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#496 Rad-oh-yeah?

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Posted 15 July 2018 - 00:55

FP3:

 

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Opet pakleno brzo, jos brze nego juce, cak cetvorica preko proslogodisnjeg vremena za pol, u bolidu koji bi toboz trebalo da bude sekund ipo sporiji. Incident na samom kraju FP, Vikens se zakucao u gume u krivini 8 a onda pokusavajuci da ga izbegne pridruzio mu se i Njugarden.

Kvalifikacije:

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Kisa koja je pocela da pada tokom Indi Lajt trke ciji se finis pretvorio u totalni haos nastavila se na mahove i tokom kvalifikacija za Indikar. Zbog velike vrucine cim bi prestalo da pada staza bi se u roku od odmah prosusila, da bi onda ponovo pocelo da pada. Kvalifikacije su se tako pretvorile u lutriju a premiju je izvukao Njugarden odvezavsi savrsen krug u zadnjim momentima kad je staza bila najsuvlja.

Pozdravio vas sampion:

 

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Kaze da danas definitivno nije bilo dosadno, da je udes u FP3 bio zbog zakasnele zute zastave, pokazali su zuto kad je on vec bio na kocenju za tu krivinu i kad je ugledao Vikensa poprecenog na stazi nije imao izbora nego da zanese bolid i postrance se ukuca u gume. Krug za kvalifikacije je bio mnogo rizican, kaze da je u jednom momentu ocesao i zid.

Tokom kvalifikacija Honde su dobro isle, narocito Dikson, Andretijevci i RLL-ovci, ali ih je omela lutrija sa kisom. Pricao sam sa Rosijevim inzenjerom ponovo, kaze da imaju brz auto, da veruje da su uz Diksona najbrzi ovde ali kurata sreca. Jos kaze da im ovde jako treba pobeda ako misle da zadrze prikljucak u borbi za titulu.

Popricao i sa Dejlijem, kaze za sada ne zna definitivno da li ce se jos pojavljivati u Indikaru nakon ovog vikenda, nema konkretno ni da ali ni ne. Jedino sto mu je sigurica je da ce voziti u Naskar trci na Elkart Lejku 25. avgusta, za sta kaze da ce biti znacajno drugacije od onog na cega je navikao...


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Posted 15 July 2018 - 01:37

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Interesantno kako je Karlinova garaza uredjena, ne fazon F1 - podeljena popreko na prednji deo sa bolidima i zadnji iza pregrade za rezervne delove, logistiku & ostale mudrolije, bolidi uvek ostaju ispred i sve se tamo radi na njima. Ostali timovi imaju garazu organizovanu na fazon pokretne trake celom duzinom garaze - na ovoj stanice se npr. setapuje aerodinamika, ovde se radi ogibljenje, ovde se rastavlja menjac i motor... Kad treba raditi na bolidu krenu da ga cerupaju i polako ga sele prema unutra sto ga vise treba cerupati, i onda unazad istim putem dok ga sklapaju.

 

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Hinc se pridruzio svojim mehanicarima i zajedno "majstorisu" po bolidu
 


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Posted 15 July 2018 - 01:51

Indi Lajt podijum:

 

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Posted 15 July 2018 - 02:01

Zek Klaman Demelo daje intervju:

 

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Dzordin King:

 

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Sato Takuma-san:

 

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Unutrasnjost Andretijevog transportera - u zadnjem delu radionica (na slici), ispred tusevi i soba za sastanke i odmor, iznad prostor za bolide:

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Aparatura za dolivanje goriva SPM tima. Plava cev je za gorivo, zuta je odusak:

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Takuma-sanova alokacija guma za trku. Ima dva seta koriscenih crvenih, dva seta kisnih, jedan koriscen crnih i ostalo su nove crne.

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Posted 15 July 2018 - 12:27

- Nema matorog Fojta, on se kuci oporavlja od nove operacije.

 

- Kolaju glasine da je Ganasi za narednu sezonu potpisao Rozenkvista - mada, jos uvek se ne zna da li to znaci treci bolid ili da jedan od dvojice ovogodisnjih vozaca (Dikson, Dzons) odlazi.

 

- Sva je prilika da ce se dogodine voziti Laguna Seka umesto Sonome; Indikar bi da zadrzi obe trke na svom kalendaru ali u Sonomi veruju da su staze suvise blizu jedna drugoj i da im se nece isplatiti da organizuju trku.


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Posted 16 July 2018 - 02:01

Uh evo me kuci posle skoro 12h provedenih na stazi thumbup.gif prokuv'o mozak na vrucini a noge otpadaju od stajanja. Dobro trkanje u nizim kategorijama, i jedna jako cudna cak i za standarde Toronta trka u Indikaru. Toliko je odlicnih brzih bolida danas zapalo u raznorazne nevolje sto svojom sto tudjom krivicom da je to prosto neverovatno - jedino je 'ledeni' Dikson sve iskulirao i odvezao bez greske. Trka na mahove dosadna u voznji u vozicu, da bi iznenada eksplodirala u totalni haos na stazi i tako nekoliko puta. Njugarden je dominantno vodio da bi prilikom restarta zbog cukanja Rosija i Pauera (u tom momentu u vodecoj grupi) neobjasnjivo izgubio kontrolu na izlasku na pravac start-cilj i overio zid bas kad je data zelena zastava. Nedugo zatim u krivini 1 masovka sa 6 bolida eliminise izmedju ostalih Hanter-Reja, Rehola, a pred kraj trke Sato sa trece pozicije nicim izazvan overava zid... Na kraju dobio Dikson, iza njega Pazeno i 'domaci' Vikens - ova dvojica su u finisu trke vodili odlicnu borbu.

 

Posle podijuma odoh ponovo u padok da smaram ljude, popricao sam sa Hincom, sa mehanicarima RLL tima (Rehol i Sato) i ponovo sa Dzeremijem, Rosijevim inzenjerom. Sezona ulazi u finis, ostalo je jos 5 trka do kraja, sve vise lici na jos jednu tipicnu Diksonovu sezonu gde ga nema nigde u prvoj polovini a onda izdominira ostatak i 'ladno uzme titulu...

 

Bice slika uskoro, samo da proberem... :)


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Posted 16 July 2018 - 02:06

Jutrosnji vormap:
 
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Trka:
 

Dixon leaves them all behind in Toronto

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By: Marshall Pruett | 2 hours ago


Josef Newgarden stunned Scott Dixon to take pole for the Honda Indy Toronto event and stunned the championship leader once again on Sunday when he made a costly mistake that handed victory to the Chip Ganassi Racing Honda team.

Dealing with understeer behind the Team Penske driver during his opening stint on Firestone’s alternate tires, Dixon’s car came to life once primary tires were installed. He’d quickly work his way up to Newgarden’s gearbox before the first caution of the race flew for three drivers chasing the lead duo.

A nose-first crash into the Turn 3 tires by Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay on Lap 28 was compounded by contact a few hundred feet behind him between Penske’s Will Power and his attacking teammate Alexander Rossi. With Rossi appearing to mis-time a pass on Power, he broke the front wing main plane from its mounting plates by hitting the back of Power’s car, and with errant bodywork and a stalled Hunter-Reay to resolve, the field was slowed behind the pace car.

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With three front-runners taken out of contention, the Lap 34 restart was filled with more insanity as Newgarden pushed too hard coming out of the final corner and understeered from the lead into the wall as Dixon streaked by. Chaos ensued behind them as Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s Graham Rahal hit Carlin Racing’s Max Chilton under braking for Turn 1, and then Rahal was hit while trying to pull away which left his car and those of Chilton, Power, Rossi, Hunter-Reay, and Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais stalled or damaged — or both — in the middle of the corner.

Prior to the Lap 34 restart melee, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ Robert Wickens executed a daring pass down the inside into Turn 1 and captured second place. Excellent driving by Simon Pagenaud and pit work during the final stop by his Penske team leapfrogged the Frenchman to second where he went after Dixon, who was slowed as Hunter-Reay fought to keep from being lapped.

With his five-second lead over Pagenaud cut to under two seconds, Dixon’s path to Victory Lane was eased once the Andretti driver made a late final stop and he cruised home ahead of the Penske man (+5.2701s) and Wickens who starred in front of his home crowd (+6.7753s).

At the finish line, Dixon also collected plenty of spoils for the CGR team with his third win of the year and a big addition to his points lead over Newgarden who placed ninth as the series heads to the New Zealander’s personal playground at Mid-Ohio.

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“Can’t thank everybody enough on the team,” he said after nearly doubling his points lead from 33 to 62. “I don’t do it by myself. The team has done a fantastic job. Yes, we got lucky there with Josef making a mistake, but had we had clean air, I think we would have checked out as well. Focus is definitely on the championship right now. Everyone’s working really well and the mood’s changing in the team.”

Pagenaud gave it all he had to lead the Chevy runners home with a helpful podium.

“It was a good race,” he said. “It was really tough. Unfortunately, I didn’t have anything for Dixon at the end. I’m super proud of the [my] team and Chevy.”

After nudging Pagenaud from behind under braking into Turn 1 when the Penske driver came out of the pits in second, Wickens and the 2016 series champion raced down to Turn 3 and banged into each other side-by-side a few times before the Canadian conceded the spot.

“We had a good fight, but I was hoping he would leave me more room in Turn 3,” the rookie phenom said. “Podium at my home race. Thank you [Canadian fans] for all the support; you give me goosebumps every morning.”

His SPM teammate James Hinchcliffe was primed for a fifth-place finish until Marco Andretti pitted for a splash of fuel with moments left to run. The miscue, which prevented Andretti from matching his best result of the year, saw his car plummet down to 10th and promote Hinchcliffe, Carlin’s Charlie Kimball, and AJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan to the final positions inside the top six.

“Thanks to all the fans in Toronto,” Hinchcliffe said. “Super proud of SPM; two guys in the top five. Great future for Canadian motorsports.”

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Improving from a season’s best of eighth at Detroit, Kimball was delighted to give the rookie Carlin team its first competitive result.

“We just had a really good racecar, something we finally caught up with,” he said after picking up 15 spots in the race. “The Carlin boys did a great job in pit lane; this fifth place was really for them.”

Kanaan, who declared his racecar nothing less than evil last weekend in Iowa, was singing a different tune in Toronto after following Kimball’s note and handing the Foyt team its best finish of 2018.

“I think we’ve been fighting very hard all year long,” he said. “We had great pit stops, some passing, and some crashes there. Great effort by the entire team.”

After Kanaan, Andretti’s Zach Veach made a statement by completing a smooth run to seventh while numerous veterans made mistakes on the tricky street circuit. Embroiled in two incidents on the day, Rossi was the first home in eighth among those who hit others or got hit and pitted for repairs.

Newgarden, who lost track position after clouting the wall, lost more when he stopped to have the No. 1 Chevy looked over by the crew.

RLL’s Takuma Sato had plans on a top-four finish until he performed a carbon copy of Newgarden’s meeting with the wall; a harder hit, though, forced his immediate retirement, and with a top-eight result in sight, Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot was the final driver to hit in the same spot and climbed from the car at the end of the lap.

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Although Newgarden (P9), Rossi (P8), RHR (P16), and Power (P18) had days that were largely forgettable, in the grander scheme, they held onto their positions as second, third, fourth and fifth in the championship behind Dixon. The main change, however, was in the widening of the gap between the leader and those who want to prevent the Kiwi from earning his fifth IndyCar title.

After the top five, Wickens held onto sixth in the standings, Graham Rahal fell from seventh to eighth, Pagenaud jumped from ninth to seventh, Hinchliffe fell from eighth to ninth, and Andretti took 10th from Bourdais who fell to 11th.

It was a great day for Dixon, another strong effort by the surging Pagenaud, a rewarding outcome for the big Canadian crowd with Wickens and Hinchcliffe up front, a marvelous moment for Carlin Racing, a welcome performance by the Foyt team while its founder recovers from his latest surgery, and an impressive recovery by Rossi and the Andretti team to turn a pair of problems into reduced championship damage.

It’s 12 races down, five to go, and Verizon IndyCar Series fans have plenty to look forward to in the weeks ahead.

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Posted 16 July 2018 - 15:16

Drivers reflect on ‘ice racing’ conditions at Toronto

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By: RACER Staff | 2 hours ago


On a day when even the winner brushed the wall, the Exhibition Place street circuit served up another demonstration of why it is one of the toughest circuits to get a handle on with Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto.

“I’m worn out, man — that was a physical race,” said winner Scott Dixon. It was definitely easy to pick up lots of debris on the tires out there, and I think that’s what happened to Josef [Newgarden] on that restart where we took the lead. He tried to go a little bit fast into the last corner there in Turn 11, got into the gray and that was pretty much it.”

Dixon had a similar moment of his own later in the race, although the glancing blow fortunately did no damage to his PNC Bank Honda or its tires on their way to the checkered flag. Dixon felt that while overall the resurfaced track was much racier than it has been in the past, there is still room for improvement.

“I tried on the first lap in one to get around the outside of Josef. The tricky part there is the concrete patch,” he noted. “They’ve done a really nice, smooth transition, but it’s a transition to a slip-and-slide. Once the tire gets temperature, it’s actually quite grippy there.

“From the restarts, it looks like there was a ton of action going on, whereas the previous year it was very tough — it was so bumpy, you couldn’t really use the inside lane very much. [This year] I know even on the start, there was four-wide behind us, my spotter was saying.

“It’s great to see those areas improve. I think the concrete patches, they can maybe do a little bit of grinding on them to get some grooves in there. I think it will be really beneficial.

“Tough racing out there,” agreed runner-up Simon Pagenaud, who noted that the unseasonably high temperatures also contributed to the grip issues. “You know, the [2018 aero] package is a lot less grip in the corners, it was a lot more straightaway speed. The tires really struggled in the heat. There was a lot of marbles, a lot of dust. Restarts were ice racing. It was a lot of fun.”

The fun factor was a lot lower for Pagenaud’s Penske teammate Newgarden, whose error on one of those restarts took him out of the lead and dealt a hefty blow to his title hopes.

“I just had no idea the car was going to do that. I knew it would be low grip, but not zero grip,” fumed Newgarden. “I just lost the front end completely. I feel terrible — it’s not fun to make a mistake. This No. 1 Hitachi Chevy was quick today, I think it was capable of being in the top three or potentially winning the race if I didn’t make the mistake, but you have days like this in racing. We have to move on now and try to pick it back up.”


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Posted 16 July 2018 - 17:17

Snimak cele trke:

 

 

Bice fotke popodne kad dodjem s posla.


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Posted 16 July 2018 - 23:04

OK, fotke, pripreme za vormap u padoku & putu za pitlajn:

 

Andretijeva garaza:

 

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Njugardenov bolid u garazi Penskija:

 

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Fojtova garaza:

 

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Ulazak u pitlajn, SiBas na trotinetu:

 

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Posted 16 July 2018 - 23:19

Nize serije:

 

USF2000 - pobednicki bolid:

 

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Pro Mazda - podijum:

 

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Indi Lajt:

 

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Pobednik druge Lajt trke, Urugvajac Santi Urutia:

 

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Posted 16 July 2018 - 23:34

Pred Indi trku:

 

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Posted 16 July 2018 - 23:48

Predstavljanje vozaca:

 

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Posted 16 July 2018 - 23:59

Start:

 

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Skontao sam se sa redarskom ekipom na pravcu start-cilj naspram izlaska iz boksova i sa njima gledao trku, tu je bio i dzambotron TV, 'ladovina od tribine, bolje sam prosao nego ovi na tribini - niti vide TV niti imaju 'ladovinu:

 

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Posted 17 July 2018 - 00:14

Podijum:

 

Stize pobednik:

 

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Ema Dikson (koliko se vidi):

 

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Vikensov transport u padok:

 

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