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Kyle's Indycar Look Ahead: Iowa
Written by Kyle, on 21-06-2009 14:23
Kyle’s Indycar Look Ahead: Iowa
By Kyle Lavigne
Only 20 entries are in the book for the Iowa Corn 250, down from 26 last year. Plus, with the shuffling of Ryan Hunter-Reay to A.J. Foyt’s team, Vision Racing is down to one car for the remainder of the year. The good thing, though, is that about 22-25 cars are expected for the rest of the year (Conquest will run the rest of the year, plus some varying entries for Sarah Fisher, Will Power, Paul Tracy, Townsend Bell, etc.).
A little more of a driver’s track than the other high speed ovals, Iowa Speedway does present the smaller teams a chance to shine, which a couple have been able to do through practice. However, it remains necessary to have good aerodynamics in order to win, so don’t expect too much from the little battlers. So, expect Penske and Ganassi to battle near the front, but don’t be too surprised if others join the fray.
East meets West and we head down south to the Lone Star state for this weeks champodcast. Jason and Jeff review the IRL race from Texas and the F1 Turkish Grand Prix. Another dominant win by Jensen Button at Turkey, with some good results for Redbull, Toyota, Nico Rosberg and Felipe Massa, well the former word champions failed to score a point. Helio Castroneves scores what we feel is a questionable victory at Texas after a very dominant run by Ryan Briscoe. We review the driver point standing in both F1 and the IRL to date for the season and what could be the very last Stanton Stats. As always you can get in touch with us at
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I know one should never say “never,” but I think that this year’s drivers’ and constructors’ championships are just about in the bag. Just when you think Jenson Button and Brawn GP are slightly reeling, they pull one out of the bag and firm up their grip on the 2009 season. Unless they make some phenomenally big mistakes over the rest of the season, Button and Brawn may well be starting seal up both championships. I know 10 races still remain on the schedule, but a lot is going to off to happen for anyone catch Button and Brawn. Both titles are theirs to lose at this point.
Jenson Button: Turkey represented the biggest for him and the car. It appeared that the Red Bulls finally had the upper hand, as Button struggles mightily in Friday practice. He turned it around in qualifying to take second, but that meant starting on the dirty side of the track. No worries for him though; he kept on Sebastian Vettel’s gearbox off the line, and capitalized on the German’s mistake out of turn ten. Button never looked back. Six wins in seven races gives him a commanding 32 point lead over Vettel (Barrichello is actually in second, but he’s not in any position to mount a charge on his teammate). Unless reliability troubles hit him (and hard), Button may be able to put it on cruise for the rest of the season. Not that he will though; I’m sure he’ll try to keep his foot down all the way. After all, the more wins he gets, the sooner a title will be clinched. It’s in his hands now; he just has to keep control of it.
