Yardbarker: Jay Howard

Howard Returns

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:13:37 -0500

After a five race absence, Jay Howard will return to behind the wheel of the 24 Roth Racing machine in the Indycar Series...

INDY Road Runner Turbo 300 - Kansas Qualifying

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:45:07 -0500

Final grid: SP Car Driver Team Time Speed 1 9 Scott Dixon Target Chip Ganassi Racing 1:42.3014 213.956 2 10 Dan Wheldon Target Chip Ganassi Racing 1:42.4521 213.641 3 7 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 1:42.6519 213.225 4 12 Tomas Scheckter Luczo Dragon Racing 1:42.8753 212.762 5 2 A.J. Foyt IV Vision Racing 1:43.0132 212.478 6 20 Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 1:43.0503 212.401 7 25 Marty Roth Roth Racing 1:43.1568 212.182 8 3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske 1:43.2072 212.078 9 6 Ryan Briscoe Team Penske 1:43.2556 211.979 10 4 Vitor Meira Panther Racing 1:43.3219 211.843 11 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 1:43.3409 211.804 12 17 Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman Racing 1:43.4008 211.681 13 27 R Hideki Mutoh Andretti Green Racing 1:43.5646 211.346 14 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 1:43.6088 211.256 15 24 R Jay Howard Roth Racing 1:43.9230 210.617 16 14 Darren Manning AJ Foyt Racing 1:44.0597 210.341 17 33 R EJ Viso HVM Racing 1:44.1730 210.112 18 8 R Will Power KV Racing 1:44.1833 210.091 19 34 R Jaime Camara Conquest Racing 1:44.2671 209.922 20 6 R Graham Rahal Newman Haas Lanigan Racing 1:44.3284 209.799 21 15 Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:44.3448 209.766 22 2 R Justin Wilson Newman Haas Lanigan Racing 1:44.5248 209.405 23 5 Oriol Servia KV Racing 1:44.6076 209.239 24 23 Milka Duno Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 1:44.9702 208.516 25 36 R Enrique Bernoldi Conquest Racing 1:45.0075 208.442 26 18 Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing 1:45.2198 208.022 27 19 R Mario Moraes Dale Coyne Racing No speed No time - Ganassi strong - Penske 8th and 9th?..... - Vision continue their strong showing this year - Kanaan sounded severely pissed off during live streaming, saying the team really needed to notch up a gear or two as the car was just SLOW. Danica in third when the other three Andretti Greens trail behind in 11th, 13th and 14th. - Marty Roth in 7th. What the heck? - healthy grid number - Transition teams do no better than 17th after posting a high of 12th at Homestead (17,18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, ? 27 may be out due to repairs - crash) But as Scott Dixon told the pit reporter: qualifying doesn't mean a lot at Kansas, you can start last and still work your way up the field and win. http://yardbarker.com/irl/articles/INDY_Road_Runner_Turbo_300_Kansas_Qualifying/259689 (ht: Atlas F1 Bulletin Board)

Series - Fifth of Five: CCWS, Lost In Transition No Parts! No Sponsors! No Problem!

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:36:15 -0500

With apologies to Kenny Chesney, this pretty much sums up the effects of the "merger" of the ChampCar World Series into the Indianapolis Racing League thus unifying professional open-wheel racing in North America. Before this season opening weekend at the Homestead-Miami Speedway got underway, the ranks of the CCWS transitioned drivers and teams got hit with a couple of sad notes. First off, Graham Rahal, while taking practice laps at the speedway, bottomed out and spun into the wall. He will not be able to field a car for the race because there were not enough replacement parts and very little time to turn the car around. It is interesting to note that both Dan Weldon (Ganassi Racing) and Jay Howard (Roth Racing) were able to get parts and repair their cars for the race - Roth Racing is a new team for this year, after not competeing last year, but not a CCWS transition team. Second, due to the low quantity of replacement parts, the IRL Management informed all transitioning CCWS teams that they will be no replacement parts for the next few races (translation, only race hard enough to not damage the equipment otherwise you will end up like Graham Rahal and Newman/Hass/Lanigan). (originally posted 3-29-2008)