By Patrick Stephan The first NTT IndyCar Series session of the weekend got started with the temperatures about the same as noted earlier (72 Ambient, 84 Track, 68%humidity and the wind at 6mph from the West North West). One thing we’ll be watching this weekend is the new primary Firestone tire, which features a new...
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By Patrick Stephan Good morning from inside the cavernous Exhibition Place where the Honda Indy Toronto paddock has been set up for this weekend. The media center is conveniently located in one of the “Salons” that separate the public areas of the convention center. So, we have haulers on one side in the convention space,...
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By Steve Wittich For the 35th year, the NTT IndyCar Series (and forerunners) will be racing on the shores of Lake Ontario, in Toronto, Ontario. This is the 41st Indy car race held in the province and 77th in the country. Paul Tracy is the only home-country driver to visit victory lane ‘North Of...
READ MOREWickens to demo Arrow-modified Acura NSX in Toronto I’M GETTING BACK IN A CAR! I’ll be doing the parade lap for the @hondaindy! This is just amazing and couldn’t happen without the help of @arrowelectronics installing the hand controls and @HondaRacing_HPD trusting me with such an awesome car! #IndyTO #ArrowDriven #SCIrecovery pic.twitter.com/mmaTIlrxCW — Robert Wickens...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich A total of 13 cars took part in NTT IndyCar Series testing yesterday. Ten drivers took on the 2.258-mile, 13-turn Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and a trio of rookies tested at Iowa Speedway. Felix Rosenqvist (Chip Ganassi Racing), Santino Ferrucci (Dale Coyne Racing) and Marcus Ericsson (Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports) all got...
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By Patrick Stephan Well, this took longer than I wanted, but I found a lot of things interesting in the Road America race, so let’s keep looking at some additional items. Tires We can start with tires, and it looked to me like Firestone did a good job with the tire degradation on the Alternate...
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By Steve Wittich Defending Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward, who has made seven NTT IndyCar Series starts this season will be making his debut in the FIA Formula 2 Championship this coming weekend at Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. O’Ward, who finished 17th in last weekend’s REV Group Grand Prix At Road America, will...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Here goes some end of the day stuff, some put together at the track, some at MKE and sent from DEN, the rest will go out tomorrow! Note, we got a brief rain shower about 15 minutes after the checkered while Rossi was still in victory lane. Then the sun came...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan As usual, please forgive typos as we do this running race report. The race got off to a relatively clean start with Rossi ducking in behind Herta by the time they get to the start/finish line. Rossi then popped out and made a great move around the outside of Herta through Turns...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Well, the weather looks like it will hold, but we do see some scattered thunderstorm activity working its way up from the southwest and toward the track. Certainly we will start dry, but not 100% sure we’ll stay that way all day. It’s pretty windy out there (same direction as all...
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