Can someone tell me why the Panoz DP 01 chassis wasn't allowed to be used in the IRL when Champ Car and IRL merged? Was it a contract issue with the supplier of the IRL chassis or was it an issue with the engine mounts not lining up to accept the Honda engine or was it something else?

Warren

 

The S2000 parade in the background was definitely a high point of coverage!

What a lot of freaking yellows

 

Champ Car and IRL did not "merge". IRL bought up the remnants of the failed Champ Car. IRL likes the current arrangement of everyone using the Dallara, so that's just the way it is.

It's basically a spec series.

 

2 completely different car designs, specs, etc... basically like racing an F1 car against an IRL.

 

Streets of St. Petersburg Race Results
Race Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009


1 Ryan Briscoe
Team Penske 6 D/H/F 4 103.564 100 2 46 Running 50


2 Ryan Hunter-Reay
Vision Racing 21 D/H/F 14 102.821 100 0 0 Running 40


3 Justin Wilson
Sonny's Bar-B-Q 19 D/H/F 2 103.746 100 3 52 Running 37


4 Dario Franchitti
Air Wick 10 D/H/F 5 103.361 100 0 0 Running 32


5 Tony Kanaan
Team 7-Eleven 11 D/H/F 3 103.629 100 0 0 Running 30


6 Will Power
Team Penske 3 D/H/F 6 103.289 100 0 0 Running 28


7 Graham Rahal
McDonald's Racing Team 02 D/H/F 1 103.828 100 0 0 Running 27


8 Darren Manning
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 23 D/H/F 10 102.364 100 0 0 Running 24


9 Vitor Meira
ABC Supply Co. AJ Foyt Racing 14 D/H/F 17 102.999 100 0 0 Running 22


10 Alex Tagliani
Rexall Edmonton Indy 34 D/H/F 7 103.357 99 0 0 Running 20


11 Robert Doornbos
Newman/ Haas/ Lanigan Racing 06 D/H/F 13 103.196 96 0 0 Running 19


12 Stanton Barrett
CURB/ Agajanian/ Team 3G 98 D/H/F 21 97.307 96 0 0 Running 18


13 Marco Andretti
Andretti Green 26 D/H/F 18 102.264 94 1 2 Contact 17


14 Dan Wheldon
National Guard Panther Racing 4 D/H/F 11 102.090 86 0 0 Contact 16


15 Hideki Mutoh
Formula Dream 27 D/H/F 19 102.321 86 0 0 Contact 15


16 Scott Dixon
Target Chip Ganassi Racing 9 D/H/F 8 102.875 80 0 0 Contact 14


17 E.J. Viso
PDVSA HVM Racing 13 D/H/F 16 102.759 75 0 0 Mechanical 13


18 Ed Carpenter
Menards/ Vision Racing 20 D/H/F 22 100.869 71 0 0 Contact 12


19 Danica Patrick
Motorola 7 D/H/F 15 103.141 31 0 0 Contact 12


20 Raphael Matos
Luczo Dragon Racing 2 D/H/F 9 102.638 31 0 0 Contact 12


21 Mario Moraes
KV Racing Technology/ Votorantim 5 D/H/F 20 102.124 31 0 0 Contact 12


22 Mike Conway
Dad

 

I thought maybe I was alone. I found the race boring except for a bunch of rookie mistakes.

 

...and it didn't rain!!

 

But that was the highlight of MidOhio.

 

..and the IMSA and Indycar people still remember it

 

The S2ks were US!!!! my local guys and gals keeping it real for S2ki

click this for a photo gallery of the whole month:

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=687067



I am glad we got a little camera time finally!!

This was our 5th year doing pre-race parades for SPGP and A/G racing