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Motegi - 2009

Saturday, September 19, 10:30pm, Versus.

Permalink Reply by Damon on September 18, 2009 at 2:11am: 2nd practice over, qualifying starts in about 25 minutes, quick practice 2 rundown:

Ganassi 1-2 at the top of the charts with Dixon and Franchiti, Danica in P3, Briscoe 4th, Moraes 5th, Rahal 6th and Helio 8th, but unlike the first practice where only two drivers reached 200 mph, six drivers topped 200 mph.

AGR Update: Danica still over 1 mph ahead of Marco 12th, Tony 16th and Hideki 17th, which is really confusing in some sense, but because TK tweeted that he'd be making the same changes as DP. Hope they find something for his car that suits him.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeremy on September 18, 2009 at 1:19pm: Danica Patrick, #7 Boost Mobile/Motorola Dallara/Honda/Firestone: "We're here to win so I'm a little disappointed with where we qualified. On my third lap, instead of downshifting to fifth gear, the car went all the way down to fourth. I'm not sure if it did it by accident or if it was an electrical problem, but I'm sure that affected my last lap. The car has been pretty good. Eddie (Jones), my engineer, has done a great job and we were really strong in the last practice session before qualifying and made great progress. The entire #7 crew has been working hard and I think we'll be okay for the race."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jwane on September 18, 2009 at 8:34pm: A missed gear but still turned her fastest lap. That's promising.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Damon on September 19, 2009 at 1:17am: I ask again against my better judgement: What happened to the speed of the AGR cars?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeremy on September 19, 2009 at 4:02am: DANICA PATRICK (No. 7 Boost Mobile/Motorola, finished sixth): "The No. 7 car was strong all day; unfortunately it just wasn't strong enough to defend my win from last year. We could have had a run on Mario (Moraes) but I got caught in traffic and just wasn't able to gain the position. Overall it was a good day and a solid finish for us."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cerberus on September 19, 2009 at 8:59am: A less than stellar day in the pits. Danica lost two positions to Servia and Rahal in the second stop, and the 5th place to Moraes in the final one under caution. Rahal probably was out of reach, I don't think the track position ahead of him would have lasted all the way to the checkered, but that's not the case for Servia and Moraes, especially the brazilian.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jim Huntington on September 19, 2009 at 11:26am: It has to be frustrating as hell for Danica to be scratching to just hold onto 5th place in the standings.. Right now, the racing is boring deluxe and the only thing that keeps me interested is seeing how well Danica can do but unless Michael steps it up for all aspects of the #7 team, it's going to be a looooooooooooong hard 2010 season, watching the red teams play follow the leader race after race, with crumbs occasionally going to other drivers/teams.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bruna on September 19, 2009 at 1:36pm: She did what was within reach, congrats. Not our fault that other teams have evolved, while AGR decreased.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Damon on September 19, 2009 at 1:41pm: Pretty much, or at least what Ed Carpenter "allowed" her to do; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by joe graphix on September 19, 2009 at 2:33pm: plain and simple, drivers 3 laps down need to get out of the way! i new on that last restart, the drivers in the 3, 4, 5, spot were doomed, target took off and were gone with lapped traffic playing defence to the 3,4 and 5. sad. nice to see the "old Danica" back giving special ed the number 1 sign for his 3 lap down charge at the end...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jim Huntington on September 19, 2009 at 3:07pm: Joe, I missed the deal with Mr. Never Won Ed . Did he bad mouth Danica AGAIN?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Damon on September 19, 2009 at 6:06pm: Here's what he wrote on his twitter page after the race, Jim, and I only post this because you asked-

that race stunk...sorry to disappoint everyone...danica can be mad. if she would have got to me i would have let her go; ▶ Reply to This