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\u00a0<\/p>\nLexington, Ohio (August 6, 2010) – FAZZT Race Team driver Alex Tagliani finished 22nd overall in Friday’s practice leading to Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio.<\/p>\n
Driver: ALEX TAGLIANI<\/p>\n
Entry:\u00a0\u00a0 No. 77 CV Logistics FAZZT Race Team Dallara\/Honda\/Firestone<\/p>\n
Event:\u00a0 Honda Indy 200 presented by Westfield Insurance – 85 laps\/ 308.890 kilometers<\/p>\n
4th IRL sanctioned race at Mid-Ohio<\/p>\n
Track:\u00a0 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course; Lexington, OH; 3.634-kilometer road course<\/p>\n
Event Dates: \u00a0Qualifications & Firestone Fast Six Saturday August 7<\/p>\n
Race Sunday, August 8 at 2:30 PM on TSN2<\/p>\n
Live Timing & Scoring and Video is available at www.indycar.com<\/p>\n
Race:\u00a0 12 of 17<\/p>\n
TAGLIANI FRIDAY PRACTICE RESULTS<\/p>\n
TAGLIANI POSITION: 22nd<\/p>\n
TAGLIANI BEST TIME & SPEED: 1 m 09.2814 s – Average speed of 188.824 km\/h<\/p>\n
FAST THREE DRIVERS IN FRIDAY PRACTICE AT THE HONDA INDY 200 MID-OHIO<\/p>\n
1st Graham Rahal, Newman-Haas Racing; 1 m 08.3061 s (191.520 km\/h)<\/p>\n
2nd Will Power, Team Penske; 1 m 08.3301 s (191.454 km\/h)<\/p>\n
3rd Helio Castroneves, Team Penske; 1 m 08.3779 s (191.320 km\/h)<\/p>\n
Tagliani’s quickest lap was posted on the 19th of 22 laps he completed today, when he went around the 3.634-kilometer Mid-Ohio road course in 1 minute 09.2814 seconds for an average speed of 188.824 km\/h.\u00a0 Tagliani was the last driver to post a lap within a second of Newman-Haas driver Graham Rahal who topped the chart in the only practice session of the day. The Ohio-born driver traveled the track in 1:08.3061 second for at an average speed of 191.520 km\/h. second quickest of the day was Penske Racing driver Will Power with a lap time of 1:08.3301, only two hundredths of a second off Rahal’s time. Power’s teammate Helio Castroneves was third fastest with a track time of 1:08.3779. Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport) and Ryan Briscoe, the third member of the Penske team, round up the top five. Twenty-seven drivers took part in Friday’s session.<\/p>\n
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Drivers will return on track Saturday morning for the second 60-minute practice session in preparation for the only qualifying session scheduled to start a 12:35 p.m. The fastest six drivers following the first segment of qualifying will move on to the Firestone Fast 6 shootout session for pole position.<\/p>\n
“Even with the result and the lap time, I feel that we accomplished a lot today and we finally got something really positive in our car and I’m really happy, Tagliani said. A lot of the guys put tires on and we didn’t, I think we’re much better than what the lap times show, I’m very happy with all the changes we’ve made and I really think tomorrow’s going to be a very different day. I’m very happy with the progress we’ve made and I feel confident that we are ending the session on a very positive note.”<\/p>\n
Round 12 of 17 of the IZOD IndyCar Series schedule, an 85-lap – 308.890 km race – will be broadcast live on TSN2 starting with the pre-race show at 2:30 p.m. ET. Live Timing and Scoring as well as video coverage of all practice sessions, qualifying, and the race are available at www.indycar.com.<\/p>\n
Rob Edwards, FAZZT Team COO on Friday’s practice<\/p>\n
\u00a0“Obviously not having tested, this afternoon was really our test day. The good news is Alex has been to Mid-Ohio before and he likes the track so we were able to use this as a chance for him to get reacquainted and to try a few things with the car that we wanted to evaluate. We treated this afternoon very much as a test day we learned some good things. We’ve been struggling with a couple of things in the last few road course races and I think we’ve really made some progress and we’re in a really good position for tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
The image is courtesy of IndyCar Series \/ Ron McQueeney<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a9 RIF | FAZZT Media – Max d’Orsonnens<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lexington, Ohio (August 6, 2010) – FAZZT Race Team driver Alex Tagliani finished 22nd overall in Friday’s practice leading to Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. Driver: ALEX TAGLIANI Entry:\u00a0\u00a0 No. 77 CV Logistics FAZZT Race Team Dallara\/Honda\/Firestone Event:\u00a0 Honda Indy 200 presented by Westfield Insurance – 85 laps\/ 308.890 kilometers 4th IRL sanctioned race …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16,604],"tags":[5389,1939,2085,5384,2084,1940,1957,206,1949,1930],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}