INDIANAPOLIS (Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019) – INDYCAR announced today the planned introduction of the next step to improve cockpit safety for all drivers in the NTT IndyCar Series. All cars participating in an April 24 open test on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval will be fitted with Advanced Frontal Protection (AFP), a titanium piece made...
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AUSTIN, Texas (Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019) – If 11 hours and more than 8,000 miles of on-track testing over two days showed anything, it’s that the NTT IndyCar Series fits in marvelously at the sparkling Circuit of The Americas and the competition will be deep and intense in the 2019 season. Twenty-five drivers completed 2,367...
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By Patrick Stephan As often happens in these test sessions, the green flag waved for the afternoon session promptly at 1:00pm, but there were initially no takers. The temperature here was a cold 60 ambient with the track at 76 as the session started. By “cold” 76 I’m again saying that’s kind of a humid/wet...
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By Patrick Stephan Well, a lot more action today as we had a total of three red flags slow the action and earn some drivers 5 minute time-outs here on the second day of testing at Circuit of the Americas. The first NTT IndyCar Series machine to have trouble was Jack Harvey who spun in...
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By Patrick Stephan Well today dawned a little colder and less hospitable than I expected. Got to the rental car around 7:15am and found it covered in a nice layer of frost. Got inside to warm up the car and find the ice scraper and discovered the car was claiming it was 34 degrees outside,...
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By Patrick Stephan Ok, back at the hotel finishing up for the day. Grabbed some BBQ from a drive thru near the hotel in Bastrop. I am NOT familiar with this area, and this is my first time in Austin, so I decided to bounce around a little bit to pick up some local knowledge....
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By Patrick Stephan Mattheus Leist spun at the exit of Turn 1, around 65 minutes in to the session. He was able to get it pointed the right direction and continued down the hill toward Turn 2. 79 minutes in to the session Will Power went P1 at 1:48.0319, followed by Rossi, Ferrucci, Pigot and...
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By Patrick Stephan The “lunch break” wasn’t really much of a break today. The first driver in to the media center interview room was Conor Daly who came in along with Major Ross McKnight, the National Events Branch Chief, Air Force Recruiting. They talked about Conor’s 2019 Indy 500 program with Andretti Autosport. Conor was...
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By Patrick Stephan As the session wound down, we saw Marcus Ericsson put his Honda in P1, going not just sub 1:50, but also sub 1:49 with a 1:48.8392. RC Enerson continues to impress, slotting in P2 with his Carlin Chevrolet. Zach Veach, Dixon and Herta rounded out the Top 5. One thing we are...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (TSO_Patrick) Good morning from the Circuit of the Americas outside of Austin, TX where it has now warmed up to 53 ambient and a track temp of 56 degrees as of 10:00am (data courtesy of Firestone as always). My travel notes are easy. Hopped on the plane in Denver, and immediately realized...
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