Hello and welcome to my blog. I will post before and after every IZOD Indycar Series race. Let me start by saying this year Firestone 550K was very interesting even thought there was only 9 lead changes and seven different leaders. Drivers who lead were Alex Tagliani (who surprised everyone with back to back pole starts at Texas), Scott Dixon, Justin Wilson, James Hinchcliffe, Will Power, Ryan Briscoe, and Graham Rahal.
Early on Franchitti who started second was extremely loose. On his first pit stop the 10 car was given four turns of the front wing. Normally a driver will get one half to one. Later he completely remove a balance bar from his car which started to fix the problem but then he faced understeer.
There was another conflict later in the race around lap 190 on the last restart. Will Power and Ryan Briscoe were running first and second with Kannan in third. Power and Briscoe were side by side and Power pushed Briscoe up Kannan went low to make it three wide but Power shut the door and broke Kannan's front wing. Kannan had to go in to get a new front wing while Power had a drive through penalty.
Tire wear was a major factor in this race and caused Scott Dixon, and Charlie Kimball to hit the wall. This also costed Graham Rahal the race. He took the lead on lap 200 from Ryan Briscoe and was really loose through every turn almost hitting the wall. While on his 227th lap he came up way to loose and hit the wall lightly. Wilson who had been charging from second passed Rahal before the white flag and took the race. Rahal regained control and maintained second but lost what could have been his second career win.
Before the race I had perdicted for Dixon, Power, and Hinchcliffe to dominate the race which started to happen until Dixon's werck and Power's penalty. Power leads Dixon in the points by 36 now. Power has 256, Dixon has 220, and Hinchcliffe has 208.
I will post again soon with my predictions the Milwaukee race.
-Indycarfan
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