McLaren Racing announces today that it will contest the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500, on Sunday 26 May 2019, with Fernando Alonso at the wheel. Competing in his second Indy 500, Fernando will attempt to become only the second driver ever to secure world motorsport’s unofficial Triple Crown: victories at the Monaco Formula 1...
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McLAREN RETURNS TO THE INDY 500 WITH FERNANDO ALONSO IN 2019
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Indianapolis 500 – 2018 – Thursday, Media Day – 8:15 a.m. – Open, more from Hinch and Pippa, and Tuesday and Wednesday wrap
By Tony DiZinno Tuesday and Wednesday did not feature any on-track activity at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But the field of 33 drivers and their crews competing in the 102nd Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil were still plenty busy. Here’s Thursday’s on-track schedule: 9:30-10 a.m. Indy Lights Practice 1 11-11:30 a.m. Indy Lights...
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tags: Alexander Rossi, American Dairy Association, Danica Patrick, Indianapolis 500, James Hinchcliffe, Pippa Mann, Verizon IndyCar Series, Zachary Claman De Melo
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Indianapolis 500 qualifications – 2018 – Pole Day, 10:50pm – Close, Ed’s third pole, and faster vs. slower
By Tony DiZinno and Steve Wittich The Butler University Men’s Basketball team’s mascot is the Butler Bulldog, “Blue III.” Today Butler alumnus Ed Carpenter achieved his own personal “Blue III,” with a popular third Indianapolis 500 pole on home soil. A Carpenter pole is always a nice result for the locals and it capped off...
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Thursday – 7 PM – Post-script on JR Hildebrand’s incident
By Tony DiZinno Just as a quick update to the end-of-day times, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing passed on this quote from JR Hildebrand after his incident today in Turn 3. Hildebrand was checked, cleared and released after contacting the wall exiting Turn 3 and Turn 4. Hildebrand had examined the left rear suspension of the...
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Thursday – 6:30 PM – final time sheet and quick post-session notes
By Tony DiZinno It’s a pair of veterans who topped Thursday’s seven-hour practice, with 29-year-old Graham Rahal going into his 11th Indianapolis 500 and 43-year-old Tony Kanaan going into his 17th ‘500 atop the timesheets. — Rahal, 34th on Wednesday, felt it important to “put down a lap” early and eliminate any chatter that he...
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Thursday – 4:00 PM – more practice notes, time sheet, and updates on Pietro Fittipaldi and Dale Coyne’s No. 19 car
By Tony DiZinno and Steve Wittich A couple car name notes that are updated: Oriol Servia’s No. 64 Honda is now the Scuderia Corsa/Manitowoc car, and Zach Veach’s unmistakable bright yellow and orange No. 26 Honda is the Relay Group One Thousand One car for Andretti Autosport. Shortly after Steve sent the last update, we...
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I-PAS ‘goggles test’ provides major advancement in INDYCAR concussion evaluation
INDYCAR drivers are now required to undergo a clinical eye-tracking computer test recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. It has been implemented as part of the sanctioning body’s concussion evaluation protocol, it was announced today. Drivers competing in this month’s Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil – plus drivers in the Mazda […]
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Pacers’ All-Star, Hoosiers’ Hero Oladipo To Drive 2019 Corvette ZR1 Pace Car at 102nd Indianapolis 500
Victor Oladipo, who blossomed into an NBA All-Star in his first season with the Indiana Pacers, will drive the 2019 Corvette ZR1 Pace Car and lead the field of 33 drivers to the start of the 102nd Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil on Sunday, May 27 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Oladipo averaged […]
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Wednesday – 6:50 PM update – practice notes, quotes, stats and timesheet
By Steve Wittich “Yeah, just still early days,” said Marco Andretti after getting out of the car after setting the quickest lap of practice. “But checking off the boxes right now. A lot of test items. We got through a ton of stuff today. It was a pretty productive day. We got the car to...
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Wednesday – 4:00 PM update – practice notes and time sheet
By Tony DiZinno After a couple days back-and-forth to Milwaukee since the INDYCAR Grand Prix, happy to say I’m back in Indianapolis a day sooner than I anticipated and am down here for the rest of the month. Just after 4 p.m. ET, there were only three yellow-flag interruptions all day, all for track inspections....
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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 […]
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