By Tony DiZinno Good morning from Road America, as we head into Saturday at the KOHLER Grand Prix weekend. Here is today’s schedule, which will basically mean Steve and I divide today into two parts: the three hours when we aren’t in the media center in the paddock, and the six hours when we are…
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KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America – Saturday, 7 a.m. – Good morning and today’s schedule
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KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America – Friday, 4:15 p.m. – Second practice notes and results
By Tony DiZinno Friday’s second practice at the 4.014-mile Road America circuit was a better gauge of qualifying conditions for Saturday, given qualifying will run at the same time of day tomorrow. INDYCAR noted temperatures at 70 degrees Fahrenheit ambient and 84 on track before the start of the one-hour second practice, which ran from…
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KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America – Friday, 1:15 p.m. – Young driver, liveries and USF2000 updates
By Tony DiZinno Newgarden downplays early pace in first practice First practice session leader Josef Newgarden visited the media center at a little after 12:30 p.m. CT and local time. The driver of the No. 1 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet cautioned against reading too much into first session times because they aren’t entirely representative. He…
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KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America – Friday, 11:50 a.m. – First practice news and notes
By Tony DiZinno Temperatures were 64 degrees Fahrenheit ambient and 78 track per Firestone as the first Verizon IndyCar Series practice session went green at 11 a.m. CT and local time. All cars went in and out for an installation lap, including series debutante Alfonso Celis Jr. in the No. 32 Juncos Racing Chevrolet. But…
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KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America – Friday, 10 a.m. – Wickens and Hinchcliffe debrief, and three MRTI sessions
By Tony DiZinno Should have noted in the first update, I (Tony) will be on primarily for TrackSide Online’s Verizon IndyCar Series coverage this weekend while Steve Wittich will lead our coverage on the TSO Ladder presented by Cooper Tires site. — Schmidt Peterson Motorsports teammates Robert Wickens and James Hinchcliffe brought their comedy act…
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KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America – Friday, 7 a.m. – Welcome to race weekend, and a Thursday round-up
By Tony DiZinno Good, early morning from Road America! It is the second day of the KOHLER Grand Prix weekend, following the opening round of practice for Mazda Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires and Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich held Thursday afternoon. Here is today’s schedule. It is rare we…
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Kohler Grand Prix at Road America – 2018 – Steve’s Preview
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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