By Tony DiZinno and Steve Wittich The first of three busy days at Barber Motorsports Park is in the books. Today featured the combination of picture perfect weather, quintessential Southern hospitality in Birmingham and a busy, but never overly chaotic, schedule among the Verizon IndyCar Series, Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires and...
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By Tony DiZinno and Steve Wittich As Barber is the last race weekend before the month of May at Indianapolis, there’s a lot of final preparations being made for the 102nd Indianapolis 500 Presented by PennGrade Motor Oil. Here’s a few things we’ve gathered this morning walking through the paddock. — A couple notes from two...
READ MOREBy Tony DiZinno Before first practice kicked off at 11:15 a.m. CT and local time, four-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion – and Barber’s eternally podium-but-not-yet-winner – Scott Dixon paid a visit to the media center. He touched on his season so far, as well as address his recent announcement that he’d be on NBC’s next...
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Note from Steve – there is nothing like getting to the track, and realizing that Tony had already prepared most of Friday’s open. Thanks, TDZ. As Tony notes below, it’s been a bit of a hectic few days of travel. I flew home from Long Beach on Monday, arriving back in Indianapolis, Ind. at 10...
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By Bruce Martin @BruceMartin500 LEEDS, Alabama – Just call Marco Andretti “Mr. Fast Friday” as the Andretti Autosport driver once again was the fastest driver in the Verizon IndyCar Series practice session at Barber Motorsports Park – site of Sunday’s Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. Andretti, who was also among the fastest on...
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 LEEDS, Alabama – A day that started off fast before being slowed for “weepers” in the high-speed Turn 14 portion of the course on a bright sunny day that limited the afternoon session ended in a blaze of speed as INDYCAR allowed “Push-to-Pass” for the final one-hour of Tuesday’s Open Test at Barber...
READ MOREBY BRUCE MARTIN @BruceMartin_500 LEEDS, Alabama – Takuma Sato of Japan showed plenty of speed in his first race with Andretti Autosport in the March 12 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. He backed up that speed in Tuesday’s first round of testing at Barber Motorsports Park. Sato’s Honda lapped the 17-turn, 2.38-mile road course in...
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READ MORERahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Pre-Race Notes Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama Round 4 of 16 in the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series DATE: Friday – Sunday, April 22-24, 2016 PRACTICE BROADCAST: Live on NBC Sports Network from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET Friday, April 22 QUALIFYING BROADCAST: Live on
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DEFENDING RACE WINNER NEWGARDEN RETURNS TO BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK Driver of No. 21 Scored His First Career Win At Home Race in 2015 (SPEEDWAY, Ind.) April 19, 2016 – Advance Notes For the first time in his Verizon IndyCar Series career, Josef Newgarden is able to return to a race course as the defending winner.
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