With never-before-seen track map, event unveils scenic urban street course with unique water crossing NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Sept. 16, 2020) – The Music City Grand Prix, in partnership with INDYCAR, is bringing a new sound to Nashville. The Music City Grand Prix announced today that the newest NTT INDYCAR SERIES race will debut Aug. 6-8, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee….
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SPOILER – Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Rough Race Notes – SPOILER
By Steve Wittich Errors, errors and more errors. Rough race notes Engines for the second Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio were fired at 12:58 pm. The front row of Herta and Ferrucci brought the field to the green flag on the back straight after three-and-a-half pace laps. All of the engines fired, but pole sitter…
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Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Race #2 – rough qual notes and results
By Steve Wittch NTT INDYCAR® SERIES qualifying for Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio race #2 took place on a wet, but drying 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio Road Course. The rain started falling at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (Mid-Ohio) just before the Indy Pro 2000 cars were to grid for their 9 am race. By the…
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Good morning from Mid-Ohio
By Steve Wittich Good morning from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where rain is imminent as the first track activity of the day, the second Indy Pro 2000 race of the weekend is about to get underway. Scratch that, it’s now pouring. Here is the forecast info from @Indycar_Wxman Here is today’s schedule TIMEEVENT9am -…
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Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Saturday – some final notes from Saturday
By Steve Wittich Some notes about the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Race #1 The rain started falling as the cars came to pit road after the cars came to pit road at the end of the race. It’s Power’s 38th career win, moving him out of a tie with Sebastien Bourdais and into sixth…
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SPOILER – Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio rough race notes – SPOILER
By Steve Wittich Plenty of mistakes below. 🙂 The command to start the twin-turbo V6 engines was given by Honda associates from Marysville, Ohio. Mario Andretti was driving the Honda fastest seat in sports, with Dr. Lee Berman as the passenger. Berman has been part of the medical team at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course…
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Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – some pre-race notes
By Steve Wittich Starting line-up and tire designation. STARTCARDRIVERTIRE112Will PowerAlternate (Red)228Ryan Hunter-ReayAlternate (Red)31Josef NewgardenAlternate (Red)420Conor DalyAlternate (Red)560Jack HarveyAlternate (Red)627Alexander RossiPrimary (Black)710Felix RosenqvistAlternate (Red)815Graham RahalPrimary (Black)921Rinus VeeKayPrimary (Black)1022Simon PagenaudPrimary (Black)1198Marco AndrettiAlternate (Red)1259Max ChiltonPrimary (Black)1388Colton HertaPrimary (Black)1418Santino FerrucciPrimary (Black)155Pato O’WardPrimary (Black)167Oliver AskewPrimary (Black)179Scott DixonAlternate (Red)1830Takuma SatoPrimary (Black)1926Zach VeachAlternate (Red)2055Álex PalouPrimary (Black)218Marcus EricssonPrimary (Black)224Charlie KimballPrimary (Black)2314Dalton KellettPrimary (Black)…
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Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Saturday – qualifying play-by-play and results
By Steve Wittich The green flag for the first group of qualifying for Saturday’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio was shown from the starters stand at exactly 2pm. The skies were mostly sunny, the ambient temperature was a mild 79F and the track temperature was 94F. Josef Newgarden, on sticker Firestone Racing Primary Tires (Blacks),…
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Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Saturday – practice #1 notes and results
By Steve Wittich By Steve Wittich The green flag for the lone 75-minute practice session in preparation for the NTT INDYCAR® SERIES Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio double header got underway at 10:45am. The 23 cars took to 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio Road Course for an a quick systems and leak check. The first driver to…
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Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Saturday – Good morning, and welcome
Good day from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (Mid-Ohio), where the lone NTT INDYCAR® SERIES practice is set to get underway in about 45-minutes. The rest of today’s schedule is as follows: TIMEEVENT10:45am – noonNTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice12:15pm – 1pmIndy Pro 2000 Race #11:05pm – 1:35pmUSF2000 Race #22pm – 2:30pmNTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying3pm – 3:50pmGlobal…
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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