Tag: Pippa Mann

From the Pocono Pulpit: 2014, Off to a Better Re-Start than the Drivers

Mike Shaw

HUZZAH FOR BROADCASTING!!! Well, the Verizon IndyCar season is officially underway. (Do you have your fine jars ready for every time you say ‘IZOD IndyCar’)? The race was really nice to have IndyCar back—-but it was not really all that exciting, like most St. Pete races. Still, it did bring about some very, very refreshing changes. First was in the radio booth, the voice of IndyCar radio changed—-for the better. We gained a true fan of the sport and series in the one and only, Paul Page. Since I was…

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From the Pocono Pulpit: Forget Snow, Let’s Talk Racing!

Mike Shaw

The off season has been a rather long one—with an even longer off season to follow. Now we have finally found the month of March. For many sports fans it is all about “brackets” they will never get right, and college hoops. But for those of us, who crave ethanol fumes, rubber dust in our hair, and ringing ear drums on Mondays—it’s all about the streets of St. Petersburg. The season we have all waited for, whilst snowed in like Eskimos is almost upon us.   It means I will…

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Dario takes pole for Loudon, Pippa is taken to the hospital after crash

Mike Shaw

Saturday was a hot and sunny day in New Hampshire. While the stands were more filled than Friday, it is still a light turnout for qualifying. Speeds were slower today for most of practice than they were on Thursday, however later in the day enough Firestone rubber was laid down to correct this.   The speeds were increased just in time for qualifying today. To no ones surprise Dario Franchitti snagged the pole position. What was a slight upset was Oriol Servia was P1 most of the session before being…

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Mazda Road to Indy Wrap-up: 2/6-2/12

Doug Patterson

Well, I mentioned it on the OpenPaddock.net Podcast Ep. 75, but I didn’t think things would happen so fast. We’ve had a lot of testing going on recently, and at this late date, testing isn’t solely for the cars, but is a genuine evaluation of driving talent. Think of these late pre-season tests as job interviews. With so much testing going on, it only stood to reason that we’d start hearing more and more driver announcements in the comming weeks. Well, we ended up with four just this week and…

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Garage 36 – Episode 2: Pippa Mann

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to our second episode of Garage 36, a segment devoted to covering Indy Downforce, the official fan club of the IZOD IndyCar Series, Firestone Indy Lights, and the Road to Indy. In this episode, we talk with the driver voted “Most Popular Driver” from the Firestone Indy Lights Seres, Pippa Mann. Pippa has been very active with the fan club throughout this year, even on weekends when she wasn’t able to be in the car, she was at the Indy Fan Zone…

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