By Patrick Stephan The INDY NXT by Firestone series took to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course to conclude their single day practice/qualify/race program with Hunter McElrea leading the 19 car field to green at 5:00pm ET with the ambient temperature at 86F the track at 117F and the humidity down to just 59%. It’s...
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By Patrick Stephan Hunter McElrea took his first INDY NXT by Firestone pole of 2023 besting James Roe to take the top spot for this afternoon’s INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix. This is his first pole of 2023, after winning three last year in his rookie season of what was then INDY Lights. This
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan The lone INDY NXT by Firestone session got started promptly at 11am ET on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road course with the air temp working it’s way to 80F and the track approaching 100F as the 50 minute session ran. Louis Foster would lead the session with a best lap
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By Patrick Stephan On a very pretty morning in Nashville, Christian Rasmussen took off from the pole and led every lap of the INDY NXT by Firestone Music City Grand Prix. With qualifying canceled due to excessively wet track conditions on Saturday, Rasmussen, the point leader would lead the 19 car field to the green...
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By Patrick Stephan As you can tell, we haven’t had qualifying and today’s schedules are now a mess. INDYCAR announced at 2:09CT that they will cancel the NTT INDYCAR Series final practice and instead run qualifying in that slot Officially: “NTT INDYCAR SERIES qualifying will be held at 5:15 p.m. local time (6:15 pm ET/11:15...
By Patrick Stephan The INDY NXT by Firestone race got underway at 6:30pm on Saturday evening with the air temperature in the mid 80’s. It’s actually pretty nice out, with the humidity at 52% and an occasional breeze helping a little bit. This race was originally scheduled for this 10:10am this morning, but the rain
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By Patrick Stephan On a beautiful summer evening in the middle of Iowa, Jacob Abel took his first career INDY NXT by Firestone pole position with a 162.244 miles per hour run over two laps on the 7/8ths mile Iowa Speedway oval. Going out 12th of the 16 drivers, Abel watched from pit lane at
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By Patrick Stephan The INDY NXT by Firestone series took to the 7/8ths mile Iowa Speedway at 2:15pm Central Time for their lone practice session of the weekend. 45 clean and green minutes later, Christian Rasmussen was on top the time sheet with a 19.9464 second lap good for a 161.352 mile per hour average.
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno After the doubleheader weekend in Detroit, the INDY NXT by Firestone was back for a single race at the Grand Prix of Road America. An unusual front row presented itself with Kyffin Simpson of HMD Motorsports and Colin Kaminsky of Abel Motorsports leading the 19 Dallara cars to green. But would Simpson
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By Patrick Stephan The field pulled off pit lane at 12:15pm Central Time but we wouldn’t stay green for long as Rasmus Lindh stopped on track and had to be pulled back to the pits by the AMR INDYCAR Safety Team. Back to green and the first laps turned saw Christian Rasmussen P1 with a
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