Good morning from what is a currently an increasingly overcast Pocono Raceway. Today’s schedule currently looks like this: TIME EVENT 6am Parking Lots Open 8am Gates Open 9:45am – 10:45am IndyCar Autograph Session (Fan Village) 11:30am IndyCar Systems Check 1pm – 1:30pm Vintage Indy Cars 3:03pm Verizon IndyCar Series – ABC Supply Company Inc. 500 –...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Absolute commitment, no fear, or crazy can all be used to describe Mikhail Aleshin’s pole winning run for the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway. “I was feeling that the car was going, but I just decided to stay on the throttle and see what happened,” explained the 29 year-old after an...
READ MOREThe final practice session was a busy one, but also a clean one. The 22 drivers turned a total of 419 laps. Quickest driver of the afternoon session Helio Castroneves was also the busiest. The pilot of the No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet turned a total of 37 laps in the 30 minutes of...
READ MOREABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway qualifying results. Notes to come. RANK DRIVER 1st LAP 2nd LAP 2-LAP AVERAGE 1 Mikhail Aleshin 220.642 220.249 220.445 2 Josef Newgarden 220.309 220.082 220.195 3 Takuma Sato 220.018 220.117 220.067 4 Helio Castroneves 219.668 219.894 219.781 5 Carlos Munoz 219.582 219.712 219.647 6 James Hinchcliffe 219.472 219.454 219.463...
READ MORESchmidt Peterson Motorsports and the Turn 1 SAFER barrier were the two big stories of the first Verizon IndyCar Series practice in preparation for the ABC Supply 500. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports was a story because drivers Mikhail Aleshin and James Hinchcliffe had the top two speeds during the session. The Turn 1 SAFER barriers was...
READ MOREWe’ll be back with notes in a few minutes. It was a busy session and we did talk to all three drivers who had incidents and want to get those notes sorted. Top lap speed from the first practice RANK DRIVER TOP LAP SPEED (mph) 1 Mikhail Aleshin 221.932 2 James Hinchcliffe 220.290 3 Josef...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Good morning from Pocono Raceway! The weather for today looks like it is going to be Chamber of Commerce perfect. It’s currently sunny and 62 F and the forecast calls for it to remain beautiful with a high near 81F. The schedule for today is as follows: TIME EVENT 6am Parking Lots...
READ MOREThe Verizon IndyCar Series makes it 23rd visit to Pennsylvania’s scenic Pocono Mountains and the 45 year-old 2.5 mile Pocono Raceway “oval.” The “The Tricky Triangle” is not your typical oval, as it features only three corners, with all three of the turns modeled after famous corners of historic American open wheel tracks. Turn 1...
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ABC Supply Co. Inc. 500 Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania 3 p.m. EDT Sunday, August 21, 2016 NBC Sports Network IMS Radio Network Live Stream and Broadcast HONDA AT POCONO Honda drivers have won two of the three Verizon IndyCar Series races run at Pocono Raceway since the championship returned to the 2.5-mile oval
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