Source: INDYCAR IndyCar Media Conference Sunday June 12, 2016 Eddie Gossage Jay Frye Press Conference THE MODERATOR: Thanks for sticking around this afternoon, everyone. With us is TMS president Eddie Gossage and IndyCar Series president Jay Frye. I’ll turn it over to Eddie. EDDIE GOSSAGE: Appreciate you guys hanging in there with us. Appreciate all...
READ MORESource: INDYCAR FORT WORTH, Texas (Sunday, June 12, 2016) – Verizon IndyCar Series driver Josef Newgarden sustained a fractured right clavicle and a small fracture on his right hand in an incident in today’s Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway. Newgarden, driver of the No. 21 Chevrolet for Ed Carpenter Racing, collided with the Honda...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Saturday night August 27th the race will be resumed. There will be a practice, and autograph session with all driver’s and then they will complete the race starting from where we left off today. Green flag in the 7:00pm time frame. (So, start on lap 72). Frye said it is pretty specific...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Eddie Gossage, TMS president and Jay Frye, president of competition and operations for INDYCAR will come in to the media center to make an announcement at 5:00pm. The announcement will be streamed live on the IndyCar Series Facebook page! ...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, here is the 4:15pm update – it’s sprinkling at the track, but very dark clouds can be found in pretty much every direction and the radar indicates we are going to get wet again. We’ve seen pictures of flooded tunnels here at the track, so we’re keeping an eye on that...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan After working a weeper over at the exit of Turn 2, the race finally got started at 1:45pm today and it started to play out pretty much as expected with some getting the set-up correct and others…well…not so much. Early movers were Conor Daly, Rossi, and many others. The top five on...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Welcome to race day (attempt #2) at the Texas Motor Speedway. [Alternate open – “Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Weather Radar!”] Currently here at TMS, it’s 90 degrees, with 60% humidity. It’s pretty cloudy though the sun does keep peeking out. The track itself appears to be MOSTLY dry, though the jet...
READ MORE8:00 am Garage open Warm-Up in the garage area –Until 12:10 pm 12:15 pm Push Out 12:30 pm Cars to the Grid 12:52 pm Intro – Colors & Invocation 12:53 pm US National Anthem 12:55 pm Drivers to Your Cars 1:00 pm One Minute to Command 1:01 pm Intro & Command “Drivers Start Your Engines”...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, as I’m sure TSO subscribers already know – we got rained out. I’ve NEVER seen a track just refuse to dry, but this one did. And it wasn’t just weepers, entire sections of the track just wouldn’t give. Even with Jet dryers moving at a pace easily measured as FEET/HOUR –...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Ok, time for a real update (done from a real computer and everything. I sent some of the earlier ones from my cell phone – great that we can now do that, but I don’t type that quick on my phone). And no, this won’t have much “racing” as there really isn’t...
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