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IndyCar testing from ISM Raceway – Update #4 – Friday – 5:30pm – Corrected first session time sheet

The cattywampus has been fixed. Here are the correct lap speeds from the first test session. RANK DRIVER FASTEST LAP TOTAL LAPS 1 Takuma Sato 187.022 44 2 Simon Pagenaud 186.611 54 3 Tony Kanaan 186.112 21 4 Matheus Leist 186.094 40 5 Sebastien Bourdais 185.584 50 6 Graham Rahal 185.295 31 7 Marco Andretti...

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IndyCar testing from ISM Raceway – Update #3 – Friday – 2:40pm – times and a Byrd Racing update

By Steve Wittich The first of four three-hour test session for the 2018 edition of Verizon IndyCar Series spring training began promptly at 1pm with the ambient temperature at 77F and the track temperature at 95F. There was not a cloud in the sky, and to this Hoosier, the weather was absolutely perfect. With a...

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TSO’s INDYCAR Windscreen testing report and notebook

By Steve Wittich After two years of meticulous and methodical work behind the scenes, the dedicated group that has been working on cockpit protection for Verizon IndyCar Series drivers, pronounced the first on-track test of the windscreen a success. “We came here and had a plan to test in daylight, dusk, and dark, so if...

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Phoenix Open Test – Rookie Testing – Thursday 6:30pm MST

By Steve Wittich The final three hours of the rookie test session on the one-mile ISM Raceway oval ran clean and green. That prompted the first sigh of relief among the team owners and managers. The quickest of the rookies was A.J. Foyt Racing’s Matheus Leist. The Brazilian Indy Lights grad won two oval races...

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Phoenix Open Test – Rookie Testing – Thursday 2:10pm MST

By Steve Wittich We’re currently one hour into a four-hour rookie test session here at ISM (PIR) that is scheduled to run until 5pm.    When the four-hour rookie test session began promptly at 1pm, the ambient temperature was 77F and the average track temperature was 94F. The lowest temperature of 88F was on the front straight...

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IndyCar spring training – Thursday – Noon – Welcome and a Quick Preview

By Steve Wittich Good morning from the newly renamed ISM Raceway in Phoenix, where for the third straight year, the Verizon IndyCar Series teams and drivers have traveled the “Valley of the Sun” for a “spring training” open test before the season gets underway on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. in one month’s time....

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