By Patrick Stephan First on the Dixon spin at the end of the session. Remember that the timing line is just past the tires on the exit of Turn 8. This allows drivers to complete a lap, then go directly to pit road. Dixon was last in line and spun on the track over in...
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By Patrick Stephan Group 1 Round 1 After 5 minutes, the leader is Rosenqvist at 59.3424, then it’s Andretti, Bourdais, Rahal, Pigot, Power – then Sato who just got a drive through for a pit lane speed violation, followed by Chilton, Ferrucci, Leist and Karam. Everyone except Leist did their early laps on blacks. Switching...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan As we get ready for quals, the temperature is up to 80, with the track at 118, so way up from previous practices this weekend, and it was just 96 this morning. The humidity is 68%. There are some scattered showers heading this way, but will the stay together and or even...
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By Patrick Stephan Practice session #3 for the weekend got started with the track at 74F, the track at 96F and the humidity 78%. We’ve got bright sunshine and a light breeze here along the shores of Lake Ontario – the smallest of the Great Lakes. Almost 2/3rds of the way through the session, Simon...
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By Patrick Stephan First, according to my cell phone, it’s supposed to be 8 degrees warmer today. We’ve got full sunshine and the place looks beautiful with the temperature at 73F as of 9:45am. The track is at 92F and the humidity is up to 77%. In watching times of various series, we are still...
READ MOREInspirational racer Wickens returns to track in Toronto TORONTO (Friday, July 12, 2019) – Robert Wickens has inspired the masses with his unrelenting determination to fully recuperate from a multitude of injuries from his accident last August at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway, with the most serious being a spinal cord injury. On Sunday in front of...
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I was going to cut this up and highlight certain parts, but I decided our readers don’t need me to tell them the important parts of today’s Robert Wicken’s press conference – it’s all important! We got great answers from Mike Long the Arrow Chairman and CEO, Ted Klause, the President of Honda Performance Development,...
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By Patrick Stephan Today’s practices were interesting. First, surprised that the times are slightly slower this year versus last. Forgot to ask one of the drivers, but I’ll try to do that tomorrow. My hunch is that recent repaves of the back stretch (2017) and front stretch (2018) are showing their age thanks to the...
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By Patrick Stephan NTT IndyCar Series practice #2 started out under cloudy skies with the air temperature at 74, the track at 94 and the humidity at 61%. That’s up 2 on the ambient, up 9 on the track, and down 8 on the humidity from this morning. The session got exciting just three minutes...
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By Patrick Stephan Sage Karam’s reintroduction to an NTT IndyCar Series road course was not exactly trouble free. Steve spotted a team of Chevy engineer’s looking at his car after practice. I then saw Sage at the autograph session, and he told me the car wasn’t accelerating properly off the corners and it just sounded...
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