MICHIGAN-BORN COUNTRY MUSIC STAR FRANKIE BALLARD TO PERFORM SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT THE CHEVROLET DETROIT GRAND PRIX PRESENTED BY LEAR DETROIT, Mich. (February 26, 2019) – One of Michigan’s most popular national music stars will return home for one of Detroit’s most popular summertime events as country and blues star Frankie Ballard will perform at…
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Country Music Star Frankie Ballard to Perform on June 1 at the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear
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INDYCAR to introduce next phase of cockpit safety
INDIANAPOLIS (Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019) – INDYCAR announced today the planned introduction of the next step to improve cockpit safety for all drivers in the NTT IndyCar Series. All cars participating in an April 24 open test on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval will be fitted with Advanced Frontal Protection (AFP), a titanium piece made…
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MIKE TIRICO TO HOST NBC SPORTS’ INAUGURAL COVERAGE OF INDIANAPOLIS 500
MIKE TIRICO TO HOST NBC SPORTS’ INAUGURAL COVERAGE OF INDIANAPOLIS 500 100 Days Until 103rd Indianapolis 500 Presented by Gainbridge NBC to Broadcast Indy 500 for First Time Ever on May 26 STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 15, 2019 – With 100 days until the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, NBC Sports announced today that Mike…
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NTT IndyCar Series testing at COTA – close with a combined timesheet, notes, notable performance and thoughts
By Steve Wittich Patrick is on a plane back to Denver, so you are stuck with a close from Steve tonight. First up the combined timesheet from the two days of NTT IndyCar Series testing from the Circuit of The Americas. table.tableizer-table { font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .tableizer-table…
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COTA Open Test Final Session Notes and Timesheet!
By Patrick Stephan As often happens in these test sessions, the green flag waved for the afternoon session promptly at 1:00pm, but there were initially no takers. The temperature here was a cold 60 ambient with the track at 76 as the session started. By “cold” 76 I’m again saying that’s kind of a humid/wet…
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COTA Open Test Session One Notes and Timesheet
By Patrick Stephan Well, a lot more action today as we had a total of three red flags slow the action and earn some drivers 5 minute time-outs here on the second day of testing at Circuit of the Americas. The first NTT IndyCar Series machine to have trouble was Jack Harvey who spun in…
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Welcome to Day 2 of the COTA Open Test 10:05am
By Patrick Stephan Well today dawned a little colder and less hospitable than I expected. Got to the rental car around 7:15am and found it covered in a nice layer of frost. Got inside to warm up the car and find the ice scraper and discovered the car was claiming it was 34 degrees outside,…
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COTA Open Test End of Day 1 Notes!
By Patrick Stephan Ok, back at the hotel finishing up for the day. Grabbed some BBQ from a drive thru near the hotel in Bastrop. I am NOT familiar with this area, and this is my first time in Austin, so I decided to bounce around a little bit to pick up some local knowledge….
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COTA Open Test Update 6:10pm
By Patrick Stephan Mattheus Leist spun at the exit of Turn 1, around 65 minutes in to the session. He was able to get it pointed the right direction and continued down the hill toward Turn 2. 79 minutes in to the session Will Power went P1 at 1:48.0319, followed by Rossi, Ferrucci, Pigot and…
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COTA Open Test Update 3:30pm
By Patrick Stephan The “lunch break” wasn’t really much of a break today. The first driver in to the media center interview room was Conor Daly who came in along with Major Ross McKnight, the National Events Branch Chief, Air Force Recruiting. They talked about Conor’s 2019 Indy 500 program with Andretti Autosport. Conor was…
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INDYCAR News from around the Internet:- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious pointsThat report was made public Monday afternoon, and it’s loaded with an absence of surprises, although there are a few bits of weirdness involved. Rather than submit what KPMG said would be an ideal computer-aided design plan for the proposed F1 track that would identify all mandatory components required following FIA (the governing body of […]
- Here’s who won the race between Formula 1 and IndyCar in Long BeachIn October last year the city released a request for proposals seeking “an open-wheel auto racing format” to run the annual Grand Prix event. From the start it was only a two-horse race between Michaelian and Pook. Pook, of course, was hardly a carpetbagger. He founded the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1975 and brought […]
- Q&A: Printup talks future of WGI, IndyCar, PhishEverybody was excited, but I take a lot of personal interest in IndyCar. I always have. I kind of grew up in IndyCar, so I was glad that we were able to get them back. The fans themselves, for only having a little bit less than 90 days to sell the race last year, we […]
- Rick Mears – still the ultimate pro at 65Over the past 20-something years writing about racing, I’ve encountered three people from whom I learn something about the art of racecar driving every time we speak for longer than five minutes. One of that trio is Rick Ravon Mears, born this day 65 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, and brought up in Bakersfield, Calif. […]
- Memoir helps widow cope after IndyCar driver's deathTonya Bergeson-Dana talks with her son, Conor, about his father when he brings it up, which is often. If he’s asking the questions, she reasons, he’s ready to hear the answers. Paul Conor Dana, at age 9, knows that his father was Paul Dana, a journalist and IndyCar driver who died in March 2006 during […]
- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious points