Newgarden’s second straight win springs him to championship lead LEXINGTON, Ohio (Sunday, July 30, 2017) – Josef Newgarden finally completed what he started at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, bursting into the Verizon IndyCar Series championship lead after winning the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in dominant fashion. Newgarden led 73 of 90 laps on the...
READ MORECHEVROLET RACING IN THE VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES HONDA INDY 200 OF MID-OHIO MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR COURSE TEAM CHEVY DRIVER POST RACE NOTES QUOTES JULY 30, 2017 JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 2 PPG AUTOMOTIVE REFINISH TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, RACE WINNER: WE ARE USED TO SEEING PEOPLE STRUGGLE IN THEIR SEASON WITH TEAM PENSKE, BUT NOT YOU: “Well,...
READ MORECLOSED PIT LANE TAKES AWAY JR HILDEBRAND’S CHANCE FOR TOP 10 FINISH IN MID-OHIO Hildebrand Runs As High As 3rd, Finishes 17th After Yellow Closes Pits; Spencer Pigot Finishes 19th In Back Up Car LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 30, 2017) – Race Notes JR Hildebrand looked to be on his way to a solid Top 10...
READ MORESIMON PAGENAUD (No. 1 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet): “The Menards Chevy was good all weekend. I do wish that we could have qualified a little better just to decrease the number of cars to get around. It was kind of a neutral day in the championship but that’s alright. We’re right there and it will...
READ MOREJames 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...
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