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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:38 am
by mlittle
Top-6 with five minutes remaining.....................
Wilson, Castroneves, Dixon, Servia, Briscoe and Junquiera; Junquiera's run today so far is especially good, considering he wrecked the primary Dale Coyne car Thursday in the second practice session.........
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:39 am
by mlittle
....and now the flyers begin!
Spiderman now P1 w/a time of 1:01.643; knocks Wilson from P1
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:40 am
by mlittle
.....Meira's knocking on the door to the top-6; needs about .3 seconds to get into the top-6 but he is definitely on a flyer.....
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:41 am
by mlittle
2 minutes in the session.............
Dixon on a flyer; still P4
Patrick on a flyer; moves up to P8
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:43 am
by mlittle
Marco just about got into the top-6 but was a tenth-short.............
Session over, but hot laps will count........
Manning P10, Dixon P2
Top-6 from the first group...............
Castroneves, Dixon, Wilson, Briscoe, Servia, Junquiera
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:45 am
by mlittle
Session 1B about to begin(group 2)
Drivers in this group: Foyt, Power, Wheldon, Kanaan, Hunter-Reay, Moraes, Carpenter, Tracy, Roth, Mutoh, Bernoldi, Dominguez and Rahal
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:50 am
by mlittle
Session 1B has begun........
Note of interest.......there are four different series running this weekend at Edmonton:
--IndyCar Series
--Atlantic Championship
--NASCAR Canadian Tire Series
--Historic Stock Car Series
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:52 am
by mlittle
Kanaan, Mutoh and RHR setting early flyers in the session........
Wheldon and PT setting early flyers also..........
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:53 am
by mlittle
Power now in P1; Wheldon 2nd and PT 3rd at the moment
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:55 am
by mlittle
Race control reporting a local yellow(turn 9) for Dominguez, who has run off-course for the moment
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:58 am
by mlittle
Eight minutes in the session.............
Top-6 at the moment: Power, Kanaan, Moraes, Rahal, Hunter-Reay and Tracy.......and we have a full-course caution for the #27 of Hideki Mutoh; spun in the double apex of turns 10-11(for bringing out the full-course caution, Mutoh will lose his fastest lap of the session)
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:02 am
by mlittle
Interesting note.........the #11 of Tony Kanaan is sporting a new livery; for the first time in the past 5 years, TK's car is not sporting the familiar green/white of Team 7-11, but is sporting a blue/white Frank's Energy Drink livery....
Eight minutes remaining in session 1B
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:03 am
by mlittle
Top-6 in the session.....
Power, Kanaan, Moraes, Rahal, RHR and Tracy
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:05 am
by mlittle
Wheldon moves into P5 for the session, knocks PT down to 7th and RHR to 6th......and TK's off-course at what looks like turn 4; local yellow at the moment
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:06 am
by mlittle
Less than five minutes remaining and the flyers have begun..............
Bernoldi moves up to P5, Rahal up to P4