By Tony DiZinno and Steve Wittich The first of three busy days at Barber Motorsports Park is in the books. Today featured the combination of picture perfect weather, quintessential Southern hospitality in Birmingham and a busy, but never overly chaotic, schedule among the Verizon IndyCar Series, Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires and…
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Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – Barber Motorsports Park – Friday at 4 pm – Second practice and Pro Mazda qualifying
By Tony DiZinno and Steve Wittich We bumped into two of the drivers who made headlines last weekend in Long Beach before second practice. Graham Rahal noted that drivers are continuing to adjust to the new braking points with the new Dallara UAK18. He told TSO that because of the increased top-end speed, it remains…
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Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – Barber Motorsports Park – Steve’s Preview
By Steve Wittich It’s hard to believe that it was over a decade ago that a group of IRL IndyCar Series first visited the 2.3-mile, 17-turn Barber Motorsports Park natural terrain road course for a compatibility test in October 2007. With the merger of the IRL and Champ Car, it took until 2010 for the…
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Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach – Sunday – 7:33pm – close #1 – a beatdown and furieux
By Steve Wittich and Tony DiZinno Here are a lot of words about the 44th Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach – I’ve got more, but I’m hungry, so this will have to get you started. Mega thanks to Tony DiZinno for helping out with this report. Another successful Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach…
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Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach – Sunday -3:45pm – rough race notes and unofficial results
Former Indy car driver Scott Pruett gave the command to fire the twin-turbo V6 power plants. The ambient temperature when the green flag flew was 66F and the track temperature was 105F. There was some significantly cooler than the past two afternoons. The race start was straggly with only the first two rows able to…
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Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach – Sunday -1:40pm – quick pre-race strategy and tire type update
By Steve Wittich Just back from a quick grid walk. The biggest surprise? That the Chevrolet Indy V6 powered cars are worried about making the race in only two stops without a few cautions. Cars starting on sticker Firestone reds: 98, 12, 22, 15, 14, 4, 59, 26, 19, 23 Cars starting on scuffed Firestone…
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Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach – Sunday – 11:45am – social update and some celebrity type stuff
By Steve Wittich My social report after I left the track last night is pretty lame. Before I left for my hotel, I did take some time to watch 80’s rockers, The Cult, who were playing on the Plaza Stage. The Cult was a band that I loved in my high-school and college years, and…
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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 […]
- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious points