Scott Dixon's crew push their race car through Gasoline Alley on Thursday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Photo by Chris Owens
Following six days of practice totaling 35 sun-splashed hours on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it’s time for teams to literally switch gears.
INDYCAR, the sanctioning body of the IZOD IndyCar Series, approved an increase in the turbocharger boost level for “Fast Friday” on May 18 and the May 19-20 time trials for the Indianapolis 500 from 130 kPa (kilopascals) to 140 kPa. The increase will add 40-50 horsepower to the 2.2-lter, turbocharged V-6 engines supplied by Chevrolet, Honda and Lotus, resulting in an increase of 4-5 mph per lap. The boost level will be returned to 130 kPa for the 200-lap race May 27.
Teams/drivers continued to work on race set-ups and simulations May 17 (the session was delayed an hour at the start for Katherine Legge to start her Rookie Orientation Program).
Scott Dixon, the 2008 race winner, was quickest on the day with a lap of 40.3428 seconds (223.088 mph; second-quickest of the month) in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car.
“It’s nice, I think we’ve taken this week a little slower,” said Dixon. “We didn’t have the speed; these speeds are all big tows, so it doesn’t really matter much. For us, we’re just working on the race car, and I think we’ve made big improvements on how it feels. For me, I feel happy because we made the car feel a lot nicer to drive, and especially in traffic it pulls up better, I think. Tomorrow and Saturday are going to be totally different stories to see who’s got what out there by themselves, so that will be interesting. But all in all, I think Honda and Team Target are doing pretty well.”
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Josef Newgarden, who was quickest a day earlier, was second on the speed chart (40.1115 seconds, 222.709 mph) in the No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman/Dollar General car.
“Today we only worked on race setup,” said Newgarden. “We’ll start back on qualifying tomorrow when we get the boost. We just picked up today where we left off yesterday and continued working in the race direction. We’ve had a great week, and we just need to continue what we’ve been doing. SFHR has done a great job. They’ve built a quick, beautiful Dollar General race car. The Honda power has been quick and reliable. We’ve just got to keep up the work this weekend and put it all together next Sunday for the race.”
Graham Rahal jumped to third late in the session with a month-best 222.080 mph, and IZOD IndyCar Series championship points leader Will Power (221.932) was fourth. Justin Wilson finished fifth at 221.715 mph.
Twenty-nine drivers recorded 1,391 laps without incident.The 2.5-mile oval is open for practice from noon-6 p.m. May 18, with Pole Day qualifying featuring the top-nine shootout commencing at noon May 19.
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