By Patrick Stephan Before we finish up for the day from St. Pete, time to round up all the MRTI racing (and there was a lot of it). Head over to TSOLadder.com for the full details of every event, but here is a quick summary. In USF2000 action, it was all about Pabst Racing. Jordan...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Note, that issue at the end of practice earlier was actually Bourdais and Aleshin. I’d previously said it was Kanaan. Sorry for the error – and we still don’t know exactly what happened, but clearly the Frenchman was not happy with the Russian. The first group featured a lot of Andretti Autosport...
READ MOREQualifying is just getting started. Here are the groups! Group 1 41 Jack Hawksworth 15 Graham Rahal 21 Josef Newgarden 11 Sebastien Bourdais 9 Scott Dixon 27 Marco Andretti 5 James Hinchcliffe 98 Alexander Rossi 26 Carlos Munoz 8 Max Chilton 18 Conor Daly Group 2 12 Will Power 2 Juan Pablo Montoya 3 Helio...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Got to go hang out with Mark Jaynes and the IndyCar Radio crew during the Verizon Indy Car Series practice. That’s always fun, and always an interesting perspective for watching/working a session. The practice ran fairly clean, with just one red for Ryan Hunter-Reay who ran out of fuel at the entrance...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Well, we’ve been flying through the morning here in beautiful St. Pete. And no, we can’t say that enough. The weather is great. It’s sunny, but with just enough of a “marine layer” haze to make it comfortable out. Temps are expected to approach 80 degrees today, and while the humidity makes...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Welcome to TSO’s Saturday coverage from the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Quick reminder that the action gets started early today with Pro Mazda qualifying, followed by Indy Lights Qualifying at the top of the hour. Right now the temperature 68 degrees, with a thin layer of haze out there and...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Interesting day, that is almost, but not quite, over. First, we need to wrap up some of today’s MRTI action. Full details from Indy Lights, Pro Mazda, and USF2000 can be found at our sister site, TSOLadder.com Each series ran a pair of practices today. In USF2000, Jordan Lloyd led the first...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan Once they got the track fixed, the session was able to run to completion here in St. Petersburg, with Will Power taking over the top spot after he put on some new tires for a late session run that resulted in a lap time of just 1:00.9431. For reference, the qualifying lap...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan As always happens here at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, things got a little busy. So, with that, let’s try to get caught up a bit. First – Will Power’s Penske team has been in full on thrash most to repair that damaged car. Members of all four teams have...
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan As you would expect of the first session of the weekend on a street circuit, we had some drivers take their time getting on the track with Marco Andretti the last to make a lap (beyond just an install) at about the 30 minute mark of the session. The time sheet around...
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