IndyCar Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

After months of waiting, the Verizon IndyCar Series season kicks off 2015 at the streets of St. Petersburg in Florida.

Will Power begins his title defense while last year's runner-up Helio Castroneves looks for his first elusive championship.

Gabby Chaves and Stefano Coletti highlight the rookie class this season.

Man it's been too long since I've seen an IndyCar race. Hopefully this race will be the saving grace for what's already been a lackluster run of races in major Motorsports this year.

Go Kanaan!

Holy Moly the 19 is slow. Dracone is 3.5 seconds behind Power, and 2.1 behind the next slowest car O_o

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBH1fqGWYAAchQw.jpg:large

Lucstar88 wrote:Holy Moly the 19 is slow. Dracone is 3.5 seconds behind Power, and 2.1 behind the next slowest car O_o

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBH1fqGWYAAchQw.jpg:large

>Simona 15th
>Chevy top 5

I think the latter pretty much might explain this season.

navycook75 wrote:

Lucstar88 wrote:Holy Moly the 19 is slow. Dracone is 3.5 seconds behind Power, and 2.1 behind the next slowest car O_o

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBH1fqGWYAAchQw.jpg:large

>Simona 15th
>Chevy top 5

I think the latter pretty much might explain this season.

plz no. ;____;

Don't know if this is the right thread to post this, but Pro Mazda driver Michael Johnson has been injured in a practice crash at St. Pete. He was put in intensive care due to fractures in the hips and pelvis.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/motor/2015/03/27/michael-johnson-injury/70570314/

Sparkz47 wrote:Don't know if this is the right thread to post this, but Pro Mazda driver Michael Johnson has been injured in a practice crash at St. Pete. He was put in intensive care due to fractures in the hips and pelvis.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/motor/2015/03/27/michael-johnson-injury/70570314/

He's also a paraplegic too, so I don't think the injury will stop him one bit. I hope he recovers well.

Lucstar88 wrote:Holy Moly the 19 is slow. Dracone is 3.5 seconds behind Power, and 2.1 behind the next slowest car O_o

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBH1fqGWYAAchQw.jpg:large

I told you so.

Anyway this Chevy dominance is worrying. Hope it doesn't stay like this for long.

http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2015-03-28/Pete%20indycar-results-quals.pdf

Penske fill out front row. Nice to see Bourdais up at the top, but disappointed where Luca finished. Dracone won't start last due to his q-group being faster, despite being 2.3 seconds slower than the next runner.

Well that was an embarrassing collision for the Andretti team.

BWardboy88 wrote:Well that was an embarrassing collision for the Andretti team.

And another embarrassing collision for Marco...

Nice job Chaves, more bad luck for Hinchcliffe.

My god get out Rahal.

Rahal you douchebag.

I originally thought Rahal caused the original damage to Kimball's car - naturally, he then punted him off as if to make my outrage justified.

What a goddamn moron.

And Juan Montoya is leading O.O

Montoya wins and my guy Kanaan gets a 3rd, I'll take it!

Alright race. Power couldn't make the move on Montoya stick and it fucked him.

Good win Montoya. Trying to throw it back to 99 Champ car i see.

Congrats to JPM today. A solid IndyCar race. And reject of the race is hands down Rahal. A 6.0/10.

Pretty solid race today. There were some fails, but that's too be expected from the first race of the year.

Penalties for Chevy.

http://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/chevrolet-hit-with-post-st-pete-penalties

They lost 220 manufacture points, they are now behind Honda by 192.

I forgot to give my opinions on this race. Whoops.

Pretty solid start to the season. And a great battle by Juan Pablo Montoya and Will Power at the end. Once again, St. Pete does not disappoint.

The GP of St. Petersburg gets a solid 6.5/10.