By Steve Wittich After the second practice session for the Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach, the two dozen Verizon IndyCar Series has confused looks on their face. Alexander Rossi led the session, but only three of the drivers set their quickest lap during that practice session, including Rossi, Josef Newgarden, and Kyle Kaiser. And,...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Scott Dixon, with a lap of 68.411 seconds led the first practice session at the Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach for the third time in the last four years. He was followed in the top five by Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi, Simon Pagenaud, and James Hinchcliffe. The top 15 drivers were...
READ MOREGood morning from Long Beach, Calif. where the weather is exactly what a travel agent would order- if weather could be ordered. Headed to @ToyotaGPLB tomorrow? Here’s your forecast conditions..overall a pleasant day..not as windy as today was, but should still see some afternoon gusts #TGPLB #IndyCar pic.twitter.com/0Ru1TOLUSv — Indycar Weatherman (@Indycar_Wxman) April 13, 2018...
READ MOREThe fast food company will provide associate sponsorship to the No. 98 through the Indy 500-winning team. LONG BEACH, Calif. (April 12, 2018) – Mexican fast food favorite, King Taco, will again join the Bryan Herta Autosport team of partners for this year’s Grand Prix of Long Beach. The pair has partnered for the annual event...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich For the 44th straight year the streets surrounding the harbor in the city of Long Beach, Calif. will play host to open-wheel cars. The very first Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach was held in September 1975 and was an F5000 race won by Brian Redman. The annual “Roar By The Shoar”...
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By Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich First thanks for tuning in to tonight’s TSO coverage from ISM Raceway. Notably this is the final event on the current configuration so the photographers are taking lots of extra pictures, including of the winner, Newgarden out on the now “old” start/finish line. That moves to the current Turn...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Sebastian Bourdais didn’t get away with the rest of the field, but he was restarted and able to get back to his spot a the start of the field. The Track Temp was 105 and the ambient at 94 as the cars did their pace laps before getting the green flag at...
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By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Steve is out gathering some news, so I’ll do a quick note. First, it’s always cool to find out who is watching your races, and especially cool when people that are not even on the PLANET are paying attention. Granted, that’s a small demographic and probably not heavily targeted by marketing...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Bobby Santos, who dropped back early from his outside front row position, used a well-timed pit stop under yellow, to make the adjustments and fresh Hoosier Tire rubber to give him the car he needed to win his second consecutive Cooper Cup at ISM Raceway. Nine rows of two heavy metal machines...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich Well, I (Patrick) have made it to the track, more on that is below, including some thank you’s! Steve didn’t have a big social calendar last night, and my travel stuff is below, so I’ll pick things up on my travels with this morning. I again stopped at the...
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