Alonso, McLaren, and Indycar

[erlik]

Good run. I hope it will be enough for top 9 for tomorrows pole qualifications.... I expect Sato and Marco Andretti to be very quick

[Chanman141]

Yeah Alonso did say that he wasn't happy with the laps and it was about 90%, very impressive nonetheless to be third so far, so it will be interesting to see how much more time can be extracted from the car.

[erlik]

Huge accident! I was just thinking how Bourdais is much quicker than anyone else (also in practice)...

[Cannonballer]

From - http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-20-Indy-500-Live:

The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:

1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph
9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph

How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?

Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.

[FW17]

Even Flavio turned up for qualifying

If Eric and Zac are going to be at Indy next week, wonder who will be at Monaco

[Chuckjr]

Fred will bring a ton of international audience that would have never tuned in. I'm really happy he is doing this. I actually hope this parlays into a drive in Indycar when he leaves F1. It will give me a reason to start watching American open wheel racing again and will extend his open wheel racing career - which is only a good thing in my opinion.

[djos]

Fred will bring a ton of international audience that would have never tuned in. I'm really happy he is doing this. I actually hope this parlays into a drive in Indycar when he leaves F1. It will give me a reason to start watching American open wheel racing again and will extend his open wheel racing career - which is only a good thing in my opinion.

yeah I think I'd start watching again too... just to see him wipe the floor on road courses!

[djos]

Saw this on a Facebook feed, made me lol:

[SiLo]

From - http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-20-Indy-500-Live:

The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:

1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph
9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph

How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?

Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.

How close is this? I'm not used to average speeds so I don't know if that's super close or not.It looks it though.

[FW17]

How close is this? I'm not used to average speeds so I don't know if that's super close or not.It looks it though.

4 laps, 10 miles, 16 left turns

1 Carpenter, 02:36.2036

2 Sato, Takuma +0.0585

3 Dixon, Scott +0.0917

4 Hildebrand +0.1786

5 Rossi, Alexander +0.2172

6 Power, Will +0.2691

7 Alonso, Fernando +0.2949

8 Kanaan, Tony +0.3134

9 Andretti, Marco +0.3701

[void]

From - http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-20-Indy-500-Live:

The fastest nine qualifiers on Saturday, and therefore those who will compete for the Verizon P1 Award on Sunday are as follows:

1) Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph
2) Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph
3) Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph
4) JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph
5) Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph
6) Will Power - 230.072 mph
7) Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph
Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph
9) Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph

How big is the ~0.5mph gap between 1st and 9th? Is this like <Q3 where fast enough to advance is fast enough quit?

Nice to see Rossi's name up there as well.

How close is this? I'm not used to average speeds so I don't know if that's super close or not.It looks it though.

I had the same problem, so I converted mph into miles per second, and divide track lenght / miles per second. And time gap is less then one tenth of second

1. Ed Carpenter - 230.468 mph - 39.050 s
2. Takuma Sato - 230.382 mph - 39.065 s
3. Scott Dixon - 230.333 mph - 39.074 s
4. JR Hildebrand - 230.205 mph - 39.095 s
5. Alexander Rossi - 230.148 mph - 39.105 s
6. Will Power - 230.072 mph - 39.118 s
7. Fernando Alonso - 230.034 mph - 39.124 s
8. Tony Kanaan - 230.007 mph - 39.129 s
9. Marco Andretti - 229.924 mph - 39.143 s

[a1b2i3r45]

Engine change for Alonso, LOL

[lio007]

Engine change for Alonso, LOL

Wow...OK, and I thought I misunderstood the comments on the live stream.
Oh dear, even an other series is not enough to get a reliable Honda engine

But FA will be able to qualify.

[dans79]

Engine change for Alonso, LOL

Wow...OK, and I thought I misunderstood the comments on the live stream.
Oh dear, even an other series is not enough to get a reliable Honda engine

But FA will be able to qualify.

It's fine, because teams get 2 for the 500.

[The_table]

So will he qualify later? will the track be faster? does he get a penalty? .... so many questions