Here is my Post Fast Friday Indianapolis 500 Grid Prediction. I will start with the heart brake of who doesn’t make it. The easy ones are the #57 (which will never make an attempt even if it does some practice laps on Sunday.) The #20 (was going to be hard to make it anyway but now with this extra drama that is going to be even harder.) The #18 (Jakes just does not seem to have the speed so I am saying go ahead and write him off.) Finally I hate to say it but I am calling the #78 an easy call to not make it (unable to make even an install lap today with the back up car I think they just have too much work and too little time to put a fast enough qual run in *very sad face*). The others DNQ’s are much harder to pin down but here is what I came up with:
Position | Car # | Driver | Team | |||||||
DNQ | 57 | Sarah Fisher | ||||||||
DNQ | 20 | Scott Speed - R | Dragon | |||||||
DNQ | 18 | James Jakes - R | Dale Coyne | |||||||
DNQ | 78 | Simona de Silvestro | HVM | |||||||
DNQ | 8 | Ho-Pin Tung - R | Dragon | |||||||
DNQ | 43 | John Andretti | Andretti / Petty | |||||||
DNQ | 88 | Jay Howard - R | Rahal-Letterman/Sam Schmidt | |||||||
DNQ | 41 | Bruno Junqueira | Foyt | |||||||
33 | 34 | Sebastian Saavedra - R | Conquest | |||||||
32 | 27 | Mike Conway | Andretti Autosport | |||||||
31 | 11 | Davey Hamilton | Dreyer & Reinbold/Kingdom | |||||||
30 | 36 | Pippa Mann - R | Conquest | |||||||
29 | 28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti Autosport | |||||||
28 | 17 | Raphael Matos | AFS | |||||||
27 | 59 | E.J. Viso | KV Racing Technology | |||||||
26 | 19 | Alex Lloyd | Dale Coyne | |||||||
25 | 24 | Ana Beatriz - R | Dreyer & Reinbold | |||||||
24 | 23 | Paul Tracy | Dreyer & Reinbold | |||||||
23 | 83 | Charlie Kimball - R | Chip Ganassi | |||||||
22 | 07 | Tomas Scheckter | KVRT/SH Redline | |||||||
21 | 5 | Takuma Sato | KV Racing Technology | |||||||
20 | 82 | Tony Kanaan | KV Racing Technology | |||||||
19 | 98 | Dan Wheldon - W | Bryan Herta Autosport | |||||||
18 | 22 | Justin Wilson | Dreyer & Reinbold | |||||||
17 | 44 | Buddy Rice - W | Panther | |||||||
16 | 38 | Graham Rahal | Chip Ganassi | |||||||
15 | 06 | James Hinchcliffe - R | Newman-Haas | |||||||
14 | 7 | Danica Patrick | Andretti Autosport | |||||||
13 | 26 | Marco Andretti | Andretti Autosport | |||||||
12 | 14 | Vitor Meria | Foyt | |||||||
11 | 30 | Bertrand Baguette | Rahal-Letterman | |||||||
10 | 99 | Townsend Bell | Sam Schmidt | |||||||
9 | 4 | J.R. Hildebrand - R | Panther | |||||||
8 | 67 | Ed Carpenter | Sarah Fisher | |||||||
7 | 77 | Alex Tagliani | Sam Schmidt | |||||||
6 | 10 | Dario Franchitti - W | Target Chip Ganassi | |||||||
5 | 6 | Ryan Briscoe | Team Penske | |||||||
4 | 2 | Oriol Servia | Newman-Haas | |||||||
3 | 12 | Will Power | Team Penske | |||||||
2 | 9 | Scott Dixon - W | Target Chip Ganassi | |||||||
1 | 3 | Helio Castroneves - W | Team Penske |
If you remember last year Helio put up a time in his first Fast 9 qualifying attempt that nobody could touch even in practice with a tow! So I see no reason not to go with him again for P1. Predicting speed however is going to be harder as it is more of a weather forecast then anything else. My weather forecast this morning (I have not seen any newer data) was for higher winds (with incoming storms) around happy hour. So While I think will see at lease a mid 227 before 4 o’clock after the times reset for the fast 9 pole speed will drop to a 227.059
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