By Steve Wittich Sunday’s Kohler Grand Prix will be the 28th Indy car race that the 4.014-mile, 14-turn Road America natural terrain road course has hosted since Hector Rebaque won the inaugural race in 1982. After an eight-year hiatus, Indy car returned to “America’s National Park of Speed” in 2016, and the enthusiasm amongst the…
Archives for TSO News
Texas Post Race Final Report (at least for tonight)
By Patrick Stephan (TSO_Patrick) Well, we were told by many participants to worry about the tires, and yes there were issues, but Simon Pagenaud was asked about how tire blisters dictated his race and he quickly put that story to an end: “It didn’t dictate my race at all because I didn’t know I had…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas Post Race Final Report (at least for tonight)
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas – Unofficial Results
Here are the unofficial results! Pos Car # Driver Laps Diff 1 9 Scott Dixon 248 2 22 Simon Pagenaud 248 4.2943 3 27 Alexander Rossi 248 4.5670 4 5 James Hinchcliffe 248 5.0869 5 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay 248 6.7301 6 15 Graham Rahal 248 7.2744 7 30 Takuma Sato 248 8.3457 8 18 Sebastien…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas – Unofficial Results
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas Motor Speedway Race Report – Rough and Unedited!
By Patrick Stephan Track temp at race start was 110, the coolest we’ve seen all weekend. Nicely formed field and clean start. Pigot way high in third lane around Turn 3 making passes at the back. Lap 6 Wickens tries the high side on Turn 1, stays 2 wide all the way around but can’t…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas Motor Speedway Race Report – Rough and Unedited!
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas Motor Speedway – Final Pre-Race Notes on USAC Kids, Tires, Pit Lane, etc
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Some random notes before we get started with tonight’s race! Check out the little driver’s who getting ready to unfurl the flag before tonight’s race. These are USAC Quarter Midget driver’s in town for a major national event here at TMS on their quarter midget track (outside the backstretch toward Turn…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas Motor Speedway – Final Pre-Race Notes on USAC Kids, Tires, Pit Lane, etc
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Welcome to Race Day at Texas Motor Speedway!
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Welcome to race day at the Texas Motor Speedway. Just a couple quick notes and then I’ll be back closer to race time with some other information. First, the Verizon IndyCar Series schedule has just one item: 7:40pm Central Time: DXC Technology 600 (248laps) That said, even though the green flag…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Welcome to Race Day at Texas Motor Speedway!
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas Motor Speedway – Final Practice Notes and End of Day!
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) I owe you some notes from that Bobby and Graham Rahal press conference, so here are some of the quotes from that get together. First, I found it funny that Bobby Rahal isn’t really involved in the contract negotiations, with the elder Rahal saying, “Luckily we don’t negotiate with each other….
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas Motor Speedway – Final Practice Notes and End of Day!
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas IndyCar Series Qualifying Notes and Results
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) The qualifying story is below, but I’ll note that not everyone is having issues “feeling” their cars with the light downforce. Read all the way through and you’ll see some comments from one driver indicating they are fairly happy with he package at this point – of course their car is…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas IndyCar Series Qualifying Notes and Results
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas Motor Speedway – 2:50pm CT
By Patrick Stephan Graham Rahal was in the media center with his team owner – and father – to announce that he had signed a 5 year contract extension. I will have more from that press conference, but I will note immediately that this is a long commitment for both team and driver – and…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas Motor Speedway – 2:50pm CT
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
Texas Motor Speedway – Practice #1 Notes and Time Sheet
By Patrick Stephan (TSO_Patrick) The first practice session of the weekend got off to a oddly slow start. INDYCAR announced to the media just prior to the session that all teams would be required to scuff at least 4 sets of Firestone tires during the first 30 minutes of the 90 minute session. Teams had…
category: TSO News
- Comments Off on Texas Motor Speedway – Practice #1 Notes and Time Sheet
- Email to friend
- Blog it
- Stay updated
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 […]
- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious points