By Steve Wittich Notes and numbers from Steve A winning highlight(er) After 40 years of involvement with the Indianapolis 500 as a team owner and sponsor, John Menard and a Day-Glo Menards’ liveried car visited the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway Victory Lane for the first time. “You ever watch that movie called “The Candidate” when...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich with Patrick occasionally barking out notes just to make things complicated! The temperature at 12:30 pm was 78F and the track temperature was 104F. The green flag came out four minutes late at 12:49 pm after the field completed three pace laps behind Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in the Corvette pace car. Pagenaud...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich I (Steve) have few brief notes before we go green in 15-minutes. It’s currently 77F and very sticky. It’s overcast with the sun coming out once in a while. The track temperature is 104F. I took a look at the downforce levels, and they do vary quite a bit. The trio of...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich We’re getting close to the 33 cars being pushed from Gasoline Alley to pit road and the stands on the front straight are starting fill in. Here is today’s forecast from @Indycar_wxman – his prediction as of 8am, is that the race will run all 500 miles. GO TO...
READ MOREPagoda at Dawn on Race Day! By Patrick Stephan Welcome to race day in Speedway, IN. Here are a couple quick notes as we get ready to for the 103rd Indianapolis 500. First, the early morning thunderstorms we were expecting have moved to the east and north of the Speedway. I left downtown at 5:15am,...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Front Row Inside — Simon Pagenaud – No. 22 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet – Team Penske Age:35 Hometown: Montmorillon, FRANCE Indianapolis 500 starts including 2019: 8 Best Start: Pole (2019) Best Finish: 6th (2018) Strategist: Kyle Moyer Engineer: Ben Bretzman Crew Chief: Trevor Lacasse Is this the year that Simon Pagenaud breaks...
READ MORETSO would like to welcome J.R. Hildebrand as our guest blogger for the “Month of May.” The eight-time Indianapolis 500 starter is back with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing for a second year with software as a service provider Salesforce.com returning to sponsor the Sausalito, Calif. native. We’re looking forward to Hildebrand’s insight on what goes...
READ MOREFrom our friends at the IndyCar Ministy The winner of the 2019 “‘Lone Star J.R.’ Johnny Rutherford Award” is Denise Titus. She is the RN, Medical Liaison/ co Ordinator for officials, team members and drivers at Indy Car. Denise was one of 4 finalists selected by the IndyCar community and voted as the winner. Anyone
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Patrick Stephan Before we get to the session, one quick note on an award given today! Team McLaren won the Jigger Award. This is a hard luck award – and not exactly one you want to win. McClaren was not here to accept. The presenter (AARWBA – American Auto Racing Writers...
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INDYCAR partners with Red Bull Advanced Technologies to push driver safety forward with the next generation of cockpit protection By Steve Wittich For over a century the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has led the way in safety innovations in racing. From today’s announcement about the next evolution in driver cockpit protection, through the I-PAS goggles...
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