SONOMA, Calif. (Sept. 7, 2017) – Team Penske teammates Helio Castroneves, Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Will Power completed a one-day test session at Sonoma Raceway on Thursday to prepare for the Verizon IndyCar Series championship race weekend at the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, Sept. 15-17. This marks a particularly important test session for...
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By Patrick Stephan Couple quick thoughts on the attendance today. I really just don’t have a good feel for how many people were here. There seemed to be a decent amount in a few of the grandstands (excluding the main grandstand which is justifiable deserted – it’s not really a good place from which to...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan As always please forgive typos – this hasn’t been edited! The race got started with just damp, if that, conditions around most of the track. Wasn’t exactly dry, but certainly wasn’t wet any longer like it was earlier in the day! Pretty much as you’d expect from late October here in the...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Real quick before we go green. We got a solid shower before and during the Indy Lights race, but it has since stopped raining and the track is drying out. The pit lane – concrete – is actually dry. The wetter parts of the course though are in the bus stop, carousel...
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By Patrick Stephan Good morning from a damp and chilly Watkins Glen International, where it’s almost raining and almost dry. The temperature at the start of the Verizon IndyCar Series Warm-up was 56 and the track was 57. It’s one of those weird days where your hands are freezing, but your body – covered up...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Here are the semi-final notes from today. Remember that Steve has all the news and notes from the Mazda Road to Indy over at TSOLadder.com. I will also send some summaries from those series and any other stuff I pick up a little later tonight (after dinner 😉 ). Let’s go back...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Before we get started with qualifying, just a couple silly season notes. TSO (Steve) talked with Santi Urrutia who confirmed he will NOT be racing at Sonoma. He will be there and is hoping to make an announcement about his Verizon IndyCar Series future at that time. A driver that just might...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Ok, first that super exciting Friday night social report (I’m lying!) I stayed near Rochester in a town called Victor on Thursday night, but will spend Friday and Saturday in Sayre (which is actually in Pennsylvania). This is clearly a failure on my part to book early and/or pay more! I’m what...
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By Patrick Stephan Welcome to Saturday at Watkins Glen International, where it is again a little chilly, but still pretty nice! The sun in trying to peak out as Verizon IndyCar Series practice starts at 10:30am ET, but the official temperature from Firestone is just 53 ambient and the track is 66 degrees. I will...
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By Patrick Stephan Picked up a few things from Steve that were later confirmed on IndyCar Radio, including Ricardo Juncos talking about his 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series plans. He’s been talked about as a full-time team for next year, but he wouldn’t confirm this. As Steve Wittich has said for a while now, Juncos will...
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