By Patrick Stephan Just a quick update to get things started from Gateway Motorsports Park, where we have temperature of 83 degrees, sunny skies and the humidity is a pretty reasonable (for here) 39%. It’s certainly sticky and a little muggy, but if it’s anything like last night at the Cardinal game – we are...
READ MOREFor the fourth time in the last two Verizon IndyCar Series seasons, a former track is making a return to the calendar. Gateway Motorsports Park, which last hosted an Indy car race in 2003, is joining 2016 additions Phoenix International Raceway, Road America, and Watkins Glen International, as former tracks that have returned to...
READ MOREPlainfield, IL (August 23, 2017) – Less than 14 weeks after being sidelined following his scary qualifying incident at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sebastien Bourdais is returning behind the wheel of the #18 Dale Coyne Racing entry at this weekend’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Bourdais, who suffered multiple fractures to his...
READ MORESOURCE: SPM PR INDIANAPOLIS, IN (August 21, 2017) – Verizon IndyCar Series team Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (SPM) has named a driver for the final two races of the 2017 season with Jack Harvey. The Lincolnshire, U.K. native will pilot the No.7 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports AutoNation Sirius XM Honda at Watkins Glen International and Sonoma Raceway. The...
READ MOREThe field went at least four wide after the green, and Kanaan went around the outside to take the lead by the time field filed through Turn 1. And end of the first lap, the top 10 were: Kanaan, Sato, Rossi, Power, Kimball, Pagenaud, Newgarden, Chilton, Rahal and Castroneves. Kanaan led lap 1, extending his...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich People I just finished up with an IndyCar Nation paddock tour, and the crowd in the infield is impressive, and is starting to build quite nicely in the front straight grandstand. It sounds like ticket sales were ahead of last year, and hopefully the picture perfect day will encourage a decent walk-up...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Ryan Hunter-Reay has been cleared to drive in today’s ABC Supply 500. Here is the statement from INDYCAR. Medical update on driver Ryan Hunter-Reay LONG POND, Pennsylvania (Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017) – Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay was re-evaluated by INDYCAR Medical Director Dr. Geoffrey Billows this morning after sustaining injuries to...
READ MORESOURCE: INDYCAR LONG POND, Pennsylvania (Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017) – Verizon IndyCar Series driver Ryan Hunter-Reay was evaluated at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Cedar Crest in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday for injuries to his left hip and knee sustained in a crash in qualifying for the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway. Hunter-Reay was treated...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich RHR Update We’re still waiting for official word on what Ryan Hunter-Reay’s status is, but the Andretti Autosport crew is busy preparing the No. 28 DHL Honda. There have been reports that Hunter-Reay had been released from the hospital earlier this evening, but TSO can confirm that, at least as of a...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich The final half-hour practice began promptly at 5pm. The ambient temperature was 78F and the track temperature was 118F. The 21 drivers spent the practice slicing and dicing in close proximity to each other to determine how their cars will run in traffic. The Team Penske crew was able to get a...
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