Infineon Strategy

I sure hope RGM is working on their fuel strategy for the road course races this year.
Every year we have one of the fastest cars, only to get beat by some wanker on fuel mileage. Last year was the worst by far.
I'd be more thrilled by a well-planned top 10 finish rather than leading the first half of the race only to finish 34th behind Sadler and Andretti...

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 12, 2009 at 2:00am

or the classic "extra long fuel lines"

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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on June 12, 2009 at 12:35am

Ryan Newman on who he expects to be among the favorite at Sonoma during media day:

Kyle Busch is obviously going to be tough, he won both road-course races last year. It's a track-position game, so you never know who's got some good fuel mileage, too. Jimmie Johnson is pretty good. Jeff Gordon's always been pretty good at Sonoma. Tony's a great road course racer, and you've got some of ringers and on top of that Robby Gordon and Marcos Ambrose. You never know, it'll be a fun race.

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Permalink Reply by JUSTIN GALBREATH on June 12, 2009 at 10:53am

yea, kyles great, but he got at least one of those last year handed to him.

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Permalink Reply by Turtle7 on June 12, 2009 at 12:29pm

The strategy for a road course is alway how many miles can I do before I need to stop and how many stops do I want to do and then work backwards. If I want a two stop race, I would pit around lap 38 and then 76 for Sonoma. Now the problem is when do the cautions occur and how many laps are run under caution. With most races, the cautions usally occur early and then in the last 30 as everyone gets racey. So now the team's short pit strategy becomes important. This is where the CC needs to be on top of his game and figure out the odds of do we take gas and two tires on the caution or stay out and run our race or do we ask the driver to throttle back and make gas? The teams that have all this figured out before hand have a better chance of winning then those that don't. Look what Brawn did with Schumacher in F1 and now with his own team. Strategy wins!