DANICA DANICA SUPERPILOT!!1! ;-p

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/indycar/36804/

Danica Patrick continued her success in Japan, leading the opening day
of preparations for the Indy Japan 300.

The Andretti Green Racing driver lapped the 1.5-mile egg-shaped oval in
26.9585 seconds, 202.979 mph, edging Super Aguri Panther Racing’s Kosuke
Matsuura (202.472 mph) and defending race winner Helio Castroneves
(202.295 mph).

“The team gave me a good car to start with and we made small changes
during the morning session,” Patrick said. “In this afternoon’s
practice, we didn’t change anything. It follows along with a saying that
my dad has, ‘However you unload is how you run.’ We unloaded with a good
car and it’s been a fairly straightforward day.”

Tony Kanaan (201.972 mph) and two-time Motegi winner Dan Wheldon
(201.444) rounded out the top five as teams battled cool and windy
conditions throughout both practice sessions. The day was not without
incident. Vitor Meira was forced to his backup car after an accident in
Turn 2 during the opening minutes of the first practice session. Meira
was not injured when his car made contact with the SAFER Barrier.

“Despite what happened today, it was a great effort from the Delphi
Panther team,” Meira said. “The crash was not a good situation for
anybody, but Kosuke had a great day so we know the setup is there. Even
last year we had a great setup here so it's my job now to shake it off
and move ahead. This is a perfect example of how much having two cars
helps."

The Indy Japan 300 is scheduled for April 21 Japan time, Friday night in
the U.S.

--
forty

“To embrace an extreme, one must first let go of reason.”

On Apr 19, 9:38 am, forty <cfort... (AT) SPAMgmail (DOT) com> wrote:
It is very telling when AGR is lead by Danica. Either it is a
publicity stunt by the IRL or AGR told everyone to hold back. Anyway,
it's just practice and we will see come Sunday, or Saturday, or
whenever a race occurs on the opposite side of the world ;-)

"forty" <cforteNO (AT) SPAMgmail (DOT) com> wrote



You can watch practice and qualifying and the race free, live on
Indy.com. Next live event is practice 3 at 9:30pm Thursday evening east
coast time. Qualifying 12:30am Thursday night/Friday morning. Race is live
midnight 12:00am Friday night/Saturday morning.