Four-time series champion Sebastien Bourdais will drive the No. 18 Team SealMaster – Dale Coyne Racing w/ Vasser – Sullivan Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry at the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series season opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Bourdais, who is contesting his 13th year of IndyCar competition, is coming off a dramatic 2017 IndyCar season. He...
READ MORESt. Petersburg, FL – (March 8, 2018) – Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan is pleased to welcome St. Petersburg, FL-based Valpak, one of the leading direct marketing companies in the U.S. and Canada, to the team. The new partner will be featured on the #18 Team SealMaster entry piloted by fellow St. Petersburg resident, Sebastien...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno A quick intro first: TrackSide Online readers may have seen my name in these parts before. As you may have seen within our TSO team previews, I’m happy to say I’ll be joining the TSO team for selected races in 2018 after periodic fill-ins over the last several years. While my new...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich The final three hours of the rookie test session on the one-mile ISM Raceway oval ran clean and green. That prompted the first sigh of relief among the team owners and managers. The quickest of the rookies was A.J. Foyt Racing’s Matheus Leist. The Brazilian Indy Lights grad won two oval races...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Good morning from the newly renamed ISM Raceway in Phoenix, where for the third straight year, the Verizon IndyCar Series teams and drivers have traveled the “Valley of the Sun” for a “spring training” open test before the season gets underway on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. in one month’s time....
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 DETROIT – A Red Flag stoppage of a race that had run green flag for the first 65 laps left Graham Rahal seeing red after he dominated Sunday’s Chevy Dual in Detroit Race No. 2 of the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix. But it didn’t matter because once the race went back...
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 DETROIT – It’s been more than three hours since the end of qualifications and the start of today’s second Chevy Dual in Detroit is only now into the last hour before the green flag falls. So, to keep from falling asleep at the keyboard, I made a quick trip down to Scott...
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 DETROIT – Because of the short turnaround between races, this will be a short Open for Sunday’s final day of the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix featuring the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit Race No. 2 at Belle Isle. The skies are heavy and gray but it’s dry with only a little bit...
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 DETROIT – After winning a controversial pole that was awarded to him after Helio Castroneves’ fastest lap was disallowed by not slowing down for a local caution, Graham Rahal knew he had a fast race car capable of winning the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit later on Saturday. He proved that point...
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 INDIANAPOLIS – Rain halted all track activity at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 1:29 p.m. Eastern Time as a severe storm from the west finally arrived. The grandstands have been cleared of spectators and teams frantically rushed to tow the race cars and equipment back to Gasoline Alley. When...
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