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May 15 Sarah was 28th during practice session 28. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 219.5310 *indyracing.com |
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May 14 Sarah was 25th during practice session 25. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 218.7770 Sarah has maintained her slim lead over Michael Andretti in voting for the "Most Popular Driver Award" after pole qualifying weekend, announced officials from the IRL Crew, the official fan organization of the Indy Racing League. Sarah has won the award the past two seasons. *indyracing.com |
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MAY 11 Sarah qualified at the 24th position with a speed of 224.1700 “It was pretty much the best that we could produce. When you’re only a tenth of a mile-an-hour off each lap, within .1 and .2 the whole time, it shows that we did as much as we could with this package. We’re as fast as that car was going to go. There wasn’t anything else we could do to trim it out. Oh, well, we’ll go on and be happy about the efforts that we put in this week and try to have a really, really good race car.” (How hard is it to run consistent laps like that in these windy conditions?): “I guess it depends on the driver. For me, it wasn’t that difficult because I was running flat as it was, and when you run wide open, you only got to point directions then.” (Did you pick up a new sponsor?): “AOL Broadband is definitely the newest corporation to come on board. They’re just here for the month of May. Then once the month of May is over, hopefully we’ll have them interested enough to do something for the rest of the season.” (About the frustrations of not being able to get faster this month): “The frustrations from this week are kind of high. We were disappointed.  Robbie
(Buhl) and I were pole contenders last year. We had really fast race cars,
and we were up front. So this week was certainly a struggle mentally and
emotionally for us, but we were able to keep things light. We never
complained too much about our package or what we were getting into because
we’re in it as a team. Robbie is there for me. I’m there for Robbie. We’ve
formed partnerships with all of the companies that are involved in Dreyer &
Reinbold Racing, and we’re sticking it out. We believe in each other.” (What
were the differences in the track conditions between the first and second
times you were out there?): “Really nothing. I think it was a little bit
colder this afternoon. For our setups, for our cars, it doesn’t matter quite
as much. Our cars were so on the limit, so perfect that you just have to
hang on, period, whether it’s cold or hot or whatever it is. You just have
to hang on. They’re not race cars right now. Certainly they are qualifiers
because we needed to do that to keep our package somewhat competitive. So
we’re going to go back this week and hopefully without keeping Bump Day in
mind, being last on the charts, we’re going to try and come up with some
really good, consistent race cars, too.”Photo Credit: Russ LaBounty |
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MAY 10 Sarah was 22nd during practice session 22. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 223.5200 *Sarah's practice session was cut short after an accident involving driver Billy Boat. Pole Qualifying Sunday After Indy Washout Heavy rain and thunderstorms May 10 forced the postponement of MBNA Pole Day for the 87th Indianapolis 500 until May 11 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. *indyracing.com |
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MAY 9 Sarah was 25th 25. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 223.3330 “The car is handling perfectly. It's the best car I've ever driven here at the Speedway, and we got some more data on running in different weather conditions today. It's hard to predict what will happen tomorrow – whether or not it rains, what the temperatures are, etc., etc., so we'll see where we draw and what it’s like when it's our turn to go and qualify. When it's our time, I can promise you, we will give it all we've got.” *indyracing.com |
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Sarah Fisher and the Dreyer & Reinbold Racing team are looking for sponsorship, and Fisher's teammates always tell her they will do anything to help out. On May 8, Fisher decided to play a practical joke on the crew and came up with an idea for "Speedway Spoofs" and told her crew that they had a chance to get sponsorship money from Nickelodeon and SpongeBob SquarePants. According to Fisher, a Nickelodeon crew wanted to shoot footage of the team working on her car wearing SpongeBob attire, which just happened to be SpongeBob SquarePants boxer shorts. The crew members all agreed, and IMS Productions filmed Fisher's crew working on her race car in SpongeBob boxer shorts. Engineer Mark Weida, crew chief Dan Miller, data acquisition specialist Jason Lucas and crew members Andy O'Gara, Scott Merryman and Mark Talifario all participated. When the IMS Productions crew finished filming in the garage, Fisher told them they needed one more shot to show that they were at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The crew agreed to walk through the garage in full view of all the other teams and pose in front of the timing and scoring pylon. Fisher had the crew practice saying together in front
of the camera, "Hi, we're the No. 23 SpongeBob SquarePants team." But the
crew couldn't get it right, so she held up a sign that said" "Gotcha -
you're on Speedway Spoofs." When the crew read the sign, they chased Fisher.
According to team officials, the crew has vowed revenge, and Fisher is
watching her back. |
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MAY 8 Sarah was 28th 28. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 225.8660 "Today ended on a good note. We're still climbing the speed hill very slowly. Some fans who live in Brownsburg, the LaFon family were watching the WTHR Channel 13 show last night after we hadn't had the best day, and they just sent me flowers, hoping to cheer me up, which they most certainly did." (Sarah is the Channel 13 Indianapolis 500 analyst with sports anchor Dave Calabro.) *indyracing.com |
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MAY 7 Sarah was 30th 30. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 222.6930 |
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MAY 6- Sarah hits 224 AUDIO (May 6, 2003) Sarah was 31st 31. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 224.0020 “We’re pretty much aerodynamically trimmed out, and the car is incredibly comfortable. I’ve got my line right, and the car is the best one I’ve had in my four years at Indy. We didn’t want to have to second-guess ourselves tonight by getting a tow out there, so we stayed clean of any assisted air help out on the track. We’re still climbing up the speed charts, and I need to hit at least 226 (mph) to feel comfortable about qualifying on Saturday. I look at our slow, steady growth each day as a positive because I wouldn't want to be stuck at one speed and not know what to do next, but we’ve got more to try tomorrow.” *indyracing.com |
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MAY 5- Sarah & her Team make progress on
day two Sarah was 30th 30. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 222.7510 “Today was technically our first day of practice for the Indianapolis 500. We didn't get to test at all like many of the other teams did, so to go from 213 mph to 222 mph in just an hour's worth of track time is pretty good. We still have a lot of things to try and aerodynamics to take advantage of, so we're pretty happy with what we did today.” *indyracing.com
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MAY 4- Sarah
has Engine Difficulties on opening Day of Practices AUDIO (May 4, 2003) Sarah was 28th quick 28. (23) Sarah Fisher, Dallara-Chevrolet, 183.098 Sarah's blown engine brought out the first yellow flag just 19 minutes into the session. "An oil-fitting came loose and dumped a bunch of oil all over the inside
of the car, but everyone including my dad and I pitched in and cleaned it up
so we could get back out on the track," Fisher said. "As we went out to run
again, the track went yellow for rain. Sometimes, you just have days like
that; it's something we can't control, but we're hoping to get our share of
these little issues out of the way early in the month." |
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| Schedule For the Month of May (EDT) | |
| 87th Indianapolis 500 Race, 11 a.m. | Sun. May 25 |
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Indianapolis 500 Celebration Banquet 8-10 p.m. (Indy time) CBS Indianapolis affiliate WISH Ch. 8 |
Mon. May 26 |
