The Grand Prix of Portland podium. Will Power (P2), Scott McLaughlin (P1) and Scott Dixon (P3).Penske Entertainment Photo Chris Owens. By Patrick Stephan I’ll start right out by saying that today won’t go down as the most exciting race in NTT INDYCAR Series history, but it did have it’s moments. Coming in to this weekend,…
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Portland Post Race Notes
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Grand Prix of Portland Rough Race Notes
By Patrick Stephan These are the rough race notes, created as the race runs. As usual, this may contains typos. Lets go racing. Air Temp is 78, Track is 102F according to Firestone. The green waves and the lead pack funnels inside down the front straight, and then they get back to the line entering…
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Grand Prix of Portland Minute by Minute and Travel Thoughts
By Patrick Stephan Here are the highlights from the minute by minute for today’s pre-race along and then a couple quick travel notes and then we’ll go racing today. 11:30 am All Cars to the Grid11:35 am Official Welcome – Jerry Jensen (VP & GM, GP of Portland)11:40 am Driver Introductions – Victory Circle Stage12:00…
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Welcome to Race Day in Portland
By Patrick Stephan Note, this was supposed to send around 10:05am PT, but the internet went down here in the media center. It was bright and sunny at the Pioneer Plaza train stop in downtown Portland this morning. TSO Photo by Patrick A busy weekend in Portland will come to and end today with the…
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Portland Saturday End of Day Notes including Warm-up
By Patrick Stephan Couple things before the Final Warm-up goes green. First, tons of talk about Turn 1, and in the post quals press conference, all three Penske drivers were hopeful of some sort of change that would make Turn 1 clean on the start. Will Power summed up both a solution and the problem,…
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Portland Grand Prix Qualifying Results
By Patrick Stephan Well I was wrong about the clouds burning off and at 12:10pm PT, NTT INDYCAR Series qualifying got underway with the air temp at 69F and the track at just 82.9F. Round 1 Group 1: As you’d expect the first issue was for drivers to find some space on the track, but…
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Portland Grand Prix Qualifying Groups
Group 12 Newgarden, Josef26 Herta, Colton15 Rahal, Graham27 Rossi, Alexander5 O’Ward, Pato28 Grosjean, Romain14 Kirkwood, Kyle60 Pagenaud, Simon45 Harvey, Jack21 VeeKay, Rinus06 Castroneves, Helio48 Johnson, Jimmie Group 212 Power, Will3 McLaughlin, Scott30 Lundgaard, Christian9 Dixon, Scott77 Ilott, Callum18 Malukas, David10 Palou, Alex8 Ericsson, Marcus29 DeFrancesco, Devlin20 Daly, Conor7 Rosenqvist, Felix51 Sato, Takuma4 Kellett, Dalton…
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Welcome to Saturday at the Portland Grand Prix – Practice Notes!
The race fans are lined up early at Portland. This picture was taken about 8:10am, the gates open at 8:30. TSO Photo by Patrick By Patrick Stephan Good morning race fans and Welcome to a cool-ish, but humid, almost misting morning at Portland International Raceway. As of 8:45am, the air temp was 64F with the…
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NTT INDYCAR Series Portland Practice #1 Results
By Patrick Stephan The only NTT INDYCAR Series practice of the day got started at 2:30 with the ambient temperature up to 85F and the track at 116.4F. Not surprisingly there wasn’t a lot of early activity, with the rookies (who get an extra set of tires putting in most of the early work). Callum…
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Grand Prix of Portland Friday Mid-Day Notes
By Patrick Stephan It’s been a bright and sunny day so far here at Portland International Raceway. The temperature as of noon was 79F with 46% humidity making it nice and sticky. The high is supposed to be in the upper 80’s later today, though the rest of the weekend is plotted out at 5-10…
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