By Steve Wittich All right, here is my close. I apologize for being late. I spent yesterday driving home from Pocono Raceway and wanted to make sure that I didn’t short change you on content. Also note, I give my opinion a few times, not something I’m overly comfortable doing, but on a couple of…
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ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Sunday – 6:15pm – Rough Race Notes
These are the unedited race notes. That was certainly one of the more interesting races that I’ve had to cover. The command to fire the twin-turbo, direct injection V6 Honda and Chevrolet engines was given at 2:41pm. The 22 drivers got the green flag the third time by the flag stand. Pagenaud grabbed the top…
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ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Sunday – 10:05am – Good morning
By Steve Wittich Good morning from Pocono Raceway, where it’s currently sunny and humid. The forecast looks perfectly fine for racing, so if you are within driving distance and are still on the fence about coming, get in the car and join us. Here is the forecast from @IndyCar_Wxman Click here to see that tweet…
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2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Saturday – 10:30pm – some final notes
By Steve Wittich Shifting In clean air, drivers were shifting five times per lap. They cross the start/finish line in fifth gear before quickly shifting to sixth gear. Next, came two down-shifts to fourth gear in Turn 1 — drivers up-shift once to fifth gear in the run down the Long Pond straight. Turn…
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2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Saturday – 4pm – Kanaan leads lone practice
By Steve Wittich The lone practice session for the ABC Supply 500 got underway at 1:50 pm. The temperature at the beginning of the session was 79F, and the track temperature was 107F. It was sunny, and the humidity was thick at 72%. The wind was out of the ESE at 8mph. The 22 drivers…
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News – 2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Saturday – 1:25pm – Practice set to start at 1:50pm – some manufacturer notes
We just got word that practice will start at 1:50 pm. The medical chopper landed about 12:40 pm, and the track drying efforts are coming to an end. Editorial note from Steve: I hate losing qualifying. Superspeedway qualifying is an exercise in bravery with cars that are on the limit of adhesion. That being said….
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2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Saturday – 11:27am – qual cancelled – starting line-up
By Steve Wittich I stepped out for an interview when INDYCAR announced that qualifying has been scrubbed. Instead, teams and drivers will get a two-hour practice session to prepare for the ABC Supply 500. That practice session will begin as soon after the helicopter arrives and the track is dry. Note: the sun is now…
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2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Saturday – 11am – it’s damp
By Steve Wittich All right, we’re not back after practice. We’re back with a report that it’s now raining after no-cars were on track. I’m lying, a few of the vintage cars were circulating on the 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway oval for a few minutes. NTT IndyCar Series practice was scheduled to begin at 9:30 am…
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2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Saturday – good morning
By Steve Wittich Good Saturday morning from Pocono Raceway, where we are scheduled for three NTT IndyCar Series sessions. Two one-hour practice sessions wrapped around single-car two-lap qualifying. Here is today’s schedule TIME EVENT 6:30pm – 8pm IndyCar Garage Open For Crews 7:30am Parking Lots Open 8:30am Public Gates Open 9:30am – 10:30am IndyCar Practice…
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The 2019 ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway – Steve’s Preview
By Steve Wittich For the 26th time Indy cars are visiting ‘Doc’s Place,’ the 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway ‘oval’ in Long Pond, Pa. Mark Donohue, driving for Team Penske won the first race, one of ten times a driver representing the Roger Penske owned team has won on the superspeedway. The three corner oval was built…
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- 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