By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Qualifying for the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course got started under mostly sunny skies with the ambient temperature at 74 degrees and the track at 112. We do have a strong breeze blowing across the front straight, making that a head wind as driver’s run toward the...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan I was able to confirm that yes, some teams did not get the advantage of new tires due to the red that came out. Scott Dixon who was P3, turned his best lap on his 12th of 19 circuits, but could have done better had Aleshin not crashed. Talked to Mike Hull...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan All 21 cars quickly got on the track this morning, with Helio Castroneves jumping to P1 after everyone had run a few laps. Helio’s time of 1:04.7137 came on his fourth lap. Note that yesterday’s quick lap of the day was Ryan Hunter-Reay’s 1:04.2961, though that was set on the red tires....
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Good morning from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. I will just do a quick open today and then work through all the news and stories as the day rolls along. Of course, we’ll also cover all the on-track sessions for the Verizon IndyCar Series as they prepare for the Honda Indy...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich The second Verizon IndyCar Series practice session for the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course began under cloudy and somewhat threatening skies. The ambient temperature at the beginning of the session was 77F and the track temperature was 104F. The first half of the session was much busier than...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich The first of three forty-five minute practice sessions before the Verizon IndyCar Series stars qualifying for the for the 2017 edition of Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday afternoon began under cloudy skies. All 21 entries took to the 2.258-mile, 13-Turn natural terrain road course took to...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Good morning from a slightly foggy Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The current temperature is 65F and the forecast calls for a high in the upper 70’s. The forecast calls for a slight chance of rain this afternoon, but after that small annoyance, the forecast for the rest of the weekend looks terrific....
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich For the 33rd time, Indy cars will competing on the 2.258-mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The track that opened in 1963, is located in the rolling country side just outside Lexington, Ohio. Scott Dixon, who is looking for his sixth win at Mid-Ohio, currently holds a slim three point championship lead...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, time for the actual Final report. I’ll start by saying more nice things about the city of Toronto. I truly do enjoy coming to this town. I loved it the first time I came here back in the mid 90’s when I was carrying music equipment a band made up of...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Ok, Since we started so late today and things are just winding up and because it’s 7:00pm and we just got the press conferences finished 15 minutes ago, but mostly because I’m hungry and want to get to the hotel – this will be a quite run through of a few post...
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