2022 Echopark Texas Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas

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Start Time: approximately 3:30pm EDT on FOX

Race Length: 68 laps (232.97 mi / 374.92 km)

Race Stages: 15-15-38

Track Information: Circuit of The Americas is a 3.426 mile (5.51 kilometer) road course located in Austin, TX USA.

Cars to the rear: #15-Hand, (unapproved adjustments) #16-Allmendinger (unapproved adjustments), #27-Hezemans (unapproved adjustments), #34-McDowell (unapproved adjustments), #43-Jones (unapproved adjustments), #66-Said (unapproved adjustments), #77-Bilicki (unapproved adjustments), #78-Lally (multiple inspection failures)

Tire: Goodyear Eagle Road Course Radials

Set limits: Cup: 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 6 sets for the race (5 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Code: D-5112 (same on all four tire positions)

Tire Circumference: 2,276 mm (89.61 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 20 psi; Right Front — 22 psi; Left Rear — 17 psi; Right Rear — 17 psi

 

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Tuning in.

 

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Command given

 

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27 car short cut the esses, drive thru

 

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66 short cut the esses, turn 5, drive thru

 

[Kennedy01]

These cars are a lot more fun to watch here than the trucks and Xfinity cars.

 

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There is a streaming in car of AJ Allmendinger's car

 

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End of Stage 1

Top 10:

1. Suarez
2. Blaney
3. Bowman
4. Logano
5. Larson
6. Haley
7. Elliott
8. Briscoe
9. Burton
10. Cindric

 

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34 car short cut the esses, drive thru

78 to the garage, mechanical.

 

[Kennedy01]

I'm not a fan of turn 1 and cars six wide going in there.

 

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I'm not a fan of turn 1 and cars six wide going in there.

I think every race ever there has had the drivers unplug going into that corner on a start or restart.

 

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51 and 27 cut the course through the esses, drive through.

 

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multiple cars pit with 3 to go in the stage. The pit lane closes when the leader crosses the line for 2 to go.

7 car speeding

 

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End of Stage 2

Top 10

1. Hamlin
2. Kyle Busch
3. Logano
4. Blaney
5. Almirola
6. Austin Dillon
7. Burton
8. Chastain
9. Cindric
10. Wallace

 

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Caution Lap 33, debris in turn 11.

 

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sped on pit lane and then sped again while serving the penalty.

 

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Caution Lap 40, 43 car slow on the back stretch. The 20 is the beneficiary.

 

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15 short cut the esses, pass thru.

 

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Caution Lap 44, debris turn 13, tire off of 23 car. The 43 is the beneficiary.