By Patrick Stephan (TSO_Patrick) and Bruce Martin (@BruceMartin_500) Good morning, Patrick Stephan here, and welcome to Phoenix International Raceway, where at 9:00am activity is fast and furious in the garage area to prepare for today’s on track activity in support of tomorrow night’s Desert Diamond Phoenix Grand Prix for the Verizon IndyCar Series. Ok, that’s...
READ MORERound four of the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series is an old-fashioned shootout on short-track bullring in the “Valley Of The Sun.” In 2016, the Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix took place during the first weekend in April, but was pushed back a number of weeks this year because Phoenix, Ariz. played host to...
READ MOREWhat began with loud thunder sounding like Birmingham was being bombed to a day that ended with confetti falling on Josef Newgarden’s winning Indy car for the second time in three years at Barber Motorsports Park, Sunday was quite an intriguing and busy day. Oh, and then there was this Alonso guy who generated plenty...
READ MOREBy Bruce Martin and Steve Wittich All cars except the No. 2 Chevrolet driven by Josef Newgarden, Sebastien Bourdais’ Honda, Charlie Kimball’s Honda and Carlos Munoz’s Chevrolet started the race on the alternate tires (Firestone Reds). After turning the fastest laps in Sunday morning warmup, Marco Andretti had to pit before the green flag ever...
READ MOREBy Bruce Martin and Steve Wittich Good morning from a damp Barber Motorsports Park where it has stopped raining, but everything (including the track) is still very wet after raining all night here in Birmingham, Ala.. I’ve been told that a pretty strong thunderstorm rolled through sometime after 1am, but I must have been very tired....
READ MOREBy Bruce Martin and Steve Wittich Verizon IndyCar Series close from Bruce LEEDS, Alabama – The long anticipated, highly predicted rain shower finally arrived on Saturday and luckily it came after nearly all the track activity was completed at Barber Motorsports Park. And to be honest, the rainstorm wasn’t that bad. But out with...
READ MOREBy Bruce Martin and Steve Wittich Verizon IndyCar Series qualifying report from Bruce LEEDS, Alabama – Not that they ever left, but after getting a somewhat slow start to the season by Team Penske standards, the best way to describe their effort in Saturday’s qualifications at Barber Motorsports Park was the famous line uttered in...
READ MOREOh… hello group 2. Advancing from that stacked group will be an accomplishment. Group 1 Group 2 Josef Newgarden Will Power Mikhail Aleshin Helio Castroneves James Hinchcliffe Simon Pagenaud Marco Andretti Scott Dixon Max Chilton Graham Rahal Ed Jones Ryan Hunter-Reay Tony Kanaan Sebastien Bourdais Spencer Pigot Takuma Sato Charlie Kimball Alexander Rossi Zach Veach...
READ MOREIndyCar report by Bruce Martin – MRTI reports by Steve Wittich IndyCar Practice Session #3 LEEDS, Alabama – It was a spirited battle up front between the biggest names in the Verizon IndyCar Series in Saturday’s final practice session before qualifications for the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. By...
READ MOREBy Bruce Martin and Steve Wittich LEEDS, Alabama – It was another action-packed Friday for the Verizon IndyCar Series at Barber Motorsports Park as teams participated in two practice sessions before Saturday’s knockout round of qualifications culminating in the Firestone Fast Six. That will set the starting lineup for the third race of the...
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