By Patrick Stephan Usual disclaimer – this is typed as the race runs, with no re-read! Please excuse typos! The 55 lap Kohler Grand Prix started with the ambient temperature at 66 degrees with a relative humidity of 59 percent. The track temperature was 85 degrees, according to Firestone engineers. The field was pretty well...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Quick weather note. The cloud cover here has picked up and the clouds are a little darker than we saw yesterday. Radar in the area shows some very light precipitation widely scattered over the region. Chance of rain is listed as 15% during the planned race time, so we “should” be ok....
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Please note: The broadcast time for the Verizon IndyCar Series race has been moved UP!! They will now start the broadcast at 11:00am Central, Noon ET! This is because the F1 race is running a little long and now they won’t be able to show the Indy Light’s race (they will show...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Patrick Stephan (mostly Steve) After struggling in qualifying, Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay (qualified 12th) and Alexander Rossi (qualified 15th) were able to find some speed during warm-up. Hunter-Reay had the quickest lap of the session at 1:43.7956 seconds, and Rossi was third at 1:44.3502 seconds. It’s normally the cars from the...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well race fans, time to finish up my first day here at Road America (my first day, not ours of course). It’s been interesting, I just wish I had the chance to get outside a little bit more. I did walk over to Honda hospitality for their press conference, but that’s been...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Group 1 rolled out for Verizon IndyCar Series qualifying with an ambient temperature of 70, and the track temp at 104. The wind remains strong and is a factor in a few corners, but otherwise it is just a beautiful day here at Road America. As Group 1 ran down to the...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, we are about to go qualifying for the Kohler Grand Prix at Road America. But, in between the Verizon IndyCar Series practice and this qualifying session, we’ve had a trio of Mazda Road to Indy Races. Steve has been pounding away on his PC trying to cover all that back to...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Today’s only Verizon IndyCar Series practice session got started with the Ambient temperature at 66, and the track at 89 degrees. Max Chilton started the session standing on the pit box as his Ganassi crew was working to make a rear brake change on his car. On the track, Simon Pagenaud was...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Welcome to a cool, crisp Saturday morning in the woods of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin where the current temperature is 66 degrees. The sky here is a lovely shade of blue punctuated by fluffy white clouds. Winds are from the West North West at 15mph with gusts up to 22mph and the humidity...
READ MOREINDIANAPOLIS, Thursday, June 15, 2017 – Information about the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational on Friday, June 16, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. SCHEDULE (All times local) 8 a.m.- 6:30 p.m.: Gates Open 8 – 8:35 a.m.: Trans Am – TA2 Class Test 8:35 – 10:15 a.m.: Group Qualifying Sessions 10:15 – 10:35 a.m.: Vintage Motorcycles...
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