HERTA ENTERS TEXAS IN 11TH, AS PENSKE GRABS POLE.Byline: TIM TIM Timothy TIM Technical Interchange Meeting TIM Transient Intermodulation Distortion TIM Time Is Money TIM The Invisible Man (movie) TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider) HADDOCK MOTOR SPORTS Valencia's Bryan Herta Bryan Herta (b. May 23 1970, Warren, Michigan) is an American race car driver. He currently drives for Andretti Green Racing, which is co-owned by former CART and IRL driver Michael Andretti, in the ALMS, although his career has primarily been spent in open-wheel cars qualified 11th for tonight's Indy Racing League The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel racing series. The League consists of two series, the premiere IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway Texas Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track layout is very similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor . He turned a fast lap at 211.532 mph and in 24.7622 seconds during qualifying on Thursday. ``I'm not particularly happy with our qualifying run,'' said Herta, driver of the No. 7 Honda-powered entry for Andretti Green Racing Andretti Green Racing is an auto racing team that competes in the IRL IndyCar Series and the American Le Mans Series. Early years in CART Founded in 1993 by Barry Green and Gerry Forsythe as Forsythe Green Racing . ``I thought we might be able to get another half-mile per hour out of the car today. We'll just have to take it and work on race setup.'' Sam Hornish Jr., driver for Marlboro Team Penske, won the pole with a lap of 213.624 mph. It was his third pole of the year and the ninth of his IRL 1. (jargon, chat) IRL - In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2. (language, robotics) IRL - Industrial Robot Language. career. ``Everything is going really good for the Marlboro Team Penske car,'' said Hornish, winner of this year's Indianapolis 500. ``Our run was pretty good, even though we slowed down from where we thought we would be.'' Hornish was on the pole for the Texas Motor Speedway race in 2001. But he won that pole because he was leading in points and qualifying was cancelled due to rain. Hornish's Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves will start third after turning a qualifying lap at 213.182 mph. The Team Penske drivers have combined to win five of the six poles this year. Tony Kanaan Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho (born December 31, 1974) is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese Christian heritage from Salvador, Brazil. Kanaan is an IndyCar driver who holds the unique distinction of being the only driver in the long and storied history of the Indianapolis was the highest qualifying Andretti Green Racing driver. He will start sixth after turning a lap at 212.313 mph. ``We've spent most of our time working on our qualifying setup,'' said Kanaan, driver of the No. 11 entry for Andretti Green. ``Team 7-Eleven always has good race cars here. If you look back at my record, it's pretty good apart from 2003 when Helio took us out.'' The two other Andretti Green drivers, Dario Franchitti and Marco Andretti, will start in the top 10. Franchitti will start eighth and Andretti will start ninth. Castroneves leads the IRL points standings with 182. Scott Dixon, who qualified fourth for the Texas race, is second in points with 170. Hornish is third at 162. Herta is ninth in points with 106 and trails Danica Patrick and Kosuke Matsuura, tied for seventh, by one point. CAPTION(S): box Box: INDY RACING LEAGUE - Associated Press |
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