McLaren Racing announces today that it will contest the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500, on Sunday 26 May 2019, with Fernando Alonso at the wheel. Competing in his second Indy 500, Fernando will attempt to become only the second driver ever to secure world motorsport’s unofficial Triple Crown: victories at the Monaco Formula 1…
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McLAREN RETURNS TO THE INDY 500 WITH FERNANDO ALONSO IN 2019
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Patrick’s thoughts on potential INDYCAR and NASCAR dual weekend!
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Recently Adam Stern at SportsBusinessDaily.com tweeted (and wrote a story) saying, “.@IndyCar and International Speedway Corp. executives discussed holding a dual NASCAR/IndyCar race weekend in ’19 @ChicagolndSpdwy, per sources, an idea that was tabled for now but hasn’t been ruled out for the future:” LINK: https://twitter.com/A_S12/status/1046745630188679168 Now, since I can’t get on…
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Hulman Motorsports Announces Chief Marketing Officer Transition
INDIANAPOLIS, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 – Following the conclusion of another successful Verizon INDYCAR Series season, Hulman & Company President and CEO Mark Miles announced that C.J. O’Donnell, chief marketing officer of INDYCAR and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has decided to leave Hulman Motorsports at the end of the calendar year. “We’ve made noteworthy strides…
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More News and Notes from Harding Steinbrenner Teleconference
By Patrick Stephan I got the chance to listen to today’s INDYCAR teleconference which followed up the official announcement of Harding Steinbrenner Racing’s formation. This wasn’t exactly a big secret in the paddock, but it is nice to see it made officially official. As sent earlier the team will employ Patricio O’Ward and Colton Herta…
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Sonoma Post Race Reports – Lots of Quotes and Stats!
By Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich Well, we just finished all the post race press conferences around 7:45pm, so we’re going to make this quick (well, quick for TSO – meaning like just a couple thousand words), and then we’ll send more details and stories over the next couple days! Lots to talk about and…
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INDYCAR GrandPrix of Sonoma – Quick Race Report
By Patrick Stephan As usual, this race report is not edited. We type it as the race runs and then hit send at the end, please forgive typos. INDYCAR delayed the command (very memorably done by MC Hammer) to 3:39pm local time as we all waited for the NASCAR race in Vegas to finish. The…
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Sonoma Pre-Race Notes
By Patrick Stephan Here are some final pre-race notes before we go green at 3:40 Pacific Time (6:40ET)! Wickens Update Sorry the first attempt didn’t work and everyone got to see the HTML Code instead of the link to Instagram. If you are still having issues (the second send should have been ok), here is…
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Robert Wickens posts personal update
View this post on Instagram Just wanted to say a few words, and also good-luck to everyone in Sonoma this weekend! A post shared by Robert Wickens (@robertwickens) on Sep 16, 2018 at 2:05pm PDT…
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Robert Wickens posts personal update
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RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING CONFIRMS TAKUMA SATO FOR 2019 LINEUP
SOURCE: RLLR PR BROWNSBURG, Ind. (September 16, 2018) – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) announced today that Takuma Sato will return to the team in 2019. Sato is the most recent winner in the IndyCar Series after having led 25 laps at the Grand Prix of Portland en route to his third series victory and first…
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INDYCAR News from around the Internet:- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious pointsThat report was made public Monday afternoon, and it’s loaded with an absence of surprises, although there are a few bits of weirdness involved. Rather than submit what KPMG said would be an ideal computer-aided design plan for the proposed F1 track that would identify all mandatory components required following FIA (the governing body of […]
- Here’s who won the race between Formula 1 and IndyCar in Long BeachIn October last year the city released a request for proposals seeking “an open-wheel auto racing format” to run the annual Grand Prix event. From the start it was only a two-horse race between Michaelian and Pook. Pook, of course, was hardly a carpetbagger. He founded the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1975 and brought […]
- Q&A: Printup talks future of WGI, IndyCar, PhishEverybody was excited, but I take a lot of personal interest in IndyCar. I always have. I kind of grew up in IndyCar, so I was glad that we were able to get them back. The fans themselves, for only having a little bit less than 90 days to sell the race last year, we […]
- Rick Mears – still the ultimate pro at 65Over the past 20-something years writing about racing, I’ve encountered three people from whom I learn something about the art of racecar driving every time we speak for longer than five minutes. One of that trio is Rick Ravon Mears, born this day 65 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, and brought up in Bakersfield, Calif. […]
- Memoir helps widow cope after IndyCar driver's deathTonya Bergeson-Dana talks with her son, Conor, about his father when he brings it up, which is often. If he’s asking the questions, she reasons, he’s ready to hear the answers. Paul Conor Dana, at age 9, knows that his father was Paul Dana, a journalist and IndyCar driver who died in March 2006 during […]
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