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Sunday Final – Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Notes, Quotes, Gallery, Ramblings!

By Patrick Stephan Well the internet at the Mahaffey Theater gave up just after the race ended, so after getting the race report to ship, I decided to just make my way to the airport. 20 minutes of parking garage traffic (I can’t recall that before) and I was on the road. Not that I...

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Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Race Report

By Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich Huge thanks to Steve Wittich who has been working from Indy all weekend providing us lots of notes and the INDY NXT coverage. The pre-race grid today was PACKED as you can see by this photo of Tim Cindric talking to pole sitter Josef Newgarden before the race. It’s...

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Sunday Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Random Pre-Race Notes

By Patrick Stephan This is a collection of notes from the weekend. I’ll start with a regular subject of conversation from this weekend, which is promotion of the series. I’ll start by noting it’s been a LONG off season…that breeds a lot of time to think and ponder how things are going and how they...

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Raceday at St. Pete – Morning Warm-up Notes and Results

By Patrick Stephan The morning warm-up got started at 9:10am with all 27 NTT INDYCAR Series machines quickly heading out to get in their final pre-race laps. The air temp was a nice 71F, with the track at 75.9F, and the humidity at 84%. So yeah, it’s sticky, but not quite as hot as earlier...

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NTT INDYCAR Series Qualifying for Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Results and Notes

It was nice to get outside today to experience some of qualifying up close and in person from pit lane. I will it appears we have a pretty solid crowd here again today, with moving up and down pit lane getting a little more difficult than I remember in year’s past. The paddock itself also...

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Qualifying Groups: Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

Group 12 Newgarden, Josef5 O’Ward, Pato21 VeeKay, Rinus3 McLaughlin, Scott11 Armstrong, Marcus7 Rossi, Alexander28 Ericsson, Marcus8 Lundqvist, Linus66 Blomqvist, Tom10 Palou, Alex20 Rasmussen, Christian4 Simpson, Kyffin51 Braun, Colin Group 226 Herta, Colton12 Power, Will77 Grosjean, Romain27 Kirkwood, Kyle9 Dixon, Scott60 Rosenqvist, Felix45 Lundgaard, Christian6 Ilott, Callum15 Rahal, Graham78 Canapino, Agustin41 Robb, Sting Ray18 Harvey, Jack30...

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NTT INDYCAR Series Saturday Practice Notes: Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

By Patrick Stephan This weekend’s pre-qualifying practice for the NTT INDYCAR Series got underway about 6 minutes late as the track was being cleaned up and reset following the INDY NXT by Firestone practice session. The air temp at the start was 78F, with the track at 91.6F. As noted a few minutes ago, it’s...

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Welcome to Saturday at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

By Patrick Stephan Good morning from a hazy and humid St. Petersburg, Florida, where it’s currently 78F, with the at 89.4 and climbing. The marine layer (or at least that’s what I’m calling it) is still burning off and humidity is running 85% at the moment. Note that it’s also considerably windier today. That said,...

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