Did you watch this race? Can you explain how it unfolded? If so, you’re in the minority because not even the top two finishers, Sebastien Bourdais and Conor Daly, knew for sure. All they knew for certain was, their strategists made great decisions to have them pit off sequence which, coupled with timely cautions, allowed...
READ MOREPos St. Car # Name 1 13 11 Bourdais, Sebastien 2 16 18 Daly, Conor 3 3 2 Montoya, Juan Pablo 4 10 15 Rahal, Graham 5 2 3 Castroneves, Helio 6 5 26 Munoz, Carlos 7 15 28 Hunter-Reay, Ryan 8 8 83 Kimball, Charlie 9 7 10 Kanaan, Tony 10 17 98 Rossi,...
READ MOREDetroit — Didn’t IndyCar just finish a race with fuel strategy taking a driver to victory lane? Well, it happened again Saturday when Sebastien Bourdais’ KVSH team did the smart work to put the No. 11 Chevrolet in the winner’s spot, and Conor Daly’s team did much of the same to finish a career-best second....
READ MOREIndyCar’s morning practice spanned only 30 minutes, but it was interesting for a few reasons. First, Josef Newgarden, who won last year’s street race in Toronto, was the quickest at 1:14.6464 with Scott Dixon second, Ryan Hunter-Reay third and pole sitter Simon Pagenaud fourth. Marco Andretti, who as noted didn’t qualify well, was sixth, so...
READ MOREWelcome to Belle Isle Park, or at least a report from the venue where the Verizon IndyCar Series will stage its seventh race of the season today. The weather is a little less ideal than yesterday, when temperatures reached the mid-80s. Today is more cloudy and more humid, it seems, but it’s still a decent...
READ MORESurely everyone saw this coming in Friday’s IndyCar Series qualifying, right? Team Penske, which struggled mightily in last weekend’s Indianapolis 500, delivered a strong comeback, earning the top three starting positions for Saturday’s first Chevrolet Dual in Detroit and four of the first nine positions. That came after its cars finished 10th, 11th, 19th and...
READ MOREFirst, here as the links to TSO’s Indy 500 Photo Albums Carb Day Legends Day 100th Running of the Indianapols 500 HUGE thanks to Dave Bulebush and Blake Johnson for the Photo Work (If not noted in the caption, Blake’s photos have the little black dog watermark in the corner). ——- Next, here is Butch...
READ MOREFriday’s only Verizon IndyCar Series practice, and to no one’s surprise Team Penske was back in the mix. Will Power and Helio Castroneves were 1-2 with Simon Pagenaud fourth and Juan Pablo Montoya 13th (isn’t he always in that part of the field in practice!). Scott Dixon was third in the session, which bodes well...
READ MOREHere is the timesheet from this morning’s Verizon IndyCar Series practice session. Notes will follow later today! Pos Car # Driver Engine BLT Diff TL 1 12 Will Power Chevy 1:15.0197 — 21 2 3 Helio Castroneves Chevy 1:15.5797 0.5600 21 3 9 Scott Dixon Chevy 1:15.7543 0.7346 23 4 22 Simon Pagenaud Chevy 1:15.9028...
READ MORECompiled by Patrick Stephan Good morning from Denver where the weather is again beautiful, oh wait, that’s not why we are here!!! With Joe and Steve working the TV side of things for ABC’s final broadcast of 2016, and Patrick back in Denver, we will be using a combination of reporters for TSO’s coverage of...
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