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Indianapolis 500 open test – day #1, update #2 – Ed Carpenter Racing experiences ALL OF THE highs and lows of IMS in a two-hour span

By Steve Wittich I (Steve) arrived at the track at 10 am, went through the screening process, and opened the door of my truck to the sound of jet dryers working their magic on the iconic 2.5-mile Brickyard. At 10:30 am, teams started to warm up their 2.2 L twin-turbocharged V6 engines and the green...

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Gateway Motorsports Park Open Test – good morning – 7:45am

  Good Tuesday morning from a St. Louis Bread Company location in Collinsville, Ill. As soon as I hit send on this update, I’ll be making the short drive west on I-70 to Madison, Ill. and Gateway Motorsports Park, where the Verizon IndyCar Series is taking part in an open test in preparation for the Bommarito...

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Dixon leads 14 car open test in preparation for the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 at Texas Motor Speedway – notes and time sheet

Fourteen drivers representing seven teams took part in an open Verizon IndyCar Series test on the reconfigured and freshly resurfaced Texas Motor Speedway oval . The 1.5 mile oval, which will be hosting it’s 29th INDYCAR sanctioned race – the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 on June 10, 2017 –  recently received a complete resurfacing and reconfiguration...

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Verizon IndyCar Series open test at Barber Motorsports Park – final notes from Bruce

BY 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...

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Verizon IndyCar Series open test at Barber Motorsports Park – afternoon notes from Bruce

BY 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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Verizon IndyCar Series open test at Barber Motorsports Park – morning lap times and visor-cam from Alexander Rossi

Here is the morning’s time-sheet from testing at Barber Motorsports Park. Cars are back on track at 3pm (Eastern) and will run until 6pm. RANK CAR NO. DRIVER BEST LAP GAP TO BEST LAP 1 26 Takuma Sato 1:08.1705 —— 2 10 Tony Kanaan 1:08.2163 0.0458 3 12 Will Power 1:08.2997 0.1292 4 9 Scott...

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Aleshin Leads the Way for Honda in Final Indy Car Pre-Season Practice

Aleshin Leads the Way for Honda in Final Indy Car Pre-Season Practice Mikhail Aleshin leads Honda contingent in “The Test in the West” 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series opens March 12 in St. Petersburg, Florida PHOENIX, Ariz. (February 11, 2017) – Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ Mikhail Aleshin led the Honda contingent at the two-day “Test in the

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