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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Pacers’ All-Star, Hoosiers’ Hero Oladipo To Drive 2019 Corvette ZR1 Pace Car at 102nd Indianapolis 500
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tags: 2019 Corvette ZR1, Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Victor Oladipo
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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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tags: Chevrolet, Honda Performance Development, Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Marco Andretti, no-tow speed, Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan
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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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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Wednesday – 12:45 PM update – practice notes, time sheet and other news nuggets
By Steve Wittich As of this update, all 35 cars have been on track. Andretti Autosport veteran Marco Andretti with a lap at 226.900mph has the quickest lap of the day when a yellow came out for a cut tire. 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan is currently the quickest driver on the no-tow speed...
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tags: 2018, Derrick Walker, Indianapolis 500, practice, Tim Keene, Verizon IndyCar Series, Wednesday
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Tuesday – 6:18 PM – Practice notes and final timesheet
By Steve Wittich With two hours left in the first day of practice, the top 10 were: Marco Andretti (224.217 mph), Sage Karam, Charlie Kimball, Ed Jones, Scott Dixon, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Gabby Chaves, Simon Pagenaud, Tony Kanaan, and Jay Howard. At just after 4 PM, the yellow flag came out for impending weather. There was...
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Indianapolis 500 practice – 2018 – Tuesday – 9:05 AM – Good morning from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
By Steve Wittich Good morning from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center. Practice for the 102nd Indianapolis 500 Presented by PennGrade Motor Oil is scheduled to get underway at 11 AM. You can follow along here –> http://racecontrol.indycar.com or here –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCPsXMIpEaM or on the Verizon IndyCar Series Ap When I took the dogs for their morning...
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval testing – Monday – 5 PM – afternoon timesheet
By Steve Wittich RANK CAR NO. DRIVER FASTEST LAP LAPS TURNED 1 9 Scott Dixon 224.795 13 2 14 Tony Kanaan 223.922 28 3 22 Simon Pagenaud 223.603 20 4 3 Helio Castroneves 223.495 30 5 12 Will Power 222.671 33 6 1 Josef Newgarden 222.546 29 7 21 Spencer Pigot 222.244 19 8 27...
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval testing – Monday – 3 PM – notes from afternoon practice and timesheet
By Steve Wittich The track went back to green flag conditions promptly at 1 PM, but most teams were still in Gasoline Alley looking at the data that they collected during their first 120 minutes. The 21 drivers collected 1,265 miles of data before lunch. Josef Newgarden, who turned 36 laps was the busiest driver...
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Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach 2018 – Saturday – 9:20am – good morning, a short social report and one nugget of news
Good morning from the Long Beach Media Center from deep inside the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. It appears like it will another picture perfect day at a race track. If you ever start to hear me complain about the travel or any other part of this gig, please slap me. Covering the Verizon...
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TAG Heuer Becomes Presenting Sponsor of Hulman Terrace Club
TAG Heuer Becomes Presenting Sponsor of Hulman Terrace Club INDIANAPOLIS, Thursday, April 5, 2018 – TAG Heuer – a pioneer in motorsports sponsorship for over 50 years – has become a presenting sponsor of the Hulman Terrace Club at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Hulman Terrace Club presented by TAG Heuer offers fans premium tickets […]
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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 […]
- Long Beach’s Grand Prix report is $150K worth of obvious points