Pos Driver Team Time Speed 1. Tony Kanaan Andretti Green 1:02.5322 103.627mph 2. Will Power KV 1:02.6096 103.499mph 3. Justin Wilson Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:02.6426 103.444mph 4. Helio Castroneves Penske 1:02.6462 103.438mph 5. Ryan Briscoe Penske 1:02.7071 103.338mph 6. Ryan Hunter-Raey Rahal Letterman 1:03.0077 102.845mph 7. Oriol Servia KV 1:02.7427 103.279mph 8. Dan Wheldon Ganassi 1:02.7694 103.191mph 9. Graham Rahal Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:02.8122 103.165mph 10. Franck Perera Conquest 1:02.8749 103.062mph 11. Darren Manning Foyt 1:03.0136 102.835mph 12. Marco Andretti Andretti Green 1:03.2443 102.460mph 13. Scott Dixon Ganassi 1:03.2365 102.472mph 14. Hideki Mutoh Andretti Green 1:03.2757 102.409mph 15. Ernesto Viso HVM 1:03.3067 102.359mph 16. Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold 1:03.3591 102.274mph 17. Vitor Meira Panther 1:03.4480 102.131mph 18. Enrique Bernoldi Conquest 1:03.4568 102.117mph 19. Danica Patrick Andretti Green 1:03.5766 101.924mph 20. Jay Howard Roth 1:03.7447 101.656mph 21. Ed Carpenter Vision 1:03.8007 101.566mph 22. Mario Moraes Dale Coyne 1:04.1590 100.999mph 23. Townsend Bell Dreyer & Reinbold 1:04.3880 100.640mph 24. AJ Foyt IV Vision 1:04.4996 100.466mph 25. Marty Roth Roth 1:07.7041 95.711mph 26. Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne 1:09.3851 93.392mph
Watching racing in HD is awesome. Now if only Comcast would hurry up give us Speed HD so I can watch F-1 races in widescreen.
Ha Ha Graham Rahal passes Dad's car for the lead and is checking out with no stops and 14 min. to go. ChampCar rookies they said.
Awesome Awesome win for Graham Rahal .Makes daddy proud. First race and first win. Man I wish I was 19 again.
Hot dang, Graham won the race! I've met both Graham and his dad at Road Atlanta and they're two of the nicest, most down-to-earth drivers I've ever spoken to. I guess today proves that the ChampCar guys will do just fine on the road courses; we'll have to wait and see about improvement on the ovals. It's going to be a fun year!
He had the best the IRL had to offer on his tail and left them. Champ Car guys are going to have to adjust? I don't think so. They have been throwing a better car around. Makes the adjustment to a slower car easy. It's no longer the IRL. It's Indy Car!
I was also impressed with Ernesto Viso. He was the first car to swich to slicks but was caught up in a caution at the wrong time. If Iam not mistaken someone here on F-Chat raced against him in Skip Barber. Anyhow it was one of the best street racing I've seen in a long time which should make the rest of the season the best we've had since the split occured.
Terrific run by Ernesto. I believe it was Jon K. (flatoutracing) that raced with him and suggested his talent.
I don't care who won, it is just great that we finally have a unified series. I was having phone sex with my girlfriend so I am not sure I heard this correctly, I think Robin Miller said on SpeedTV tonight that Danica Patirck was the the best thing to happen to American open wheeled motorsports. If that is what he said, I agree completely. She does pretty well, but without the media attention she brought to the IRL, the IRL would have died, Chump Car was already dead a year ago, so we would not have big time open wheeled racing in the this country as we witnessed today in St Pete. 26 starters!! I hope she wins something soon.
Michael, if I were 20 years younger, I would behind all the way also. Or did I mean to say I would be behind her??
Speaking of girls in Indy Cars Danica better hurry up and win something or this girl might beat her to it. Her name is Ana Beatriz and this girl is winner .She finished third in the first Indy Lights race yesterday and was leading the second race today until she made a mistake and was out. http://www.indyproracer.com/2008/01/sam-schmidts-bi.html http://www.biafigueiredo.com/en/index.htm
Who the hell is Robin Miller?!? Don't hold your breath waiting for Danica to win, Ron. She qualified 19th, 3/10 of a second behind her own rookie teammate. To call her performance pathetic would be an understatement of gross proportions. If she were a guy, she would have been out of racing 3 seasons ago. If she is the saviour of open-wheel racing in the US, that speaks very little for open-wheel racing in the US...
Robin Miller is a TV commentator for IRL. He seems to know a lot and gets inside information. Danica qualified front row last week, so she might win one. I wouldn't call her performance pathetic. She spun twice (Grahm spun once) and still she ended up in 10th. She is 7th in points. Again, I wish Milka was a better driver. I like boobies.
Jane, again, check her statistics before you make such obviously biased and ridiculous comments. She does better than most of the men on the circuit always finishing in the top 10 in series year end points, and therefore well deserves her seat. Without the media attention due to Danica Patrick, the subsequent interest in the IRL would never have occured, and that series could have falterd just like ChumpCar. Open wheeled racing in the US hit bottom, until Danica led and finsihed fourth in her first Indy 500. If that is pathetic in your mind, then I can not think of any driver in any series that would meet your criteria. She will win at some point, probably on an oval, and she will do it in a very respectable way. She far exceeds any woman closed circuit drivers since Desiree Wilson and Lella Lombardi, possibly Sarah Fisher. Only Michelle Mouton and Shirley Muldowney would rank higher as accomplished women in motor sports.
