In preparation for the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, NTT IndyCar Series drivers will participate in an Open Test from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (ET) Wednesday, April 24 on the famed 2.5-mile oval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Veterans will take the oval from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., with Rookie Orientation Program and…
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NTT IndyCar Series Teams To Participate in Indy 500 Test Wednesday, April 24 at IMS
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Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Post Race Final
By Patrick Stephan Alright, lets try to wrap up a rather pedestrian race in Long Beach. First, my opinion – no, it wasn’t a great race! But, that’s ok, they don’t all need to be “great” with an exciting battle for the win, and they won’t be, that’s racing. You set the distance, set…
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Corrected UNOFFICIAL Results of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach
By Patrick Stephan Corrected UNOFFICIAL RESULTS – This has Graham in 4th per the penalty for blocking, but we’re still awaiting something “official” as Timing and Scoring still has Graham in 3rd. NOTE: I am personally protesting the penalty as I had Graham on my IndyCar Series Fantasy League driven by Firestone! Pos Car #…
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Quick and Dirty Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Race Report
By Patrick Stephan As usual please forgive any typos as this is compiled as the race runs without editing! The track temp at 1:34PDT was 112 with the ambient on pit lane at 66F. This is the 36th IndyCar event at Long Beach. The first was won by Mario Andretti in 1984. It’s the 45th…
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Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Morning Warm-Up Notes and Results
By Patrick Stephan The sun started to break through more and more as the morning warm-up ran today. By the halfway mark the temp was up three degrees to 63F and the track was at 74F. The humidity is still high at 81%, making it pretty steamy out there, though the low temp and any…
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Welcome to Race Day in Long Beach
By Patrick Stephan We have a cool start to Sunday at the Acrua Grand Prix of Long Beach, with the air temp at 60F and the track at 70. The humidity is at 85 percent. All of this seems to be coming from the marine layer that hasn’t yet burned off. To me, that’s going…
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News from INDYCAR: Rossi repeats as NTT P1 Award winner at Long Beach
Rossi repeats as NTT P1 Award winner at Long Beach LONG BEACH, California (Saturday, April 13, 2019) – Now that he’s repeated as the NTT P1 Award winner at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Alexander Rossi is looking to echo the 2018 race results. The driver of the No. 27 NAPA AUTO PARTS…
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tags: 2019, Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach, Alexander Rossi, Firestone Fast Six, NTT IndyCar Series, pole
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Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Saturday End of Day!
By Patrick Stephan Ok, time to finish up our Saturday coverage and get ready for what should be a very entertaining Sunday in Long Beach. Zak Brown, the CEO of McClaren Racing came in to the media center to talk about his team’s entry for Fernando Alonso in the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Brown first talked…
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Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Qualifying
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Conditions for today’s qualifying session are beautiful (I may have mentioned that before). It’s 67 ambient and 105 on the track. It’s still fairly humid, but that seems to be letting up just a bit. Gotta say I’m pretty impressed by the fans here again. Nice turn-out, and I really like…
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Saturday – 2:40pm – Steve’s notes after looking at data from Practice #3
A few notes from Steve on P3 I’m not at Long Beach this weekend, but of course, I’m still paying attention. I’m just trying to get errands done between on-track activity except between P3 and qual. I put together a few notes and a database after sifting through some data. I broke the track down…
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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