1998 CART Mid Ohio 200 [ July 17th 2011 ]

1998 CART Mid Ohio 200 - Provisionnal Grid

1		Carlo Pozzi Marlboro Team Penske Penske PC27 | Mercedes | Goodyear	1mn04s786
2		Steve Parker Tasman Racing Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn05s846
3		Yves Plaçais Newman/Haas Racing Swift 009c | Ford | Goodyear	1mn05s922
4		Mickaël Forestier Target Chip Ganassi Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn06s099
5		Adam Svoboda Payton/Coyne Racing Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn06s370
6		Michaël Vanderplancke Arciero-Wells Racing Reynard 98 | Toyota | Firestone	1mn06s439
7		Ludovic Tagli Della Penna Motorsports Swift 009c | Ford | Firestone	1mn07s128
8		Alberto Ibanez Team KOOL Green Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn07s746
9		Carl Larrad Patrick Racing Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn08s309
10		Tom Schaack Team Rahal Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn08s349
11		Ben Paulet Target Chip Ganassi Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn09s216
12		Gianluca Desposito All American Racers Reynard 98 | Toyota | Goodyear	1mn11s217

Belle grille européenne - Nice European grid.
Merci Gui pour cette jolie présentation de grille.

THX for organizing Ben / Gui Good Job
7 Different Countries so far Nice

Great job Ben and alot of countries represented

Superbe grille, beau travail...

Je n'ai pu être présent, soucis de centenaire Ben

Vu les temps, mon PB 1'12, je sait pas si je pourrai aller plus vite
Sacré chrono

Christian Del wrote:

Je n'ai pu être présent, soucis de centenaire Ben

LOL i'm not from Belgium...

See my flag in the provisional grid

I really love how you guys do this stuff - makes one feel you are really particpating in a real race, with TV cover and all

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

I really love how you guys do this stuff - makes one feel you are really particpating in a real race, with TV cover and all

You've said I'll be the first of Team Kool Green, Alberto... Don't see how as my PB is 1.08.2. Nicely done

In the past I raced mostly CART and F1, so it seems something has remained and I have been improving the pace much better than with GT cars But in the long sunday race you have much more experience than me Ludo, so I am sure you will finish higher as I still have trouble keeping my concentration in the long term.

Quote :

Vu les temps, mon PB 1'12, je sait pas si je pourrai aller plus vite
Sacré chrono

C'est une course longue. Si vous faites 1:12-1:13 régulièrement et consomment peu de carburant (2 pitstops, Turbo Boost @ 3), vous obtiendrez un résultat décent

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

In the past I raced mostly CART and F1, so it seems something has remained and I have been improving the pace much better than with GT cars But in the long sunday race you have much more experience than me Ludo, so I am sure you will finish higher as I still have trouble keeping my concentration in the long term.

Will depend if my race strategy is good or totally crap too.

As for my PB I could normally improved it by 5 tenth of seconds if I manages to keep the car steady on boost 5...something I'm not sure I can do.

pas pu être présent à cette qualif cause 14 juillet avec les marmots
bon je ne devrait pas être trop largué, 1.07.xx en tournant une dizaines de tours sans entrainement
avec un peu plus de roulage je devrais pouvoir chatouiller mon cher Yves hé hé

Ha... Tu vois, Ben, y'a pas que moi, voir post Laurent, juste au-dessus

Christian Del wrote:

Ha... Tu vois, Ben, y'a pas que moi, voir post Laurent, juste au-dessus

Je me doute bien qu'il n'y a pas que toi en France qui fête le 14 Juillet, y'a même des gens très heureux de voir défiler des machines à hacher de la viande humaine.
Mais étant issue d'une famille royaliste, tu penses bien que le 14 Juillet pour moi...

Guys just wondering about the race strategy, I mean It would be nice if you more experienced could give some advice as not everyone can do time consuming testing... HARDs or SOFTs, BOOST, there is a lot of variables. I don't want you to reveal your Holy Grail but some clue would be nice I was thinking of running 3 boost and softs but I dont't know how they behave when really worn out...

Thanks.
See you On Sunday.

boost 3 and soft aren't quite capable of getting you a confortable stint. Your last laps will be quite difficult if you're car isn't correctly set up. For me soft could run 20 laps then will collapse. Hards won't have this problems and could run a full stint without noticeable deterioration.
But I'm probably not a good advise as I've quite a very different feeling than anyone else about tyres. For instance I trully dislike soft tyres in 79. Thing the hard to be better all along a race. And I'm not really slower in hard than in soft in race conditions.

Quali n°2 has started

J'etais pret pour les qualif ... mais j'ai un pb de rfactor.... "serveur de courses ne repond pas"...

Je vais faire tout mon possible pour "reparer" au pllus vite..
dsl
sorry...

I am sorry, I didn´t attend in any qualification...on thursday there was hailstorms so I have to turn off PC...and from yesterday evening I´ve got a stomachake...I hope I will be OK for tomorrow race

1998 CART Mid Ohio 200 - Starting Grid

1		Carlo Pozzi Marlboro Team Penske Penske PC27 | Mercedes | Goodyear	1mn04s074
2		Wolfgang Le Roy Pat Patrick Racing Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn04s074
3		Martin Audran Bettenhausen Team Alumax Reynard 98 | Mercedes | Goodyear	1mn05s099
4		Laurent Duconge Team Rahal Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn05s775
5		Steve Parker Tasman Racing Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn05s846
6		Ville Sokk Marlboro Team Penske Penske PC27 | Mercedes | Goodyear	1mn05s881
7		Yves Plaçais Newman/Haas Racing Swift 009c | Ford | Goodyear	1mn05s922
8		Mickaël Forestier Target Chip Ganassi Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn06s099
9		Adam Svoboda Payton/Coyne Racing Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn06s370
10		Michaël Vanderplancke Arciero-Wells Racing Reynard 98 | Toyota | Firestone	1mn06s439
11		Ludovic Tagli Della Penna Motorsports Swift 009c | Ford | Firestone	1mn06s735
12		Pierre Pfleger Hogan Racing Reynard 98 | Mercedes | Firestone	1mn06s800
13		Jean Louis Petillot Newman/Haas Racing Swift 009c | Ford | Goodyear	1mn06s958
14		Ludovic Tiengou Team KOOL Green Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn06s970
15		Alberto Ibanez Team KOOL Green Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn07s746
16		Carl Larrad Patrick Racing Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn08s309
17		Tom Schaack Team Rahal Reynard 98 | Ford | Firestone	1mn08s349
18		Gianluca Desposito All American Racers Reynard 98 | Toyota | Goodyear	1mn08s416
19		Ben Paulet Target Chip Ganassi Reynard 98 | Honda | Firestone	1mn08s975
20		Christian Del Project Indy Reynard 98 | Mercedes | Goodyear	1mn09s990

Exact same time for Carlo and Wolfgang !

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Exact same time for Carlo and Wolfgang !

Who starts on pole? I did it before Wolfgang, but when he repeated my time he was in 1st place

Impressive time Wolfgang, well done!!

Ah that means his laptime was quicker than yours as rFactor mesures laptimes to the tenth thousand of a second but displays only thousands of seconds. I say, in those days CART mesured only thousands of seconds and as you did your 1'04"074 first, the pole is for you.

I propose the driver with the fewest laps?
I don't know what are the rule in this case.
Great Carlo and Wolfgang
Thx Gui for your technical help and charts.