[Open Thread] IRL: Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway

by Diecast Dude on Jun 22, 2008 1:01 PM EDT in News

First, the starting lineup:

SP	Car		Driver	Hometown	Car Name	Entrant
ROW 1
1	9		Scott Dixon	Auckland, New Zealand	Commit	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
2	3		Helio Castroneves	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Team Penske	Team Penske
ROW 2
3	10		Dan Wheldon	Emberton, England	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
4	11		Tony Kanaan	Salvador, Brazil	Team 7-Eleven	Andretti Green Racing
ROW 3
5	6		Ryan Briscoe	Sydney, Australia	Team Penske	Team Penske
6	7		Danica Patrick	Roscoe, Ill.	Motorola	Andretti Green Racing
ROW 4
7	27	R	Hideki Mutoh	Tokyo	Formula Dream	Andretti Green Racing
8	26		Marco Andretti	Nazareth, Pa.	Blockbuster	Andretti Green Racing
ROW 5
9	20		Ed Carpenter	Indianapolis	Menards/Vision Racing	Vision Racing
10	5		Oriol Servia	Pals, Spain	KV Racing Technology	KV Racing Technology
ROW 6
11	8	R	Will Power	Toowoomba, Australia	Aussie Vineyards-Team Australia	KV Racing Technology
12	4		Vitor Meira	Brasilia, Brazil	Delphi National Guard	Panther Racing
ROW 7
13	33	R	EJ Viso	Caracas, Venezuela	PDVSA HVM Racing	HVM Racing
14	17		Ryan Hunter-Reay	Boca Raton, Fla.	Rahal Letterman Racing Team Ethanol	Rahal Letterman Racing
ROW 8
15	15		Buddy Rice	Phoenix	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
16	06	R	Graham Rahal	Columbus, Ohio	Hole in the Wall Camps	Newman Haas Lanigan Racing
ROW 9
17	36	R	Enrique Bernoldi	Curitiba, Brazil	Sangari Conquest Racing	Conquest Racing
18	2		A.J. Foyt IV	Hockley, Texas	Lilly Diabetes/Vision Racing	Vision Racing
ROW 10
19	14		Darren Manning	North Yorkshire, England	A.J. Foyt Racing	A.J. Foyt Enterprises
20	02	R	Justin Wilson	Sheffield, England	McDonald's Racing Team	Newman Haas Lanigan Racing
ROW 11
21	34	R	Jaime Camara	Goiania, Brazil	Sangari	Conquest Racing
22	23		Milka Duno	Caracas, Venezuela	CITGO/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
ROW 12
23	24		John Andretti	Indianapolis	Roth Racing	Roth Racing
24	19	R	Mario Moraes	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Sonny's Bar-B-Q	Dale Coyne Racing
ROW 13
25	18		Bruno Junqueira	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Z-Line Designs	Dale Coyne Racing
26	25		Marty Roth	Toronto	Roth Racing	Roth Racing

It's fitting that the starting grid was set by points due to qualifying being rained out, given how Iowa has suffered terribly these past couple of weeks from floods brought on by torrential rains. Hopefully the race will give all concerned a moment of escape from nature's brutality.

For expert and witty commentary on the race, refer to My Name Is IRL early and often.

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I will join you. I am an IRL, My Name is, fan. I was over and was thinking that he should really join the SB Nation for this right here, chatting. I am a Huge Tigers fan and The Bless You Boys sight ran by Ian is top notch. I usually follow the game on there, so…......Now I am here and will add some commentary to this. Thanks! I never knew that you knew what the IRL was!

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