INDIANAPOLIS (March 1, 2017) – Green Savoree Racing Promotions (GSRP) today extended its partnership with Piloti, makers of performance, luxury and casual driving shoes and apparel. Piloti will outfit race staff at both the 2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and 2017 Honda Indy Toronto as a result of the expanded program. “The partnership...
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Four-Time Indianapolis 500 Winner Al Unser to Return to Racing at SVRA Brickyard Invitational Four-Time Indianapolis 500 Winner Al Unser to Return to Racing at SVRA Brickyard Invitational One of the greatest drivers in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history is making a return to competition at the scene of his greatest triumphs. The Sportscar Vintage Racing...
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – February 16, 2017 – KV Racing Technology co-owners Kevin Kalkhoven and Jimmy Vasser issued the following statements today: “I want to thank all those who have written to express their appreciation of the efforts of KV Racing Technology during the last 14 years,” said Kalkhoven. “However as I approach 73, I feel...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Thankfully at 9:00pm the checkered flag fell on a very interesting night of testing that eventually started to get a little weird. Talking to RHR just after the session on pit lane, he said, “It was kind of a weird energy at the end with all those cautions. I’m glad to be...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Ok, about 8:30pm we got our next yellow, this time for wheel to wheel contact between the #2 of Josef Newgarden and the #18 of Sebastien Bourdais. The duo touched entering Turn 1. Bourdais was ahead and as they entered the then corner, Newgarden drove it down in to the inside, and...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan We’ve had our second wall contact of the session and third of the day as Takuma Sato has hit the wall at the exit of Turn 1. His accident looked similar to that of Rossi, and certainly had that “sound” as we heard him hit the wall – even inside the media...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan As expected, we saw Ed Jones heading down pit lane just after 6:00pm to go get in to his Dale Coyne Racing car. The temperature to start the session was 74 ambient and 78 track, with a fairly intermittent breeze blowing from Turn 1 toward Turn 3. I went out back of...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan First, TSO has checked in with Dale Coyne as to why Ed Jones only ran 8 laps in the first session. Turns out that Jones is getting over “Mono”. Dale said they sent Ed back to the hotel to rest most of the afternoon, but he will be back to run the...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Here is the time sheet from the 1-4pm practice session. After Rossi’s incident, the session ran mostly clean except for a couple of track inspections. Graham Rahal and Sebastien Bourdais both came in to the media center and I’ll send more notes from that shortly, but Graham said he did try...
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