James Hinchcliffe No. 5 Arrow Electronics Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda “Really disappointing day for us. We didn’t have the quickest car in traffic, so we put ourselves on a strategy to run in clean air, and it was working. We got ourselves to seventh place after that last round of stops, after being back in...
READ MOREPodium Finish for Hometown Hero Rahal at Mid-Ohio Graham Rahal runs third at Honda Indy 200 Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato finishes fifth Alexander Rossi rounds out top six finishers LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 30, 2017) – Ohio native son Graham Rahal led the Honda attack Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, finishing third at...
READ MORETough Day at the Office for DCR at Mid-Ohio Lexington, OH (July 30, 2017) – The race didn’t quite go the way the Dale Coyne Racing team would’ve liked on Sunday at the Honda Indy 200. Esteban Gutierrez, who was showing great pace, finished 20th due to front wing damage early on and Ed Jones...
READ MORERahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Verizon IndyCar Series RACE NOTES/QUOTES – July 30, 2017 STEAK ‘N SHAKE DRIVER RAHAL FINISHED THIRD IN THE HONDA INDY 200 AT MID-OHIO; FIFTH TOP FIVE AND THIRD PODIUM IN PAST SEVEN RACES GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 Steak ‘n Shake Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It...
READ MOREVERIZON INDYCAR SERIES HONDA INDY 200 RACE REPORT 07.30.17 The 90-lap Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio has seen the twin checkers with Takuma Sato and Alexander Rossi leading the way for Andretti Autosport. Sato secured his fourth top-five finish of the season, placing the Ruoff Home Mortgage Honda into the fifth position. Rossi climbed three positions...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich First, Patrick here. With the late start time, we got a late finish, and I’m well not actually finished yet. I will send even more notes tomorrow from Denver, but here is TSO’s first set of post race notes. Since I was staying at the hotel next to the...
READ MOREA correction from INDYCAR PR (and me – I should have actually read this before I hit send!) The last driver to win back-to-back Verizon IndyCar Series races was Graham Rahal who won at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park in June! Unofficial Point Standings: RANK DRIVER POINTS 1 Josef Newgarden 453 2 Helio Castroneves 446...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Here is our running race report. As always please excuse typos – this doesn’t get edited very much as the race runs. The race started fairly clean as the field took the green flag down at Turn 4 (since the front straight isn’t long enough here). By the time they got to...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan First, some bad news that I’ve been reluctant to report. Long time TSO contributor, team spotter, race fan and just plain good guy, Dave Reininger passed away early on the morning of July 24th. His wife Laura posted the following on his Facebook page: “David passed early this morning. He had a...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) As noted, I went outside to watch the practice session from a viewing mound around Turn 11. While talking to some race fans at 11:24 (the session started at 11:15), I saw a puff of dust to my left on the front stretch, and then a Holmatro Safety Team vehicle went...
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