In 2012 Franchitti see unpredictability

 In five of the seven years, and the Honda grand prix as the Petersburg has the Izod indycar series game of 75% since 2006. A Penske racing or target chip Ganassi drivers have weapons victory, on a podium adjacent to the shimmering Salvador Dali museum 14-turn face of the course.
Sunday's opening day may not have what different, but it still ask to see if dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon, willpower, Ryan or Helio Castroneves the last lap lead.
Even this year workshop, will not have the potential to determine what the engine reliability of the failure of the unknown mines and a new chassis.
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"Correct, when you think you know who will win, it won't end until the last corner," Andretti Autosport Hunter-Reay's Ryan said. "This will mix it up a bit. When do you think you can predict what will happen, it will change."
With Penske racing technology, and KV Andretti team turned to Chevrolet, back to the indycar after seven years of absence. It launched a challenge to digital Honda in this year Ganassi fold. Lotus, not a team's first team, also is this year building motor.
The engine failure were eradicated from the indycar in Honda's run no dispute suppliers, since 2006. But also have many problems test as the competition for pre-season horsepower push manufacturers breaking point test.
The three-time defending champion Franchitti welcome the unpredictability.
"I missed, and he said:" 14 years of veterans, his career started in an era of stiff competition of the engine. "Every game I've won with Honda has been, so to work with them in a competitive environment is a lot of fun. During test, all of the manufacturers have blowups in particular points, all men are like, 'oh, my god! One engine blew up." I (said) : "guys, it used to happen all the time." You must have reliability has played an important role. In some ways, I'm excited, in some ways, I hope I'm not wrong. But this is a part of what we do. "
The four-time champion is--his trademark consistency 10 finished all the Dallara-Honda but two games in the past three seasons-may not be as sure a path to the 2012 championship. Dixon, his teammates said, in the reliability reduce reduce the chance for the champion will be similar to the two-driver performance and power of the Franchitti 2010-
"It's hard to knock on others, when you try to catch up with some against the big swing," said Dixon. "This year will be interesting (because) to the defective, engine car. This will be the crazy chase to points."
Although the team more laps established in the test new Dallara chassis, no one is close to grasp how to tune. The weak can come up with a magical Settings earlier, especially in a rail such as Morgan in production of Peter five surprise. Last year, simona DE Silvestro he scored a fourth, the lack of money HVM racing, Hunter-Reay (visual racing) and Justin Wilson (dell Coyne ran 2009 second and third place.
"You can't underestimate the power of a small team," said Penske's "2009 winner is getting Peter." have a lot of talent spread through the field in engineering and driving side. You can never be underestimated."
Simon Pagenaud, 2010 American le mans champion who will series drive sports Sam schmidt said, there will be some accident of the first four RACES in Indianapolis 500.
"Schmidt will these teams, as we calculated car," he said. "But in season, Penske and Ganassi will improve with higher speed and the people in the shop in the effort to make the car faster. Some small team does not have the resources to work in some shop of the people in our car."