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Title: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: 03F5man on May 07, 2013, 10:20:13 AM
19 days til "The Greatest Spectacle In Racing" is upon us a lot of drivers have a pretty good shot to score the greatest prize in racing. Here are a few names that are gonna be contenders i feel for the race victory. As well as last years start and finish (R) signals rookie (W) signals former winner

#1 DHL/Sundrop(Andretti Autosport) Ryan Hunter-Reay Q:3rd F:27th

#2 IZOD(Team Penske) AJ Allmendinger(R)

#3 Shell/Pennzoil(Team Penske) Helio Castroneves(W) Q:6th F:10th

#4 National Guard(Panther Racing) JR Hildebrand Q:18th F:14th

#5 Citgo(Andretti Autosport) EJ Viso Q:9th F:18th

#8 TBA(Chip Ganassi Racing) Ryan Briscoe Q:1st F:5th

#9 Target(Target Chip Ganassi Racing) Scott Dixon(W) Q:15th F:2nd

#10 Target(Target Chip Ganassi Racing) Dario Franchitti(W) Q:16th F:1st

#11 TBA(KV Racing Technology) Tony Kanaan Q:8th F:3rd

#12 Verizon(Team Penske) Will Power Q:5th F:28th

#14 ABC Supply(AJ Foyt Enterprises) Takuma Sato Q:19th F:17th

#15 Midas(Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) Graham Rahal Q:12th F:13th

#21 Century 21(Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing) Josef Newgarden Q:7th F:25th

#25 RC Cola(Andretti Autosport) Marco Andretti Q:4th F:24th led the most laps (59)

#26 TBA(Andretti Autosport) Carlos Munoz(R)

#27 GoDaddy.com(Andretti Autosport) James Hinchcliffe Q:2nd F:6th

#41 TBA(AJ Foyt Enterprises) Conor Daly(R)

#55 N/A(Sam Schmidt Motorsports) Tristan Vautier(R)

#77 HP(Sam Schmidt Motorsports) Simon Pagenaud Q:23rd F:16th

#78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy(KV Racing Technology) Simona de Silvestro Q:32nd F:32nd

#83 Novo Nordisk(Chip Ganassi Racing) Charlie Kimball Q:14th F:8th became the first driver to lead with diabetes

#98 Barracuda(Bryan Herta Autosport) Alex Tagliani Q:11th F:12th
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: 88JRFAN on May 07, 2013, 10:52:39 AM
I'm going to make a bold prediction and say that the winner will not be a Penske or Ganassi car.

In the first 4 races of the season, it has been Andretti Autosport winning 3 races (2 with Hinchcliffe in St. Petersburg and 2 days ago in Sao Paulo, 1 with Hunter-Reay at Barber) and 1 win by Foyt racing (Sato at Long Beach)
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: 03F5man on May 07, 2013, 04:39:04 PM
I would love to see Marco win
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: 03F5man on May 07, 2013, 07:55:40 PM
at this point the penske team is in my mind considered a dark horse because will power has not had a good run on race day since his 5th back in 2009. Helio is probably the best chance for victory of the three. AJ Allmendinger probably will take it easy but if he is there in the end for a shot at the win then i think he will go for it.
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: 03F5man on May 11, 2013, 11:19:05 PM
after the 1st day of practice Ed Carpenter driver of the #20 Fuzzys Premium Vodka turned the fastest lap of the day of 220 mph
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: jwatson2973 on May 25, 2013, 11:29:50 PM
The race will be tomorrow. I'll bet most everyone here will be watching.
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: Hag on May 26, 2013, 04:12:57 PM
Congratulations to Tony Kanaan on the victory, I would rather have seen it end under green but I understand he was overdue for a win.
Title: Re: 2013 Indianapolis 500
Post by: 03F5man on May 27, 2013, 10:21:10 AM
wow talk about records being shattered 68 lead changes double than last year 14 different leaders and the fastest 500 by about 2 MPH over the 1990 Indy 500. If the Andretti team had to lose to someone im glad it was Kanaan he did so much over the years taking over after Michael Andretti retired full time in 2003.