INDYCAR Grand Prix at The Glen Fast Facts Race weekend: Friday Sept. 1 – Sunday, Sept. 3 Track: Watkins Glen International, an 11-turn, 3.37-mile road course in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Race distance: 60 laps / 202.2 miles Entry list: INDYCAR Grand Prix at The Glen (PDF) Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds of total time with a...
READ MORERahal Letterman Lanigan Racing INDYCAR Grand Prix at the Glen – Watkins Glen International Pre-Race Notes Round 15 of 17 in the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series DATE: September 1-3, 2017 PRACTICE BROADCASTS: Live on Friday, September 1 from 10:15-11:00 a.m. ET and 3:05-3:50 p.m. ET on Indycar.com, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Also live on Saturday
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Josef Newgarden’s 184.079mph lap led a quartet of Chevrolet powered drivers in a busy final IndyCar practice session in preparation for the the Bommarito Automotive Group 500. The drivers and teams utilized the practice session that occurred at the same time as tomorrow’s race to work on improving the handling while in...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich The difference between Team Penske teammates Simon Pagenaud (who will start fourth) and Will Power (who will start fourth) was 3mph, 18 spots in the qualifying line, two degrees in ambient temperature, and seven degrees in track temperature. Power’s fastest lap of 189.709mph was almost 2mph over the track record set by...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich If a Thursday night Dale Coyne Racing team-building event is any indication of things to come this weekend, Sebastien Bourdais has not lost his competitive streak during his nine-race layoff. After 18 grueling holes on the challenging North Course at Gateway Fun Park, Bourdais and Larry Zelesnik, the team’s sub-assembly specialist, found
READ MOREFor the fourth time in the last two Verizon IndyCar Series seasons, a former track is making a return to the calendar. Gateway Motorsports Park, which last hosted an Indy car race in 2003, is joining 2016 additions Phoenix International Raceway, Road America, and Watkins Glen International, as former tracks that have returned to...
READ MOREOBERTO ALL-NATURAL BEEF JERKY RETURNS TO ANDRETTI LINEUP IN ST. LOUIS Oberto To Serve as Primary Sponsor for Marco Andretti’s No. 27 Honda for Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 24, 2017) – Red, white and green will be the color scheme for Marco Andretti as Seattle-based Oberto All-Natural Beef Jerky takes...
READ MOREPlainfield, IL (August 23, 2017) – Less than 14 weeks after being sidelined following his scary qualifying incident at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sebastien Bourdais is returning behind the wheel of the #18 Dale Coyne Racing entry at this weekend’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Bourdais, who suffered multiple fractures to his...
READ MOREThe field went at least four wide after the green, and Kanaan went around the outside to take the lead by the time field filed through Turn 1. And end of the first lap, the top 10 were: Kanaan, Sato, Rossi, Power, Kimball, Pagenaud, Newgarden, Chilton, Rahal and Castroneves. Kanaan led lap 1, extending his...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich People I just finished up with an IndyCar Nation paddock tour, and the crowd in the infield is impressive, and is starting to build quite nicely in the front straight grandstand. It sounds like ticket sales were ahead of last year, and hopefully the picture perfect day will encourage a decent walk-up...
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