By Steve Wittich A lot of very loose race cars, a potential incredible storyline, and improving track and a dominating final run were the key stories of qualifying for the Iowa Corn 300, but at the end of the day, it was Will Power who won the 48th pole of his career. One driver had...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Sorry for the delay in getting this update to you. The delay was caused by waiting for Hildebrand to clear medical. Despite not testing at Iowa Speedway this year, Team Penske unloaded quickly, and ended up in the top three spots of the timesheet. Last year’s winner Josef Newgarden turned the fastest...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich Good morning from Iowa Speedway, where a busy day of IndyCar, MRTI and ARCA action is scheduled to get under way in an hour. According to our friend, @IndyCar_WxMan, the forecast for today looks like it will a wonderful day to be at the race-track. Today's weather conditions @iowaspeedway: lots of sun,...
READ MORESix straight years of Andretti Autosport dominance came to an end by the time the checkered flag fell on the tenth anniversary edition of the Iowa Corn 300. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Josef Newgarden shucked (groan… oh great, there’s the first lame corn based pun) the competition while leading 282 of 300 laps on the way to...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, first off, I got the points wrong earlier (I missed Sato), so here are the updated unofficial point standings from INDYCAR: 1. Scott Dixon 379 2. Simon Pagenaud 345 3. Helio Castroneves 342 4. Takuma Sato 323 5. Josef Newgarden 318 6. Will Power 316 7. Graham Rahal 307 8. Tony...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Usual disclaimer – this is typed as the race runs, with no re-read! Please excuse typos! The 55 lap Kohler Grand Prix started with the ambient temperature at 66 degrees with a relative humidity of 59 percent. The track temperature was 85 degrees, according to Firestone engineers. The field was pretty well...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Quick weather note. The cloud cover here has picked up and the clouds are a little darker than we saw yesterday. Radar in the area shows some very light precipitation widely scattered over the region. Chance of rain is listed as 15% during the planned race time, so we “should” be ok....
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Please note: The broadcast time for the Verizon IndyCar Series race has been moved UP!! They will now start the broadcast at 11:00am Central, Noon ET! This is because the F1 race is running a little long and now they won’t be able to show the Indy Light’s race (they will show...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Patrick Stephan (mostly Steve) After struggling in qualifying, Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay (qualified 12th) and Alexander Rossi (qualified 15th) were able to find some speed during warm-up. Hunter-Reay had the quickest lap of the session at 1:43.7956 seconds, and Rossi was third at 1:44.3502 seconds. It’s normally the cars from the...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well race fans, time to finish up my first day here at Road America (my first day, not ours of course). It’s been interesting, I just wish I had the chance to get outside a little bit more. I did walk over to Honda hospitality for their press conference, but that’s been...
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