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FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF MONTEREY QUALIFYING REPORT
NTT INDYCAR SERIES FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF MONTEREY QUALIFYING REPORT 09.21.2019 No. 27 NAPA AUTO PARTS HONDA STARTING POSITION: 3rd QUALIFYING TIME: 01:10.2105 “We’ve had a pretty challenging two and a half days for the 27 NAPA Andretti Honda group – really the Andretti Autosport group as a whole. We had peaks and valleys, but it came...
category: Andretti Autosport PR
RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING EXTENDS AND STRENGHTENS RELATIONSHIP WITH HONDA
Multi-year partnership will see the relationship reach the 30-year mark BROWNSBURG, Ind. (September 21, 2019) – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) announced today that the team has extended its partnership with Honda Performance Development (HPD), who will continue to power their entries in 2020 and beyond in a multi-year deal. This season marked the 25th for...
category: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing PR
Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey – Saturday Final Report (part 1)
By Patrick Stephan To make this giant end of day a little smaller, I have put my travel stuff, and the Road to Indy reports in a separate update – just to save your inboxes 🙂 That will go a little later. I’m going to start by congratulating Oliver Askew, of Melbourne, Florida on clinching...
category: TSO News
Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey – Qual Groups, and Herta 2020 Confirmation
By Patrick Stephan Group 1: 2 Newgarden, Josef 22 Pagenaud, Simon 59 Chilton, Max 9 Dixon, Scott 27 Rossi, Alexander 25 Daly, Conor 18 Bourdais, Sebastien 26 Veach, Zach 28 Hunter-Reay, Ryan 4 Leist, Matheus 21 Pigot, Spencer 14 Kanaan, Tony Group 2: 10 Rosenqvist, Felix 12 Power, Will 30 Sato, Takuma 88 Herta, Colton...
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Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey – Saturday Practice Notes and Results
By Patrick Stephan As the cars roll off, the air temp is 74, with the track at 85. Yesterday’s peak track temp was 110F from 2:00-2:30. Today’s qualifying will run from 1:35-2:50pm, so basically, they will qualify in the heat of the day, making the tire degradation even more of a concern. Driver’s will need...
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Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey – Sato Confirmed for 2020 and Today’s Schedule
We will have some news and updates in a little bit, but in the meanwhile, here is today’s schedule and the release confirming Takuma Sato at RLLR for 2020. Saturday TIME EVENT 6:53am Sunrise 8am Public Gates Open 8:10am – 8:25pm Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA Qualifying 8:40am – 9am USF2000 Qualifying #2 9:15am –...
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Quick Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey End of Day Notes
By Patrick Stephan Considering I got up at 3:00am Mountain Time, today was a really good day at the race track. Interesting track, great people, all in all, pretty much all you want from the Friday of championship weekend. Just after the checkered flew on the third practice of the day – officially known as...
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Final Warm-up/Pit Stop Practice
By Patrick Stephan In the warm-up, we had all kinds of people pushing some track limits. Among the early issues, we saw Josef Newgarden and then Alexander Rossi both slip off the pit lane exit. They went through the dirt and eventually on to the track. The other part of pit lane was an issue...
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Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey Practice #2 Notes and Results
By Patrick Stephan First, Rossi’s issue in practice session #1 was described as “hardware” by Rob Edwards of Andretti Autosport. They seemed to be doing a lot of work around the footbox/right side suspension, before finally getting him in to the car at the end of the session. As noted earlier, after the session, INDYCAR...
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Laguna Seca Test Session #1 Report
TSO NOTE: This is being resent do to issues with our hosting service. Some of you may get this twice. Sorry for the duplicates or the delay! Scott Dixon was the last driver to hit the 2.258-mile, 11-turn WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca road course, but that didn’t stop the five-time champion from turning the quickest...
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INDYCAR News from around the Internet:- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious pointsThat report was made public Monday afternoon, and it’s loaded with an absence of surprises, although there are a few bits of weirdness involved. Rather than submit what KPMG said would be an ideal computer-aided design plan for the proposed F1 track that would identify all mandatory components required following FIA (the governing body of […]
- Here’s who won the race between Formula 1 and IndyCar in Long BeachIn October last year the city released a request for proposals seeking “an open-wheel auto racing format” to run the annual Grand Prix event. From the start it was only a two-horse race between Michaelian and Pook. Pook, of course, was hardly a carpetbagger. He founded the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1975 and brought […]
- Q&A: Printup talks future of WGI, IndyCar, PhishEverybody was excited, but I take a lot of personal interest in IndyCar. I always have. I kind of grew up in IndyCar, so I was glad that we were able to get them back. The fans themselves, for only having a little bit less than 90 days to sell the race last year, we […]
- Rick Mears – still the ultimate pro at 65Over the past 20-something years writing about racing, I’ve encountered three people from whom I learn something about the art of racecar driving every time we speak for longer than five minutes. One of that trio is Rick Ravon Mears, born this day 65 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, and brought up in Bakersfield, Calif. […]
- Memoir helps widow cope after IndyCar driver's deathTonya Bergeson-Dana talks with her son, Conor, about his father when he brings it up, which is often. If he’s asking the questions, she reasons, he’s ready to hear the answers. Paul Conor Dana, at age 9, knows that his father was Paul Dana, a journalist and IndyCar driver who died in March 2006 during […]
- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious points