By Steve Wittich Good morning from ISM Raceway, where the schedule is the same as yesterday. The first on-track session begins at 1pm and runs through 4pm, and the final on-track session begins at 6pm and runs through 9pm. I (Steve) have a 6:10pm flight back to Indianapolis, Ind. and will only be on-site for...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (mainly) and Steve Wittich (just a little) Meanwhile, I (Patrick) got a chance to talk with Cara Adams, the chief engineer for Bridgestone Americas Motorsports. She said the feedback she was getting from some drivers was that they were “pleasantly surprised” with the amount of grip they had, even with all of the...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Patrick Stephan The final hour of practice was the busiest of the day, with groups of cars running nose to tail on the one-mile oval. With just under 30 minutes left in the session, the yellow flag came out for a Turn 2 incident involving A.J. Foyt Racing rookie Matheus Leist....
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich The second 180-minute test session at ISM Raceway promptly at 7pm. The first two hours of the session saw the yellow flag five times for track inspections precipitated by cut tires. TSO ran into Jay Frye and he told us that the INDYCAR safety team found some debris in the Turn 2...
READ MOREThe 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...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich For most of the second-half of the session, A.J. Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan sat atop the timesheet, however on his last hot lap of the session, new Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing pilot Takuma Sato jumped to the top of timing and scoring at a lap of 187. 022mph. The...
READ MOREBy 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...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, the best-laid plans of mice and men, or some such literary nonsense. Working around my family’s usually inconvenient schedule, I had planned to fly to Phoenix on the 5:30am flight out of Denver. Packed all of my gear, including new hats (one east coast, one west coast – the flat bill),...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Good morning from ISM Raceway, where the entire 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series field is on hand for “spring training.” The teams and drivers have two three hour sessions of testing scheduled. The first session is from 1pm – 4pm, and the second session is from 6pm – 9pm (Mountain). You’ll be able...
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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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