"aXe From The Brickyard"
May 2011 at the Indianapolis speedway
June 5 2011
Found around the Speedway May 2011
Whoa!!! it was a little slippery late! Can You say $1.5 big ones gone!
JR Hildebrand
Thanks Rookie!
And the Winner is Dan Wheldon
Well for want of a little fuel pole in 2011?
Scott Dixon
Come on back next year We might could use you then?
Bruno Junqueira
Well at least the guy above Me started out with a ride.
Jacque Lazier
Gutsy Gal after crash and Burn managed to race the 500
Simone Desilvestre
Well now what a little MONEY can do for You.
Ryan Hunter Reay
PAAAAPEEEEER! every year Chuckie doesn't miss a dry day there.
photos by aXe except 1st one found on youtube
May 25 2011
# 12 They got'em all in 33+1
And some are not happy about that 1. And one extra to go home Early,But with some extra CASH for His efforts and the cars owner.
Now thats a question that needs to be answered, What is a qualifying spot worth? Does the Driver have any say if His ride wants to be bought out from under him? Seems to Me You train all year and make the show,the owners then say heres a few bucks We dont need you any more. How would that settle with you if it happened to you?
This sort of thing has been going on for years. Specialy when it comes down to championship time. But still at the 500 MONEY talks and as they say BS walks.But I still dont like it.
I remember a race where the driver and car owner each got paid the winners share for letting a big name take over their car for a race some where else. That was double the money they would have won even if they had won it themselves.
As interesting as the Pole and Bump days were this has come to the front.
I am old school and if You didnt do it you shouldnt be part of it!
But as they say every thing has a price. But should it in this case?
It has wrong conotations for our Youngsters.
YOU CAN BUY ANYTHING! You dont have to earn it just buy it.
Enough about that, Nothing will change that.
The Gals got in. Simone had a rough weekend and still got in,Taped burned hands and all.
Even Patrick had Her moments when it was raining and she was next in line. Lots Said, pray for rain, We have had enought of Her, She is bailing next year for NASCAR Let Her go now.
There were at least 9 that got to go home early, Because they couldnt buy their way in ? That just may be truer than we would like to hear.
I didnt like all the Qualifying changes (to confusing) Some were still thinking that top 24 cars after pole day were locked in ? Not true, only top 9 were locked in.
Still 33 are now in and next up is Carb day on Fri then on to the the Greatest Spectacle in Racing!!!
This isnt the first go around about stuff lots of folks dont like that goes on each year here.And for sure wont be the last!
aXe
May 21 2011
#11
rain and wait
I was told if they get the fast nine started before 6 they go until they all have 1 shot at the pole.
Fast nine are
#77 Alex Tagliania #9 Scott Dixon #10 Dario Franchitti
#98 Dan WHeldon #99 Townsend Bell #67 Ed Carpenter
#12 Will Power #2 Oriol Servia #44 Buddy Rice
These four cars have something in common
Belond Laydown driven by Hanks & Bryan
Vuki drove T&C rdster
Foyt drove Watson rdstrcopy
Rose drove Blue Crown car
And this brought on the end of that
Jimmy Clark in the Chapman Lotus.
I dont think We will ever see it happen again
#9
And Heee's on it
Terrific add to the show of Tom Carnegies words on the pa system. Just for Pole Day.
They are Qualifying .The day bis a little cooler than they have seen so far.
First car out was #34 SebastionSaavedra With a time of 221.526
photo by aXe
He had the pole for about 3 minutes and that time most likely wont hold unless the Rain Gods intervene?
Tag's time is now in the 226mph range NO Tows. He has the pole so far. He complained of wind making Him uncomfortable?
Chinese driver Ho-Pin Tung is transported to hospital after crashing this morning
I sure hope the rains stay away?
CastroNeves now on the clock, waved off
The Hot Wheel secret Truck is out of the bag.
photo by aXe
They Will winch it to the top of that ramp as I had guessed.
I had forgotten how crowded it gets around here. They seem to be coming out of the wood work.
Have You seen this guy? Check Him out,
Dont get in His Gun Sites,
He has been the main stay of Penske Qualifying so far this year so far. Boy if those eyes dont say 1800's Gun Fighter I dont know what does?
Well they sure do emit a very concontrated person dealing with whats at hand.
Oh yea it seems He has his team mate the guy who is always smiling Helio right in His Gun Sites for the Pole today? only time will tell if that will happen.
aXe
#7
Their backs are to the wall!
I had the feeling it was going to be a hectic day. They moved up practice and are already on the track 16 cars out and one crash. Tag to top of the list at 228mph He has done this consistantly, first few laps and FAST. in fact He ran only 26 laps yesterday and his 5th was his fastest.
Back to crash, Driver sitting on the ground being attended to, Carted away on stretcher I cant make out who it is? No wing or? To say who it out no public address in here.
aXe
word here, confirmed it was Brisco that crashed? No report on Him yet.
Latest on Ryan Checked and released cleared to drive.
In previous years here for this race (I have been doing this since early 2000) I mainly took pictures and did short quips off the top of My head to others (Len Calinoff, John Levan, and for Indy Race Reports, Miles Nelson,Those guys are all gone now and I can appreciate the hard work they did in their work to bring racing to You. I sure need some one to take pictures and do the small quips now. I have a couple of others coming in next week that will surely help,
#6
Pole day and I am ready
Unlike yesterday the Sun is struggling to shine on Us today.
Weather man is forcasting Strong storms here this afternoon.
This will make for some heavy action here in this morning's practice and the first round of qualifying.
Have you seen the Qualifying procedures yet?
If You get to them and have about a week I would like to know more about them, Call Me. As I dont have time to take an Collegge course in them, I have no idea why they were made so complicated?
Yesterday those sneaky ole Penske guys were just fooling around all day, Actualy running their own programs,race day car setup checks. That is until that 10 Grand came into play, Brisco had his fast lap at lap 96 of 107 laps, The strong Qualifer Power had his fast lap at lap 105 of 106, And smiley Castroneves had his at 109 of 117. Thse 3 guys had average on track laps of around 50 more than anyone else.
I was always told laps, laps, laps only way to really know this place.
Check out allmost all the winnerss they allmost all have laps,laps ,laps here.
So lets go racing I am ready I have had My first ever shot of Red bull and I am ready.
aXe
#3
Lots of talk around the track about this.
You can see its a very tall ramp. second highest thing in the infield. Well over 100 ft tall.
From this angle its hard to tell there is around 300ft in between the take off ramp and the landing ramp
photos by aXe
Lots of guess' as to what will use it. From inline skates, Skate boards, Motorcyvcles to Cars, trucks, or even a monster truck! Then the conversation changes to how are they going to get it up there? Black Helicopter was one guess ?
Now We will just have to wait until it happens to see for sure just what it is?
Stay tuned for the Big Hot wheels show???? May 29th
More on this tomorrow.
aXe
#2
aXe at "THE Brickyard"
Lets See now from yeaterday
Balloon Glow canceled, 3 days of practice canceled all because of the rains,To many days just working on the web site to count and still working on it as You can see, My face is as red as those posts coming up red!!
I did finaly get to see them run and they have been getting a lot of cars on track,Rice came out and in 3 laps was running high 223's without a tow. Thats one thing most dont realize, "THE TOW",it is worth several mph. And You have to be very observent to see if they were towed to thier fast laps?
40 plus drivers have gone out so far.
I hope this rain ends tomorrow as I now have time to take some pictures and there are some good looking paint schemes to photograph.
One thing I did notice is Pippa Mann sure has a kid following as she was mobbed at the crossover where the cars and fans come together at the entrance to Gasoline Alley.
photo by aXe
Pippa and some of the kids
Well keeping My fingers crossed and knocking on wood Tomorrow will be better day for Me and I hope to see lots of laps?
"aXe coming from the Brickyard"
aXe at "THE Brickyard"
#1
This was supposed to be up over a week ago, But as they say "Best laid plans of mice & men". The site is still not up to par, but I will run it this way until I go back to Texas.
I got out to the track just after nine, hearing the roar of a few taking pit stop practice, also with the two seater in the background doing its fan ride deal. It seems there must have been a few wet spots as the safety crew vehicles were doing the dry the track routine parade. We will just have to wait as they still predict scattered showers today?
As I Walked up to the pit entrance From Gasoline alley
it looked like the track was ready for speed
Walking by the Alley Cats there were some there already.
IMPACT Mastercraft Racing Safety has their garage area ready
They look to be able to do safety upgrades to any size person.
IMPACT by Mastercraft Racing Safety supplier
aXe
