamation point on the picture-perfect spring weekend with a wire-to-wire victory. Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon was runner-up for the second year in a row and reigning series champion Dario Franchitti was third. Marco Andretti, who wound up upside down on the first lap of the season opener two weeks earlier, finished fourth for Andretti Autosport and Oriol Servia continued to impress with a fifth place for Newman/Haas Racing.
Continue reading...AUSSIES ON TOP IN ALABAMA
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Australian driver Will Power will start from pole for tomorrow's Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsport Park. Power posted a best lap of 1 minute, 11.4546 seconds on the 2.38-mile, 17-turn natural-terrain course in the Firestone Fast Six to edge out team mate Ryan Briscoe (1:11:7361) in an all Australian front row for the 90-lap race. "It was very tiring" Power said after Qualifying. "but we saved it until the end and put a good lap together. I'm happy to have the the No. 12 Verizon car up front again. It's really important to start from the front at this track. I feel we should have won the race last year with the speed we had, so we're pretty focused on the strategy. The Antipodean flavour continues with Australian born New Zealand driver Scott Dixon third ahead of Team Penske's Helio Castroneves (1:12:1247), the defending race winner. Justin Wilson (1:12:3085), who is driving with an injured wrist, and Oriol Servia (1:12:4394), in his first start at Barber, will share Row 3. First round winner Dario Franchitti will start back in seventh place and the Scotsman was not happy. "(I'm) very disappointed.... We gave up a tenth in the hairpin. We thought we'd have another lap but we had a little miscommunication and we didn't get another run at it. We need to figure out a way to get up to the front from seventh, but if anyone can do it its the Target team."
Continue reading...FRANCHITTI WINS INDYCAR OPENER
Monday, March 28, 2011
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- There are multiple advantages to starting on the front row on IZOD IndyCar Series road/street course. In the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, one was avoiding the six-car pile-up in Turn 1 of the first lap. Dario Franchitti and pole sitter Will Power were among those who kept their cars' noses clean at the start and subsequent side-by-side restarts through 100 laps on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn street circuit by the bay, and that's the way they completed the season opener. Franchitti made a strong start in his bid for a third consecutive series championship (only two others in Indy car history have accomplished it) by running away from Power and the remnants of the 24-car field to win for the first time at St. Pete.
Continue reading...POWER ON POLE AT ST.PETE
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Australian driver Will Power will start from pole at the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Round one of the 2011 Indycar Championship. Power, driving the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, posted a quick lap of 1 minute, 01.9624 seconds (the quickest of the weekend) with 2:15 left in the 10-minute Firestone Fast Six shootout for his 11th IZOD IndyCar Series pole. He set a series record last season with eight. Four teams are represented on the first three rows for the 100-lap race on the tight 1.8-mile, 14-turn circuit with the scenic Tampa Bay in the background.
Continue reading...THE PROFITS OF CAPTAIN PENSKE
Friday, July 30, 2010
Success on the racetrack is not the only source of good news for US racing legend Roger Penske. Penske’s US based Auto sales and dealer network, has reported an impressive $29.4 million second quarter operating profit. Penske Automotive Group Inc. is the United States’ second-largest dealer holding company, and it has seen a 16% rise in [...]
Continue reading...AUSSIES POWER TO 1 - 2 FINISH AT THE GLEN
Monday, July 5, 2010
It may have been July 4th but at Watkins Glen it was Australia Day as Will Power led home fellow Aussie Ryan Briscoe to win the latest round of the 2010 Indycar series. Power passed Briscoe with six laps to go to take out his third IZOD IndyCar Series victory of 2010. Briscoe passed Dario Franchitti on the final lap to help Team Penske record its first 1-2 finish since Edmonton in 2009. Brazilians Raphael Matos of de Ferran Dragon Racing and Mario Moraes of KV Racing Technology completed the top five.
Continue reading...POWER ON POLE AT “THE GLEN”
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Australian driver Will Power continued Team Penske's domination of qualifying by earning the pole for the Camping World Grand Prix at the famous Watkins Glen circuit in New York. Power, who currently leads the points score set a top lap of 1 minute, 29.3164 seconds, 135.832 mph in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske machine to keep Team Penske's perfect pole record over the six years of this race at Watkins Glen. Team Penske drivers swept the top three spots in the Firestone Fast Six shootout. Helio Castroneves qualified second at 1:29.4609, 135.612 in the No. 3 entry, while Power's Aussie compatriot Ryan Briscoe was third at 1:29.9346, 134.898 in the No. 6 entry. It was the first time this season one team has swept the front row in qualifying. The top three rows were separated by less than a second. Six different teams are represented in the first six rows.
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