IndyCar - Honda Indy Toronto

So, Ganassi got in the winners' column in Pocono, while RHR's hopes of repeating took a bit of a hit from the pit lane incident with Sato.

Now, the guys and gals of IndyCar head north of the border for the second of the three doubleheaders this season.

Unfortunately, they're going to encounter a little problem - it's been raining in Southern Ontario non-stop for the entire day (although, it's not raining there now), which has caused flash flooding. The problem is, the rain chances for tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday are very high. The sun should start shining again on Thursday. Hopefully, things will dry out before Friday.

Entry list has not yet been posted.

I hope Chevy wins for Sponsorship lols.

Well I think they are gonna bring boats to the track. Yesterday Toronto got torrential downpour for 2 hours. 5 inches of rain fell in that time period. Not looking too good at the moment. Here's a pic.

Its so weird, I'm only an hour outside Toronto and I got a sprinkle of rain. Some places are clear now. Hinchcliffe tweeted that Lake Shore (The back straight) is clear. Looking good so far.

If I were Penske I would give Jacques Villeneuve the #2 car...and then laugh like an evil genius... 

That pic looks like they should be good for speedboat racing

Race 1 at Toronto to have a standing start.

Let the fun begin.

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1	Dario Franchitti	59.6756	Firestone Fast Six
2	Sebastien Bourdais	59.7701	Firestone Fast Six
3	Will Power	60.0612	Firestone Fast Six
4	Tony Kanaan	60.1179	Firestone Fast Six
5	James Jakes	60.1430	Firestone Fast Six
6	Scott Dixon	60.3228	Firestone Fast Six
7	Ryan Hunter-Reay	60.1954	Round 2 / Top 12
8	Helio Castroneves	60.2866	Round 2 / Top 12
9	Justin Wilson	60.2954	Round 2 / Top 12
10	Ryan Briscoe	60.3843	Round 2 / Top 12
11	Marco Andretti	60.6027	Round 2 / Top 12
12	Takuma Sato	62.3831	Round 2 / Top 12
13	Simon Pagenaud	60.4303	Round 1 / Group 1
14	James Hinchcliffe	60.5083	Round 1 / Group 2
15	E.J. Viso	60.4556	Round 1 / Group 1
16	Charlie Kimball	60.6569	Round 1 / Group 2
17	Alex Tagliani	60.4586	Round 1 / Group 1
18	Graham Rahal	60.6868	Round 1 / Group 2
19	Josef Newgarden	60.5822	Round 1 / Group 1
20	Mike Conway	60.9526	Round 1 / Group 2
21	Tristan Vautier (R)	60.9053	Round 1 / Group 1
22	Simona De Silvestro	61.1553	Round 1 / Group 2
23	Ed Carpenter	61.2367	Round 1 / Group 1
24	Sebastian Saavedra	61.2939	Round 1 / Group 2

http://www.indycar.com/News/2013/07/7-12-Qual-Results-Toronto-R1
 
With this being a standing start, I can see Bourdais and Will Power beating Franchitti into the first turn. I can also see this being a messy start since a good number of drivers don't have experience doing standing starts or haven't done them in a long time.

RealRacer4 wrote:With this being a standing start, I can see Bourdais and Will Power beating Franchitti into the first turn. I can also see this being a messy start since a good number of drivers don't have experience doing standing starts or haven't done them in a long time.

Apparently they had a starting box set up at the end of the pitlane during practice so the drivers could work on their starts. I think they'll be fine.

ENGAGE SATO BANZAI START!!!

Oh, Christ:

http://racing.ap.org/article/barnhart-filling-barfield-race-control

crl wrote:Oh, Christ:

http://racing.ap.org/article/barnhart-filling-barfield-race-control

At least three stewards are helping him, including Arie Luyendyk.

crl wrote:Oh, Christ:

http://racing.ap.org/article/barnhart-filling-barfield-race-control

If Barnhart screws this up, I will laugh senselessly!

crl wrote:Oh, Christ:

http://racing.ap.org/article/barnhart-filling-barfield-race-control

 They couldn't have picked someone else to fill in for Barnhart?? Like flyingturns said, at least there'll be a couple of guys helping him out.

DarioWrecksLOL

Well that's disappointing. I hope they'll actually try doing a standing start again for tomorrow's race.

What a move by Will Power.

EDIT: Nice one, Vautier. Couldn't gave Rahal a little bit more room?

I think Kimball could have given Wilson more room right there.

Okay race. Barnhart changing the rules again to Ganassi's benefit. My surprised face.

Alta wrote:Okay race. Barnhart changing the rules again to Ganassi's benefit. My surprised face.

He'll be out tomorrow...at least I hope.

Pretty good race, certainly up to par with what we've seen out of IndyCar this year. Law'd when Seabass did victory donuts for his runner-up finish. Freaking awesome.

The only black eye on this race was, who else, Brian Brainfart buzzkilling the finish by having the cars going single file, basically handing the victory to Dixon on a silver platter. Barnhart, do us all a favor and don't ever comeback, okay? You come back for one race and you screw up what would've potentially been a good finish. Thanks for nothing.

Race #1 of the Honda Indy Toronto gets a 7.5/10.

Alta wrote:Okay race. Barnhart changing the rules again to Ganassi's benefit. My surprised face.

Looks like you spoke too soon.

As for the race, I thought the racing was exciting. A lot of stuff happening throughout the race. I can't say I'm surprised with the inconsistency of Brian Barnhart. It's messed up what happened to Dario just now, especially when Scott Dixon pulled the very same move on Power and never got penalized for it.

I haven't seen what happened, but was the penalty that Justin Wilson got legit?

RealRacer4 wrote:

Alta wrote:Okay race. Barnhart changing the rules again to Ganassi's benefit. My surprised face.

Looks like you spoke too soon.

As for the race, I thought the racing was exciting. A lot of stuff happening throughout the race. I can't say I'm surprised with the inconsistency of Brian Barnhart. It's messed up what happened to Dario just now, especially when Scott Dixon pulled the very same move on Power and never got penalized for it.

I'm stunned one of them got a penalty. But one still won.

...............

Dario got penalized for blocking, when he didn't even block? I'm not a Dario fan by any stretch of the imagination, but that's just ridiculous.

(sigh) Barnhart, seriously, get the fuck out. This type of shit is the reason why you were fired as race director in the first place.

Good racing out there. Good win, Dixon. An 8.0 out of 10, but Brian Barnhart should seriously GTFO. A blocking penalty on Dario? A single file restart with 1 to go? Really? Pathetic.  

bigdc48 wrote:Good racing out there. Good win, Dixon. An 8.0 out of 10, but Brian Barnhart should seriously GTFO. A blocking penalty on Dario? A single file restart with 1 to go? Really? Pathetic.  

 and a aggressive driving penalty on Wilson?

Michael29Shell wrote:

bigdc48 wrote:Good racing out there. Good win, Dixon. An 8.0 out of 10, but Brian Barnhart should seriously GTFO. A blocking penalty on Dario? A single file restart with 1 to go? Really? Pathetic.  

 and a aggressive driving penalty on Wilson?

 ? Like I said, GTFO, Brian "Brainfart". Lets hope Race 2 is better.

I seriously can't help but keep thinking that tomorrow's race is going to be a mess. It's just a gut feeling I have with some of the decisions Barnhart made today and how messy the 2nd Belle Isle race was last month.

I wonder if the teams and drivers are going to give Beaux a standing ovation at Mid-Ohio?

Barnhart...

YOU HAD ONE JOB

Sparkz47 wrote:Barnhart...

YOU HAD ONE JOB

 and he ruined it..

Dario got his 3rd place back on appeal. And there will be another attempt at a standing start today.

OK, so Beaux needed to be away for the weekend. That happens, that's fine. But, I can't help but think that if Bernard were still in charge, Barnhart would've been the last person he picked as a fill-in.

IndyCar is finally making some progress, and they screw it up by bringing this idiot back into the fold. Allowing people to cut the corner in Turn 5? Really, dumbass?

And for the first time in a LONG time, I was rooting for Bourdais, just so we could have another different winner in the fold. He absolutely got screwed on the final restart. Was Dixon scared that he was gonna miss out again, and decided to not play by the rules? I was expecting Seb to be in his usual, full-on crybaby bitch mode after what happened on the last restart, and he would've had a right to do so this time, but he was so happy about finally having another good run in that car. Dixon should consider himself fortunate. And is Dixon's wife the new Ashley Judd? Are we gonna start seeing her every time he's leading? Yes, she's attractive, but I want to see on-track action. Thank you.

Rant over. Hope to God something other than a Target car crosses the line first today.

Also, Briscoe has a broken wrist, and won't be racing today. Carlos Munoz will take his place.

I want to apologize from getting too personal in the Nationwide thread. I'll PM from now on.

Anyway, I hope Barnhart learned something from yesterday.....HOPEFULLY.

>Dario wrecking Power in turn 3.

Wow, never seen that before.

Munoz will replace Briscoe for todays race.

navycook75 wrote:Munoz will replace Briscoe for todays race.

 Which crl said 9 hours, 46 minutes ago.

Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:

navycook75 wrote:Munoz will replace Briscoe for todays race.

 Which crl said 9 hours, 46 minutes ago.

>9 hours ago

oops

While some calls were quite questionable, I think that was a fantastic race. Something exciting was happening all day long. I'm not much of a Bourdais fan personally, but it was pretty cool to see the guy running up front again.

Is there a standing start for Race 2?

f1fan12 wrote:Is there a standing start for Race 2?

I think so, hopefully they don't fuck it up.

navycook75 wrote:

f1fan12 wrote:Is there a standing start for Race 2?

I think so, hopefully they don't fuck it up.

Oh Barnfart!

Yay! They managed to do a standing start!

And i missed it....
What happened to Hinch?

Lucstar88 wrote:And i missed it....
What happened to Hinch?

had problems before the start.

Hinch's season in a nutshell, either win or wreck.

Yeah. The standing start happened, but Hinch is 3 laps down.  

RealRacer4 wrote:Yay! They managed to do a standing start!

This.

Dixon's looking real good right now, although Helio is lurking back in 2nd.

Pretty anonymous race than yesterday. Scott Dixon is literally kicking everyone's asses unless a caution comes out.

EDIT: And the yellow is out for James Jakes hitting the wall.

Caution's now out.

Wow. This race has been a snoozer so far.    Kind of surprising considering yesterday's race, but then again, Dixon was sitting on the pole, and that car was fast yesterday, so can't say I'm surprised.