By Tony DiZinno The seven races for the Mazda Road to Indy at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2015 are in the books. Nico Jamin (Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda), Santiago Urrutia (Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires) and Sean Rayhall (Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires) scored the wins in Saturday’s races. —...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno and Blake Johnson The crowd is moving into the grandstands and filling up the viewing mounds. Prime spots on the viewing mounds were claimed early. They are now pretty full. What is the oval turn 4 but today is the road course turn 1 is another popular spot. Turn 1 will be...
READ MOREBy Blake Johnson With no Hondas qualifying in the top ten, Honda teams are searching for speed in the warmup session. Sebastian Saavedra got off track on his third lap. He went around then cut through the gravel. Everyone is looking for more speed in this session, trying to brake as late as possible to...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno A quick hitter from the Mazda Road to Indy before today’s trio of races to round out the seven-race weekend… Lucky Latif This isn’t something you see everyday. World Speed Motorsports Pro Mazda driver Alessandro Latif was just doing his usual driving from Turns 6 to 7 on the backstraight, with one...
READ MOREBy Blake Johnson Fans are filing into Indianapolis motor Speedway for today’s activities. One thing fans will notice will be all of the green on the front stretch. IMS has installed green Angie’s List advertising along the prime sponsorship real estate, the front stretch. It is different but it doesn’t bother me personally. The signage...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno A quick hitter from the Mazda Road to Indy before today’s trio of races to round out the seven-race weekend… Lucky Latif This isn’t something you see everyday. World Speed Motorsports Pro Mazda driver Alessandro Latif was just doing his usual driving from Turns 6 to 7 on the backstraight, with one...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno and Blake Johnson Welcome to race day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All three series in the Road to Indy will race here today leading up to the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis at 3:50pm. Todays events are fan friendly with a bronze badge grid walk at 3pm along with driver’s introductions....
READ MOREFilippi, Newgarden Advance To Top 12 (SPEEDWAY, Ind.) May 8, 2015 – Qualifying Notes Luca Filippi led the three-car CFH Racing contingent today, qualifying 9th for the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis. Josef Newgarden will roll off 12th in tomorrow’s event while JR Hildebrand will start 15th. Filippi and Hildebrand were in Round 1,...
READ MORESTEFANO COLETTI NO. 4 KV RACING TECHNOLOGY CHEVROLET/DALLARA/FIRESTONE Qualifying: Round 1 (Grp 1): 70.3840 secs / 124.750 mph Round 2: 70.3679 secs / 124.778 mph Firestone Fast Six: N/A Qualified: 10th “I am really happy with qualifying. Finally we advanced to the next round and will start 10th for tomorrow’s Angie’s List Grand Prix of...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno Friday for the Mazda Road to Indy at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway began as a day of “Vive le France,” with French drivers Nico Jamin and Timothe Buret winning the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda and Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires races, and another Frenchman in Florian Latorre bouncing...
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