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Go Pro GP - Day Two

17/9/2016

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Day two, coming up a practice session this morning followed by qualifying later this afternoon. First up two press conferences, firstly James Hinchcliffe briefly talking about his race weekend and then it switches to that dancing show he's on. hilarity ensues, audio posted later because who doesn't want to listen to James!

The second is with Roger Penske, Simon Pagenaud and John Menard for a sponsorship announcement. In essence the bright, very bright Menards car will be on track for 10 of the 17 races in 2017 (the others will be HPE). The circular from Penske / Menards is the best release i have seen all season.
The practice session resulted an impressive showing for the Andretti Honda team, occupying four of the top seven places with Marco fastest. The session was halted twice for incidents involving firstly Josef Newgarden who ran off the track at the top of turn two gently caressing the tyre barrier. The second was for James Hinchcliffe exiting the final turn / hairpin making contact with the outside wall, damaging the front of the car. The qualifying groups have been drawn up, and bad news for the Andretti team, all four cars are in group two, along with Dixon and Castroneves who have been quick all weekend long. Power and Pagenaud are in group one.
In the lead up to the Indianapolis 500 you may remember a feature I ran profiling all of the British drivers who raced at the 500 and those who made the attempt, well there is still one part missing which will be corrected this weekend! Thanks to Holly for taking some time out to talk about her brother, Dan and his relationship with the Indy 500, this will be posted over the weekend.

Qualifying and the dominance of the Andretti cars in final practice ended as the Penske four all progressed through to the Firestone Fast 6 along with Hunter-Reay and Graham Rahal. Castroneves set the early pace but Pagenuad jumped into pole position with his final attempt, no one else could match and Simon claims the bonus point. Power will start in fourth.
Not a great session for the Brits in the field, Jack Hawksworth will start in 17th, along side him Max Chilton in 18th. Coverage of the Go Pro GP will start at 23:30, live on BT Sport ESPN. 
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