“What They’re Saying” from the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 race SIMON PAGENAUD (No. 1 DXC Technology Team Penske Chevrolet, 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series champion): “It was very much pack racing, so we were trying to get away from the pack, which we did for quite a while. It was a way also to save some...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, I left the media center at 2:15am (with half a dozen reporters still there), and made my way to my hotel over near Love Field. Got a good nap in from 3:30am to 7:00am and now back at DAL to fly home to DEN. A couple quick final thoughts on Saturday...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, it all started out with great promise and ended up being a thrilling mess! I’ll go with that. Yesterday the concern was that Turns 1 and 2 would be one groove and we wouldn’t see any much passing down there. I predicted the race would be like an Indy 500 –...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan IndyCar’s under the lights in Texas + Full Moon + New Pavement + IndyCar driver’s being absolutely CRAZY = I’m not even sure. I need a word for brutally thrilling!!! Oh and have I mentioned the Full Moon!!! I watched this race from up stairs in the press box – and glad...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Just a couple super quick notes as we get ready to head upstairs for tonight’s Verizon IndyCar Series race. I have to note that the weather this year is making a huge difference – at least in “attitude.” I went outside and walked the garage area here for a while and while...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Welcome to a sweaty Saturday at the Texas Motor Speedway, where as I start this, the temperature at 3:30pm Central Time is 88degrees F and we’ve got 15mph winds out of the South South East. Humidity is a nice and sticky 49%. We’re not expecting things to cool down much until around...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Ok fans, time to wrap this up and call it a day. Not even that late in race track time, but it is almost 7:00pm. Below is the time sheet from the final practice session here at TMS. One interesting thing about the schedule here this weekend is that the cars will never...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Some things that stand out from qualifying. Interesting that Chevrolet won all the poles before the Indy 500, and Honda has won them all since. In fact, it was a Team Penske show early this year with Power winning three poles (St. Pete, Barber, Indy GP), and Helio taking the Verizon P1...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Couple quick notes and the qualifying results. Back with more in a bit! Charlie Kimball went out 18th in the qualifying order and knocked his teammate Scott Dixon off the pole for the Rain Guard Water Sealers 600k here at the Texas Motor Speedway. Dixon, had led the only practice session earlier...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan We lost a little bit of practice time in this session as they worked to finish drying the track. INDYCAR threw the green flag around 1:00pm Central and announced that the session would indeed still end at 2:00pm. So instead of 75 minutes, the driver’s would get just an hour of practice...
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