Texas Twin 275's

First of all this new race format for Texas will be just awesome from my point of view! The races will keep people standing on their feet the whole time! Lets discuss what happened this week in the IndyCar world, and lets talk about the Texas Twin 275s!

First what happened this week?
-Alex Tagliani's engineer Aleen McDonald left to go back to Andretti Autosport as a part of their rebuilding. Alex Tagliani didn't have to search for long for a new one, because he found Todd Malloy the next day.

From:http://www.autoracing1.com/Images/2002Misc/OvalCrash2.jpg

-I would also like to note that this will be Davey Hamilton's first race at Texas since his almost career ending crash in 2001. 
-During a fitness promotion JR Hildebrand injured his knee on a hurdle last Thursday. He said, that his knee will have no affect on him while driving in the race. 


Everything is Big in Texas. 
The 1.5 mile Texas Motor Speedway has offered some of the best IndyCar racing around, I think with the two separate races that track's racing will just get better. Lets go over the rules for the Twin 275s. 
-Points and prize money will be divided in half for each race. 
-Each team is allowed to bring two cars per driver, in case they crash in the first race, they can use the (T) car. 
-The teams will be allowed to work on the cars in the hour break between the races. 
-The starting position of each driver for the second race will be decided with a random draw with each driver pulling their position. 
-Each race will be 114 laps(275 kilometers). There will be a hour break between the first and second race. 
Texas Twin 275s race one starting order.

Pos  Driver               Team               Speed
 1.  Alex Tagliani        Sam Schmidt        215.186
 2.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi            214.801
 3.  Will Power           Penske             214.716
 4.  Takuma Sato          KV                 214.470
 5.  Ed Carpenter         Sarah Fisher       214.373
 6.  Tony Kanaan          KV                 214.252
 7.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi            214.021
 8.  Wade Cunningham      Sam Schmidt        214.013
 9.  Ryan Briscoe         Penske             213.891
10.  Danica Patrick       Andretti           213.850
11.  JR Hildebrand        Panther            213.458
12.  Vitor Meira          Foyt               213.429
13.  Helio Castroneves    Penske             213.232
14.  Oriol Servia         Newman/Haas        213.023
15.  James Hinchcliffe    Newman/Haas        212.970
16.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti           212.938
17.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi            212.797
18.  Davey Hamilton       Dreyer & Reinbold  212.555
19.  EJ Viso              KV                 212.494
20.  Graham Rahal         Ganassi            212.404
21.  Paul Tracy           Dragon             212.305
22.  Mike Conway          Andretti           212.260
23.  Marco Andretti       Andretti           212.223
24.  Ana Beatriz          Dreyer & Reinbold  212.221
25.  Alex Lloyd           Dale Coyne         212.091
26.  Sebastian Saavedra   Conquest           212.033
27.  Justin Wilson        Dreyer & Reinbold  211.762
28.  Jay Howard           Rahal/Schmidt      211.691
29.  Simona de Silvestro  HVM                210.855
30.  James Jakes          Dale Coyne

The Texas Twin 275s coverage will be on Versus and it will start on 8pm ET. 

The Sidenote.  

Remember the big controversy over the Delta Wing project for the new 2012

IZOD IndyCar Series race car?  Well there is an announcement that has been made 

that the Delta Wing will be allowed to race in the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans. The 

program which is called Project 56, will be ran by Highcroft Racing. 
The Delta Wing Le Mans Prototype. From:Delta Wing