By Joe Berkemeier and Steve Wittich Good morning from a sunny Barber Motorsports Park for the second day of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. We’ve already had a Indy Lights qualifying session this morning, with Ed Jones taking the pole for the first of two Indy Lights races this weekend. That race will...
READ MORESEBASTIEN BOURDAIS No. 11 Team EUROPA – KVSH Racing Chevrolet/Dallara/Firestone Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – Friday, April 22 – Practice Practice No. 1: First – 67.3399 secs/122.958 mph Practice No. 2: 10th – 67.5831 secs/122.516 mph Combined speed report: Fourth (from practice No. 1) – 67.3399 secs/122.958 mph“We came out of the test...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Joe Berkemeier So, on the docket for tomorrow is a “Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Announcement” at 10:00am. If this happens (and there’s a fair chance it might not), it would be to announce something related to their third Indianapolis 500 entry. Might be a co-owner for the entry along with SPM, might...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Joe Berkemeier Team Pelfrey played the strategy game to come out on top in qualifying for tomorrow’s first Pro Mazda race of the weekend. They waited on slick tires for their competition to dry the track using their rain tires, then headed out and took three of the top four spots....
READ MOREBy Joe Berkemeier and Steve Wittich Barber Motorsports Park experienced a decent thunderstorm this afternoon that stopped the PWC race early and caused Pro Mazda qualifying to be delayed. Verizon IndyCar practice will now start at 3:20pm local time (4:20pm Eastern) and run until 4:35 (5:35 Eastern). The USF2000 race and second Indy Lights practice...
READ MOREby Joe Berkemeier and Steve Wittich Some new paint schemes this weekend. Scott Dixon is in a Coca-Cola scheme this weekend. Second year in a row for that scheme here, but still cool: Dixon also did a media advance in Atlanta (home of Coca-Cola) yesterday. Marco Andretti is racing in the colors of hhgregg this...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich and Joe Berkemeier Good morning from the Barber Motorsports Park, where the first of three busy days of the Honda Grand Prix of Alabama are underway. The forecast today calls for rain and perhaps thunderstorms. We’ve had a mix of bright sun and clouds so far today, and the current radar shows...
READ MORECorporate Support for Grand Prix of Boston Powered by LogMeIn Continues Seven New Partners Join Event BOSTON (April 21, 2016) – Today, the Grand Prix of Boston powered by LogMeIn announced the addition of seven new corporate partners, which brings the total partner count to more than 100, for the inaugural Grand Prix event...
READ MORESEBASTIEN BOURDAIS NO. 11 TEAM EUROPA – KVSH RACING CHEVROLET/DALLARA/FIRESTONE Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – April 22-24, 2016 KVSH Racing driver Sebastien Bourdais is coming off a solid ninth place finish last weekend in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Round 3 of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series season. The top-10 finish...
READ MOREBy Steve Wittich For the seventh straight year, the Verizon IndyCar Series visits the lush rolling hills just west Birmingham, Alabama and the 2.3 mile 17-turn Barber Motorsports Park road course in need of a serious “kick in the butt” to get the action amped back up to a nice level before heading into the...
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