JOSEF NEWGARDEN VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG TEAM: ED CARPENTER RACING STARTED: 11TH FINISHED: 22ND “We didn’t have the start we wanted. We were playing the catch up game right from the beginning, but I felt confident in what we could do to catch up and make a good day out...
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Qualified: Eighth (started seventh) Finished: 21st Quote: “Obviously, not the way we wanted to start the season. I am disappointed for our sponsors and want to thank all of them, Hydroxycut, Europa, Mouser, Molex, Plantronics, GEICO, American Racing Wheels, everyone, for their support. The good news is that we had pace and qualified eighth. Unfortunately,...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Ok, let’s go ahead and wrap things up from St. Petersburg, Florida (or to be 100% transparent – from somewhere in the sky between Tampa and Denver as I finish this one up from seat 27A of the SouthWest Airlines flight home). I will admit to just barely making this “optimistically” scheduled...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan And now the main event. The Verizon IndyCar Series Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg got off to a fairly clean start. Though there was some bumping and banging in the pack. This resulted in flat tires for Takuma Sato and James Hinchcliffe. Sato’s tire issue because evident as he locked up...
READ MOREThe following is a statement from INDYCAR: “Following his on-track incident on Friday Will Power displayed no signs of injury and was evaluated and cleared by the INDYCAR Medical team. Per INDYCAR protocol we also evaluated the data collected from his ear accelerometers, which provides data specific to the impact on a driver’s head, and...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, that was an interesting and busy morning! Quite surprised that Will Power will not be driving today, but fully respectful of the decision (a very tough one) to put Oriol Servia in to the car. That seems prudent, particular in light of how physical this race will be today, and in...
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READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Just a couple notes from warm-up. Montoya wound up in the tires, with light damage to the right front. Pigot and a couple others found run-off areas, but were able to continue. BREAKING: TEAM PENSKE just confirmed that Oriol Servia will drive for the sick Will Power in today’s race. He ran 9th in...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, the best laid out schedules – don’t always work out. As the sun came up at the track (something I got to see – which was beautiful), we immediately started hearing that Oriol Servia will drive the warm-up in the #12 car for Will Power who remains ill. TSO saw Servia...
READ MOREQualifying: Round 1 (Group 1): Sixth – 61.1450 secs/105.978 mph Round 2: Eighth – 60.6711 secs/106.805 mph Firestone Fast Six: N/A Qualified: Eighth “Obviously, not as good a qualifying session as last year, not as competitive as the Hydroxycut KVSH Racing team would have liked. Everything came back together very late so we didn’t get...
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