2. His pace was bad, before he got lucky with the first rain yellow he was going a lap down in 16th or so. It saved him.
3. Granted again, but sometimes you make your own luck. It's a potentially fair assessment to qualify that Powers issues sometimes are caused by a lack of support from the other Penske drivers, one who's on his way down and again fighting the IRS and one who simply isn't a top line driver.
4. Yes but he knows he's going to be watched... going nuts doesn't do his cause any good what so ever.
Both drivers where to close to each other, and Sato admited that he had something in his eye (what a time!!) and from the head on view it looks as if Dario turned in slightly on Sato...no driver was totally at fault but nor where they totally faultless at the same time.
Strange race with stranger calls from the officials.
Why is Simona de Silvestro not allowed to get back into the US again? She was sent back to Switzerland by US border officials Simon Pagenaud gets her seat for today/the Grand Prix of Sonoma.
Fairy tale of the week-end: Pantano getting 6th on track and best of the rest after a 3 years period of purgatory Shame for the after race penalty though.
Half the time it's pointless (see toronto, the othe half it allows Indy to endorse there retarded blocking rule. Also double file restarts don't exactly work at tracks like long beach
Simona is back! The border official actually refused to let her in again, as she frequently left and came back into the US. He could not unterstand for what reason she would do that. Swiss roumor says that especially those two travels to Canada and the high rate of exiting the US rang those alarm bells of the border official and so he used some Patriot Act stuff^^ Moreover he did not know IndyCar at all, so he could not understand that the now 23-year old Swiss is a racedriver.